Students dropping from black history
By MICHAEL NAGEL Kansan Staff Writer
Student interest in Negro history seems to be waning.
The KU Negro history taught by Lorenzo Greene, professor of history at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo., was created in response to enthusiasm shown for a discussion course on Negro history offered to Oliver College students last semester.
Student complaints concern poor teaching, unscheduled discussion groups, unavailability of the teacher, too many books, too much African background and not enough meetings per week.
Greene explained, however, broad selection of reading material was necessary for a course with as broad a scope as his American Negro history course.
Since feelings of Negro
inferiority result from a lack of knowledge of accomplishment, Greene said, the history of Negro civilizations in Africa would counteract this myth as well as serve the necessary background for the course.
"Greene knows what he's talking about," one student said, "he's very well versed in what he's teaching, but the main problem is he's only in Lawrence once a week."
Greene flies to Lawrence every Tuesday to lecture. A student who dropped the course after three weeks said she could not follow Greene's lectures. She also complained about the decision to have discussion groups, which were not in the enrollment schedule.
Another coed, however claimed the discussion groups and book selections were saving the course.
The selection of 25 books has raised differences of opinions. Of the 25 only seven are required and the others are suggested readings.
"Only one text is in the bookstore, and it just arrived this week. All the rest are in transit," a coed said.
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The most frequent area of complaint was the emphasis Greene placed on African Negro history as background.
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"I'm taking a course in American Negro history, not the history of African civilization," one student said.
"It was absolutely necessary to have the African background," Greene said. "You cannot understand the 'why' of today's problems unless you have the background."
William Tuttle, assistant professor of history who taught a black history seminar last semester, said the only comments he had heard about
Henry Bryzski, North Wildwood, N.J., graduate student and a discussion group leader, said he thought the class was being handled as well as could be expected for a 300-student lecture.
the course were favorable.
Bryzski said the gripes about books are to be expected in any history class.
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History professors doing research away from KU
History professors at the University of Kansas do more than teach history.
W. Stitt Robinson, chairman of the department of history, said more than one-fifth of the history professors are engaged in outside research or projects. He listed some of them:
- Henry Snyder, assistant dean of faculties for research, has received a grant from the American Council of Learned Societies and will be on sabbatical leave next year in England.
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professor, will be on leave part-time next year to work on a special research project in the Harry S. Truman Library.
- William Tuttle, professor of history, has been awarded a year's fellowship at Johns Hopkins University for research in Negro history.
- Charles Warner, professor of history, will be in France next year doing research on recent French history.
- John Hawgood, professor of history. University of Birmingham, England, is visiting specialist on American western history. Hawgood will present a paper at the Conference on
Western American History, Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kan., March 7.
- Gotthold Rhode, professor of history, University of Mainz, Germany, is visiting specialist on modern Polish history.
Robinson added that the department of history has recently been awarded six two-year fellowships under the Education Professions Development Act.
The fellowships provide for the training of instructors for teaching history in junior or four-year colleges. Details of the awards will be released later, said Robinson.
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