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Monday, November 28. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
THE FUTURE OF KU
KU explores televised classes Telecommunications offer remote-site teaching for the 1990s
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
In the classroom of the future, professors may have to worry more about their hair and makeup than their lecture notes.
Telecommunications have opened a whole new arena of teaching, which will join other current technology such as computer-assisted instruction in the University of Kansas by 1992. UK officials say
the technology will be used mainly at the proposed Regent Glen and Park, which have been built in the early 1980s.
Telecommunications would allow professors to lecture to students, via satellite, on a television screen. Students may be allowed to respond or ask questions through computer hookups or by telephone.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of education and presiding officer of University Council, said that kind of educational process would be a big part of the future.
"Instructional technology is going to have a big effect," she said. "This will become an important resource."
Swartz said educational technology in the form
of computer-assisted instruction was widespread, especially in the elementary schools.
But the use of technology such as computer-assisted instruction and telecommunications hasn't been perfected yet.
"I think the challenge is how to use this effectively." she said.
Swartz said that telecommunications could be used effectively in two ways: to save time and to address large groups.
Mary moore, professor of civil engineering and a chairman of the Campus Planning Advisory Committee, said that a telecommunication system could work, "but only marginally so."
"I don't think there will ever be a superior technology in teaching than having the teacher there," he said.
Moore said telecommunications raised complex issues, such as how students would ask questions of the teacher.
"It suggests that there's more to it than just wheeling a TV camera into a classroom and just setting it up," he said. "It creates the need to develop the class presentation in more of a production mode. To do that very well is expensive."
Moore said that teaching methods would have to change, even in some ways that few people think about.
For instance, he said, it is perfectly acceptable for a teacher to turn his back on a class long enough to write on the chalkboard, but that has been found ineffective on TV.
Moore said that the tradition of the Regents Center probably would call for professors to teach personally at Overland Park anyway.
"These advances don't replace teachers," she said. "You still need the real person to interact with students."
However, Bob Jerry, professor of law and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said that the new technology could be used in ways other than reaching the Regents
"We can put the resources of this University in places they've never been before," he said. "That strikes me as a great opportunity; I see great possibilities there."
Jerry said a telecommunications system could be used to teach groups in places such as Garden City or Wichita.
Landscaping. renovations slated for KU
By Laura Woodward Kansan staff writer
Ahem Wiechert says it's an administrative rule of thumb that if 23 percent of a plan is accomplished, someone has done well.
By that standard, with 80 percent completed of a long range campus campaise plan developed in 2003, the program is now underway.
But the University director of facilities and planning said it was time for a new plan.
In the next four years, Wiechert said, the University will move toward a renovation mode, rather than the current building mode.
By 1922, the science library and a new Regents Center should be completed; Snow Hall renovation should be finished; and a parking garage and the
Dole Human Development Center should be in use. The University also will work to complete a new performing arts center on West Campus. Other plans include renovations of halls such as Strong and Bailey, Hoch Auditorium and the rest of the interior in the Kansas Union.
The renovations will provide needed space for classrooms, research and library expansion.
The University's campus is expanding at a tremendous pace, and he did not allow his students to grow the growth step any time.
"I don't think a university can afford not to grow." he said.
One problem University planners will face with continued growth is competition between buildings and open space on campus.
"I would like to create more landscape, furniture-type settings on campus, places that are intimate." Wiechert said. "People need to have a place to go where they can find some solitude."
Wiechert plans to emphasize landscaping. He
said many areas on campus were planted as many as 20 years ago and are now overgrown.
Alton Thomas, landscape architect under former KU Chancellor Deane Malott, said Malott had great interest in developing the campus.
Thomas said the Kansas University Endowment Association financed development.
Many of the physical changes, including land-scaping, that will occur in the next few years will not change the campus radically but give it a more unified look.
"We spent thousands on flowering trees," he said.
Wiechert cited the exterior graphics system, which includes street signs and campus lighting, as previous projects which were not readily noticeable but that unified the campus.
To complete the planned projects, the University will seek financing from federal grants and internal sources such as revenue from parking and private sources.
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"I have the luxury of having a planning group," she said.
Besides those perks, Ramaley said, she has something else to make looking into the future easier.
She was referring to the Campus Planning Advisory Committee, a 16-member group with student, faculty and staff representatives. The committee was formed this year to advise Ramley on the implementation of a planning process for the Lawrence campus.
Ray Moore, professor of civil engineering and a planning committee chairman, said that so far the committee had focused on creating a survey to find out the campus opinion on various planning goals.
The planning committee originally had planned to have the survey results ready for Ramaley before Thanksgiving, but problems with creating a valid opinion poll have pushed the deadline back. Moore said he hoped to have the survey out sometime next semester.
PLANNING
The committee will advise Ramaley on all the planning goals for the University for 1992 and
beyond, although its deadlines for doing so are not yet set.
