KU
Enrollment hits record 13,300
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
By EMERY GOAD Assistant Managing Editor
A record enrollment for the Spring semester at KU totaled 13,300 students yesterday.
Kenneth Anderson, dean of the School of Education and official enrollment predictor, reported he expects 15,700 students at KU next fall under continuing conditions.
Anderson said that number will rise to slightly over 16,000 in 1968 and then drop 200 to 300 students in 1969.
DORMITORY FIGURES were reported down 3 per cent from last semester, according to J. J. Wilson, director of dormitories. The occupancy totals now stands at 90 per cent. Officials have reported that under 93 per cent of capacity there is a financial strain placed on the housing office. Officials at Templin Hall reported their hall is only 75 per cent full.
Enrollment this week in Kansas City was 1,160. This is an increase of 50 at the medical center. Admission officials said they would expect as many as 300 late enrollees in the next few days.
James K. Hitt, registrar, reported a new student enrollment of 534 students, a 31 per cent increase of new students over last year. Officials said this was the largest increase since the post war years when the veterans came to KU.
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LAST SEMESTER'S enrollment was 14,600 students, one which saw the usually second semester drop. A high of 14,700 students is expected for the KU campus and the Medical Center in Kansas City.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, February 7, 1967
School of Fine Arts receives $4,000 grant
The KU School of Fine Arts will receive $4,000 in 1967-68 for experimental development of basic courses in musicianship education.
The grant is through the Institute for Music in Contemporary Education, Southwestern Region, established this month by a grant of $51,000 from the Contemporary Music Project for Creativity in Music Education of the Music Educators National Conference.
THERE WILL be six regional institutes in the national project, which is headed by Norman Dello Joio, well-known American composer.
Prof. Eunice Boardman of Wichita State University is director of the Institute in the Southwestern Region. She will oversee funds for instructional grants approved by the national program to seven or eight schools in the region.
The program director at KU will be Dr. John Pozdro, chairman of the department of
music theory and composition. His research associate will be Dr. Stanley N. Shumway, director of lower division music theory courses. They will devote three-fourths and one-half time respectively to the program this summer planning the redesign and expanding of present courses and setting up an evaluation program for the school year.
AT KU the emphasis will be on music theory and composition courses, cooperation in the music education department's new program for the teaching of general music in the public schools and assistance to the public school music systems in adjacent communities with implementing general music courses.
In music theory one freshman section will include a full semester devoted to 20th century materials. Other sections will have greater reliance on analytical methods and programmed instruction.
Enrollment-part I
KU grows with boom
By CAROL DeBONIS
Growth is not an uncommon term in the conferences of higher education, nor in the conversations of college students. It is a nationwide reality, and KU has not been left untouched.
Student population is an example. At KU, it numbers 15-763 this year. The figure is not a staggering one compared with 27,000 at the University of California at Berkeley. At KU, however, it is significant.
It represents a 6.7% increase over 1965—a gain of more than 4,000 students since 1963.
The increase for the 10-year period from 1950 to 1960 was 2.256. From 1960 to 1963 it was 2.134.
Why the sudden jump?
"The population explosion is the primary factor," said James K. Hitt, registrar. "Subtract 18 from 1963 and you have 1945, the year that group of entering freshman was born."
The post-war baby boom, affecting the classes of 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966, is the biggest contributor to enrollment growth Hitt said. The greater proportion of students going to college is another, although secondary, factor."
"You can almost plot enrollment through population figures," he said. "Although there are intervening factors, this is the most accurate indicator."
Current seniors, freshmen in 1963, can see the difference. The campus is not only more densely populated, it is growing physically. Since 1963 seven major buildings have been constructed and improvements have been made on several others.
Blake, Fraser, Robinson and Learned have been added to the campus core, while Naismith, Oliver and McCollum have been
constructed in the outlying dormitory areas.
Expansions have been completed in Dyche, the Memorial Stadium and Watson Library.
What can present freshmen expect to see by the time they reach senior standing?
Enrollment predictions indicate a leveling off. This year's freshmen, the last of the baby boom, should see no significant enrollment growth by 1970.
