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In rooms such as 411 Summerfield as many as three hundred students may hear a professor lecture. The Co1 ege Li73eral Arts ((a::::-Lci Sciences The function of a university is to educate the students who attend its classes by instilling those students with a thirst for inquiry. Con- cerned as it is with all the basic disciplines of the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the core of the University of Kansas, is inevitably concerned with the pur- suit of new ideas and principles. For the majority, their education at KU will be the last formal education they will have. Some students will find the y are unable to continue their higher education. Still others will declare a major and transfer to a profes- sional school in their junior year. Fortified with the broad background provided by their liberal arts and sciences education, two-thirds of the remaining upperclassmen will go beyond their graduate Bachelor of Science degree to do research and work toward a higher degree. The other two out of five students, in spite of enrollment in professional schools, are af- fected by the College as well. Every engineer must study English. Every education major must take psychology. And so on. Every school The small, intimate Western Civ. groups promote a dynamic discussion of ideas.
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The KU library provides more than one million books to aid the student in acquiring knowledge. in the University depends on the College for a liberal background before and during special- ization. The excellent physical facilities, outstand- ing faculty, and creative administration of the College join to provide the best educational materials available to College students. Grad- uates of the College capture a high total of Rhodes, Danforth, Woodrow Wilson fellow- ships and scholarships. A unique honors program offers an accel- erated program for outstanding students. Un- dergraduates participate in special courses geared to their capabilities and also do re- search work in the sciences and humanities under grants from the National Science Foun- dation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Students excelling scholastically in the College are placed on the Dean ' s Honor Roll each semester that they attain a 2.26 grade point average while taking at least 14 credit hours. Both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi have outstanding chapters at KU. Research might easily be the byword in all departments of the College. Two-thirds of all the outside-sponsored research which is done in the University is done in the College. Last year r r5 separate projects sponsored by non-state funds were carried out by College faculty members. These projects were sup- ported at a total of $266,832. An additional r32 projects were supported with state funds; and an unknown number of projects requiring no special equipment or research assistance were carried out by College faculty members as part of their regular jobs. All these proj- ects were executed by a total of 315 faculty members who carried regular teaching loads. Fifty-five students hold recognized under- graduate research assistantships sponsored by Experimentation under carefully regulated laboratory conditions helps students realize how principles were discovered. A ....... ...... ... ........ ........... .. ....... . • • 0 • • 4 I • ..... • • • • • • • • • • .. •.. ................... ....... ....... ...... e• • ..... ............... .............. • ............ .U• • • ... ... • •
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