Thursday, November 19. 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Tuition rises; grants dwindle
Study: Students will have fewer college choices
By Melody Ard Kansan staff writer
This year's University of Kansas Pell Grant recipients had about one-third of the cost of their education paid for — about the same as the national average.
The maximum Pell Grant this year was $3,000, which pays 33 percent of the average $8,918 University tuition. The maximum Pell Grant paid an average 34 percent of the cost of education at public universities nationally.
Brenda Maigaard, associate director of the office of financial
aid, said the Pell Grants came from an aid project that made money available for the neediest students. The eligibility and amount awarded is determined by the Federal Application for Student Financial Aid.
"The Pell Grant is one of the best to get because it is a gift grant and you don't have to pay it back," Maigaard said.
Money given to students by the Pell Grant has been dwindling nationally. A study done by The Education Resources Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit guardian of privately issued student loans, showed costs of education were rising much faster than the amount of the grants.
In the 1976-77 academic year, the maximum Pell Grant covered 72 percent of a public and 35 percent of a private education.
Since the grants are given to
students who would be least able to pay for a college education on their own, the decreasing coverage is a blow to students looking for an education at the college of their choice.
"What we like to think is we have a system where people have both access and choice, but what we are rapidly developing is a system where people have access but not choice," said Thomas Parker, senior vice president of the institute.
Over time, the Pell Grant award has declined by 23 percent — adjusting for inflation — during two decades, but college prices rose by 49 percent, and family incomes crept up by just 10 percent during the same period.
About 3.6 million of the nation's 14 million college students receive Pell grants, and more than half of Pell Grant recipients
in four-year schools qualify for the maximum amount of funding.
the maximum amount of funding. Maigaard said students who had financial problems because of the shrinking effectiveness of their Pell Grants were often eligible for other financial aid programs including Federal Work Study and the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant.
Finding extra money anywhere can be difficult, and Maigaird said the quickest students often benefited the most.
"Students who are eligible for the Pell Grant are also eligible for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, but not all of the students will get that because the money runs out," she said. "We encourage them to apply by the priority date of March 1 to increase their chances."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
More KU freshmen sticking around
By Jason Pearce
Kansan staff writer
The Kansas Board of Regents reported that fewer freshman are dropping out of the University of Kansas than in previous years, and faculty attribute the success to several programs.
The report stated that 22 percent of the 1996 freshman class left the University, compared with 25 percent of the 1993 class who did so.
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, gave numerous reasons for the decline, including a successful Oread Scholars program, more orientation seminar classes, a freshman check-up program, writing tutor programs and an increase in the American College Test (ACT) scores for incoming freshman.
"Many offices are trying to improve the retention rates of incoming students," Hutton said. "It is important that students who have the ability to succeed, do succeed."
Kim Wilcox, interim director of
academic affairs for the Regents said that high schools across the state also helped in the decline because of the availability of new precollege courses —implemented to prepare students for new college admission standards beginning in 2001.
The information, which does not include the 1997-1998 school year, will be presented today at the Regents' monthly meeting in Liberal.
"There is a concerted effort to reduce the attrition rate," Wilcox said.
Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, director of the freshman/sophomore advising center, said that the center had met with more than 3,000 students for individual advising this year.
"We talk with them about problems with school and career options," Tuttle said. "It can make a difference by helping students to stay on the right track."
The office, which began serving students last spring, could have an even larger impact on future dropout rates, Tuttle said.
The lines show the percentage of drop-outs per year at each Kansas Board of Regents university. Only Pittsburg State and Emporia State have experienced an increase in drop-out rates since 1993, although both their rates decreased in 1996.
"Students feel like this is a place they can go to get some answers and advice." Tuttle said.
Tuttle also said that the Mount Oread Scholars Program, which assists high-ability students who are not in the honors program, had a retention rate of 96 percent.
Kristin Adkinson, assistant director for the Office of New
Student Orientation, is in charge of a freshman calling program in which staff members attempt to contact every freshman during their first semester at the University.
Kristi Elliott / KANSAN
Adkinson said the staff members asked the students — this semester between the fifth and seventh week of classes — if they had any questions or problems with classes or roommates. This was the third year for the program.
"We try to explore some solutions for them," Adkinson said. "A lot of times they are going great, and it reinforces the idea
that most freshmen succeed here."
This year the office set up a Jaytalk line, which is a telephone answering service where students can request someone to call back and talk about specific problems.
Many academic units had made commitments to help with retention over the last few years, Adkinson said.
"Everyone in the University has made a commitment to helping students succeed, and it is starting to pay off."
The Associated Press contributed to this story
Professor Dailey's workshop to help committed couples sustain relationships
By Carolyn Mollett
Kansan staff writer
Till death do us part — or until we get a divorce.
Oread Ave. Dalley said the
Dennis Dailey, professor of social welfare and instructor of the popular Human Sexuality and Everyday Life course, will lead a workshop tomorrow and Saturday for committed couples in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, 1204 Broad Ave. Dalley said the
workshop w a s designed to help couples develop the emotional intimacy that would sustain their relationships for the long haul.
Dailey: Will help couples work on emotional intimacy
"One of my motivations is the
statistic that half of marriages go in the toilet," Dailey said.
ECM (Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Church of the Brethren) is a co-sponsor of the workshop. ECM also sponsors a non-credit 10-week class during the spring that Dalley teaches based on the information he teaches in his human sexuality course. Dalley said that normally 80 to 100 people are in that class.
Thad Holcombe, pastor for ECM at the University, said the workshop was important because intimacy between couples was crucial for people in discovering who they are as individuals. He said to be intimate with and known by another person was a liberating experience.
"The really important aspect of this is we feel we need to offer a place where people need to
DAILEY'S WORKSHOP
day
Workshop for committed couples When: tomorrow and Satur-
Where: Ecumenical Christian Ministries
Facilitator: professor of social welfare
Capacity: filled at 25 couples
examine relationships in a safe way. Holcombe said,
Dailey has given many similar workshops throughout his career, but this will be the first held at the University, and most of the participants will be KU students. The workshop is filled to capacity with 25 couples.
Most of the couples are heterosexual, but a few are gay and lesbian relationships, Dailey said. Some of them are married, some live together and some are simply committed to each other.
The workshop will be very interactive. Dailey said he would lecture a little, but there also would be group activities and exercises between couples, such as dialogues. The results will be shared with the group.
"One of the interesting things about this workshop is that for many, the workshop will deepen and challenge what they have," Dalley said.
Friday evening when the group leaves, it will have homework. Couples must have dialogue before they go to sleep. Dailey said some of the dialogues would involve topics that all committed couples should discuss but many have not.
"It's tricky stuff." he said.
Some of the couples may discover that they were not meant to be together during the course of the workshop, he said.
"I would rather they find that out now rather than seven years into marriage with two kids," Dalley said.
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