According to a report entitled "Forecasting University of Kansas Enrollments" by Kenneth Anderson, dean of the school of education, there will be 15,830 to 16,450 students in 1970.
The figure 17,000 should be reached by 1973. From then until 1977, ups and downs within the 17,000 mark should keep figures fairly constant.
In the report, submitted in December, Anderson said, "It is almost impossible to predict with a high degree of accuracy, the enrollments for the future until such time as the situation begins to stabilize itself. Of this we can be sure, there will be more students in Kansas colleges and universities; but precisely how many more or how they will be distributed is somewhat difficult to predict."
Anderson said the following will determine whether or not his predictions materialize:
higher tuition changes
- failure to maintain the present enrollment rate in competition with other universities
selective admission policies (real or imagined)
economic conditions world conflict
(real or imagined)
out-of-town enrollments availability of adequate personel
world conflict
changes in the patterns of higher education in Kansas, including the junior college movement.
economic conditions
Despite the slower enrollment growth expected, physical plant growth will continue.
By 1970 the $2 million Spencer Research Library behind Strong should be completed. An Experimental Biological and Human Development building will be located at the present site of the Robinson gymnasium annex east of Summerfield hall.
The first phase of a twophase $5.8 million humanities building is expected to be completed by 1970. It will be located at the site of Old Robinson and Haworth Halls. The first phase of constrution will begin at old Robinson and on its completion, Haworth will be demolished and the second phase will begin.
A new law center and a museum of art will probably be added but completion will depend on when the money becomes available. Funds for these two projects are financed by private contributions through the $18.6 million Program for Progress fund drive.
A new dormitory parallel to Oliver on the west is also planned. It will house 680 students.
Jayhawker out
Would you believe—the first section of the 1967 Jayhawker will be distributed early next week.
The yearbook, complete with apples and color foldouts, is now in the final stages of production.
The second section of the Jayhawker will appear early in March, according to Editor Blake Biles.
Dean Taylor stars in Soph Benefit
Rehearsals are continuing all week for the Sophomore Class Benefit Variety Show, which will make a one-night stand at 7:30 Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
Emily Taylor, dean of women, is making the last minute changes in her monologue on protestors. This will be her stage debut, and she is adding spice to the ghost-written monologue, to make it perfect.
She will open singing "A Secretary Is Not a Toy," backed by the sophomore chorale. The debut will be concluded with her rendition of "Downtown."
ALSO READYING themselves for a "stage first" are nine KU fraternity and sorority house-
mothers who will form the chorus line.
They include Mrs. Eleanor Darnell, Alpha Chi Omega; Mrs. Elva Anderson, Alpha Omicron Pi; Mrs. Esther Ament, Alpha Gamma Delta; Mrs. Alice O'Hara, Sigma Kappa; Mrs. Marjorie Nation, Sigma Chi; Mrs. M. H. Morsbach, Phi Delta Theta; Mrs. Roger Blessing, Delta Gamma; Mrs. John MeCuish, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Mrs. Cletus Mason, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Opening with "Who Taught Them Everything They Know," they will answer "We did."
To be revealed is the real inside information regarding the authors of the annual Rock Chalk Revue as they "whack
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Fraternities rush KU independents
Nineteen of KU's fraternities will open their doors Saturday and Sunday for an on-campus rush weekend. Any undergraduate independent is eligible to participate.
The weekend is sponsored by the Interfraternity Council.
Every rushee will make an hour visit to each of nine houses on Saturday. He will be given his choice of six houses and assigned to three others. On Sunday, houses will invite individual rushees back for visits.
THE WEEKEND will begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, when rushees will meet in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. At 9 a.m., fraternity representatives will take rushees to the individual
houses. The day will end about 6 p.m.
Interested men can pick up registration forms in the office of the Dean of Men, 228 Strong. Men who registered for other rush activities earlier in the year should contact Pete Wood-small at the Phi Delta Theta house to give him their six visit choices.
Fraternities participating in the weekend are Acacia, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Kappa Lambda, Eeta Sigma Psi, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Theta, Pi Kappa Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Chi and Triangle.