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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, August 19.1996
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Classrooms: cramped conditions will improve
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"The rehearsal spaces are, shall we say, inadequate."
The existing music library in Murphy is also inadequate.
Beth Fleming, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student, is student assistant in the library. She said the library was so overloaded that new material coming in daily forced older material to be sent to other locations.
"About half of our collection is housed in other libraries," she said. "Some are inaccessible for up to 72 hours, and then they end up at Watson or somewhere else."
Besides renovating rehearsal space in Murphy, the plans include an addition that will house a new music library.
Anderson said that when Hoch burned in 1991,3 to 7 percent of the classroom space on campus was lost. Murphy's auditoriums were a logical solution for the University, but the additional students complicated the logistics of rehearsals and equipment storage.
Budig Hall is scheduled to be completed in January 1997, but until then the chaos in Murphy will continue.
"We have to find ways to reconfigure and reassign space," Anderson said. "With good cooperation and good humor, we've done a pretty good job coping with disaster."
Poggio said School of Education had been struggling to find space for faculty, classrooms and clinical laboratories.
Bailey Hall, the building that houses the school, was intended to house chemistry labs. Poggio said the rooms in the building weren't the same size, forcing some creative solutions to a space dilemma.
"We're in dire straits in terms of space," Poggio said. "We have been for 10 years."
Teaching assistants and graduate students traditionally have braved offices in the bowels of campus buildings. In the school, these offices are either cramped or shared by up to 12 graduates students.
A few staff and faculty members have private offices, but many graduate teaching assistants share large rooms divided by flimsy walls, preventing the privacy needed to assist individual students.
"The building was not originally an academic space," Poggio said. "We have inadequate facilities."
The school also suffers from a lack of laboratory facilities. In some majors, students of education are required to do clinical research with interviews, counseling and diagnostic testing.
The American Psychological Association and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education have cited the school for its lack of laboratory space.
"We shuffle people out of their offices or use seminar rooms for lab work," Poggio said. "You just make do."
The renovation of JRP is scheduled to begin this fall, and the school will move into its new home in 1999.
"We're moving the whole opera
"We have to find ways to reconfigure and reassign space."
Steve Anderson professor of music
tion." Poggio said. "JRP is something we desperately needed."
Stallworth said the major projects will begin in spring 1997, but more preparation is required before the long process can start.
Teams from design and construction management will plan construction projects to minimize the disruption, but disturbances will be unavoidable.
"There will probably be some disgruntled students and teachers," Stallworn said, "but we have to stay focused on the bigger picture."
Design and construction management will spend the remaining $24.5 million of the state allocation upgrading buildings across campus so that each department will see a change. Stallworth said.
Anderson said the department of music was anxious to accommodate its students. Music students practically live in Murphy.
"the bottom line is we exist for kids," he said. "To give them a quality education is the most important thing."
Linear tuition may drive non-majors away from courses
Fewer enroll in HPER classes
By Jeff Ruby Kansan staff writer
Enrollment in Health, Physical Education and Recreation basic skills courses has fallen almost 19 percent since last year, according to the University Registrar's office.
As of May 2, after main enrollment and an add/drop period, the total enrollment of HPER 108 classes for Fall 1996 was 1,204 students, compared to 1,483 enrolled as of that date last year for Fall 1995 courses.
Brenda Selman, assistant registrar, said the 18.8-percent slide could be misleading.
Enrollment may change after the add/drop period and new enrollment in August, which will affect 1,000 students, Selman said.
Leon Greene, HPER undergraduate coordinator, said it would be business as usual in the HPER department despite the tuition changes.
The change from a flat-tuition rate to payment-by-the-credit-hour may negatively affect HPER course enrollment numbers, but Greene said his program wasn't ready to institute changes.
"As a department, we decided not to take any action until after the fall semester so we can get a better look at what's going on," Greene said.
Greene said the HPER instructors worried that the classes could decline in popularity under
the new system since linear tuition encourages students to only choose courses they need to fulfill graduation requirements. The department offers courses ranging from bowling to aerobic water exercise.
"Within the department we have talked about the possibility of a drop-off in the enrollment a great deal in the last year," he said. "We don't know at this point how that's going to affect our enrollment."
Jim LaPoint, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, said patterns of physical education enrollment at other schools contributed to his department's stance.
When Wichita State University switched to linear enrollment, there was an initial drop in physical education class enrollment; then it leveling-off, LaPoint said. When freshmen realized they used to get those classes for — in a sense — free, the numbers returned to normal, he said.
"Hopefully, we'll experience that same pattern in our enrolment here," LaPoint said.
Greene said most people in HPER classes were not physical education majors, and the non-majors may choose to spend their tuition money in their own departments once they begin paying by the hour. Many will probably choose classes in their fields.
