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Qualified admissions proponents testify Ramaley,Koplik support proposal
by Alan Morgan Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Board of Regents schools may be closing their doors to some Kansas high school graduates.
An education committee heard testimony yesterday from proponents of establishing requirements for Kansas residents to attend Regents schools. The Board of Regens has developed a list of possible requirements that incoming freshmen would fulfill to be admitted to the schools.
The committee will hear testimony from opponents of the proposal at 1:30 p.m. today.
The Regents proposal would require incoming freshmen to meet one of three requirements: an ACT score of 23 or higher, rank in the top one-third of their high school class and complete a college completion of preparatory college courses with at least a 2.0 grade point average.
The preparatory courses would include four units of English, three units of mathematics, three units of social studies, three units of natural sciences and two units of foreign language
The proposed requirements would be subject to change or approval by the Legislature.
Ramaley testifies in support
Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, testified at the meeting in support of the proposal.
"No matter how you look at policy, the proposed qualified admissions policy is reasonable, workable and fair," Ramaley said.
Ramaley said 47 percent of KU's 1979 freshman class earned degrees after five years of school.
"At KU, students who persist to graduation have an average ACT score of 23 or higher," she said. "Students who do not persist have an average composite scores of 19.5 or lower." Students who are consistent, year after year."
Students who need remedial math courses when they enter college are at serious risk, Ramley said. Research at Ohio State University found that one-third of the students need remedial work in math graduated.
"More and more college degree programs require significant math
At KU, students who persist to graduation have an average ACT score of 23 or higher. Students who do not persist have an average composite scores of 19.5 or lower. These numbers are consistent, year after year.'
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— Judith Ramaley executive vice chancellor
skills," she said. "Calculus and other courses are courses become more widespread as requirements for many fields of study."
Officials at Regents schools have not reached consensus about the proposed change in admissions policy, she said.
Ramaley also said students lacking solid backgrounds in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics posed problems for faculty.
"The reactions on our campuses and in our communities have been mixed." Ramaley said.
She said, however, that some faculty and students worried about the failure to honor a public trust that all graduates from Kansas high schools could obtain a higher education. She said that all Kansas graduates would have access to a Regents college level work, and themselves for college level work.
Stanley Koplik, executive director of the Regents, also testified at the meeting in support of qualified admissions.
"Our present system of open admissions is flawed and requires some immediate attention," Koplik said.
Kopki said that the present system allowed unprepared and unmotivated students to experience failure at state universities. The guarantee of providing each student with the opportunity to respond with a program that increased the likelihood of success, he said.
"I am confident if we raise our expectations of Kansas high school youth, they will be better. The result will be better academically prepared students."
KU Timetable getting a fresh look with new cover and advertisements
by Michele Logan
Kansan staff writer
The KU Timetable will have a new look when it arrives on campus in March.
On the cover will be an abstract depiction of a Jayhawk, and the inside will have a 16-page full-color spread. The book is devoted to national and local advertising
Gary Thompson, director of the office of student records, said that the new, larger format was adopted because the cost of printing at the University had gone up 18 percent since Spring 1988.
The University of Kansas Printing Service charged between $19,000 and $20,000 for last fall's Timetables. Although Thompson did not know the exact price for the new Timetables, he said that it would be considerably lower than it had been in the past.
"A review committee has been looking at a private printer for about a year and a half now," Thompson said. "We finally decided to go with it last December."
American Passage of Cincinnati is printing the new Timetables and the magazine insert.
Todd Abrahamson, director of college relations at American Passage, said that the company was
able to reduce the cost because it sold advertising space and because of its production volume.
"It is almost impossible for a university to produce a product locally that is this inexpensive," he said.
The insert, called Semester Magazine, will be more than 50 percent editorial and will focus on the interests of college students. Articles for the upcoming magazine include "Musical Meccas," "Changes in Attitude," "Office Politics," "Formula for Success," and "Keeping the Home Fires Burning."
The committee first had to get approval from the KU administration, the state printer and the director of the Printing Service.
But John Saylor, director of the Printing Service, said that he did not support the printing of the Timetable outside the University.
"This affects our service because now we have a deficit, and there isn't enough income to meet our expenses," Sayler said. "Every time we lose orders, the University has to make up for it somehow, usually with more costly printing rates."
Sayler said that the Printing Service had printed the Timetable for at least the 12 years that he had
worked there
"If the University is getting as good a deal as they say they are, then maybe I'm being shortsighted and in the way of that," Sayler said.
Another reason for adopting the new format was that the office had received complaints about the difficulty of reading the former Time-Theater book. The books have large print and will be printed on 8½- by 11-inch paper.
Dianna Lacy, Overland Park junior, said that the new Timetables sounded like more bother than they were worth.
"Finding classes in the Timetable is hard enough without having to dig through all the ads," she said.
Before taking the project on, the committee researched projects at other universities that have used the same format.
The University of Oklahoma has been using the magazine class schedule format for 12 years without any student protest, said Mel Messer, a director in the registrar's office.
Messer said that Oklahoma charged 25 cents a copy for their class schedules. KU distributes the schedules free of charge.
Freeze in University hiring
bv a Kansan reporter
KU is continuing its hiring freeze on payroll appointments to ensure that funds will be available to cover the increase in employee salaries and health insurance premiums, a university official said yesterday.
"In order to be fiscally responsible, we need to make sure we can meet financial obligations for the increase in the cost of the health insurance premiums," said Lindy Eakin, budget director.
with a renegotiated contract with Blue Cross. Eakin said the University did not estimate this increase in its budget.
The hiring freeze of additional payroll appointments, which has been in effect since Jan. 1, is a precautionary measure in case a $833,000 supplemental financing agreement has been reached by the Legislature. Eakin said
Keith Nitch, University director of business affairs, said the University expected to get supplemental financing but would not know if it would get the full amount until the beginning of May.
In January, the University began paying increased health insurance costs for its employees in accordance
David Lewin, director of personnel services, said the University had issued hiring freezes in the past.
"Over the past 10 years, the University has had a couple of tight periods where the state had issued mandated recessions." Lewin said. "That is when they must have adequate resources to pay bills and then tells agencies they cannot spend their original allocations."
KU police discover assorted street signs in residence hall room
by a Kansan reporter
Acting on an anonymous tip, KU police searched rooms in Joseph R. Pearson Hall Monday morning, according to police records.
The police discovered more than $282 worth of street signs.
Items found in the search included an electrical barricade, a crosswalk sign, a neighborhood watch sign, two storefront signs and a stop sign and two other street signs.
Sgt. Schuyler Bailey, KU police spokesman, said the search did not denote a sign-staing trend.
"It was just a fluke," Bailey said. "We just got lucky finding them."
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