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Tuesday, December 4. 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Jennifer Warner/KANSAN
Cold wait
Ashley Ace, Emporia freshman, watches for her bus at the stop east of Wescoe Hall. Low temperatures, snow flurries and a brisk wind chilled students yesterday. Cold weather will continue today.
5-year education program is effective
By Amy Zamierowski
KU was the first large public university to switch to an extended or five-year education program, which affected freshman entering the University of Kansas in 1981.
Kansan staff writer
Now about 100 other institutions nationwide programs, said Jerry Bulley, associate dean of,
KU still has the only extended teacher education program in Kansas.
"At the time we changed, some people said the expanded program was the siliest thing they had ever heard of," he said. "They thought people would go to a school where they could get a degree in four years. But our enrollment has increased dramatically in the last several years."
In Fall 1997, 822 students were enrolled in the School of Education, compared with 1,125 students in the College of Business.
Students can earn their bachelor's degree in education in four years from the University, and after their fifth year, students are eligible for certification. During the fifth year, students take 15 hours of graduate level courses and participate in field work by student teaching
Nita Sundbye, professor of education, was a key figure in switching K1U to a five-year program.
"We decided there was so much for a teacher to
know that they could not learn it all in four years," she said. "We needed more space to deal with a liberal arts base and the range of education classes and field experience."
Bailey said the school had no plans to return to a four-year program.
Graduates from the five-year program communicate more effectively with their students and have more knowledge in the area they teach. They also standardized framework of the program. Bailey said.
Bailey said that employers had been enthusiastic about the additional experience KU graduates received with the added year of the program and placement rates for KU graduates were increasing.
More than 80 percent of the people who complete the program find jobs, he said.
"All of them would have jobs if they were geographically flexible," he said.
Bailey he thought that some students could not afford to come to KU because of the added expense of an extra year but that the number was small.
Richard Whelan, associate dean of education,
said the extended education program received
good response when it was reviewed last month by
the School Board Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
"They cited the fact that we were 10 years ahead of our time in developing an extended program." Whelan said. "They thought the course of studies they had taken in college students were well-prepared to be problem solvers."
Also, they thought the additional amount of field Mike Holen, dean of education at Kansas State University, said KState had a four-year program. He does not think KU's extended program influences the decision of students considering one or both schools.
"I think most students entering a university are more concerned with the nature and setting of the university than with how long a program is," he said.
Holen said that K-State had not started discussing changing its education program but that the school might switch to an extended program in the future.
Jody Booth, assistant director of personnel of the Olahe School District, said that the district received good teaching candidates from all the colleges. The school often had more fieldwork experience than others.
"KU graduates also are more mature in some cases," she said. "Administrators enjoy having a teacher with some experience in the classroom, and the additional year, of course, helps."
Clinton Place tenants meet with owners
By Tracey Chalpin
Kansan staff writer
The Clinton Place Tenants Association met without the help of a representative coalition last night to discuss its concerns with a representative from the complex owners' organization.
In the past, the tenants were represented by the Association on Housing Concerns for the Elderly and People with Disabilities.
However, management said it wanted to speak to the tenants themselves because none of the members of the coalition resided at the apartment complex.
Clinton Place, 2125 Clinton Parkway, is an
partnership complex for senior citizens and people who
are older.
Diana Matthews, who acted as chairperson for the tenants association at last night's meeting, said she was pleased that the meeting stayed orderly and that management would meet again with tenants.
Peter Brune, general partner with Management Associates Investors — the owners of Clinton Place, listened to various tenant complaints at the meeting, which have not subsided since May.
One topic of discussion was an addendum distributed recently by management to the tenants informing them of an increase in rent from $400 to $412.
The increase will not affect Clinton Place tenants directly because they pay 30 percent of their monthly income for rent, even when the rates are higher than other areas and Urban Development makes on the difference.
residents were confused because they received the addendum five months after the increase became effective, and that it did not fully explain the reasons for the increase.
Park Mitner, an employee at Consumer Affairs Association, 700 Massachusetts St., said that the
Pitner also said he questioned why management distributed the letter Nov. 17, the day the tenants association was hosting a Thanksgiving dinner, in main office of the building was closed on that day.
"You could almost assume that it is a retaliatory action," he said.
KU and Big 8, peer school minority leaders aim for same goals
Brune suggested that the 20 members of the tenants association try to meet with the other 40 people who lived in the building because he was not sure if they had the same concerns.
Brune also suggested that he meet with the association in two weeks to further discuss problems.
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Minority groups aimed at ending racism and discrimination are not limited to KU, said members of minority organizations at other Big Eight universities and peer institutions.
KU groups such as Hispanic American Leadership Organization, Black Student Union and Native American Student Association may be placed in paraprofessional paired to organizations at other universities, but they are connected by
some of the same goals, students said.
One of those goals is better campus awareness of the organizations, said Anita Cortez, HALO adviser at Kansas State University.
Suzanne Racine, vice president of KU HALO, said, "HALO is having such a voice on campus, and people are starting to recognize the name."
"We're really excited that people are starting to become aware of HALO" she said. "We're only in our thins look good." and we think thinks look good."
Cortez said that although there had not been student protests at K-State like there had been at KU this semester, there have been protests in the past.
"Right now, we're concentrating on two main things: community service and student government," she said. "Our goal is to have a member of HALO be student body president next year."
Cortez said another concern of the group was to educate people about the Hispanic culture
speak to high school students, Cortez said.
faculty and staff, Baker said.
At the University of Oregon, a KU peer school, the Native American Student Union also is growing in popularity, but the group is not as well known as other minority organi- cations, said co-director Geo An Baker.
The group has been invited to
"There are still more people who don't know we are here," she said. "But people are starting to see our name."
"This year, it is mandatory for all new students to take a gender or a race course," she said. "But none of those classes are taught by minorities, nor are they up to our standards."
The organization is concerned with increasing recruitment of minority
One of the goals of the Native American Student Association at KU is to increase enrollment of America's largest university. Allen Hayton, association president.
Greg Knight, a student at the University of Colorado and former president of the Black Student
Alliance at Colorado, said the last public protest at that university was in 1987, when a fraternity advertised a rape of a woman in an obese, black woman.
"But that doesn't mean we're not concerned." Knight said. "We have meetings with the chancellor and address concerns all of the time."
Knight had his experiences with racism on Colorado's Boulder campus were much better than those he had had in the city.
"I've never been part of a racial incident on campus," he said.
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