No big problems yet says Centennial College dean
By GARY MURRELL
A new method of educating college students, the Centennial College, is in its first year at KU, and Jerry Lewis, dean of the Centennial College, believes the innovation in college education has no major problems yet.
"Much to my surprise," Dean Lewis said, "the college has not developed any particular difficulties. However, it is early; problems may lie ahead."
DEAN LEWIS is an experienced educator. He has been involved in either teaching or administration positions since receiving his master's degree here in 1958.
As head of the Centennial College, Lewis combines his duties with those as assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
He explained the new Centennial program this way:
"It is a breaking down of sections of a university which have never been separated before. With this breakdown, KU administrators hope to create conditions for better communication between faculty and students."
THE CENTENNIAL College involves 450 freshmen-225 women and 225 men. The women students live on third and fourth floors of Oliver Hall, while the men reside of corresponding floors of Ellsworth Hall.
Many of them are in the same sections for English, speech and history courses.
Aside from regular classes, discussion groups of 20 each were organized to develop closer communication, thereby assisting the learning experience.
"By this time next year." Dean Lewis said, "four additional groups will have been organized, and by fall 1988 all freshmen and sophomores should be involved in this 'college within a college' program."
PRESENT PLANS do not call for inclusion of fraternities, scholarship balls or apartment residents until the fall of '68, he said.
"We must have a cross section of students to work with at first," Dean Lewis said. "Then, after studying the advantages and disadvantages of the program, we will consider expansion to other groups."
Dean Lewis and staff maintain offices in the basement of Oliver Hall. There are two officers, a reception room and a conference room in which daily counseling sessions are held.
TO COORDINATE the program, groups of students meet in history writing sessions in which essays are prepared. An instructor presents the essays and the class discusses them.
"The writer of the essay must defend his reasoning," Lewis said. "Naturally, with small groups of not more then ten or 12 students, participants bring out more ideas and learn more."
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Projects like the Centennial College require much hard work, he said, not only for the students but also for the faculty and administrators. It also takes time.
"Anything that is worthwhile takes time," he added. "This is not a small, minor change. It is a revolutionary and complicated conversion."
THE NEW PROGRAM is not all work. A student committee is meeting regularly to plan social functions for the students. Although no definite plans have been announced, some exchange dinners and dances are in the making.
Pre-enrollment for the spring semester is in progress. Dean Lewis said most of the students will be enrolling this week.
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