KU to get new school soon
By VIKI HYSTEN Kansan Staff Writer
On July 1, KU's department of social work becomes the School of Social Work.
The new school, KU's twelfth, was authorized by the Kansas Board of Regents in February and was named KU's fourth school at the postgraduate level.
Its administration will be headed by Arthur J. Katz, appointed dean of the school, who came to the University last summer as professor and chairman of the social work department.
Changes planned
"The change will facilitate innovation and experimentation in social work," Katz said. "The emerging functions for social work in a rapidly changing society require many changes."
changing society require many changes He explained that the new program would offer course, field and community laboratory experiences. "Field work," he explained, "will be a course in itself in which students would be exposed to general activities regarding social welfare and social operations."
"Laboratory work will involve going into a community with the students' activities and research attached to one particular course," he said.
Offers more opportunity
"It will be a more structured program, which will
"We hope to make closer connections for field instruction activities with both the University community and the Lawrence community."
offer an opportunity to have graduate work available to selected seniors," he said.
"Currently," Katz said, "students are doing field and lab work with various social agencies, such as mental and medical hospitals, correctional agencies, community centers and social welfare planning agencies."
He gave as an example two students working with the Lawrence Ballard Center to structure a program that would employ the poor themselves as workers in the welfare department.
Two years for M.A.
The social work department has about 100 full-time students in its graduate program, which requires two years of study for the M.A. of social work.
Graduate students spend much of their time in special field training units in cooperation with public welfare departments in Douglas, Wyandotte, Leavenworth and Shawnee counties.
The program currently receives training grants from the National Institute of Mental Health for work in corrections, psychiatric services and public welfare services.
Another 125 undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are majoring in social work,
taking courses with emphasis on sociology, history, philosophy, human relations, political science, speech and anthropology.
Authorization pending
"Authorization of the school's offering the Bachelor of Social Work degree is pending with the Kansas Board of Regents," Katz said.
When asked what other plans he had in mind for the new school, Katz said the present faculty had committed itself unanimously to increasing the number of minority group faculty and undergraduate students.
Katz, a native of New York, is a 1947 graduate of the City College of New York (CCNY) and has graduate degrees from Columbia and New York Universities. CCNY has given him its alumni award for outstanding achievement in human relations.
After serving as director of social work programs for the Jewish Community Center of Kansas City, Mo., from 1951 to 1953, he served as dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at Adelphi University, 1956 to 1962.
Prof to conduct research in Canada
He was also executive vice-president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1962-1965, and was on the faculty of the New York University Graduate School of Social Work until coming to KU last year.
Lawrence Heeb, associate professor of physical education, is taking a sabbatical leave from KU for the fall semester of 1969.
After the June commencement, Heeb, with his wife Sylvia, will travel to Ontario, Canada to research the recreational program of the provinces.
While at the University, Heeb spends half his time teaching physical education courses. He is
Apr. 16 KANSAN 3
1969
also consultant to "any community group with recreational offerings, such as the hospital, correctional institutions and armed forces installations."
At an organization's request, Heeb advises it on which recreational facilities would be relevant, how to set them up and how to distribute the funds.
"While in Canada, I will study professional preparation of recreation personnel, the relationship between provincial government and municipality and the professional organization of recreation and
park personnel in universities and colleges," Heeb said.
From his research, which he plans to complete in December, Heeb hopes to get ideas which he can apply to KU.
Heeb received his B.A. from LaCroose State College in Wisconsin and his M.A. from KU. He is past president of the Society of National Recreation and Park Educators.
Every 24 hours, the Texas petroleum industry moves nearly 500,000 tons of oil from oil fields to refineries.
WE DELIVER
FREE
DRINK
ON
DELIVERY
Phone VI 3-0753 Open 7 Evenings A Week 729 Mass. St., Lawrence, Kan.
PUT YOURSELF ON THE MAP
Our shelves are loaded with all the crisp and colorful garb of spring. This the brightest ohd most exciting collection we've ever had irt the shops. Stop in and see for yourself.
THE
Town Shop
Knitwear from Puritan and Towne and King Golf jackets from London Fog Puritan swimwear, Wash trousers from Lee and Hubbard
839 Mass.
Uptown VI 3-5755
THE University Shop
Fashion for Men
1420 Crescent Dr.
On the Hill VI 3-4633
oft ni lahzebibn beurrotol l-odi