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Wednesday, March 2, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
KU geology department could work with K-State
By Brenda Finnell
Kansan staff writer
The committee on graduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has approved a proposal that would create a faculty interchange between geology departments at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
Susan Kemper, chairman of the committee, reported on the proposal at yesterday's College Assembly meeting in Alderson Auditorium.
Kemper said the proposal would be a revision in the doctoral program in geology and would become policy if it is reviewed and approved by several subcommittees in the graduate school.
The program would allow KU doctoral students in geology to complete portions of their graduate program with approved geology faculty at K-State.
Also, some geology faculty members at K-State might be able to chair doctoral dissertations and to supervise dissertation research at K-State for doctoral students enrolled at KU.
Tony Walton, chairman of the department of geology, said that if approved, the program probably would start next fall. He said he expected one or two students a year to participate in the interchange. About 15 doctoral students are in geology at KU.
geology at ree. The program would not be required for doctoral students but would create opportunities for students who
want to work with faculty at K-State, Walton said.
The arrangement also would enable K-State faculty to do higher-level research with the assistance of well trained graduate students, Walton said. K-State currently does not offer a doctoral degree in geology.
offer a degree. With the interchange program, students could obtain a broad background in geology education at KU and then do research at K-State, Walton said.
For example, KU students could use K-State's nuclear reactor that can analyze trace elements in rocks with neutron enrichment, Walton said.
"It's an alternative style and operation of sharing of research facilities." Walton said.
Resource center is sponsoring workshop to teach sensitivity in counseling of black clients
Kansan staff writer
The KU Adult Life Resource Center of the division of continuing education will sponsor its second workshop for counselors who work with black clients.
"We had such a good response the first year, we are offering it again," said Colleen Ryan, continuing education counselor, who is coordinating the workshop.
The workshop will be tomorrow and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 1260 West 95th Street, in Lenexa. Registration is $190 for professionals and $90 for students.
The cross-cultural training program has been extended to two days to give participants a chance to practice new techniques and to receive comments and suggestions in small groups, Ryan said.
Tomorrow, Thomas A. Parham, director of the Career Planning and Placement Center at the University of California-Irvine, will present a perspective of African-American
psychology that goes to the roots of the black culture in Africa, Ryan said.
Parham will identify stages of black racial identity and will teach effective counseling techniques that are based on the identified stage of the client. Ryan said.
"The African-American must of necessity be at a minimum bi-cultural to successfully negotiate living in America," Crawley said.
Unfortunately, the reverse is not true for Caucasians, she said. It is sometimes only through training that they can be sensitized to cultural issues.
On Friday, the participants will be able to practice techniques for working with the racial tensions that can interfere with counseling, Ryan said.
That part of the workshop will be presented by three staff members from the Progressive Life Center, a
private, minority-owned counseling center in Washington, D.C. They will use an approach that looks at the world from an African viewpoint.
The approach emphasizes harmony, balance, and sharing within a natural order, Ryan said.
The typical counseling point of view is European. Bias becomes a problem because the counselor believes his own world view is the best and uses that viewpoint in judging others. Crawley said.
ing others. Counselors need to be sensitized to the fact that other appropriate world views exist, she said.
Sadye Logan, associate professor of social welfare, said, "Sometimes we are not even aware of our stereotypes and prejudices."
The first step for a counselor is to look at his own ethnicity and at how it affects his interactions with those that are different, she said.
The danger, Logan said, is that faulty assumptions can be made about a person's thoughts or actions based on the stereotype.
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