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Wednesday, June 26, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Course adds cultural awareness
By Cathy Garrard
Kansan staff writer
Thirty Lawrence junior high school students participating in an outreach program during the past week at KU are more than computers and calculations.
For the first time, the Minority Affairs Project Outreach Program included a course in cultural awareness.
The program, sponsored by the office of minority affairs, teaches students what to expect from higher education. Volunteer Lawrence area teachers instruct students in computer and study skills, writing and mathematics. The program began June 17 and ends tomorrow.
Norma Norman, coordinator of the program, said minority and non-minority students participated in the program.
"We wanted the students to become aware of their own cultural heritage and how it has contributed to the total Lawrence community." Norman said. "Each has combined experience to make Lawrence the place it is."
Licandra Creshman, an outreach program staff member, teaches the cultural-awareness class. Creshman is working toward a doctoral degree in education at KU with a concentration in minority affairs.
She said that her heritage inspired her interest in cultural issues and that she hoped to spark students' interest.
"I'm Hispanic, and as I've grown older, it has become more important to me," Crenshaw said. "Right now some of these students are very interested, but there are also those students who don't think it's important. My focus is to make them aware of their opportunities and interests."
Crenshaw said students worked together to define commonly used cultural terms until everyone agreed on them.
Kim Moore, a student in the program, said, "On the first day, we had to write definitions of minority, cultural, racial and ethnic groups. Until then, I always thought they were all the same."
Crenshaw said it was important for students to understand that in different settings, different groups were minorities.
"In their neighborhood they may not be, but when they enter a classroom they are." Crenshaw said. "They need to become aware of how they move in and out of their groups all the time."
The office moved the summer outreach program to Lawrence this year from Kansas City, Kan., where it was conducted for eight years.
James Baucom, Topeka junior, relates his college experiences to junior high school students participating in an outreach program.
Convention to help families of disabled
Kansan staff writer
By Kelley Frieze
Families of people with disabilities will have the chance to discuss problems and find solutions at a convention starting tomorrow.
The Beach Center on Families and Disability, housed in the Dole Human Development Center, will sponsor Great Expectations Summer Institute.
Sixty-five people, primarily parents and professionals from across the United States, will attend the institute. The event runs from early until Sunday at the Holiday Inn Holtomei, 200 McDonald Drive.
"The focus is life after high school for kids with disabilities," said Gary Brunk, assistant director for administration at the Beach Center.
Some of the problems the conference will address include finding jobs for disabled students after high school and live more independently, Brunk said.
Developmental disabilities such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy and epilepsy will be addressed at the institute.
Participants will form small groups and make individual goals for
their disabled family members, he said. They can consult professionals at the institute for suggestions about services.
Patty Pertler, a parent of a disabled person and a disabilities professional, said she thought the topic was different from most conferences.
Gerdel, director of Families Together, a center in Topeka for people with a disabled family member, will be attending the institute as a member of a three-person team. The team consists of herself, a parent, and adults with disabilities and a director of an individual living center.
"Our team brings with it some ideas on helping kids get jobs before they get out of school and the value of teaching them what hoping that we'll see more conference days."
Brunk said many people were unhappy with services for high school graduates with disabilities, and he hoped the parents and professionals at the institute could help each other find services.
KU credit earned through program
Activities also will be offered such as a picnic and a sing-a-long with Tom Hunter, a singer and songwriter.
By Traci Moore
Special to the Kansan
The School of Engineering is sponsoring a summer program to encourage high school minority students tested in engineering to attend KU.
The Arco Early Entry Program, financed by the Arco Foundation, brings the students to Arcos Math and computer courses. math and computer courses
The foundation, which is part of the Arco Oil Co. in California, donated $70,000 to the school for summer engineering programs.
Twelve 1991 high school graduates are participating in the three-year-old program this summer.
Students earn eight hours of credit in the program, which can be applied toward an engineering degree and is earned for the computer course.
Florence Boldridge, director of the minority engineering program, SCoRMBEE, is in charge of the early entry program.
She said the school wanted to help the students make the transition to college life and give them the needed skills to earn their college degrees, Bordridge said
The students live in Ellsworth Hall while taking the program. Resident assistants who are in the building teach the students with their studies.
Bryan Phillips, Springfield,
Mo., junior, is majoring in
mechanical engineering and is a
resident assistant for the Arco
School of Engineering. In
questions the students in the program
might have about the school.
Tanya Black, of Kansas City, Kan., was offered a chemical engineering scholarship to KU and the offer was too good to refuse.
Adam Healy, of Wichita, said he wanted to major in aerospace engineering in the fall and thought he would benefit from the program.
To qualify for the program, students must have at least a 3.0 grade point average, an ACT composite score of 24 or higher and be active in school and community activities.
Students value Inroads program Minority students learn to succeed while taking college courses early and participate in four-year internships they hope lead to future jobs
By Traci Moore
Special to the Kenyan
Special to the Kansan
A nationwide minority program sponsored at KU this summer is giving high school students firsthand experience to succeed in college and careers.
Twenty-one high school seniors from the greater Kansas City area are participating in the Inroads program, which recruits African-American, Hispanic and American Indian students.
After completing an eight-week program at the University of Kansas the students will attend semi-annual workshops and out their year of high school
The program helps students interested in business and technical careers, such as engineering and computer science, prepare for college.
The students must go through two parts of the program, which include university courses and an internship that lasts until students finish college.
The students this summer are taking an English 101 and a Math
101 course, as well as a Learning Strategies Seminar that accompanies the English course.
During a student's freshman year in college, they are entered in a talent pool and then paired with the program's sponsor companies for interviews. More than 1,000 sponsor companies work with the program.
If successful, students become paid interns with a company for four to five years. Nearly two-thirds of the students in the program are full-time positions with an inroads sponsor company after graduation
Florence Boldridge, director of SCoMMEBE, the KU minority engineering program, is the faculty member in the edge of the Inroads program at KU
Boldridge said the program helped students become familiar with the social and academic aspects of college.
Students must meet certain academic requirements before graduation. Preference is given to students with grade point averages of 3.0 or
better, SAT combined scores of 800 or better, ACT composite scores of 20 or better, or ranking in the top 10 percent of their class.
Inroads Inc., which started in 1970 in Chicago, originally had 25 students in its program.
Now with its headquarters in St. Louis, the organization includes more than 4,200 high school and college students in its program, and universities across the country. KU has been a host university since 1890.
The Kansas City chapter of Inroads started in 1979 and works with more than 50 companies in Kansas City and Topeka.
Clee Jones, a senior at Raytown South High School in Kansas City, Mo., said she thought the program was great preparation for college.
"We are learning how to be prepared to pass classes and how to deal with stress." Jones said.
Leronta Austin, a senior at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy in Kansas City, Mo., wants to major in business management and marketing.
He said he thought the Inroads program would help him achieve his goal.
"I'm learning to manage my time properly and to do things when I should be doing them." Austin said.
Lisa Mendera, a senior at Oatle
South High School in Oatle, said
that she thought the program was
ready but that she decided to stay
with it.
"I think the experience will even tually pay off," Mendez said.
Annual fees from sponsor companies and private donations support the program. The program does not receive government aid.
Companies that sponsor the program include IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Anheuser Busch.
Edwin Bailey, a senior at the University of Missouri in Columbia, participated in the floods pro-
tection program and had an internship with Center re Bank.
Bailey found his internship to be invaluable.
"It was a lot of good experience working with people in a business environment," Bailey said.
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