Students in CWC surveyed
Students who have participated in the Colleges-Within-the-College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CWC) program are this week answering questions concerning their experiences with the subcolleges.
They are being asked about advantages and disadvantages as part of a five-university survey-using a random sample of students-to determine the value of the program.
The survey is being conducted on the campuses of Michigan University, Florida University, the University of California at San Diego, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Kansas—all members of the Frontiers of Academic Decentralization committee—which were among the first universities in the nation to create subcolleges.
Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of the college of Liberal Arts and Sciences and KU coordinator of survey research, this week explained that KU began research into the CWC program nearly three years ago under the direction of E. Jackson Baur, professor of sociology.
Lewis said research of this nature was started at Michigan University by Theodore Newcomb, professor of social psychology.
He added that Newcomb's research generated outside interest, particularly in those universities which were starting subcollege programs. The result of this interest was a small research grant from the Carnegie Corporation in New York to carry out subcollege surveys. He said that the Carnegie Corporation originally helped finance the start of KU's CWC program with Centennial college two years ago.
Lewis said the survey would be conducted in each university and the results sent to the central coordinator at Michigan University.
The purpose of the research, he said, is to provide insight into the benefits or disadvantages of the subcollege program.
All five participating universities will make use of the data, he added, and analyses will be made to determine whether subcolleges should be extended to include juniors and seniors, or whether any other adjustments should be made.
He said, however, that no decision would be made or discussed until a complete picture of the subcolleges was completed.
Lewis said the researchers hoped to follow the subcollege participants from their freshman to senior years.
"The longer we research and the more data we gather, the more complete our picture will be," he said.
Correction
Due to a printing error in yesterday's University Daily Kansan, a statement made by Glen M. McGonigle, assistant instructor of physics, was incorrectly attributed to Daniel Ling, associate professor of physics.
McGonigle said, "Most foreign students are willing to learn how to clean and keep up their apartments. However, a landlord can rent out a nice place to a group of foreign students and in two weeks the place can look like hell, for they just don't know how to keep up the apartment."
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