College enrollment dips likely to cut state funding
By BARBARA ROSEWICZ
Contributing Writer
The six state-supported colleges and universities in Kansas are in an jontical situation.
Large institutions, such as KU, are pressed to find space for an unprecedented number of students. Others, principally Emporia Kansas State College, Kansas State College at Pittsburg and Fort Hays State College, are looking for people to make up for their current declines they have experienced since about 1970.
THE ENROLLMENT decrease comes as no surprise.
And yet, Emporia State and Fort Hays State are requesting state funds for campus construction and the universities are becoming increasingly aware of a predicted drop in enrollment.
The nationwide decline in the birth rate is the basis of projected drops in higher education enrollment. Products of the 1950s "baby boom" are graduating from college and enrollment is dropping
People in Kansas are aware of the situation.
Empria State, Pittsburgh State and Fort Hays state are accually aware. While in KS-state Empria State is not accually aware.
images have started to dwindle at the other institutions.
EMPORIA STATE had the largest percentage loss. Its enrollment dropped 6.3 per cent from the fall of 1975 to the fall of 1976, from 5,440 to 5,097 full-time equivalency students. Full-time equivalency figures are determined on the basis of the number of students and the hours taken by them.
Wichita State University had a 5.5 per cent decrease, from 10,528 to 9,933 students, after four years of increases. Pittsburgh State dropped 5 per cent in student numbers and the percentage of seven, 7 per cent after consistent decreases since 1992.
Kenneth Anderson, professor of administration, foundations and higher education, predicted in a report for the legislative educational planning committee more of the same for at least the next five years.
DECREASED ENROLLMENTS are most sharply perceived as a pinch to these institution's pocket-
Because appropriations for faculty salaries are based on enrollment figures, enrollment drop result
And fewer students and less funding mean that
some instructors and staff members will lose their jobs.
At Wichita State, the decrease meant that 23.8 fewer full-time equivalency positions were funded, at Emporia State 15 fewer, and at Pittsburgh State 6.6 fewer.
KU gained fortion for 17 positions, K-Sate gained
gap. Fort Hays gained fortion for 8 additional
positions.
CHANCELLOR ARCHIE Dykes said recently that terminations of faculty and staff positions were part of a vicious circle and a consequence of enrollment drops.
As outlined by educators, termination of faculty and staff posts leads to a negative psychological atmosphere on campus and decreases the quality of programs because of reduced diversity and ex-
For example, if an eight-man history staff is cut to two, the history resources are more limited.
Educators also said that the best instructors usually weren't attracted to universities with job instability and that students going to college might have doubts about attending such institutions.
ACCORDING TO percentages, Emporia State has been hardest hit by the enrollment decline. Because it
Because the job market is flooded with teachers, fewer students are attracted to becoming education majors, as shown by Emporia State's decreases. They coincide with crowded teachers' market.
was previously called Emporia State Teachers' College, John Visser, its president, said, some people thought the school was a "white-collar college."
Emprioria State has other problems. It is situated in a triangle outlined by the three largest Kansas universities—KU, K-State and Wichita State. Also, its only unique program is in library science—the only one offered at Emprioria State is Kansas. Therefore, Emprioria State has to compete with all other institutions in other programs.
HOPES of bolstering the reputation and enrollment at Emporia State and the two other colleges lie in a bill currently before the legislature that would change their titles to universities.
Visser said the name change was proposed to dispel the connotation of a college, which implied a restricted curriculum. The change to university education is intended to entail more students, he said.
Results of the decline in enrollment already can be seen in a recent legislative postaudit report that addressed the issue.
education and psychology building at Emporia State and $30,000 in planning money for a classroom and library.
THE REPORT recommended suspension of construction because it concluded that there might be considerable excess space at the state's colleges by 1980.
Although there is no strong sentiment that the legislature will cut the funds, there is talk that the legislature will do that.
The projections of lower enrollment are also having effects at KU, which enrolled a record21,011 full-time equivalent students at the Lawrence campus this fall. Just as other institutions, KU is intensifying its recruitment, especially of nontraditional students. Besides the KU Medical Center, KU now offers the Linwood Center in Overland Park and at the Witchcraft branch of the College of Health Sciences.
THE KU faculty government has adopted a financial exigency document to deal with the termination of faculty positions when enrollment declines and positions are cut. Projections show that by 1818, the head-count number of KU students, currently at 22,533, will have decreased to 21,253.
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BY HANNES DEAR Staff Renorter
Representatives of the KU Medical Center's branches in Kansas City, Kan., and Wichita urged the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday to support four filleted family practice residency programs for doctors in Kansas.