Although the committee may be a little slow in finding its footing, it already is forming a relationship with another campus group that is concerned with computer resources. Resources Committees of University governance.
The resource committee reports directly to SenEx. The planning committee, which is appointed by Ramaley, reports to her.
Ramaley summed up the relationship of the two committees: "CPAC helps us decide where to go. P&R helps test whether we went where we said we were going to."
This dual planning committee setup wasn't planned, but those involved say that it has worked
In an Oct. 20 letter to Ramaley, Shapiro wrote,
"This arrangement is probably not the one which you (or I) would design if we were creating a committee system from scratch. It may, however,
be a functional system to accomplish both . . . your objectives and those of governance."
Shapiro said recently that the relationship between the planning committee and resource committee would continue, "probably because we're already doing it this way."
Moore agreed with the setup of the two committees but said that he didn't know whether the planning committee would continue beyond this academic year. When the group was formed, everyone accepted a one-year appointment; Ramaley has said she would like to try to keep the group going.
until that decision is made, the planning committee will continue to advise Ramaley. Moore said the group would do that by posing questions and avoiding suggesting the answers.
"We'll just give the questions to properly calibrate the direction." Moore said.
He said that the planning committee would be asking questions to direct Ramalay on such issues as enrollment, the Regents Center in Overland Park and minority affairs.
For the resource committee, which has studied subjects such as distribution of money from the Margin of Excellence and fiscal year 1989 budget requests, a definition also is emerging.
Evelyn Swartz, presiding officer of University
Corporal, served on the first resource committee.
"I think their work is enormously important to the future of the University," she said. "It's important that (the resource committee and the planning committee) work together."
Regents Center links KU to KC
By Laura Woodward
Ten years ago, the boundary between Lawrence and the Johnson County area was defined. Now, it has become blurred by increasing growth along Interstate 435 and Kansas Highway 10.
Kansan staff writer
Elaine Tatham, a demographer and the president of ETC Institute in Overland Park, compiled research that indicates that 20 people move into Johnson County every day. That translates into an average of about seven households each day.
Because of such growth, many University officials think that KU should have a larger presence in the greater Kansas City area by
One of the biggest efforts to date to increase KU's profile in Johnson County is the planning of a new Regents Center at 127th Street and 134th Street in fact. Ramayah said, KU's presence is anchored on the new center.
"When I came to KU, one of the things that interested me the most was how well we could develop our urban mission," said Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor. "It is a challenge to incorporate into our structure the growing needs of a metropolitan area."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said in October that he hoped to see it open by fall 1990. It will be constructed for about $5 million.
Mary Gersh, director of the Regents Center, said proper planning could link the KU campus with the eastern part of the state where much of Kansas' economic growth was occurred.
"My opinion is that K-10 (highway) is a conduit," she said. "There are only 23 miles between Olathe and Lawrence."
Although drivers coming from Lawrence can reach most places in Kansas City within one hour, the distance hasn't made much of a difference in increasing the University's profile.
"The University has a medical center and the Regents Center in the Kansas City area, but they
haven't added up in people's minds as the University of Kansas," Ramaley said.
In addition to increasing the University's profile, the new Regents Center was important, she said, because it would attract companies to the Kansas City area and would stimulate economic growth.
Ramaley said she couldn't explain it, but cited the Kansas-Missouri state line, the preeminence of the Missouri side and the effect of two legislatures on one area as possible causes.
"Companies arriving or trying to expand in the area cannot attract new employees unless there is a strong educational environment for research work and support for research and development," she said.
But the short distance is not the only factor that will bring Lawrence and the Kansas City area closer together. Advanced telecommunications at the Regents Center also will connect Lawrence and Kansas City with the university already has been budgeted for by the University.
"The graphic possibilities are real. We must plan thoughtfully and the firstly so that we can finish and the 21st century with style." Gersh said.
She said that interactive communication was the wave of the future.
For example, the business school could tell before the stock exchange opened what markets would be like that day, she said.
"With such equipment, the University could literally move its classroom anywhere in the United States," she said.
Because of advanced telecommunications equipment and the short distance separating Lawrence and Johnson County, it is not inconceivable that the two could merge one day. The need to establish KU in the Kansas City area before the merge occurs.
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ENROLL
KU this year had used several factors that may have contributed to the enrollment decrease, such as earlier application deadlines, increased consideration of grade point averages and higher ACT score requirements.
Ramaley has told the group not to change any of those factors for the next year, which Burchill said would help in the analyzing process.
help in the studying process. "We don't have to worry about fine-tuning." Burchill said.
Ramaley said that it was important to keep the enrollment within 1 percent of 26,306 because the University couldn't predict whether the budget would allow much of an increase.
"I can't expect to win that game," she said.
She said that enrollment control probably would be KU's plan until 1992 or 1993.
"That strategy will be beneficial to the University for the next five years," Ramaley said. "But there's no crystal ball. I reserve the right to recalibrate."
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