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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 20, 1964
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KU Sociology Professor To Take New Post
E. Gordon Ericksen, professor of sociology, has been appointed Chairman of the Sociology Department at Tennessee University, effective Feb. 1, 1965.
Dr. Ericksen has been a member of the KU faculty since 1949. He taught at the University of California at Los Angeles before coming to KU.
Dr. Ericksen is the author of four books and many articles. His most recent book is "Africa Company
Town," a case study in collective behavior at Gura, Ethiopia. His interest in this project began when he was an administrator for an aircraft company in Ethiopia during World War II.
Dr. Ericksen's specialities are the sociology and population dynamics of the Carribean area countries, urban ecology, and race relations.
He took a two-year leave of absence from KU from 1954 to 1956
to be an adviser for the International Cooperation Administration, a state department agency, on improving native housing. Dr. Ericksen, who built his own home here in Lawrence, showed the people how to build their homes, advised the governments what type of homes the peoples' superstitions would allow them to move into, and planned villages.
"The program, Aided Self Help
Housing Program, was primarily one of slum clearance," said Ericksen.
Ericksen said, "The government supplied the land and materials, and I talked the people into building new houses on the several islands of the British West Indies."
Ericksen also helped with the slum clearance program in Bogota Columbia during this time.
Among his books are "Urban
Behavior," "The West Indies Population Problem," and "Social and Cultural Features of Southwest Kansas." He is now completing a book entitled "The Genteel Revolution," concerning Costa Rica's middle class.
W. Clarke Wescoe, Chancellor, said, "We're sorry to see Dr. Ericksen leave. This is an opportunity for him with an intriguing future, and we certainly wish him the best in it.
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