20A SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1996
KU EDITION
LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD
Graduate studies international programs merge
- In the midst of a change of scenery for the office of international programs, the department's new dean is hoping his experience in the graduate department will help him lead a new combined office.
BY MATT GOWEN
JOURNAL-WORLD WRITER
The office of international programs may be moving, but its mission remains the same.
"This office serves to help people with the university's mission of internationalizing," said Andrew Debicki, dean of KU's graduate school and international programs.
Around Aug. 1 the international programs office, currently made up of five people, packed up and moved to 222 Strong Hall, the current graduate programs office.
The change was spurred by the office's similarities: neither technically teaches students, and both deal with every department on campus, taking a university-wide approach.
The international programs office operates in both an import and export fashion. Students and faculty study and teach abroad, and international students and teachers come to KU. The office also helps fund research abroad.
"We're in the middle of restructuring," Debicki said. "We're not sure how it will work."
The office works with the Applied English Center, which ensures English proficiency in students, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which creates global-emphasizing courses.
International programs and studies also coordinates with the Office of International Student Services, the main entity for international student recruitment.
Currently, 900 students are participating in KU's study abroad programs. A new initiative, orchestrated by Chancellor Robert Hemenway, calls for 2,000 students studying abroad by the year 2000.
That same initiative calls for 2,500 international students to be studying on KU's campus by that year.
Objective: to produce high quality graduates prepared to deal with global issues in the 21st century.
"It's a small world," Debicki said. "We want to bring the insights of all these countries to our campus — not to be provincial."
Terry Weidner, associate director of international programs, said the main thrust during the coming school year would be to work with KU's deans and directors "toward creating an integrated international curriculum."
Essentially that would mean classes taught in a foreign language, and with international
concepts, that aren't necessarily foreign language courses.
"Engineering, for example," Weidner said. "They would not only be strong in engineering but they would have the kind of global awareness that engineering firms look for.
"It's a huge undertaking, but I think it's vital if our students are going to be able to compete in the world as it exists now. It's not something we can accomplish in a year."
KU changes enrollment with focus on quality
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have been severe had it not been for an enrollment surge at the center. About 1,800 students are enrolled in graduate and professional degree programs there.
Demand for the center's courses will remain, he said. KU is planning a $13.2 million expansion of the center to meet anticipated increases in enrollment.
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Hemenway said enrollment this fall on the Lawrence campus should be close to last year's mark of 25,036. The tally has fallen each year since 1991, when the headcount reached 26,436.
Controlled growth is the operative philosophy at KU. A 1 percent increase over the next couple years would bring a smile to
Hemenway's face. A big increase followed by a sharp decline would elicit the opposite reaction.
"A swing of 100 or 200 students doesn't mean much," he said.
"You don't want a rollercoaster with a spike here and a spike there."
Part of KU's enrollment problems can be traced to increases in
tuition for nonresident students. Nearly 400 fewer out-of-state students enrolled at KU last fall than the previous year. Resident student enrollment fell by less than 25.
A bright spot last fall was an increase in freshmen enrollment. There were 5,294 tenderfoots on campus, compared to 5,211 in fall 1994.
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