Wednesday, November 5, 1997
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
JRP to get a smart new look
By Matthew Friedrichs matf@ukans.edu Kanson staff writer
Joseph R. Pearson Hall, where students once lived, will begin the conversion to a new home for the School of Education next spring.
Douglas Riat, associate director of design and construction management, said interior work could begin on the building in May.
The $12 million project, which is being paid for by bonds approved under the Crumbling Classrooms bill, could be completed in fall 2000, Riat said.
The conversion of a former student residence hall to an educational building will not be easy, he said.
"One of the design goals when we get done is to not have the building look like a dorm," Riat said.
Gould Evans Associates of Lawrence, the project's architecte
tural firm, has submitted a concept design. By the end of November, the University should approve a final design and then Gould Evans will develop construction documents, Ria said.
Riat said two additions to JRP would help convert it to an academic building.
A two-story addition containing an auditorium and classrooms will be added to the east side of JRP, he said. A smaller addition on the west side will contain offices and seminar rooms.
"I think we can change the look of it," Riat said. "We're certainly not going to change the shape of it."
When completed, the building will have 16 classrooms for 30 to 60 students in each room, an auditorium that seats about 100 students and offices for the school's administrators and faculty.
Offices that have been temporarily housed in JRP will move to
make way for construction.
The KU libraries already are planning to move about 125,000 volumes stored in JRP to the lower level of Budig Hall next semester.
The Child Family Services Clinic, as well as offices and lab space used by the clinical child psychology program, also will move.
Michael Roberts, director of the clinical child psychology program, said the program received space in JRP with the knowledge that it would have to move when money was identified for renovations.
"We were given the space temporarily," Roberts said. "We are not being displaced."
The University's purchasing office also will have to find new storage space.
Dana Goble, associate director of purchasing, said her office had not been assigned new storage space.
Joseph R. Pearson, a former residence hall, will be renovated beginning in spring to house the School of Education.
Renovations
Studies used by Art and Design
Offices and programs using the building that will have to move:
Studios used by Art and Design students
Office and lab space for the clinical child psychology program
Child and Family Services Child
Office of the Gateway Scholars program
Housekeeping office
Storage space used by the University's purchasing office
Storage space used by University libraries
Saving face
Haworth Hall receives a face-lift as construction worker Chuck Lauber of Midland Construction grinds joints near the roof. This week was the sixth week of reconstruction work to the building. The work is expected to be completed in three weeks. Photo by Jay Sheperd/KANSAN
stEp puts students ahead
Program changes to include peer and faculty mentoring
By Ryan Koerner
rkoerner@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
For eight years, the Students Together Excelling as Peers mentor program has been working to facilitate a positive college experience for minority freshmen and transfer students.
During spring 1988, "stEp" will expand to include faculty mentoring and assessment components. Changes have been added to the program in preparation for an expansion in spring.
"We are incorporating faculty because I think that is the most effective way of achieving our goal," said Julius Williams, coordinator of the stEp program. "The best way to assist students in connecting to the essence of education is to expose them to a positive relationship with faculty."
"When the students come into contact with faculty during their first years, it reduces preconceived notions about faculty," Williams said. "Unless the students meet faculty in another capacity, they'll never know they are human and that they started out as freshmen, too."
The second part of the expansion will include assessments of students when they join the program. The assessments will have three parts: self-sufficiency, reading and study skills.
"If I are going to facilitate growth, I need to know more about the student," Williams said. "This will provide me with more info about students than I could gather from something like an ACT score."
The stEp progam
Every student participating in the stEp program can participate in:
Weekly one-to-one meeting with a peer mentor
Meetings at 6 p.m. Wednesdays at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union
Chemistry/Biology workshops at 3 p.m. Tuesdays in 156 Strong Hall.
Math workshops at 10 a.m. Saturday in 156 Hong Hall
Various social and recreational events during the semester
These additions will accompany the program's weekly one-on-one meetings between the student and the peer mentor, weekly large-group meetings and social and recreational events.
The program has 70 students participating and seven peer mentors.
Williams said that the program helped acclimate students to the college experience.
Coc Van, Wichita sophomore, said that she enjoyed sharing real-life lessons with the freshmen.
"I have the privilege of guiding them through their freshman year and not let them make the same mistakes as regular freshmen," Van said.
For 1998, two workshops have been added each week in the areas of chemistry and biology and math.
"Ihave also began to pair mentors with the majors the freshman are anticipating," Williams said. "That way the peer mentors understand the courses and the work load. This allows the mentors to serve as a tutor as well."
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