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Monday, April 25, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Regents-endorsed plan would help work study
By Rebecca J. Cisek
Kansan staff writer
Kansas college students would enjoy more opportunities in the state work study program under a plan endorsed by the Board of Regents at its last meeting.
The plan would increase by $50,000 the funds in the Kansas Career Work Study program. The program provides off-campus jobs that are related to students' career goals.
Mark Tallman, legislative director of Associated Students of Kansas, said that 1988 funds for the program totaled more than $450,000. Of that amount, KU received more than $130,000.
received those more than 40,000 ASK is the lobbying organization made up of student governments in the Regents schools.
The Regents tuition and fees committee, which consists of two Regents, two presidents and two students from Regents schools, recommended the work study increase. The proposal be considered by the Legislature next spring and would take effect in fall 1989.
Jason Krakow, student body president, said that $20,000 of the increase would go to maintenance of the program; $10,000 would bring the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina into the work study program; and $20,000 would provide increases in student salaries and additional jobs.
Tallman said that the amount of increase that each school would receive depended on need and their current funds.
The work study program began because of an ASK recommendation, Krakow said, and came out of a student movement to be in school and gain work experience at the same time.
Tallman said that schools contracted with employers to hire students. Generally, schools pay half of minimum wage and employers pay the other half. Employers must match the schools' funds dollar for dollar and might pay more.
Students who are Kansas residents, enrolled in classes full time and who have at least a 2.0 grade point average are eligible for the program.
Although the program has worked well on other campuses, KU has lagged behind in finding students for the program, Krakow said.
Krakow said that there was plenty of money available in the program. Because the cost of higher education continues to increase, students need the opportunity to work.
Tallman said that a study ASK did on trends in financial aid at the Regents schools showed that jobs had not kept up with tuition increases.
KU students fill in required courses Community college courses come in handy for extra credits
Rv Donna Stokes
Kansan staff writer
For KU students who want to get a degree in four years, taking required courses at a community college is a popular option.
Kathryn Kretschmer, associate director of admissions at KU, said that in the fall of 1987, 4,523 students at KU previously had attended a Kansas community college.
"In terms of traffic through this office, where students fill out a form that we evaluate to determine whether we can take the transfer or not, quite a few students take that route," Kretschmer said. "Our transfer policy is quite liberal, so it really hasn't been a problem."
"A lot of freshmen take classes at a community college before they even start at KU," she said. "There is not much doubt that it is an appropriate route for some students to take. It is sometimes easier to make the adjustment from high school to college, get it a little more confidence."
Joseph Crane, Overland Park junior, said he took an English class at Johnson County Community College the summer before he came to KU.
"I'm glad I did it, it was worthwhile. It was kind of a pain to do during the summer, but it was over before I knew it," he said.
Crane's roommate, Jed Yarick,
also a junior over Overland Park,
took a year and a summer of classes
at JCCC before he came to KU.
"I started when I was still in high school because it was convenient and easy." Yarkick said. "Some classes were a lot easier than the ones up here.
"Johnson County was more like high school. I went through a big culture shock when I came to KU. My experience with community colleges was helpful, but it can hurt you too. It can make you lazy."
call me up you say.
Yarick said he wouldn't go back to JCCC for more classes during the summer: "I hope I don't ever have to
go there again. It's really a different environment. You don't get to know people in your classes."
people by:
Darren Davenport, Concordia
senior, went to Cloud Community
College for four semesters.
"It it didn't hurt anyway," Davenport said. "It was a lot more informal there, and the classes are a lot smaller, especially for pre-engineering. That's part of the reason I got a lot out of it."
At KU, tomorrow is the day for an enrollment and orientation session for community college transfers. Kretschmer said that each year, a day was set aside to help community college transfer students make an easy switch.
Jeff Seybert, director of institutional research at Johnson County Community College, said that he was continuing research started by the former director, comparing community college students and students attending Regents universities.
The study compares grade point averages, hours taken and graduating rates between transfer students and what the study calls native students, or students attending one of the Regents universities.
Grade point averages and hours taken were virtually identical, Seybert said, but graduating rates were considerably lower among community college transfers than native students.
Seybert said that this might have something to do with what is called a negative transfer from a community college to a major university.
"Sometimes, the transition can be hard to make," Seybert said. "The classes are smaller here, and the instruction tends to be more individualized. I wouldn't say the work was at an easier level.
"It's easier for students to stay closer to home, or to continue to work. Most of them live at home and commute."
News Roundup
STUDENT ARRESTED IN FIGHT: A 19-year-old male student was held yesterday without bond in Douglas County Jail after a fight early Saturday morning outside a fraternity house.
noticed how, according to police reports, the student was waving the knife at a 21-year-old student outside the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, 1602 W 15th St.
scene. The police said that the student resisted arrest and that in the ensuing struggle, the knife poked through the student's pocket and cut an officer.
Police said the student was concealing the knife in his pocket when police officers arrived on the
these who a officer did not require medical treatment.
No other injuries were reported.
Admiral Stansfield Turner, who ran the CIA during the Carter administration, will give a lecture entitled "Global Challenges."
EX-CIA DIRECTOR TO SPEAK: A former director of the Central Intelligence Agency will speak at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium.
Admission is free.
WRIGHT TO GIVE LANDON LECTURE: The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Jim Wright, D-Texas, will speak at 10:30 a.m. today in McCain Auditorium on the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan.
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