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between faculty and student, Surface added.
At the end of the sophomore year, students would move into upperclass residence halls as they began to specialize in their studies.
GENERAL CAMPUS expansion is still in the "visionary" stage. Surface said. Some possibilities include development along Naismith Drive toward Stouffer Place, and a possible dormitory site above Oread Hall near the stadium.
Both Surface and Gunn cited the residence college concept as an aid to inducing new faculty to KU. Surface said it would maintain the broad spectrum of undergraduate, graduate and research opportunities KU now offers prospective faculty.
Surface said alumni funds are being sought to finance the experiment so that participating students would not have to finance the cost and maintenance of the classrooms.
Developed areas near the campus are desirable, Surface and Gunn agreed, but economically impractical.
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"Our student-advising system and wing living groups in large residence halls aid in keeping individuality." Gunn said.
GUNN SAID the residence college concept was not a last-ditch effort to preserve individuality.
Other ideas are also being considered. Gunn added.
"We would start the program today if we had the money." Surface said when asked how soon plans would be activated.
Library expansion also involves many considerations, the three officials concurred.
"Any of the present 500-student dorms possibly could be converted," he said.
Development of departmental libraries when space at Watson becomes limited may not be desirable. Surface said.
TO BE EFFECTIVE. Surface stressed, the departmental library must have a working collection. This would involve increased staff expenses, and greater inconvenience for students if libraries were scattered across the campus.
and 85 per cent of our entering undergraduates are in the upper one-half of their high school classes.
At a less visionary level, but still in the planning stages, is development of a research library containing rare and valuable manuscripts.
Chancellor Wescoe said that space in Watson is now adequate and room for wing expansion has been provided in the master campus plan.
"There are opportunities to expand physically without violating the site." Chancellor Wescoe said.
The library would not be restricted to graduate use, Chancellor Wescoe said, but would be available to undergraduates and graduates alike for research.
AGAIN, funds are needed to advance this program beyond the "aspiration" stage.
"This kind of record, I feel, is largely because of significant counseling and advice at the high school level," he continued.
An important consideration in the future of library expansion, the chancellor continued, is development of modern—possibly computerized—systems which could antiquate present plans in 20 years.
NO PRACTICAL plans have been made to computerize KU's library system, Chancellor Wescoe said, because of the prohibitive costs involved. However, a major federal program to aid university library modernization could change the situation.
"I believe it would take a federal program to implement library systems of this magnitude," Chancellor Wescoe said.
Admission standards, under review by many U.S. colleges, will probably not be applied at KU.
in a sense we already have a system of self-selection," Chancellor Wescoe said. "Between 80
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