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Thursday, October 5, 1995
UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Education forced to realign in face of tighter budget
By Aaron Hull Kansan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The School of Education will consolidate from six departments to four departments before July 1, 1997.
The consolidation is the result of the Board of Regents 1992 review of the six Regents institutions. The review suggested reorganization for budgetary reasons.
"Our finances continue to be constrained, and we simply have to think about reorganization," said John Welsh, director of academic affairs for the Regents.
The plan, implemented at KU by David Shulenburger, vice chancellor of academic affairs, included eliminating 10 departments from the University. Three departments were merged in 1992, leaving KU with seven more departments to eliminate or merge by 1998.
Number of Departments at Peer Institutions
"We justify ourselves by looking at our peer institutions," Shulen-burger said. "We have the
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most departments by far among our peers."
KU has 69 departments, and the University of Iowa has the second most departments with 54.
The reorganization has been given to the schools, and Karen Gallagher, dean of education, is forming a committee to carry out the task. Committee members will be announced on Oct. 13, Gallagher said.
The new organization of the department still is undecided.
"Everyone is on the line," Gallagher said.
However, she said that no personnel would be eliminated.
The School of Education's department chairmen said they had mixed feelings about the realignment.
Edward Heck, chairman of counseling psychology, said he felt that recombining the departments would not affect the budget and that no one had shown the departments any numbers to justify the cuts.
Marc Mahlios, chairman of curriculum and instruction, said he saw the realignment as an opportunity for improvement.
"It'll be worth the effort if a new and more responsible school emerges," Mahlios said. "But I'm not optimistic that there will be more rationale for the restructuring."
Susan Twombly, chairwoman of education policy and leadership, said, "I have very mixed feelings about it. There's a belief that a school with fewer departments can be more efficient. The exercise of going through it is difficult, but it could be good in the long run."
Students combine law, social welfare
By Ryan Hayes-Vise Kansan staff writer
Three graduate students will walk down the Hill in May carrying two degrees that they earned in one shot
More than 10 years ago, the School of Social Welfare and the School of Law approved a joint master's of social welfare and juris doctorate degree. With the new option, students who already had a bachelor's in social welfare could complete a master's degree in social welfare while concurrently completing a law degree. The program could be completed in four years as opposed to five or more years when a student was seeking the degrees separately.
But the program wasn't a success with students.
Dawn Puderbaugh, Lawrence graduate student, was one of the first students to begin the program in 1992. Puderbaugh had planned to leave the University to go to law school after receiving her bachelor's degree in social welfare. The new joint program offered Puderbaugh the chance to stav and get her law degree.
"It was the kind of thing that was only talked about," said Edith Black, assistant dean of social welfare.
But students finally began to notice the program in 1992. Five students are enrolled in the program, and three will graduate this spring.
Puderbaugh said she hoped to work with children after graduation. She has worked for the state and has had internships established by the school of social welfare.
"KU has two really good programs," said Puderbaugh, "I think this provides an extra knowledge base that's helpful."
Tisha Morrical, Lindsborg graduate student, will graduate with Puder-
baugh this spring. Morrical was in the first year of her master's degree when she decided to enroll in the new program.
"I feel attorneys have more pull or influence than social workers," said Morrical. "Social welfare will provide a framework to how I will practice law."
Without an example to follow, the five students currently in the program sometimes are faced with the difficulties of establishing a path to take.
"It's a process that needs to be developed," said Morrical. "We were guinea pigs from the start and we knew it."
Puderbaugh urged students to give the new program a trv.
"It's a very practical degree," she said. "The law degree offers the knowledge and opportunities that would help with future clients."
KU gets teacher development grant
By Aaron Hull
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas' School of Education has a reason to pat itself on the back.
It has been awarded a $1 million grant under the Federal Eisenhower Proposal to further professional development of teachers in the state of Kansas.
More than 100 groups applied for the grant, and five grants were awarded nationwide. The names of the other recipients have not yet been released.
"This is truly a state of Kansas proposal," said Karen Gallagher, dean of education. "The proposal will help schools of education around the state to align their programs towards similar outcomes."
"It's a mind shift." she said.
Gallagher also said that the money from the grant would help the schools of education to refocus from separatism to state-wide unity, to integrate their curriculum toward a five-year program and to aid them in redesigning curriculum for accreditation by a national council.
The most immediate impact of the grant soon will be felt by undergraduate education students, Gallagher said.
