Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Seminar Members Go HometoSantoDomingo
Dr. Bernardo Fernandez Pichardo, vice chancellor, and Rene Augusto Puig Sertz, dean of the school of dentistry, left by plane today from Kansas City.
Two Latin American university professors were called home today because of a student strike at their home university, the University of Santo Domingo.
George Waggoner, dean of the KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said because of the long reign of the Trujillo family, this is the first time in years that Dominicans have been able to protest publicly.
The two officials were among the twenty-one educators from 12 Latin American countries discussing ways to improve "Higher Education in the Americas" in a seminar in session here.
The educators have been on campus since Jan. 26. They will remain until March 8. The men, all of whom hold positions equal to a U.S. college president or dean, are discussing the problems of the basic arts and sciences in Latin American schools.
WAGGONER EXPLAINED that in Latin American universities there are no departments which serve all the students in the university.
For example, if the school of engineering in a Latin American university wanted its students to have a course in sociology, the school of engineering would hire its own sociology professor.
Most Latin American universities are collections of professional schools, said Dr. George Waggoner, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and director of the seminar.
THIS IS the fourth seminar to be held in the U.S., and the first time the seminar has been held at KU.
It is difficult to have an effective arts and sciences program under such a system, Waggoner said.
Waggoner said the U.S. State Department, which sponsors the program, probably picked KU as the site for this year's seminar "because of the vigor of our Latin American program and the general interest in Latin America throughout the University."
THE AREA STUDIES program is sponsoring a series of six public lectures by authorities on Latin American affairs. Each lecturer also addresses the seminar.
The Latin America Area Studies program, headed by John Augelli, professor of geography, is cooperating closely with the seminar.
George Blanksten, professor at
Northwestern University, will give the second of this series of lectures at 4:30 Thursday in Fraser Theater.
He will speak on "The Alliance for Progress and Political Revolution in Latin America."
Although all of the visiting educators read English, many cannot speak the language. As a result, Waggoner said the majority of the seminar sessions are conducted in Spanish.
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