Professor says training successful so far
Program aids minority businessmen
The University of Kansas School of Business is currently involved in a program in Wyandotte County designed to help minority businessmen called the Business Management Training Program.
Clifford Clark, dean of the school of business, said the program was designed to touch on the basic tools of business and to allow participants to find their potential for business management and expansion of business opportunities.
The program is staffed by four professors from the School of Business: William Bentz, Rick Polley, Gordon Fitch and Charles Saunders. Classes are held each Wednesday night at the Parkwood Community Center in Wyandotte County.
Pollay said the program was financed by Title 1 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and was
likely to be funded again next year. He indicated it was doubtful that the program would expand, however.
The Business Management Training Program began last fall and was conceived by faculty members of the School of Business and the community development branch of the KU Extension Office.
Clark said the planning began last spring. Research was done last summer by two graduate students in the School of Business from Kansas City, Dick Mensch and John Young.
"Eighty-four people enrolled initially," Polly said, "but about half of them have dropped out. I think one reason for the large drop-out is that some of the people had the mistaken idea that business instructors have the key to making millions."
Although the program is de-
Enrollment predicted to hit 24,000 by 1979
Enrollment at KU will approach 24,000 students by 1979, according to predictions released by Vice-Chancellor for Institutional Planning, George B. Smith.
Smith emphasized that these figures were purely predictions subject to revision and correction. Several separate predictions are compiled and Smith then establishes a mean of the high and low predictions.
The predictions are revised every year with consideration given to many elements that affect the predictions, such as draft laws, tuition increases, economic conditions, availability of housing, decreases in out-of-state enrollment and one factor that is rapidly becoming visible in Kansas, the junior college, Smith said.
Smith said the enrollment predictions for the next five years total approximately 22,000 students. The average increase in enrollment in the last five-year period showed an increase of approximately one thousand students a year. For the next five-year period the predictions show a decrease in average enrollment by approximately 600 students a year.
Smith said one of the factors that plays an important role in the predictions is the actual
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through the course and it was very well received. We've seen changes in a lot of the people and many of them are extremely talented," Pollay said.
number of high school age students attending high school. Smith said trends show a correlation between the two figures.
There are a number of methods used to arrive at the predictions, Smith said, all reasonably accurate. He stressed that any arbitrary system could be used providing it produced creditable predictions.
signed for owners of small businesses, many of the enrollees are either employed by a firm or are potential business owners. Polly said the program also had a high
proportion of women.
Pollay indicated that the program thus far had been successful.
"We ran an evaluation midway