Robert Kugel, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center in Kansas City, told the committee that the medical school was "pleased to see this come to this point," and asked the committee to hear the full support of Jack Walker, director of a medical school's faculty practice program.
Cramer Reed, vice chancellor for the Wichita branch, suggested Emporia and Dordado as a location.
Under the proposed legislation, Med Center students would spend their first year of residence in Kansas City or Wichita. The resident doctors would then spend their second and third years in smaller commercial practice centers simply practice centers would be established.
KU would be authorized to establish four affiliated health care centers within the state. They would be located in counties with populations of less than 200,000.
The bill would authorize the University to be responsible for providing residents' salaries, which wouldn't exceed the state's usual pay for family practice residents.
During the first year of the residents' training, the University also would reimburse the centers for 70 per cent of their budgets. This amount would be decreased to
60 per cent in the second year and 50 per cent in subsequent years. The centers and the communities in which the work would be responsible for the remaining amounts.
The senate has cut the family practice clinics from the fiscal 1978 KU budget. The Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Wint Winter, R-Otaawa, and other members of the committee had recommended legislation for the establishment of legislative guidelines for the establishment of such clinics. The bill was written to provide these guidelines.
Gov. Robert Bennett, in a special message last week to House Speaker John Carlin and Senate President Roy Doyen, will introduce practice programs be restored to the budget.
If the bill is passed in committee, it will go to the Senate for action later this week. When
Calvin Bigler, Garden City surgeon, also spoke in support of the proposed legislation. Bigler, director of medical education at St. Catherine's Hospital in Garden City, told the committee that Garden City would take advantage of the program if it was enacted.
Bigler said that Garden City was the central point of a 10-county area in Southwest Kansas. The area now is served by only one physician for 2,200 residents. The national average is one doctor for 650 people.
Robert Brown, soon to become the director of the new Medical Educational Foundation, agreed with Bigler, and added Salina to the list of cities interested in the program. However, Brown added that he might require more money from the state.
Senate budget hearings planned to start tomorrow
The Student Senate will begin hearings on next year's budget tomorrow evening when representatives of student organizations present requests for funds.
To be eligible for tumors, student organizations had to apply through the Senate office before Feb. 28. They also must comply with the Senate Code, Rules and Regulations and the Code of Students' Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct.
In allocating funds, the Senate will consider an organization's programs and activities, as well as benefits it gives the University.
Sixty student organizations have been assigned to the Senate's seven standing committees, which will hear the final nominees for the bills to be presented to the entire Senate.
The organizations also have to comply with the rules and regulations of the offices of the SEC.
The Finance and Auditing Committee is to meet early tomorrow evening to develop
a complete budgeting philosophy that will name the types of student organizations the school has.
The Senate budget is $371,817, $48,965 of which is allocated to the seven Senate standing committees, to be divided among the amplying student organizations.
The largest line items are $7,250 for the University Daily Kansas; $74,405 for Women's Intercollegiate Sports; and $48,260 for Student Senate for operating expenses.
Other line items go to the Recreation Advisory Board, $38,083; the University concert series, KU Forensics, $3,297; and JKH-KFM火, $066.
The Senate will approve and make changes in the bills prepared by the committees and present the proposed budget to Chancellor Archie Dykes April 15.
The remaining $322,852 goes to line items, funds are added each year according to the bank statement.
Staff photo by: MARIANNE MAURIN
Elegant sound
Byron Janis, visiting professor of performance, performed in Hoch Auditorium last night as part of the KU Concert Series.
Pianist Janis sees music as reflection of life
Bv JEANNE HIERL
Staff Reporter
Whether it is an eager hush in the intuitiveness of a swankhout Hall master class or a buzancing expectancy in cavernous Hoch Auditorium before a recital, there is always a climate of anticipation when Junius is about to make his entrance.
Jans, internationally acclaimed pianist and artist-in-residence this semester at the University of Kansas, moved an hour away to a studio people of his size about 10 miles (16 kilometers) in spacious.
Janis, 49, is an intense, quiet man. He seemed to enjoy the recital as much as the audience did as he felt the music he played. He succeeded in communicating a sensitive interpretation of the comedy by carefully defining as the essence of performance.
with the audience, not just the playing of notes.
"When I play for an audience I hope to make them feel what I feel," he said. "Music is a reflection of everything in life and the emotions of life are in music, even humor."
In an interview yesterday, Janis said that playing music was a communication
"Music is a great art form because it no words. Each person can make out no words. It doesn't matter what music has no limits with what you can feel with it. It is the closest thing to all those things we talk about that are not music. Music gives us feelings about them."
Janis' success in communicating feelings with his music was clear last night. Joy and gaiety were alive in the Chopin waltz; tenderness, love and an aching movement of Chopin's "Sonata in B-Fat Minor, Opus 35." Joy, sadness and flight were impressionistically
conveyed in Janis' own "Three Songs in the Popular Style."
