University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

Page 19 text:

ABOVE: With an enrollment of 180, Dean Aldon Bell ' s History 11 class meets in the informal atmosphere of the Oliver Hall dining room. area. BELOW: Coffee breaks between classes typify the program ' s focus on both the social and academic sides of student life. 13

Page 18 text:

New Students Cen The threshold of a new century was marked by edu- cational innovation at KU with the initiation of Cen- tennial College, a new venture in undergraduate education. KU is the first to experiment with an actual college within the college, a small living and learn- ing unit for liberal arts underclassmen. The basic goal of Centennial College is to provide a new dimen- sion in University life—the overlapping of social activity and academic endeavor. With the assistance of a three-year grant of $288,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Administrative Committee brought Centennial College out of its long planning stage and into reality. The program itself was the culmination of many hours of work by the student College Intermediary Board, the Faculty Advisory Committee, and the Chancellor ' s Faculty Committee on Objectives for the Second Century. Private support of Centennial College was approved by the Council for Progress which met on the University campus in April of 1966. The Carnegie grant will go toward meeting the $18.6 million three- year goal adopted by the Council for Progress. Pioneering as director of Centennial College was Jerry Lewis, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sharing with him the exciting task of meeting the organization challenge were Kala Mays Stroup, assistant dean of women; John Meyer s, assistant dean of men; and Gilbert Dyck, assistant registrar. Centennial College brought together 450 randomly selected Liberal Arts freshmen who shared the same teachers, advisors and dormitories. Centennial College men occupied three floors of Ellsworth Hall and 225 Centennial. College women moved into new Oliver Hall where office headquarters for Centennial College were established. Students studied together in such classes as history, English, science, speech, anthropology, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, sociology, political science, languages and Western Civilization which were taught by some 25 faculty members who also served as academic advisors for their students. Bouyant spirits and favorable opinion characterized student reaction. In general, the word for Centennial College was great, according to its student partici- pants. More specific comments ranged from enroll- ment was surprisingly easy to the Centennial College really does give an added sense of belonging. Centennial College is not an isolated attempt at educational advancement for the undergraduate; it is part of a master plan. If carried out according to pres- ent expectations, by 1968, all freshmen and sopho- mores in the College will be enrolled in one of the colleges within the College, and perhaps students will at last be able to bid farewell to the frustrating, dis- tant and indifferent world of IBM cards and student numbers which so often exists at the multiuniversity. —Barbara Newsom 1 2

Page 20 text:

Freshman Women ' s Residence Hal Vs Corbin North, First Floor 15 Corbin South, First Floor 15 Corbin North, Fourth Floor 15 Corbin North, Second Floor 15 Corbin South, Second Floor 16 Corbin North, Third Floor 16 Corbin South, Third Floor 16 Corbin South, Fourth Floor 17 Corbin North, Fifth Floor 17 Corbin North, Sixth Floor 17 Corbin North, Seventh Floor 18 Gertrude Sellards Pearson, Crossbar 18 Gertrude Sellards Pearson East, Ground Floor 18 Gertrude Sellards Pearson East, First Floor 19 Gertrude Sellards Pearson West, First Floor 19 Gertrude Sellards Pearson East, Second Floor 19 Gertrude Sellards Pearson West, Second Floor 20 Gertrude Sellards Pearson East, Third Floor 20 Gertrude Sellards Pearson West, Third Floor 20 Gertrude Sellards Pearson East, Fourth Floor 21 Gertrude Sellards Pearson West, Fourth Floor 21 Oliver North, Third Floor 21 Oliver South, Third Floor 22 Oliver North, Fourth Floor 22 Oliver South, Fourth Floor 22 Oliver North, Fifth Floor 23 Oliver South, Fifth Floor 23 Oliver North, Sixth Floor 23 Oliver South, Sixth Floor 24 Oliver North, Seventh Floor 24 Oliver South, Seventh Floor 24 Oliver North, Eighth Floor 25 Oliver South, Eighth Floor 25 Women ' s Scholarship HaIlls Miller . 25 Sellards 26 Watkins 26 Fraterniilies Acacia 26 Alpha Epsilon Pi 27 Alpha Kappa Lambda 27 Alpha Tau Omega 27 Beta Theta Pi 28 Delta Chi 28 Delta Sigma Phi 28 Delta Tau Delta 29 Delta Upsilon 29 Kappa Sigma 29 Lambda Chi Alpha 30 Phi Delta Theta 30 Phi Gamma Delta 30 Phi Kappa Psi 31 Phi Kappa Sigma 31 Phi Kappa Tau 31 Phi Kappa Theta 32 Pi Kappa Alpha 32 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 32 Sigma Chi 33 Sigma Nu 33 Sigma Phi Epsilon 33 Tau Kappa Epsilon 34 Theta Chi 34 Triangle 34 Men ' s Scholarship Halls Battenfeld 35 Jolliffe 35 Pearson 35 36 14