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3.  UKTV SOON WILL REACH 11,000 STUDENTS

     Television as an aid to instruction at the University is rapidly
extending into every classroom building on campus. UKTV currently is
providing 25 to 30 instructional units a week to nearly all of the 14
colleges in the Community College System, plus a catalog of nearly 200
videotaped lectures to the central campus at Lexington. In addition,
a cultural series is made available regularly to the Kentucky Educa-
tional Television Network, which has attained its original goal: total
coverage of the state of Kentucky, making available its programs to
every citizen who owns a TV set. UKTV, in its third year, now is fully
staffed, and its closed-circuit cables have been connected to most of
the major classroom buildings on the campus. When the Medical Center
installation is completed, the system will reach into over 200 class-
rooms which can accommodate over 11,000 potential views simultaneously.
With future cable connections and a mobile unit fitted with broadcast
quality equipment, presentations in Memorial Hall and other large lec-
ture halls on the Lexington campus will be available for immediate
campus distribution, community college distribution, broadcast over the
ETV network or videotape recording for delayed broadcast. Lectures
beamed to campus classrooms include large enrollment classes in poli-
tical science, agriculture and English, and courses in sociology and
engineering mechanics.

     Cultural programs, largely diseminated through the Kentucky ETV
Network, include: "Conversation," a periodic presentation involving
University faculty in informal talks with distinguished visitors to
the area; "Panmed," produced in cooperation with the Medical Center
and the University of Louisville's Schools of Medicine and Dentistry,
and aimed at keeping health professionals informed of developments in
the field; musical programs; drama, and others. UKTV is administered
by the Office of Media Services, directed by Dr. Paul Owen, who also
notes that UKTV provides laboratory facilities for the Department of
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4.  HEW SUPPORTS NURSING CARE CONFERENCES

     College of Nursing faculty and representatives from the College
of Business and Economics and the Department of Sociology conducted
the first in a series of four conferences on "Management for Nursing
Care," September 27-October 1. The conferences, supported through a
short-term grant from the Division of Nursing, Public Health Service
of HEW, was attended by 50 nurses from Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and
Georgia. Purpose of the series is to aid supervisors and head nurses
in upgrading their managerial skills. Second in the series is sched-
uled for late November. Directing the first program was Miss Irma
Bolte, director of continuing education for the College of Nursing.
She was assisted by Dr. William Bryan, director of student services for
the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, and Dr. Loretta Denman, acting
dean, Miss Margaret Doyle, assistant professor, Dr. Eleanor Repp, as-
sistant dean and Dr. Betty Rudnick, professor, of the College of Nursing.
Guest faculty included Dr. E. Grant Youmans, professor of sociology,
and William E. Younk, industrial management specialist of the College
of Business and Economics.