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Summer School Attracts 36 Per Cent of Enrollment
By Rosalie Jenkins
For 36 per cent of KU's spring semester enrollment, the summer will bring little rest from academic pursuits.
About 36 per cent of the spring enrollment of 12,344 will probably attend the KU summer session which runs from June 14 through August 7. George B. Smith, vice-chancellor of institutional planning and director of the summer sessions, said.
Vice-chancellor Smith said that 5,106 students attended summer school last year. He added also that, including the students and other people who attend KU previews, music and art camps, workshops, and conferences, close to 18,000 people are on the Hill in summer.
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Each summer's enrollment for the past few years has ranged in the 36 to 40 per cent bracket of the total enrollment in the spring semester.
WHILE SUMMER SCHOOL enrollment continues to increase. Vice-chancellor Smith said he thinks that
it is primarily because there are more students going to college.
Vice-chancellor Smith noted that 49 per cent of the students last summer were graduate students and that this group has made up 45 to 48 per cent of the summer school students since 1951.
Vice-chancellor Smith said the number of freshmen in summer school may increase because of the anticipated large freshman class next year, and also because Chancellor Wessco wrote a letter to all freshmen, who had been accepted as of May 1. encouraging them to attend.
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About 30 freshmen, enrolled in the Summer Honors Institute, will be in summer school. These freshmen take courses in English, philosophy, biology or political science.
APPROXIMATELY 50 departments are offering courses this summer as students work on bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degrees.
Graduate school carried the largest enrollment last summer with 2,651. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences followed with 1,237. Other schools with large enrollments were Education, 488, KU Medical Center, 503, and Architecture and Engineering, 235.
Men who attend summer sessions will outnumber the women but the gap is narrowing. In 1959, 1,407 women were on campus with 2,148 men. In 1964, 2,936 women came to summer school, compared with 2,946 men.
WOMEN SUMMER SESION students will live in either Watkins scholarship hall or in Ellsworth Hall. Watkins provides rooms only. Ellsworth Hall, as it was last summer, is again coeducational housing with certain floors allotted separately to men and women.
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Along with offering the students a variety of courses, the University also provides housing for those students who desire it. While close to one-third of the summer school students commute each day from Kansas City, Topeka, Ottawa, or other nearby towns, the rest live either in University housing or in private apartments.
Men students can choose housing in either Pearson or Stevenson scholarship halls or in Ellsworth Hall. Pearson or Stevenson provide a room only while Ellsworth offers three meals a day except on weekends.
number of applicants "seems to be about the same, as compared to last year."
Mrs. Marcia Goldstein, assistant to the Dean of Women, and in charge of applicants for Watkins hall, said she has processed 22 applications for the hall so far.
"We had at 100 applicants as of the 12th of May, Traditionally, summer students apply late. We anticipate about 200 or 250," Fred McEllenie, assistant to the dean of men and in charge of men's summer housing, said. "It appears we're going to be up this year."
"IVE NOTICED in my conversations with students that more and more are taking advantage of the summer session. Many are without employment for the summer and don't want to sit around," he said.
he had so far. Mrs. Goldstein noted that the
As for the results and success of coed living in Ellsworth Hall last summer, McElhenie said that it went over very well and the majority of students enjoyed it.
"Most of the students felt that the dress improved, manners were better and they appreciated the opportunity to do some coeducational studying."
Brouck Sleight, Carthage, Mo. sophomore and vice-president of McColum Hall next year, said he has two reasons for attending summer school.
Students who come to summer school have a variety of reasons or purposes for attending.
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"ID LIKE TO CATCH up on some grade points and get ahead in my studies." Sleight said.
"I'm starting graduate school this summer and I also had an opportunity to work on previews as a previews assistant for the women." Miss Gloria Farha, Wichita senior, said.
He added that Eob Smith, Monett, Mo., sophomore and McCollim president for next year, will also attend summer school and that the two of
"It'll be a lot of work to get it organized." Sleight said.
them will probably work on organizing the new hall which will be completed next year.
Robinson said that Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior and student body president, also plans to attend summer school. One reason that both had decided definitely to come was that they could work on the student government for next year.
Bill Robinson, Great Bend sophomore and student body vice-president, said he was going to summer school because "I changed my major and I need to pick up six hours in order to get into my new major field."
Mrs. Linda Conderman, Ulysses junior, said she is attending summer school again this summer because she will then be able to graduate early and begin teaching in a Lawrence school.
"I HOPE TO BEGIN teaching a year from next fall so I can help put my husband through law school," she said.
Terry Monroe, Great Bend sophomore, said he was going to summer school to help ease the pressure of work on a double major of business and anthropology.
"Mainly, I'm afraid I need to pick up additional hours," Monroe said.
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