Two of the Chopin waltzes he played were "discovered" by Janis at Yale in 1973. During the interview, Janis smiled with disbelief and cried out, "Clement!" he felt when he made his find.
Janis said that while at Yale, he was invited to look at some original scores in the music library. He spotted one folder and asked what it contained. When it was found, he said it contained amazement because it held two Chopin waltzes in the composer's own hand.
"No one in the world knew that Yale had them," he said.
This find was more extraordinary than it first appeared, Janis said, because he had found different versions of the same two wallahs seven years earlier in a house in New York. "He had asked to examine some old manuscripts he noticed 'lying around.'"
"It was just another thing that happened to me," he said. "You know, some things happen when you don't look too hard."
Because of his Chipin discoveries and his accomplishments through the years, Janis was recently named chairman of the American League for unusual things for an American," he said.
Another thing that "just happened" to Janis is a film completed last year for World Television in France. Janis described the film, a documentary, as an experience she had been tried, through his personal feelings, to "evoke something Cholo."
The film now is being circulated in Europe but hasn't been released in the United States.
Today Janis will conduct master classes for advanced piano students in Students' Theater.
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Committee pot bill vote expected
Kansas marijuana smokers may get a break if the Kansas Senate Committee on State and Federal Affairs passes a bill this week that would allow possession of an ounce or less of marijuana.
Minority center delay possible
If a proposed student minority center doesn't get off the ground by June 30, the center's opening could be delayed at least a year.
When $4,159 was allocated to the center in February by the Student Senate, the money was expected to be spent by the June deadline, which is the end of the fiscal year. If not spent, the money will be designated for unallocated funds. The Senate subcommittee on minority rights then will have to make another request to the Senate.
Rodney Dennis, chairman of the subcommittee, said yesterday that the o.ner was still in the planning stage and that the team had been working on the project.
The subcommittee was working on a concept for the center, Dennis said, but it wasn't going.
Dennis said the first priority of the sub-
committee was to encourage a black
leader.
If the center is opened now, he said, the blacks will be under represented. The Native American Alliance and MECHA, the Chicago organization, have a "represe-
tative idea" of their minority groups, he said, but blacks don't.
Dennis said individual black interests were now represented, not the minority as a group. He said the subcommittee wanted to foster interest until there was a cohesive black group.
Dennis said subcommittee members met yesterday with Steve Leben, student body president, to discuss the direction to be taken by the subcommittee.
Leben said he understood that the center would be postponed until the proposal was resolved.
The bill, sponsored by State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Dr Lawrence, would set the punishment for possession of an ounce or less of marijuana at a fine of not more than $100 for the first two offenses. Third and subsequent offences would be class A misdemeanors.
Under current Kansas law, possession of any amount of marijuana is a class A misdemeanor and a second or subsequent offense is a class D felony.
the chairman of the committee, State Sen. Ed Reilly. R-leaverwouldn't wouldn't
"I don't think any of them (the committee
"It’s chances are fifty-fifty—maybe a little better," Glover said. "I think the chairman will report it out (to the full force of his power) and get enough votes on the floor to pass it."
Although the legislative schedule often is uncertain toward the end of the session, Glover said last night that his bill would be voted on this morning.
members) are very enthusiastic about it one way or the other. Reilly said.
Reilly said he hadn't decided whether to support the bill because he still had to study economics.
Reilly said that marjiana laws were an emotional, complex issue, and that as chairman of the committee, he had a special responsibility to study it in depth. "It's a very difficult matter to talk in detail about what that's what we're trying to do," he said.
"I've received quite a bit of mail, especially from people opposing it," Reilly said. "I'm not very familiar with the clippings, magazine articles, a congressional report, books. I'm going to take it all home tonight, and when I get done, I should know a lot more about the
Although Reilly said he didn't have an opinion on the bill, Glover said recently that State Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, co-sponsor of the bill, and the Committee on State and Federal Affairs
instead of the Judiciary committee because he opposed the bill and wanted it to have a bill.
Glover said last night that the leadership of the Kansas legislature often referred bills that were controversial, or that they wanted to give special consideration to, to the governor.
Glover's bill also would make possession of more than one ounce of marijuana a class A midemadefer for the first two offenses and a class D felony for third and subsequent offenses. If any marijuana to someone under 18 years of age would also be a class D felony.
Another provision of the bill is that no car used for transporting an ounce or less of marijuana could be confiscated by the police if the marijuana were in a locked compartment not accessible to the driver or to any passenger.
Money from fines under the new law would go to a drug abuse fund, which would be made available to licensed treatment facilities for drug abusers.