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Tuition discounts available for students with family ties
BY STEPHEN GRAY sgray@kansan.com
Tuition Waver Discounts (for out-of-state students with at least a 3.25 high school GPA)
Students with an ACT score between 26 and 29 receive a 12 percent discount.
The Kansas Board of Regents approved Thursday the permanent application of the Jayhawk Generations legacy tuition discount
For the 2008-2009 academic year, a nonresident student paid $16,272 in annual tuition; the actual cost to provide education for this student was $12,678. The Jayhawk Generations Scholarship makes use of this difference ($3,594) to establish a tiered system of partial tuition waivers for eligible students.
Students with an ACT score of 34 or above receive a 30 percent discount. (added for the fall 2011 semester)
Students with an ACT score between 30 and 33 receive a 20 percent discount.
Source: Vice Provost for Student Success Marlesa Roney
This scholarship program was designed last year to encourage enrollment of high ability out-of-state students with family ties to the University of Kansas. The Regents had approved the program on a temporary basis for fall 2009, and it has proven beneficial to recruiting with the 123 students currently in the program.
"We want to be able to take advantage of multi-generation ties and bring students to KU so they can continue their family traditions," said Jack Martin, the deputy director for University Communications.
Martin said the scholarship helps the University and contributes to the state's economy in that it brings talented students to Kansas who might not be interested otherwise.
Bringing students to the University can, of course, also lead them to stay. According to a study done by the University in preparation for the proposal last year, 27 percent of non-resident students remain in Kansas or the Greater Kansas City Area after graduation.
Several regional universities such as the University of Missouri, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln also have similar out-of-state programs for legacy students. Remaining competitive in this area was one of the main reasons that the University originally adopted a program, Martin said.
Jennifer Jackson Sanner, senior vice president for communications
"We felt it was important to get into the competitive arena among other top regional universities that have programs that are similar if not more generous," Sanner said.
of the University of Kansas Alumni Association, said alumni and their families have been fully supportive of the scholarship.
There are several qualifications that must be met to receive a scholarship. First, a nonresident freshman must have a parent, legal guardian or grandparent that graduated from the University to be eligible. In addition, these students have to maintain a minimum 3.25 GPA while enrolled at the University, as the scholarship is renewable for up to four years.
Melissa Hebbert a freshman from New Jersey, was awarded a scholarship and is in favor of the decision to make the program permanent. She said the tuition waiver made going so far out of state to attend her mother's alma mater seem reasonable.
Sanner said it was important to note that the program doesn't reduce
"It is still above the current instate rate and still will help subsidize the costs for in-state students," she said.
tuition for out-of-state students below the cost of providing their education at the University.
"I think it provides students with the opportunity to continue, or even start a tradition of academic success here at the University of Kansas," Hebbert said.
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Board of Regents approves new doctoral program at KU
BY STEPHEN
MONTEMAYOR
smontemavor@kansan.com
Beginning next fall, the University of Kansas will offer a doctoral program for the department of women, gender and sexuality studies.
The Kansas Board of Regents approved the program at its Thursday meeting, according to Regents spokesman Kip Peterson.
John Younger, director of WGSS and professor of classics, said he saw the program's establishment as both legitimizing the discipline and contributing to its definition.
"And even so, it's still evolving."
Younger said.
Only 17 other universities nationwide offer a Ph.D. program in women's studies, with the closest being Texas Women's University in Denton, Texas. Younger said the field was still fairly new.
The University has one of the oldest programs in the field, but the major was not official until 1974 and the program until the early 1990s. When Younger became director in 2008, the department changed its name from women's studies to women, gender and sexuality studies.
After completing the program's required classes, Younger said candidates would take a qualifying oral exam to determine whether they received a master's and leave the program or continue on toward a Ph.D.
He said PhD candidates would later present another oral presentation on what they wanted to do for their dissertation. The idea, he said, is that they make certain they're aware of their stance in the history of the field and what change or development they will contribute.
"I rather like this concept," Younger said. "Placing yourself as a scholar within a continuum is really good. You know where you are in this program."
The University submitted a proposal for the program
the regents in 2009. An external review team of women's studies professors from outside universities also met with students, faculty and staff last May and recommended approving the proposal.
The University has said the program would not require additional costs and would be financed within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
In its proposal, the University said the doctoral program was a response to growing national demand for interdisciplinary scholars. The external review team came to a similar conclusion.
"Women's studies is one of the most swiftly growing fields of inquiry to emerge in the past 40 years, generating one of the most significant and influential shifts in academic thought in recent memory," the review team said in its report.
Associate professor Hannah Britton occasionally works in Africa researching women in government and women organizations that fight gender-based violence. Her courses often blend WGSS and political science,
an interdisciplinary approach she said was a strength at the University.
DaMaris Hill is a doctoral student from Baltimore. Her dissertation, a novel titled "Willows of the Spring," uses literature to examine the cases of women who were discriminated against and imprisoned during the Great Depression.
