UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 27, 1993
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Faculty advisers get advice on graduation requirements
By David Stewart
Kansan staff writer
To keep up with the changing requirements for completing a major or just graduating, even some faculty advisers need some good advice.
When the two weeks of academic advising for Spring 1994 classes end Friday, some students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will have received help with their schedule from faculty members who are advising for the first time.
To make sure even the newest of the college's advising professors know what their students need to do, the college undergraduate center provided an orientation for new advising faculty, said Pam Houston, center director.
Houston helped conduct the training two weeks ago to give college faculty a sense of what they should expect from advising students and what students would expect from them.
"Some students expect their advisers will choose their classes for them," Houston said. "That's not the idea of advising. The professor and student should talk on a more equal level. It should be two adults talking about one's goals, but ultimately the decision has to be made by the student."
The topics covered in the three-hour orientation sessions included reviewing the general education requirements, monitoring the academic progress of the advised students and helping students set and keep realistic goals, said Houston.
College faculty who have experience in advising students are not required to go through any retraining before the advising period, said Joe Van Zandt, adviser coordinator for the college advising support center.
"Most new faculty have had experience teaching as graduate students," Houston said. "A lot of them feel real concern with being good advisers. They want to give the correct information to students."
Houston said she realized that in some areas of the college, advising was not that good.
"We have some 500 advising faculty," Houston said. "It's hard to do quality control with that many individuals."
When new changes in course requirements or other academic changes come about, Van Zandt said, the college faculty were informed by their individual department chairs or from minutes of the college assembly, where faculty vote to change requirements.
"In theory, all changes in graduation and principle courses are changes the faculty have voted on," Van Zandt said. "I realize that theory and practice don't always add up."
Albert Cook, associate professor and undergraduate coordinator in English, said students remained responsible for the classes they intended to take.
"In a general sense, there is a student perception that the advising system is not that good," Cook said. "It's been my experience that most bad advice that students have gotten is self-afflicted. They get advice from their peers rather than the faculty. Over the 25 years I've been here, advising has gotten to the point where it's a lot better."
History professor to discuss effects of trade agreement on United States
By Brian James Kansan staff writer
Phillip Kelly thinks that the North American Free Trade Agreement is not worth all the fuss.
But Kelly, a professor of history at Emporia State University, said he thought that the agreement eventually could have an immense impact on the economies of the United States, Mexico and Canada during the next five years if the plan is approved by the U.S. Congress.
Kelly will present a University Forum speech today titled "North American Free Trade Agreement." The lecture will be at noon at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
Kelly said the lecture would focus on both the positive and negative aspects of the agreement, which is being reviewed by a congressional committee.
"I guess I am probably in favor of the agreement because of the tremendous bonanza of high technology that typically results from free trade," he said. "We will gain those high-tech jobs and lose more low-skill, low-paying jobs to Mexico."
Statistics from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that if the agreement is approved this year in Congress, 150,000 new jobs will be created by 1995, Kelly said.
Consumers also would benefit from the agreement, Kelly said.
"Free trade is almost always going to increase quality of products and decrease their price," he said.
Kelly said that the agreement would not necessarily tempt U.S. companies to flock to Mexico and take advantage of cheaper labor.
"Mexico doesn't have a sophisticated infrastructure, court system or adequate transportation systems," Kelly said. "The fact that General Motors pulled out of Mexico last week is one indication American companies might have a difficult time there."
But some KU campus organizations are not so sure.
Emily Bono, Lawrence graduate student and president of Latin American Solidarity, said members of the group were concerned that the agreement would not help the common worker in Mexico.
NAFTA because it seems like it would benefit big corporations more than anyone else," she said.
"Our members are kind of leery of
Richard Heap, Belleville, Ill., junior and member of the KU chapter of United We Stand America, a national organization founded by Ross Perot, said the agreement had several flaws.
Many U.S. companies will choose to move their manufacturing plants south of the border if the plan is approved, Heap said.
"NAFTA will open the floodgates of companies heading to Mexico," Heap said. "It will be surprising to everybody how fast the companies will go."
One myth of the agreement, Heap said, was that Mexicans will buy U.S. products.
But Jim Schwartzburg, owner of Packer Plastics Inc. in Lawrence, said that his $1 million annual export business to Canada and Mexico would triple if Congress passed the agreement.
"It would open up so many more avenues for trade," he said. "It would also help the Mexican economy, and that would give Mexicans a better reason for staying at home to work instead of crossing the border."
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