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Dean Waggoner Outlines New Concepts for College
George R. Waggoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, last night used the zoology honors banquet as a testing ground for his 13 point prediction of the future of the College.
Dean Waggoner, who was guest speaker at the banquet, outlined his ideas on what the College will be like in 1575, and asked for a show of hands to indicate agreement or disagreement.
"I WANT TO TRY these out on you by asking what you think of them so I will know what to believe," Dean Waggoner said.
He predicted that in 1975:
- The faculty will be away from the University one-third to one-half of the time.
- To a vote of disagreement on this point, Dean Waggoner asked where all the zoologists would be this summer.
- SCHOLARSHIP will be held in high regard and scholars will be competed for, receiving great privileges and astonishingly high salaries.
- "An indication that this is coming is the fact that this year, two or three professorships were created that draw a salary of $25,000 to $30,000 a year," Dean Waggoner said.
- THERE WILL be more joint appointments in the University and among universities perhaps even extending to appointments between KU and foreign universities.
- In other words, there will be a vast increase in the amount of scholarly traffic, he said.
- TECHNOLOGICAL and sociological changes will result in a University faculty that is 40 per cent women.
"I reduced the figure to 40 per cent because a colleague protested this point on the grounds that it is not possible for a female to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics because they just
aren't that kind of people," Dean Waggoner said.
- THE UNIVERSITY will not be using a selective admissions program but will have realized that self selection is a better method.
- "I think that the most fortunate thing that has happened to KU is the state law that prohibits a selective admissions process.
- ALL undergraduate students will spend part of their years abroad or in a research assistantship program or both.
- ALL undergraduate students will be competent in calculus and a foreign language, probably before they enter the University but at least early in their college years.
- ALTHOUGH the graduate school will have grown the majority of the KU students will still continue to be undergraduates.
- LINES between undergraduate and graduate work will be fuzzy and difficult to define; and, to some degree, lines between high school and college will be the same.
- THE number of hours of class time will bear no relationship to the number of hours of credit for a course.
- "A three hour course will not necessarily meet at 9:30 Monday, Wednesday and Friday," Dean Wag- goner said. "Of course there are a lot of courses that are that way now."
- COMPREHENSIVE examinations will have replaced the accumulative system of grades and credit hours.
- LECTURES in courses will be largely elective and almost extracurricular. Seminars, discussion groups, and laboratory activities will replace the lecture as the center of the educational process.
Wednesday, May 15, 1963
"It always occurs to me that you
"This is the trend I see today and it can go a long ways in that direction in the next 12 years," Dean Wagoner said.
could substitute a book for a lecture." Dean Waggoner said. "The function of the lecture is primarily to tell the students what they don't have to learn of the mass of material in a book."
- THE SOCIAL and extra-curricular activities will be much less highly organized.
Nine students received awards at the banquet.
Mrs. Marjorie Hoy, Lawrence senior, received the academic honors award in zoology. The award, which consists of a plaque, certificate, and $25, is given to the senior undergraduate major in zoology who has achieved the highest scholarly record and demonstrated an exceptional interest in zoology.
Mrs. Hoy, who was recently awarded a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship to do research in entomology at KU, was also one of the recipients of the honor certificates awarded to seniors in zoology who will graduate with honors.
THE ACADEMIC AWARD in zoology which is given to the highest ranking student enrolled in elementary zoology was given to Nancy Litton, Beloit sophomore, spring 1532, and Carol贝洛特, Leiott senior, fall 1962. The awards each consisted of a certificate and $15.
Seven seniors were awarded zoology honor certificates which are presented to those seniors in zoology who will graduate with honors.
The students are Mrs. Hoy, Stephen Norris, Kansas City, Mo., Christina Robinson, St. Marys, Ronald Reida, Lawrence, George Gill, Lawrence, Robert Robertson, Independence, and Rex Roeiser, Salina
YR's Plan Election Of New Officers
New officers for next year will be elected at the last meeting of Young Republicans Club tomorrow.
The Young GOP's nominating committee will meet at 8:30 p.m., today in the Oread Room of the Kansas Union. The election of a chairman, first, second and third vice-chairmen, secretary and treasurer will be held at 7 p.m., tomorrow in the Jayhawk Room.
Those who wish to run for an office in the club may meet with the nominating committee tonight. Students must present membership cards or KU identification cards to be eligible for tomorrow's election.
Men's Halls Elect Representatives
Four new Men's Residence Association council representatives have been elected in Joseph R. Pearson and Olin Templin.
From Joseph R. Pearson they are Ernest Rosenthal, Kansas City freshman, and Russell S. Rosen, Shawnee Mission freshman. From Templin they are Ray W. Myers, Dodge City junior, and John J. Trimble, Haverstraw, N.Y., senior.
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