UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, January 25, 1996
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Andy Rohrback/KANSAN
School of Education rethinks structure
By David Teska Kansan staff writer
The same program review that resulted in the School of Engineering having to merge two departments has caused the School of Education to reduce its number of departments as well.
The school is studying how it will implement its portion of the Board of Regents 1992 mandate that the University of Kansas reduce the total number of departments from 69 to 62.
The School of Education will reduce by two departments, reorganizing its six departments into three or four new ones, said Becky Eason, assistant to the dean of the school. The reorganization will not result in the loss of any faculty or programs, Eason said.
The School of Engineering's merger eliminated one department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has reduced in size by four departments. The School of Education's reduction would complete the Regents mandate.
Last fall Karen Gallagher, dean of the school of education, created a committee to review the best way to reduce departments, Eason said.
"It is looking at how the school can work more effectively with four departments and not six," Jason said.
Tom Skrtic, the committee's chairman and professor of special education, said the committee received its charter October 12, 1995. After looking at other universities' education programs and at previous reorganization plans, the committee put together four reorganization models, Skrtic said. The committee then released the models to students, faculty, parents and elementary schools for input in feedback forums conducted through the end of the fall semester.
Skirtic said the committee was on schedule and would have a preliminary report ready for the dean on January 30. After reviewing the proposal, the dean will release the school's reorganization plan May 3, he said.
Among education students at Bailey Hall, the word is out about the planned departmental reduction. Kristin Wells, Overland Park senior, said she'd heard about the reduction from one of her professors but wasn't concerned.
"it sounded like it would only be a reorganization," Wells said.
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