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UK’s Spanish department, only es- astronginlluenee in her program. metallurgical engineering and early '
tablished as a separate department since "Our strength is drawing from other childhood, not found elsewhere.
1967, ranks 18th in the nation accord- departments," she said. "It brings to- At the master’s level, UK uses its un-
ing to a recent study. It is known for its gether two colleges who wouldn’t have dergraduate programs to strengthen its
research and recently john Keller worked together otherwise." graduate levels. The radiological health G
known lor his research on medieval Of the three other universities for science degree, only on the books for O‘
Spanish literature, was knighted by the which she has worked, Pasley said, "I two years, has no graduates to date, but
King of Spain. No more than five of have never worked with a staff as skilled will be an important contributor to the VZ
these honors are granted by Spain in as this one at modeling productive master’s level programs in medical ~ hf
the U.S. each year and it is one of the teaching skills for students." physics and health speciality. hf
highest honors given to a foreigner. In addition to the many degrees of- Donald Sands, UK’s vice chancellor tl?
()l` roughly 300 Sloan Foundation fered only at UK, the University partie- for academic affairs, said, "We’re the S11
Fellowships awarded since 1970, seven ipates in the Academic Common Mar- flagship institution and the only one of- fa
are currently in UK”s math depart- ket, offering 30 degrees not available in fering several programs. During the late th
ment. The total would be nine had not 13 other southern states. sixties and early seventies, there was an
one resigned because of illness and an- Of 50 students involved in the pro- idea that whatever a university suggest- L
other been lured away by the higher gram, which allows out-of¥state students ed the state should try to fulfill it. Other m
pay offered at the University of Mary- to pay in-state tuition, half are attracted institutions tried to move out and ex- N
land. This department was upgraded to UK’s library science program. tend and that’s the cause of much of the ` U
through a million dollar grant from the Debra Buckler, from Virginia, chose state’s duplication.’° P‘
(Jenter for Excellence by the National UK because it had the best tuition and UK is in the process of phasing out P~
Science Foundation in 1969. Since then its 36 hour program was one of the several undergraduate programs, such Pl
it has risen in assessment of research- shortest. After working in the special as enthymology and rural sociology, but
doctorate programs in the U.S. from collections section of the library, she keeping the graduate level degrees. Ol
the "also rans” in 1970 to a clearly es- feels she entered a quality program. "Necessary is the key wOrd," Sands VI
tablishcd front—runner position. Now it Timothy Sineath, chairman of the said. "We offer a lot ofthe same pro- y fc
ties with Texas as the second most im- department, said UK makes a lot of ef- grams as other schools, but that doesn’t I nl
proved department over the previous tort to keep up with the new technology. mean each one of those programs is un-   _
live years, behind only Utah. The department recently had the first necessary,   uf
In addition to programs with a specif- annual phonethon to raise money to "They are not a waste of resources. I tf
ic Iaculty lor each department, interdis- buy microcomputers. The courses make use of existing facul- K
ciplinary programs, which allow one "lt was very successful," he said. ty, but allow students to develop exper- I H
program to draw on the faculty from "We were able to make the difference tise,” he said. SI
maybe 20 different departments, between a quality program and one "Hopefully, the state’s policymakers I n`
strengthen many oI`UK’s degrees. that’s behind. Without the good sup- in tackling the question of duplication, IC
Kay l’asley, chairman of UK’s early port of our alumni, we would have been will remember that UK is not only I h*
childhood department, which is one of up a creek." unique for its master’s level and doctor- IT
20 in the country, relies on the faculty Definitely, UK offers a wide range of ate degrees, but these upper level cours- V‘
of both the (Zollcges of Education and degrees not available at the other state es need a solid foundation, on which to tl
Home lieonoinics. She mentioned universities nor in many other states as build.” d
Mark \\’olery, a member ofthe special well. While most of the duplication tl
education faculty, for his nationally rec- among state univesities occurs at the Ol
ognizcd work with children under the undergraduate level, UK offers degrees, Emib; Morse ’85 wrote this stag; as tz publiaztions ff
age of live in handicapped situations, as such as those in landscape architecture, intern with the UK NationalAlumni Association. I
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