UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 29, 1994
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Interns gain experience, help society
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
Rob Vaught was tired of the norma academic methods of learning.
Vaught, Winfield sophomore, signed up for the Community Internship program coordinated by the Center for Community Outreach, which is under the direction of Student Senate.
agencies for the internships.
The program, which starts this week, placed eight KU students with local nonprofit organizations to experience a professional work environment.
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Vaught said he wanted to work on his political science degree outside the classroom to see if he was really interested in politics. He was placed with the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, 211 E. Eighth St. The center is a United Way organization that works with other nonprofit groups.
"I just wanted to get involved in the community, politically or otherwise," Vaught said.
He said he wanted to work with people in situations that were not typical of classroom learning.
Lanaea Heine, coordinator of Roger Hill Volunteer Center, talks to Rob Vaught, Winfield sophomore, about "Kid's Voting Day." Yesterday was his first day of internting at the center.
Vaught and the other interns will be paid $5 per hour. The Center for Community Outreach uses money from the Educational Opportunity Fund and federal work study money. It also solicits funds from the nonprofit
Lanaea Heine, coordinator at the Roger Hill Volunteer Center, said Vaught would be helping coordinate the Kid's Voting Lawrence program. The program, run through the Lawrence School District, lets students cast votes alongside adults in the Nov. 8 election.
"I try to mold the internship to the expectations and needs of the student," Heine said.
Heine said Vaught would be learning how to coordinate up to 300 volunteers, do media relations work and get office experience.
All eight internships are designed for the students' career interests. Some other agencies that are employing the interns are the KU Habitat for Humanity, Brook Creek Learning Center and Community Children's Center.
The internship experience, which is 10 hours a week for 10 weeks, helps in building lasting relationships, Heine said.
"Students are going to build friends and relationships that they don't expect, and they last for a long time," she said.
Heine said that she had worked with interns from the Center for Community Outreach since its inception six years ago and that she had learned a
lot from her interns.
"I tend to learn more from the students then they learn from me,"Heine said.
She said the students often had more computer skills.
Lorraine Claassen, director of the community internship program, said
"I want to make it part of their lifestyle," Claassen said. "Society can't function without volunteerism."
she wanted the program to give students practical work experience while sparking their community service interest.
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OU, NU know well the perils of KU's chancellor search
The University of Nebraska and the University of Oklahoma know what the KU chancellor search committee is going through in finding a chancellor.
By James Evans
Kansan staff writer
"You have to keep the committee small or you'll run into problems."
During the past three years, both universities have gone through the process of locating the ideal person to lead their universities into the future.
In April, Oklahoma hired former governor and current U.S. senator of Oklahoma David Boren to become its 13th president. He replaced Richard Van Horn, who retired to return to teaching in the school of business at Oklahoma.
Lynda Kaid, vicechairwoman of Oklahoma's search committee, said
that the 17-member committee felt Boren fit the mold of what the university was looking for in a president.
"We thought he had the leadership capabilities we were looking for," Kaid said. "He had an understanding of academics and working with students and faculty."
Kaid said the search committee also liked Boren's educational background. He was on the faculty at Oklahoma Baptist University for four years and had a doctorate from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Kaid said the committee wanted to find someone who could deal with the multifaceted position of president.
"We wanted someone who could be an inventive leader, bring together the multiple constituencies involved
with the university and be able to work with outside constituencies."
Kaid said the search attracted 100 candidates for the position. She said the candidate pool was made up of candidates with academic backgrounds and private industry experience.
Nebraska participated in a president's search in 1991. The search was started because the then-president, Martin Massengale, left to become the president of the University of Nebraska system, which includes all NI campuses.
The Nebraska committee was made up of two students, one undergraduate and one graduate student, two outside alumni, seven faculty members and one administrator.
Perlman said.
The only problem the search committee had was keeping the search confidential, Perlman said..
"The Omaha World Herald was able to find out two of the final candidates by calling all the provosts in the country," Perlman said.
Perlman said the World Herald's investigation didn't affect the final selection.
Perlman said he had no real recommendations in running a chancellor search.
The KU chancellor committee will meet tomorrow to look at the current candidates who have shown interest in the chancellor's position.
"There are so many ways of doing a successful search, and it really depends on the environment of the school."
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