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KANSAS UNIVERSITY FIRST-YEAR PHARMACY STUDENT Mary Durham, Olathe, draws a solution from a container as she and other pharmacy students work on an experiment applying various solutions to red blood cells during a medicinal biochemistry lab on Wednesday at the School of Pharmacy. Despite declining enrollment in the university as a whole, the School of Pharmacy added 69 students in 2011.
Engineering, pharmacy schools are bright spots in KU enrollment picture By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com
tion; and Law, which all lost between 5.8 percent and 6.9 percent of their enrollments. Information on KANSAS specific degree program en- UNIVERSITY rollments for the fall won’t be available until late this year or in early 2012, university officials said. Here’s a look at enrollment, by school, on KU’s Lawrence and Edwards campuses.
Pharmacy Architecture, Design and 586 in 2010; 655 in 2011; up Planning 1,078 in 2010; 1,006 in 2011; 69 or 11.8 percent. down 72 or 6.9 percent. Social Welfare 572 in 2010; 589 in 2011; up 17 Law 518 in 2010; 488 in 2011; down or 3 percent. 30 or 5.8 percent. Music 522 in 2010; 527 in 2011; up 5 Journalism 948 in 2010; 921 in 2011; down or 0.9 percent. 27 or 2.8 percent. Liberal Arts and Sciences 15,603 in 2010; 14,849 in Business 1,644 in 2010; 1,640 in 2011; 2011; down 754 or 4.8 perdown 4 or 0.2 percent. cent.
Although Kansas University reported a 2.8 percent decline in its fall enrollment to 28,718 students, some schools reported gains. For example, the School of Pharmacy, on the heels of a major expansion, added 69 students and reached a record high. And KU’s School of Engineering’s undergraduate enrollment reached a 29-year high. Six of the 10 schools on the Lawrence campus, however, lost students. The largest perEducation — Higher education reporter Andy Hyland can be centage enrollment losses came Engineering reached at 832-6388. Follow him at 2,452 in 2010; 2,549 in 2011; up 1,911 in 2010; 1,789 in 2011; in the schools of Architecture, Twitter.com/LJW_KU. down 122 or 6.4 percent. Design and Planning; Educa- 97 or 4 percent.
Clear the way for the carts. A city-appointed task force on Wednesday moved a step closer to making a recommendation that all single-family households in the city be required to have two city-issued, plastic, wheeled refuse carts — one for trash and one for curbside recycling. But the group — which will make its recommendations to the City Commission, which will have the final say on the matter — generally agreed that Cromwell whatever changes are made should be done in phases, in order to give residents time to adjust. “We want the community to be a partner in this effort, not a victim of it,” said Mayor Aron Cromwell, who is chairman of the task force. “That’s the only way this is really going to work.” The task force directed staff members to begin writing a draft chapter of a report that will recommend: !" Residents be required to place all trash in a city-issued plastic cart, rather than using traditional trash cans or bags. If residents had too much trash to fit into the container, they could buy stickers from the city that could be placed on bags that would be placed at the curb. The stickers, the price of which have not been determined, essentially would allow the city to collect more in fees from people who put out large amounts of trash. “I think it would address some of the comments about why are people who set out a grocery-size bag of trash are paying Please see RECYCLING, page 2A
4 Liberty Memorial, Lawrence High alumni to join Hall of Honor By Mark Fagan mfagan@ljworld.com
Two graduates of Liberty Memorial High School and two alumnae of Lawrence High School will be inducted into the schools’ Hall of Honor next month, the Lawrence Lions Alumni Association announced Wednesday. The inductees: ! Gene Burnett, Liberty Memorial class of 1937, who
Burnett Harmony was a longtime Lawrence businessman and philanthropist. He established Midwest Manufacturing, later known
! Judith “Judy” A.K. Harmony, who graduated from Lawrence High in 1961 as Judy Kleinberg. As a biomedical scientist, she has focused on cardiovascular disease and obesity; since retiring as professor of pharmacology and cell Smith Stanwix biophysics at the Univeras Burnett Instrument Co., sity of Cincinnati’s College which manufactured dispos- of Medicine, she has advoable medical instruments. He cated on behalf of girls and died June 15 at age 91. young women.
! Roberta Smith, Lawrence High class of 1965, an art critic for the New York Times and lecturer on contemporary art. ! R. Richard “Dick” Stanwix, Liberty Memorial class of 1949, who worked in the Lawrence Police Department for 35 years, retiring in 1987 after 17 years as chief. He also was an original board member for the Lawrence Girls Fast Pitch Association. Stan-
wix died in 2008 at the age of 77. “It’s a very diverse list,” said Patty Kennedy, vice president of the association, which has more than 39,000 members. “Lawrence High turns out a lot of very welleducated, diverse individuals that have the education and the background to further themselves.” Please see HONOR, page 5A
Job seekers with criminal records getting pushed farther down the ladder This series This is part four in a series exploring various aspects of the local job market.
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, businesses can receive up to a $2,400 Kara Martin, 33, of Lawrence Work Opportunity Tax Credit if they hire someone said she used to get hired on the convicted of a felony in the past year. By Shaun Hittle
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spot when she’d go to job interviews. But following her first felony conviction — for identity theft in July — things have changed. “I have not been able to get my foot past the door,” she said. Now on probation, Martin is for the first time experienc-
ing the struggles for job seekers with criminal backgrounds in today’s highly competitive job market. “I have to check that box,” said Martin of the question on job applications that asks if you’ve
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tasks is getting probationers back to work. But in the current economic climate, that’s becoming more difficult, he said. The tight job market leaves employers with more options, and with plenty of applicants without felony convictions, exoffenders get pushed down the ladder, he said. “Their options are pretty limited,” said Willis, who estimates that about half the 200 people on his case load have jobs.
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Society has an interest in helping ex-offenders get back to work, said Michael Birzer, professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University, as employment is a huge key in preventing re-offending. “Research has pretty much fleshed that out,” Birzer said. “Without the employment, in three or so years they’ll be back” in the criminal justice system. Please see JOBS, page 2A
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