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KANSAN.COM | MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2017
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Degree options lead to department growth
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Andrea Ringenberg/KANSAN The department of Spanish and Portuguese sees an increase in Spanish degrees since they began offering a Spanish minor in Fall 2015.
Recent changes within certain degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have led to an increase in students for the Institute for Leadership Studies and Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Both saw an increase of over 100 students in the last year, because they have added more degree and certificate options that hope to facilitate interdisciplinary study.
"You want a number of people across campus taking a variety of different courses because as a student, that gives you the opportunity to explore and make connections between multiple disciplines," said Paul Atchley, associate dean for Academic Innovation and Student Success within the college. "In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we have to make sure that we're providing our students with the rich curriculum that allows them to explore the world from a variety of different perspectives."
Spanish and Portuguese saw an increase recently following their addition of a Spanish minor in the fall of 2015.
The Department
"This was a decision that came from the University. It was a recommendation by student government that there was a need for having another degree," said Santa Arias, chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
She said students would often double major in Spanish to supplement their other degree in the workforce. Adding the minor gave the students more flexibility in their schedules as compared to the double major.
"It's a new program because of a need in the market for people to learn about leadership and use that in their professional lives," Atchley said.
Another way that the college is reaching more students is through a new leadership studies program.
The institute began offering a certificate program within the last year that has gained more students. Mary Banwart, the director of the Institute for Leadership Studies, said more students are taking advantage of the
program for future employment and because it offers interdisciplinary courses.
"We believe firmly that students would take a leadership course or courses in how to effectively engage in the process of leadership in order to expand their capacity in doing the good work that they are seeking to do through their major." Banwart said. "We intend for all of our courses to be complimentary to all of the other majors across campus."
Atchley said that fluidity between interdisciplinary courses can increase student enrollment, but the way that faculty teach classes can have more of an
impact.
"I would say that most of the work that changes what direction a major goes is often done in the classroom," Atchley said.
He also said that how many students chose a certain major can be affected by a combination of recruiting through introductory level classes and changes in the world. Atchley said that having a large College is important for the education of all of University students.
"Having a viable and vibrant arts program is critical for a university like the University of Kansas considers itself to be a flagship," Atchley said.
ONWARD FROMPAGE1
uals within the coalition. He said the rules would have allowed organization visits and campaigning for coalitions on March 6, but not for individual candidates, as Onward's presidential and vice-presidential picks had not submitted their official applications to declare their candidacy.
"The main thing will be determining what was meant by 'Vote for us.'" Farlow said.
time after their caucus for president and vice-president, which Onward held on Feb. 16.
Chance Maginness, Onward's presidential candidate, said the complaint has no basis in the rules. He said the rules state that coalitions are free to campaign any-
We just want to make sure that everyone's going to play by the rules."
Mady Womack One KU presidential candidate
"I think that this is desperate," Maginness said. "I think it's pathetic and I think it's petty."
Maginness said that his coalition was never told there is any problem with telling people to vote for them something that he said reveals "bias" on the part of the Elections Commission. Moreover, he said the rule is not reflected in SSRR, but arbitrarily decided by the commission.
Mady Womack, the presidential candidate for OneKU, said her coalition made the complaint in the interest of fairness among all the coalitions. She said OneKU had been told by the commission multiple times not to say the phrase "vote for us" and wanted Onward to be following the guideline as well.
play by the rules," she said. "Honestly, maybe there just needs to be a clarification of the rules from the Elections Commission."
"We just want to make sure that everyone's going to
The hearing for the complaint will take place on Monday evening, March 13, at the Union. It will follow the hearing for another minor complaint made against Onward, which alleges that they did not inform the students attending their campaign launch that their votes for presidential and vice president nominees were binding.
"What we would love to do is make AL more person-
"Could something like Watson, true AI, learn over the course of time, pull content from more than just our database, but be able to go tap the entire web to be able to pull content back?" Mumaw asked.
While this is a goal for down the road, the school is currently satisfied with its place at the forefront of technology integration.
struggle in how it can be integrated and what value it provides," Mumaw said. "Our ability to be able to break down the mentality of a student adds the value to the technology."
"You find some technology that's in play, but when you're talking about business school, technology doesn't seem to play as large of a role, simply because there seems to be a
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MONDAY, MARCH 13
Open Mic
The developers hope to broaden the app's range in the future with IBM's supercomputer, Watson, an artificial intelligence system that is at the forefront of question-answering technology.
Much of the behind-the-scenes learning for AL still takes place in the hands of people like Brock, who monitors the questions/answers dashboard on a regular basis. But, in the future, the school is looking for the technology to get smarter and smaller.
al and smaller to the individual, so that it gives them counsel based on what we already know about them," Mumaw said.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17
Red Money
Down the line, the goal is for AL to be able to understand questions asked by the specific user and then recognize things throughout their interactions like the person's career focus and future goals.
The other possibility, one that Hint and the school said they entertained during the first stage of the process, is to give AL a the most comprehensive database it can have: the entire web.
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Thieves of Sunrise
Ryan Manuel & The Getaway
AL FROM PAGE 1
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The Songs of Joy Division
Moving Units
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"Right now, we have a database filled with content, but it's not thinking, it's just pulling content," Mumaw said.
MONDAY, MARCH 20
Open Mic
In developing the technology, Brock said the human-like responses were meant to create an interactive exchange that encourages users, even when they might not get what they were looking for.
WEBNESDAY, MARCH 22
Gang of Thieves
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SUNDAY, MARCH 19
Smackdown Trivia
has a pool of answers fed from student data gathered during the research process of the app and a question/ answer bank via KU Info. It can be asked questions like "Where can I get Ramen?" but it will be forced to give an automated response if it has yet to learn the proper information.
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
Joel Bonner & The Boot Stempers
Bayley Eate & The Running Late
Electric Rag Band
For example, when prompted "Tell me a joke," AL will respond with the short yet cunning, "Mizzou and K-State are good at basketball."
If the app doesn't know the answer, it compensates with a sense of humor.
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Nite owl
Chase Compton
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SUNDAY, MARCH 26TH
Smackdown Trivia
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