Tuesday, March 10, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 7
Costa Rican School Alters Structure
Efficiency in administration and instruction is the basic aim of reforms now taking place in the University of Costa Rica.
"We have been discussing various reform measures for about 15 years, and we began to put them into operation in 1957." Fernando Murillo Bonilla and Eugenio Rodriguez Vega, both representing the University of Costa Rica, said.
BONILLA AND Vega are delegates to the fifth Seminar on Higher Education in the Americas now in session at KU.
"The first real reform in the academic field was to establish a General Studies program," the men said. This would correspond to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at KU.
The program, like the College, requires all students to get a liberal background before proceeding into the professional school of their choice.
FIVE COURSES form the core of this one-year General Studies "faculty" (college), Spanish, philosophy, history of civilization, biology and sociology.
"We feel that these courses give the student a critical mind and will better prepare them for advanced instruction," the educators agreed.
their part. By giving all students a common background, it is assumed that they will be ready for more detailed study when they enter professional schools, Bonilla and Vega said.
The General Studies prog.. also be a benefit to instructors in the professional schools because it will require better instruction on
THE REFORM of the administration to fit this new academic program is the most recent of the reform attempts.
"There must be an administrative structure to deal effectively with the new objectives of the university," the educators said. "The administration must understand that they are the means to an end..that end being a well-run university," they said.
William Haber, dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan, will be the featured speaker at the seventh annual Supervisory Seminar today in the Kansas Union.
The seminar, open to managers, supervisors and foremen or anyone who works in a supervisory capacity,
is designed to permit participants meet, talk and exchange ideas with other persons in the same field.
About 120 people are expected to attend the seminar whose theme is "Adjusting to Change." It is being coordinated by University Extension and the Lawrence Adult Education Department.
Three engineering experts will speak March 17-19, in a lecture series sponsored by the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The speakers are Y. C. Fung, professor of aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology; Edward E. David Jr., director of the Computing and Information Research Center of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York; and Egor P. Popov, professor of civil engineering and immediate past chairman of the division of structural mechanics, University of California.
Three Engineers to Speak
Fung will lecture at 7:45 p.m., March 17; David will speak at 4:00 p.m., March 18; and Popov will speak at 4:00 p.m., March 19. All lectures will be presented in Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
It will be the main job of the administration to integrate the whole university. They must integrate teaching, research, and community function, they said.
Richard H. Benson, associate professor of geology, will participate in the International Indian Ocean Expedition this summer.
The expedition was organized by the Oceanographic Institution of Woods Hole, Mass., to study the nature and sediments of the ocean bottom. It will be sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
KU Professor to Study Ocean
The expedition is expected to attract scientists from all parts of the world.
the state, and we still charge according to ability to pay, but now we have set a maximum payment at $150," Bonilla and Vega said. "The money that we get from tuition is returned to the students in the form of scholarships."
The applications can be picked up in the People-to-People office in the Kansas Union any day between 11:30 and 12:30. The forms should be filled out and returned by March 13 so that interviews may be arranged for next week.
Foreign Student Jobs
Application forms are now available for foreign students seeking summer jobs.
Topic to Be Divine Love
Costa Rica, like many other Latia American universities, is located outside a major city in a "University city." This isolation, of sorts, guarantees the 5500 students at the university a secluded and academic atmosphere.
The nature and power of divine love will be discussed by James Watt, member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship.
Watt will speak at 7:30 tonight in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. He is speaking at the invitation of the Christian Science Organization.
The association will handle donations for Miss Reeder, who has only ten days to raise the needed $900 for the March 20 trip. She has no funds of her own.
THE UNIVERSITY of Costa Rica differs in organization from U.S. universities, especially in its method for charging tuition. Instead of charging each student a fixed fee, the student is charged according to his ability to pay. This was changed under one of the recent administrative reforms, they said.
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Miss Reeder says the opportunity to enter the Budapest competition is "the greatest thing that ever happened to me."
NEW AND USED PORTABLES STANDARDS ELECTRICS
A fund for Claudia Reeder, Overland Park sophomore, the fencer who qualified as the only U.S. woman entry to the Junior Fencing Championships in Budapest this month, has been set up through the KU Endowment Association.
Fund Set Up For Fencer
A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Watt is currently on an extensive Christian Science lecture tour.
the reforms, they say "The university is maintained by
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