Hill expects to graduate in Aug. 2011 with a Ph.D. in English and creative writing with a WGSS certificate. She said without the WGSS program, she wouldn't have been exposed to professors with approaches like that of Britton.
Hill said the program was also important because it allowed for opportunities to talk about how genders interacted. "That's what it's really going to come down to," she said. "How will they work together?"
Edited by Dana Meredith
Deadlines for admission
For fall 2011: Feb. 1, 2011
For spring 2012: Dec. 15, 2011
13 credit hours of WGSS courses
15 credit hours of WGSS electives
18 credit hours in a concentration
Women, gender and sexuality studies Ph.D. requirements
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Her laugh also stood out to coworker Shanah Williams.
"It was such a great laugh," Williams said. "I can still hear it today."
Brieck will be remembered for her infectious laugh,her dedication to her job,and her passion for life Deshler said.
Brieck owned a horse named Scarlet and would often change out of her cowboy boots into work clothes in the morning. Williams said she visited the horse almost daily and was a member of the Midwest Mustang & Burro Saddle Club.
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Brieck was passionate about the mission of the Center, which is to help individuals who struggle with learning, said Don Deshler, the Center's director.
KristiBillingerwasclosefriends with Brieck for the last eight years. The two bonded through a mutual love of mustang horses. Billinger said they enjoyed going to parades and demonstrations together. Billinger remembered the day that Brieck bought Scarlet in 2007 and called it one of her happiest memories of Brieck.
BY ALLYSON SHAW ashaw@kansan.com
Faculty member Mary Brieck died of hip cancer on Nov. 9 at age 59. Brieck had been working as the operations manager for the Center for Research on Learning since March 2002.
"She wanted to help students be better students," Deshier said.
Brieck was a passionate woman, Billinger said, both about the plight of the mustang and about her work.
Brieck was born on March 21, 1951, in McKeesport, Penn. She received her bachelor's degree from Point Park College in Pittsburgh, and obtained her master of business administration from Ohio State University.
Deshler said in the last few weeks, Brieck spoke of some leg pain. She waited to go to the doctor until all her deadlines were met and she had a day off. She continued to work from home, but never returned to the office.
band, Eugene, and two sons, Eugene and Jonathan, who both went to the University of Kansas. Williams said Brieck was very close with her sons.
"She was such a hard worker — a delight to work with," Deshler said. "Everyone thought the world of her."
Once it was time to work, Deshler said, she put in tremendous hours and never looked at the clock.
OPELIKA, Ala. — A former Army soldier who claimed to be mentally disturbed from his deployment in Iraq was convicted of capital murder Thursday in the abduction and shooting death of an Auburn University student from Georgia.
Brieck is survived by her hus-
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Former solider charged in murder of Auburn student
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Jurors deliberated about six and-a-half hours over two days before convicting Courtney Lockhart, 26, of rural Smith Station, in the killing of 18-year-old freshman Lauren Burk of Marietta, Ga.
set sentencing for Jan. 28.
Wearing a black suit, Lockhart sat calmly with his lawyers and showed no emotion when Circuit Judge Jacob Walker read the verdict. Burk's family members, mostly sitting behind the prosecution table, began hugging each other and patting each other on the back.
Jurors then voted 12-0 after deliberating for another hour to recommend sentencing him to life in prison without parole, rather than death by injection. The judge is not bound by the jury's recommendation. He tentatively
"That was a pretty strong statement from the jury." Abbett said.
But District Attorney Nick Abbett, who is retiring in January, said it might be hard for the judge to overturn an unanimous recommendation for life.
Burk's sister, Jaklyn Semones of Alpharetta, Ga., said she felt fine with the life in prison without parole recommendation.
"I'm just happy this has come to an end. Justice was done," Semones said.
Burk's father, Jim Burk, released a written statement thanking police, prosecutors and the jury of eight men and four women for the verdict.
"We still have some questions as to why this happened, but hopefully we can find answers in the future. We continue to love and pray for Lauren," he said.
Burk was abducted on the night of March 4, 2008, as she got into her car in a campus parking lot after visiting her boyfriend. According to statements given by Lockhart, he pulled a gun on the screaming student, trying to rob her, and forced her into her car as
he drove it off.
During the argued sentencing, jurors heard emotional testimony from Lockhart's mother and father, who expressed sorrow for the grief the son caused the Burk family.
His mother, Catherine Lockhart Williams, tearfully apologized to Burk's mother, who was sitting in the front row of the gallery.
"I just want to say to you and your whole family that I am sorry, I feel your pain because I am a mother, too. If I could I would get up and hug you but they probably wouldn't let me do that," said Williams.
In a statement to police read to jurors earlier during the trial, Lockhart said he ordered her to disrobe, not to have sex with her but because he thought it would make her less likely to escape the car. At one point Lockhart said he spoke of his problems: "We started talking about how my life was over. She said she could help me get a job," he said in a written statement.
But Burk was shot in the back at close range as she opened the door and jumped from the car.
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