This will take place over the next three to five years, said Jeannie Kleinhammer-Tramil, associate scientist for the Lifespan Institute.
Kleinhammer-Tramill helped bring the grant to Kansas, along with Gallagher and Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education.
state for teacher development." Kleinhammer-Tramill said. "We have to prepare teachers differently now."
"It really pulls resources into the
Sub-grants from this award will go to Emporia State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University and Bethany College. Gallagher said. Other Kansas schools of education will have an opportunity to apply for similar subgrants in the future. These subgrants will help the schools redesign their programs.
Kleinhammer-Tramill said that there had been debate about whether education standards should be set at a national or state level.
She said she felt that the Eisenhower Proposal would help the state develop a strong set of standards of its own.
Web site pizza not on-line for Lawrence
Kansan staff writer
By Brenden Sager
If you want to order a pizza from the comfort of your computer, you'll have to move to Manhattan, Kan.
Pyramid Pizza and Pizza Shuttle have put their menus on-line at their Manhattan locations. While both stores have outlets in Lawrence, local managers said that downloading pepperoni and sausage pizzas from the World Wide Web would not be coming to Lawrence soon.
"I thought it would be an interesting gimmick," said Bill McKee, owner and general manager of Pyramid Pizza, Kansas City, Mo.
McKee said managers at the Manhattan store had been approached by the Mega-Media computer company, which provided on-line services to businesses in Manhattan, including Pyramid Pizza and Pizza Shuttle. McKee said he wanted to see if the home page would work in Manhattan, and
if it did, he wanted to use it for the Lawrence store.
Mega Media designed a home page for businesses in Manhattan on the Web — an electronic document where Pizza Shuttle's and Pyramid Pizza's menus appear. Customers fill out the orders, which are sent to a computer at MegaMedia and are converted to a fax that is sent to the store.
"I thought it would be an interesting gimmick."
BILL McKee
Owner and general manager of Pyramid Pizza, in reference to putting his company's menu on the World Wide Web
Mike Evans, manager of Pyramid Pizza in Manhattan, said that the pizza would arrive if a phone number was included.
ing in his store was computerized, and the Lawrence location did not require Internet enhancements.
John Botyl, manager of Lawrence's
Pizza Shuttle. 1601 W. 23rd St., said noth-
"I never really got into computers," Botyl said. "I'm a child of the 70s."
However, Botbyl's brother, Richard, who manages the Pizza Shuttle in Manhattan, said that he did not share his brother's lack of on-line enthusiasm. "I look at it as advertis-
little more expensive than all of the newspaper. And there's a monthly charge."
"I look at it as advertising," he said. "It's defi-
Botyl said the volume of orders has not changed much since the Web page was installed in Manhattan.
"People still use the phone," he said.
In order for Alpha Tau Omega to expand, the houses must come down. But not theirs.
"Last year, it was almost completely destroyed by fire," said Garrett Sullivan, Leawood senior and president of Alpha Tau Omega. 1537 Tennessee St.
Alpha Tau Omega to remodel after demolition of two historical houses
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
Sullivan said he didn't know when demolition would begin but he hoped it would be as soon as possible.
The fraternity plans to remodel its house and driveway once the demolition is completed on two historical houses south of the fraternity.
Merle Nunemaker, president of the Gamma Mu Building Corporation, which owns and manages ATO's property, said that other remodeling plans for the fraternity were in the works.
Sullivan said plans had already been made to demolish the house behind Babcocks addition and that it wouldn't cost much more for the fraternity to have both houses demolished at the same time.
He said the recently condemned house next door, known as Babcocks addition, needed to be demolished because it was unsound.
Fraternity members have already raised money to renovate the whole house.
The expected goal is $2 million, Sullivan said, and they have already raised about $1.5 million from alumni donations.
He said the fraternity house would be completely gutted and redone, the driveway would be extended behind the existing two houses to the south, to Tennessee Terrace and to Tennessee Street, and the upper parking lot would be turned into a basketball and tennis court.
The main goal, he said, was to direct runoff water flow around the house, which continuously flooded the basement.
"This won't affect the appearance from the street," he said. "It's going to be landscaped."
Sullivan said that once the houses were demolished, the area would become an extended front yard. He said the fraternity remodeling would begin around May 20.
The house to the south of Babcocks addition, which is rented to several KU students, will be preserved and will soon be used for sixth-year members of Alpha Tau Omega.