Planning board hears needs of schools
The schools of Law and Education presented Thursday night their reasons for needing new space to a subcommittee of the University Planning Board in the first of several scheduled hearings.
Laurence Blades, dean of law, and Dale Scannell, dean of education, represented their respective schools.
Blades based the Law School's needs on a program of expansion to 750 students. He said this was an "optimal number" for the faculty and student body.
The present enrollment is 300. The plan submitted to the board was for a law building with 100,- 000 square feet of space. Fifty thousand square feet would be used for library and reading room space, 10,000 square feet for administrative and faculty offices and 10,000 square feet for class room space. He said this plan would increase the class room space by more than four times the present space.
Blades said the inadequacies of Green Hall was a "trite story." There were promises of renovating the hall in 1957 and of a new building by 1968 or 1969, he said.
holds 300. Blades predicts an enrollment of 600 by 1975.
Baccalaureate degrees are increasing by about 15 per cent a year and a greater percentage are going to law school, Blades said. Ceilings set by some of the private law schools on the number of students accepted puts pressure on the state schools, Blades said. KU is the only state law school in Kansas.
Blades said the School of Law was now operating on a "first come first serve basis" and said that they had turned down approximately 120 people that might otherwise have been accepted.
The role of a state school should not be as restrictive as the private law schools and its role should be to provide a legal education for at least each native Kansan who shows the potential, Blades said. He said the school was already tightening the requirements to enter the school.
Blades said there was also a need for smaller seminar rooms similar to the Council Room in the Kansas Union and also for cubicles for private reading.
centered around a need for more administrative and faculty space and room for developmental programs, said Scannell.
Scannell said the undergraduate enrollment of the school had tripled and the graduate enrollment had multiplied four times since 1956.
Fourty per cent of all teaching now is done outside Bailey Hall, the School of Education's classroom building. Scannell said class rooms are in use at all times, except for the one class supplied with the video-tapes connected to the KU Medical Center.
The School of Education's needs
Scannell said there was a need to provide an opportunity for pre-student teaching. He said the school needs five teaching stations by the fall of 1971, preferably off campus centers, and a cooperative elementary school to
install video tapes into classrooms in order for prospective teachers to observe classroom situations. Also needed are a larger number of small class rooms for instructor-student contact, he said.
The average number of square feet per person of office space in
the School of Education is $72_{1 / 2}$ feet, said Scannell, while the standard set by the University is between 100 and 120 square feet per person.
A possible solution to the crowding, suggested Scannell, might be to build an addition to Bailey's northeast corner.
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