KU Guidance Bureau
Students' Aid to Understanding
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(The last of a three part series.)
By Carol Lathrop
"I understand the course material, and I know how to study for it. But I can't concentrate when I study."
That lack of concentration is just one of the problems the Guidance Bureau helps a student to solve.
THE BUREAU is another means beside the Student Tutoring Service and the Reading and Study Skills Service which offers assistance to a student who needs academic help. The bureau is located in room 116 in Bailey Hall.
Many people refrain from using this assistance, because they feel they are showing their immaturity by admitting they can not solve their own problems.
However, the modern trend is that people are no longer expected to solve their problems alone.
GORDON COLLISTER, director of the Guidance Bureau and professor of education, said. "It is a sign of maturity to admit that one needs help and it takes courage to do so."
A student seeking help need only go to the Guidance Bureau office and schedule an interview with one of the seven counselors. A preference
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The magazine, edited and published by the KU Quill Club, is selling for 50 cents. Sales will continue Friday.
The current editor of the Quill is Charles D. Nicol, Lawrence graduate student.
The Quill includes short stories, poetry, drama, and pictorial essays submitted by students.
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for a man or woman counselor will be honored. Prof. Colllister points out that successful communication with a counselor does not depend on conferring with the common sex — a once popular notion.
WITHIN A short time the student will be interviewed by a counselor. During this interview, the counselor will determine if the student needs to take aptitude, personality interest, or interest inventory tests.
If taken honestly, the tests indicate a great deal about the student. But tests can be influenced by the individual so as to make the tests inaccurate.
After the results of the tests have been tabulated, the student comes in for conference sessions. The number of these sessions depends on the individual needs of each student. Some students have one session a week for ten weeks, while others may have two or three sessions a week for any number of weeks.
"WE TRY to provide an atmosphere in which a student can think through his own problems," said Robert Shepherd, counselor at the bureau and assistant professor of education.
"There are many problems which account for a student's poor grades. We try to encourage a student to feel free to talk out these problems. In this way a student will come to realize why he cannot concentrate on a subject, or why he has a lack of motivation to learn." Prof. Shepherd said.
Often the reason for a student's unsuccessful attempt in reaching his goal is in the unrealistic approach that he takes toward his goal.
Prof. Shepherd said that the counselors at the bureau attempt to show the student an alternate, workable approach to his goal.
"BECAUSE HUMAN behavior is so changeable, counselors must realize a particular person under the right conditions can solve his own problems, but no attempt is made to psychoanalyze students in the Guidance Bureau," Director Collister said.
"We don't say to a student, 'yes, do this or, no, don't do that,' but rather we take him down each alternative path as far as we can," Shepherd said.
COUNSELORS have found it hard to dissect a student and separate his
educational, vocational, and emotional problems. This interaction has caused Richard Rundquist, Guidance Bureau counselor and professor of education, to seek more information about various educational and emotional problems involved in different occupations.
Prof. Rundquist and his classes have interviewed representatives of many different occupations. They ask these workers such questions as what education do you recommend for persons entering this field of work? What special problems are involved?
These answers are recorded and filed in the Guidance Bureau office. They are available to any student who wishes to come in and listen to them.
BROCHURES and folders are also available in the Occupational Library which has been created from this study.
The Guidance Bureau has been described by many students who have used its facilities as the "most beneficial service organization on campus."
One student said, "The Guidance Bureau is one place where they don't tell me what to do. They just listen, and help me solve my own problems in that way."
ANOTHER STUDENT said, "Everything is moving so fast in this age that few people know what they are doing or where they are going. The counselors at the bureau take the time to listen to my problems, and this helps me to take account of myself."
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"I found that my poor grades were a result of lack of confidence on my part. My counselor gave me the confidence in myself that I needed. I'm now running for a student office. I would never have done something like this before," a third student said.
The modern guidance methods of counseling began at the end of World War II. After the war, veterans could go to college under a government contract, if they would consult regularly with a counselor.
For this purpose counselors were set up on college campuses by the government. When the contracts expired, guidance services were taken over by the colleges. Since then, guidance bureaus have grown from small services to the larger ones with many counselors.
Thursday, April 4, 1963
Margaret Lynn Thrasher, a 1961 KU graduate, will receive the $1,000 Kansas Library Association grant for graduate study in 1963-64.
$1,000 Library Grant Given
Library, her home city, will study librarianship at the University of Illinois.
Miss Thrasher, now a senior library assistant in charge of bookmobile service at the Wichita City
At KU she completed a double major in English and the humanities for the bachelor of arts degree.
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