"Let's wait and see, not jump to any conclusions and start dropping classes," Greene said. "We just believe we'd end up making a poor decision if we acted too fast."
That is why the HPER office is playing the wait game for now
The tuition adjustments mean
"As as
department, we decided not to take any action until after the fall semester."
Leon Greene
HPER undervrad coordinator
an undergraduate in-state student will pay $63 for a one-credit HPER course while an out-of-state student will pay $265 for the class. For graduate students, the same course will cost $94 for residents and $309 for non-residents.
According to University Relations, linear tuition was adopted "to discourage students from shopping for courses, that is, enrolling in many courses, deciding after a few days of classes which ones they want, and dropping the rest."
Selman said, "The majority of students are happy with the changes. Seventy-five percent will be paying less since they are taking less than 15 hours."
Amy Mozykowski, Lawrence senior and physical education major, said the changes affected her class choices within the department.
"I would say that things that are more recreational won't do well, things like golf," Mozykowski said.
Placement: consolidating career services will take work
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Some administrators prefer the present decentralized structure. This attitude is tied to the University's tradition and history. Its heritage as a decentralized institution distinguishes it from the other Regents schools, said Heuring.
solidation isn't a new idea.
"According to statistics from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 85 to 90 percent of all colleges and universities across the country have centralized career placement centers." he said.
The debate on better placement services for students is years old.
In 1992, the University conducted a campus-wide review of all its programs. The review suggested consolidating placement service operations. The University followed up the program review by paying two consultants $500 apiece (needs to be verified by Ambler) in 1994 to look specifically at improving career services, Ambler said. They, too, recommended consolidation.
Terry Glenn, director of the University Placement Center, said con-
"They've been talking about consolidation since I came here," said Glenn, who came to the University in 1978. "The administration was organizationally restructured this summer, but there were no immediate changes in career services. We're hoping that something happens soon."
There are merits to centralization. "Centralizing career services is a lot more efficient and organized," he said. "It's also much more cost-effective in a budgeting sense."
With centralization, Glenn explained that services and fees are more streamlined campus-wide. Centralization merges resources like career libraries and computer listings to give students more comprehensive information about particular employers, occupations and job availability. It also establishes a central location for recruiters to meet students.
There are some things centralized placement offices don't do so well.
"They've been talking about consolidation since I came here."
Dana Leibengood, associate dean of student services for the School of Journalism, said that consolidated
Terry Glenn director University Placement Center
offices would damage the personalized service that his office gives to journalism students. "I can deal directly with students, faculty and employers from my location in the School of Journalism," Leibengood said. "I wouldn't be able to give that kind of service from a centralized office.
"One of the big advantages of decentralization is that it incorporates academic advising, which involves faculty members who have ties to their profession. The key to
placement is internships, and it just wouldn't be as effective if you divorced faculty from the placement process. They know their students and their field."
Customer service isn't the only reason for academic resistance. Dealing with institutional traditions may force some administrative trade-offs, so students shouldn't expect any drastic changes.
Ambler said, "If we go to consolidated placement services, faculty members may feel like they're losing control over the program to help their students, and we don't want to disconnect the faculty from their responsibility to placement."
The best prospects for change lie in coordinating office efforts.
Fred Madaus, director of business and engineering career services partnership, said that placement personnel on campus used to meet for lunch to share problems, find solutions and create more coordination. But it didn't last.
"We got too formalized," he said.
"It almost became just like another committee meeting, which I think
ultimately caused it to crumble. My hope is that we can put that group back together."
But there are skeptics. Glenn said that past attempts at coordinating weren't very successful because not everybody supported the idea.
"Coordinating services is a possibility," he said. "We've had varying degrees of coordinated service over the past few years. At times, it worked; other times, it didn't."
Madaus agreed that support from the administration is key.
"We're still testing the idea," he said. "It has to be cooperative if we're going to be of any service to our students. And everyone has to be involved and believe in it."
Here's what the future may bring, according to Ambler:
Coordinated technology. Ambler said that offices will need to share job availability lists, employer contacts, interview schedules and resume databases.
A new director. He said that hiring a director to coordinate all campus placement activities
and program is being explored.
A uniform fee. Ambler said he prefers a uniform fee for students who use career placement services anywhere on campus.
When all this will happen depends on how quickly Provost David Shulenburger adjusts to his new administrative position, Ambler said.
"It's high on our priority list because it affects both of us administratively," he said. Ambler added that he and Shulenburger had talked about changes in career services for several years.
Students and University personnel should see more coordinated efforts and uniformed fees and services in the coming year. But University officials say it will be a slow process.
Leibengood, who has been at the University since 1969 and has seen placement trends through the years, said, "I'm 100 percent in favor of cooperative efforts. "There's room for centralized efforts through decentralized offices. There's room for both."
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