CENTENNIAL COLLEGE EXPERIMENT
New program opens with 456 freshmen
The Centennial College, alias the College in the College, a unique experience in studying and living in the American university was born this fall at KU.
With its enrollment today of 456 freshmen, divided equally between men and women, the program is planned to spiral by 1968 to include all freshmen entering KU. regardless of residence.
A system where roommates and "neighbors" in Oliver and Ellsworth Halls will share ad-
Time Magazine reports on College
The newly formed Centennial College was termed a "Living-Learning Cluster," by Time magazine this month.
"Vast universities offer great libraries, star teachers, and topnotch research facilities—but often at a high cost in impersonality and student loneliness. Tiny colleges offer the warmth and human values of close relationships—but often at a high cost in academic shortcomings. To get the best of both of these worlds is the purpose of a promising pattern of university student-grouping that will be tested or expanded on at least a dozen
campuses when classes convene this month."
The magazine included a description of the new KU plan to provide a more intimate learning experience within the abundant academic resources of a large university.
The program includes 456 freshman women and men, will expand next year, and in 1968 will include all freshmen at KU regardless of residence.
visors, instructors and administrative officials, the Centennial College here is a testing ground for the modern university.
Academic and sociological teams of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which financed the program, will study the results of the project.
THE PROGRAM IS financed by a three-year $288,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation. It will be enhanced by gifts to build classroom and office structures near the two residence halls and supported by the Council for Progress.
"The College within the College is the most exciting development for undergraduates here in recent years. If there is a danger of anonymity among students at large institutions of higher education, the kind of reorganization we begin this fall will go a long way toward eliminating it," George R. Waggoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said, "Public universities must take care of swelling public need. This new grant will help the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences meet the challenge of size."
As one administrator explained the situation to the participants, "You cannot live' in
the classroom or 'study' in the residence hall; hence this program will combine the two."
OFFICIALS STRESSED that students in the program will still have the freedom to choose courses of study as they like but will be placed in selected classrooms in the introductory courses, i.e. English, mathematics, languages, psychology and the sciences.
There will be one course, History II, offered only to students
in the program. This class deals with European history and will be combined with History 12, offered second semester. Both will be three-hour courses.
Directors of the newly formed program will include: Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences director of the program; Mrs. Kala Stroup, assistant dean of women; John Myers, assistant dean of men and Gilbert Dyck, assistant registrar, all assistant directors.
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