Thursday, July 26, 197
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Regents survey shows decline in teachers
By SCOTT C. FAUST
Staff Reporter
Tougher requirements, fear of job scarcity and education graduates going into more profitable fields are the cause of a 43 percent drop in certified teaching graduates from Kansas state schools, Dale Scanmiell, the School of Education, said yesterday.
The drop has already caused a tighter supply of teachers and the shortage may get worse in the years to come, according to area school administrators.
A recent survey by the Kansas Board of Regents showed that in 1972, 3,300 teachers graduated from six state schools, compared with 1,965 in 1978. The survey indicated that the most severe shortage were in special education mathematics, science and vocational arts.
The schools surveyed were Kansas State University, the University of Kansas, Pittsburgh, the University of Fort Hays State University, Emporia State University and Wichita State University.
THE NUMBER OF graduates from the KU School of Education has dropped more sharply than the school's enrollment, Scannell said.
"Our enrollment has gone down, but not that fast," he said. "Our program right now has approximately two-thirds of the students it had at peak enrollment."
Sonnell said KU now required teaching graduates to have 16 weeks, rather than the usual 30 weeks.
The state requires a reading course with a supervised practicum for elementary education students and both the state and the federal government require certified teaching graduates to have had some special education instruction.
Because of the additional requirements, Scannell must, the program, longer and harder. It is important to place the plan in the plan.
The KU School of Education now offers a non-certificate graduation option, Scannell said, and uncertified graduates account for part of the drop shown in the Regents survey. These graduates often choose careers in day-care, private education programs, businesses, community education and church education.
SCANNELL SAID at least half the drop in certified teaching graduates was due to awareness of an overabundance of teachers in the past.
and science were turning to business and engineering careers because of better
Tom Madden, executive director of the Shawnee Mission National Education Association, said, "I think it's taken several years for graduates of the schools of business to understand how tight the market really was. The word's getting back to people already in school."
He said people who were skilled in math
Daniel Bogard, assistant superintendent of personnel for the Shawnee Mission School District, said the annual number of applicants for teaching jobs in the district had dropped from 4,000 to 2,500 in the last four or five years.
BOGARD SAID the growing teacher shortage would probably affect the Shawnee Mission district in the future, but now the school's offset by declining student enrollment.
Madden said the district had reduced its number of positions by 5 percent this year.
HAROLD BESTAL, De Soto School District superintendent, said the number of applicants for jobs in his district was not as great as two years ago, or even a year ago.
education, English and elementary education in general. Restal said, but not enough for math or science positions. He said there were typically only three or four applicants for a math position but 12 or 15 for openings in more popular areas.
"It is not the point that you can't get people. It is difficult, but it still possible." Madden said a teacher shortage would directly help teachers at the bargaining table.
"IF YOU HAVE three, or four for a position, you open 'Bellad', said him. "If you don't open it, you not constructed."
"Typically you pay more for something when it is in short supply," he said. "We would see that as helping our bargaining position."
There are plenty of applications for openings in social studies, physical
Bogard said the shortage would only need; affect bargaining if there were a dire need for teaching candidates. He said the NEA usually bargained for working teachers and that beginning salaries wouldn't be of major interest to them.
KU's journalism school ranked in national top 8
The University of Kansas has one of the top eight journalism schools in the country, according to a recently released survey of deans and directors of accredited journalism schools and departments.
Del Brinkman, dean of the school, said yesterday that he was pleased with the ranking.
He made his remarks by telephone from Indiana University where he is attending a Gannett Co. Inc. teaching seminar in journalism.
"We are obviously held in high regard by people who know," he said, "and that's good to know."
Brinkman said the survey included questions about faculty, kinds of curriculum and success of graduates.
The other schools ranked in the top eight were Minnesota, Missouri.
Wisconsin, Columbia, Indiana, Nebraska and Northwestern universities. No specific ranking of the top eight was released.
Brinkman said he was not surprised that seven of the eight schools were in the Midwest.
"We've heard for years," he said,
"that the best journalism schools are in the Midwest."
The survey was conducted by Carli Byoir Associates for an undisclosed client. Brinkman was he was surprised that the results had been made public...
The survey should have important effects around the country, Brinkman said, because several schools that have been using on their reputations were not selected.
"Schools that aren't named may have cause to worry now," he said.
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