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Teaching certification goes to drawing board
School of Education wants to condense program to four years
BY JESSE RANGEL jrangel@kansan.com
Education majors may soon get the opportunity to sync their four-year education degrees with teaching certificates, tossing out the current five-year certification model.
The new plan could go into effectin2011,pendingtheapproval of the Kansas Department of Education
R i c k Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education, said that the school already offered a four-year degree in education, but that the certificate which is
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required to teach in Kansas, takes an additional year to complete. The clinical work done in the fifth year consists primarily of student teaching and is the bulk of what would be condensed into a four-year model.
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"A lot of people will stay five years anyway and get a full master's degree."
"Currently in the four-year program, there is a good amount of field experience that is built into the program," Ginsberg said.
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Dean of
School of F education
Ginsberg said the program was changing because options such as Teach for America
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offered alternative ways to get certified. He said the new model would save students tuition dollars and allow them to teach in classrooms faster. Ginsberg said he was still considering how to implement the schedule change with current juniors.
Pamela Coleman, director of teacher education and licensure for the Kansas Department of Education, said she endorsed
the plan and had confidence in the school's ability to prepare teaching candidates.
Although she planned on going to graduate school, she said, the program would be a good for those who wanted to teach immediately after graduation.
Kelsey Reed,
Leavenworth
senior, said she
would be graduating
after four years
without a fifth-year
teaching certificate
"I think a lot of people are also taking the option of not doing the fifth year during the fifth year — they're getting their master's first and then they're getting certified," Reed said.
Katie Marton, Montgomery,
Ala., freshman, said she was
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ENVIRONMENT
Energy research gets science grant
BY ZACH WHITE
white@kansan.com
The NSF gave $20 million to the Kansas section of the Experimental Project to Stimulate Competitive Research
The University gained more ground toward its goal of becoming a top research school last week, thanks to an award from the National Science Foundation.
to fund collaborative research in climate change and renewable energy. The research will be conducted by students, faculty and scientists from the University of Kansas, Kansas
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State University, Wichita State University and Haskell Indian Nations University and five renewable energy corporations from Kansas, Illinois and California. In all, five research subprojects will be funded by the award over the next five-years.
Kristen Bowman-James, professor of chemistry and project
"It's really exciting that we have the opportunity to work on something that will have a high impact."
"There's over 60 scientists now," Browman-james said.
director of Kansas EPSCoR, said the research would be done by several multidisciplinary teams working on the five specific subprojects.
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The team will seek new ways to make solar panels more efficient and cheaper, looking to both nanotechnology and photosynthesis in plants.
"It's really exciting that we have the opportunity to work on something that will have a high
Judy Wu, leader of one of the teams and distinguished professor of physics, will be working with researchers
"They're all interrelated projects that are going to start now"
solar energy technology.
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Trading food for booze
Some college students are cutting meals drinking more in drunkorexia' disorder
BY ALY VAN DYKE
avandyke@kansan.com
Laura Erdallspends her Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights downing vodka tonics and Long Island iced teas. But she said she steers clear of beer, not because of the taste but because of the calories.
Carly Banks, Wichita senior, employs the same logic: She sticks to vodka and uses diet sodas rather than beer for mixers to limit calories on her Friday and Saturday night drinking escapades.
"There are a lot of calories in hard alcohol, but I have to drink more beers, so it takes more calories to get me to the point I'd like to be," Erdall, Edina, Minn., senior, said.
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"If you're going to drink that many calories, you might as well not make it so bad," Banks said.
Erdall and Banks have found relatively healthy ways to manage both their weight and social drinking, but others on campus and around the country use a different and dangerous way to balance the two.
In an effort to lose weight and maintain drinking habits, some people, particularly college-aged
"Anorexics usually are very devoted to being very much in control of themselves," he said. "Alcohol use of course would threaten that source of internal control."
Johnson said drunkorexia might be a misleading term, because alcohol abuse is more common among bullimic patients than those with anorexia.
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EATING DISORDERS EXPLAINED
Johnson said alcohol abuse was becoming more frequent with late-stage anorexic patients because it serves as a coping mechanism.
The National Eating Disorders Association defines anorexia nervosa as 'a potentially life-threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive
weight gain." Approximately 90 to 95 percent of people suffering from anorexia are female. Between 0.5 and 1 percent of American women suffer from anorexia.
According to NEDA, people with bulimia nervosa tend to binge eat and then, through self-induced vomiting, purge themselves of food. The eating disorder affects between one to two percent of adolescent and young adult women. Approximately 80 percent of people with bulimia are female.
Almost 10 million women and 1 million men in the United States are battling these eating disorders.
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