UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 18, 1997
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Women's center seeks new director
By Ryan Koemer
Kansan staff writer
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center faces an active fall semester along with the upcoming departure of its director, Barbara Ballard, and widespread reorganization in the Division of Student Affairs.
Ballard, who has been director of the center since she came to the University in 1980, will hire a new director and devote more time to the other position she holds at the University of Kansas, associate dean of students.
The changes are part of an overhaul of positions and offices in the Division of Student Affairs, which until the beginning of this month was known as the Department of Student Life. As associate dean, Ballard will oversee the Office of Minority Affairs, International Student Services, and two newly defined organizations, Services for Students with Disabilities and the Student Development Center.
Ballard will continue to oversee the women's resource center, but her hands-on role will change.
"I won't be doing everything at the center I love doing now, which is the day to day operation, but I will continue speaking and working with the center and the sexual
assault prevention program," Ballard said. Ballard said the reorganization would not immediately affect the center's activities and programs, which include sexual assault prevention programs, financial aid assistance for women and faculty mentoring. Many things at the camp.
Many things at the cen
ter have not changed at all. The center, located at 115 Strong Hall, will start the year with its annual open house from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 27.
Rachel Lee, one of two graduate assistants at the center, began working in May to coordinate the center's fall calendar. She said the programs available this fall range from auto mechanics workshops to a women's leadership conference.
Refund checks aren't quick cash
Patience needed for fee completion
By Gwen Olson
Kansan staff writer
Most students receive the
Starting a new semester can be stressful for students who need to pick up financial aid refunds. The lines can be long, the procedure can be confusing and sometimes the checks just aren't there.
But if students are prepared the process can run slowly but smoothly.
The first chance for financial aid recipients to pick up refund checks — money that wasn't used for tuition — is at fee completion from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow and Wednesday at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. Scholarship and student loan recipients also can get refunds.
Students should be patient and ready to stand in line, said Brenda Maigaard, assistant director of the Office of Student Financial Aid.
checks without a hitch, but problems arise for students who have dropped classes, enrolled late or who recently were awarded financial aid, Maigaard said.
Often these students' checks have not been processed in time for fee completion, she said. An information table will be available for students who have trouble getting refunds.
Students must bring photo identification, such as a KUID, to receive a refund check. Students who recently have dropped a class should bring a printout of their new schedule.
Checks will be available Thursday at the Office of the Comptroller in Carruth-O'Leary Hall for students who are unable to attend fee completion.
However, students should attend fee completion now instead of crowding into Carruth-O'Leary later.
"It's usually faster at the union because we have lots of people set up to distribute checks," said bursar Karen Bailey. "We only have one person set up to handle checks after that."
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