Continuing Education Publications

Permanent URI for this collection

https://hdl.handle.net/1808/21762

Browse

Kansas Revisited: Historical Images and Perspectives
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1990) Stuewe, Paul K.
This volume contains 26 essays by various authors that describe people, times, issues, and places to help us understand Kansas history and its future. It assesses both positive and negative experiences, while covering a surprising amount of the state’s social, political, economic, and cultural history, Topics include the depopulation of the Kansa Indians, the influx of blacks before the Civil War, Eisenhower, Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, and the future of Kansas agriculture and rural communities. Although all footnotes have been removed and some articles are abridged, the full citation for each selection guides readers who wish to read the entire piece. Each chapter has an introduction and concludes with a short bibliography of books and articles for future reading. Numerous photos enhance the text. This collection is designed to help us better understand our cultural diversity and roots and to develop a sense of community and shared responsibility. Kansas is indeed a land of contrast and contradictions.
The Kansas Immigrants II
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1981) University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education; KANU; Watkins, Barbara
The Kansas Immigrants II addresses a number of issues: the efforts of immigrants to assimilate to the larger society while attempting to maintain their own ethnic identity, the occasional violence in the meeting of different cultures in formerly homogeneous communities, and the problem of understanding different family values and lifestyles from one culture to another. It also examines the difficulties in preserving ethnic heritage; the oppression, segregation, and exploitation of ethnic minorities; the contributions of ethnic groups to the arts and cuisine; and the role of the ethnic church or organization in nurturing its members. The first series dealt with immigration to Kansas prior to 1920; the second-year programs dip back in time to pick up a few early topics but concentrate mainly on developments after 1920. Many of the programs feature representative individuals or ethnic communities, for example, Strawberry Hill, a Croatian neighborhood in Kansas City;· Lebanese families in Pittsburg and Wichita; Potawatomi in the Horton area; and Beersheba, a defunct Jewish colony in western Kansas. Many Kansans today are rediscovering their personal and ethnic heritage. In music, art, literature, oral history and genealogy, these individuals are seeking to understand how their heritage has helped shape their lives. This project provides glimpses into the experiences of many of the groups that have peopled this state. Together the fifty-six programs in the two-year series present a comprehensive view of immigration to Kansas.
The Kansas Immigrants: A series of fifty-six articles on the ethnic heritage of Kansas
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1980) University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education; KANU; Watkins, Barbara
Many Kansans today are rediscovering their personal and ethnic heritage. In music, art, literature, oral history and genealogy, these individuals are seeking to understand how their heritage has helped shape their lives. The Kansas Immigrants provides glimpses into the experiences of many of the groups that have settled this state. Together, these articles present a comprehensive view of immigration to the state. The Kansas Immigrants addresses a number of issues: the efforts of immigrants to assimilate to the larger society while attempting to maintain their own ethnic identity, the occasional violence in the meeting of different cultures in formerly homogeneous communities, and the problem of understanding different family values and lifestyles from one culture to another. It also examines the difficulties in preserving ethnic heritage; the oppression, segregation, and exploitation of ethnic minorities; the contributions of ethnic groups to the arts and cuisine; and the role of the ethnic church or organization in nurturing its members.
On Kansas Trails: Traveling with Explorers, Emigrants, and Entrepreneurs
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1990) University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education
On Kansas Trails: Traveling with Explorers, Immigrants, and Entrepreneurs is a 26-part radio/newspaper series. It focuses on routes and travel in Kansas both as a historical and geographical reality and as a metaphor for the settlement and transformation of the state. Drawing on recent research of social historians, travel literature, and anthropological and literary works, this series provides fresh perspectives on the state's history.
University Extension at The University of Kansas during World War II and the Immediate Postwar Years: 1940-1947
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1967) Stockton, Frank T.
The decision of Extension at Kansas to emphasize diversified non-credit·instruction in its adult education program stemmed largely from the successful institutes initiated for bankers and insurance men in 1940. The program was interrupted by World War II and then was resumed soon after the end of that conflict. The changes which occurred in other Extension fields in 1940 were not significant -but the direction taken by Extension classes and conferences led to such a substantial growth in adult education projects as to make 1940 a turning point in Extension history. In 1940, only one eighth of the salaried staff in Extension was found in the Bureau of Extension Classes; in 1947, the Bureau accounted for almost one third of the staff and in 1963 it contained approximately one half. The special problems created by World War II, in themselves, would warrant treatment of the war years as a separate chapter in the history of Extension at Kansas. Two postwar years are included in the present report to bring the account down to the close of the period during which Harold G. Ingham served as director of Extension. In many ways it seems fitting that, after confronting other crises during his long term of office, Mr. Ingham concluded his directorship after guiding his Division through the major crisis posed by total war.
Kansas Revisited: Historical Images and Perspectives
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1998) Stuewe, Paul K.
The second edition of Kansas Revisited is a collection of twenty-nine articles, twenty of which are from the first edition and nine new essays have been added, one of which on the Kansas economy was written especially for this anthology. These essays by various authors describe people, times, issues, and places that help us understand Kansas history and its future. It assesses both positive and negative experiences, while covering a surprising amount of the state’s social, political, economic, and cultural history, Topics include the depopulation of the Kansa Indians, the influx of blacks before the Civil War, Eisenhower, Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, and the future of Kansas agriculture and rural communities . Although all footnotes have been removed and some articles are abridged, the full citation for each selection guides readers who wish to read the entire piece. Each chapter includes an introduction and concludes with a short bibliography of books and articles for future reading. Numerous photos enhance the text. This edition also includes an annotated list of useful websites on Kansas history and culture. Kansas Revisited is designed to help us better understand our cultural diversity and roots and to develop a sense of community and shared responsibility. Kansas is indeed a land of contrast and contradictions.
Making Do and Doing Without: Kansas in the Great Depression
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1983)
Making Do and Doing Without: Kansas in the Great Depression is a 26-part radio/newspaper series that focuses on the lives of Kansans in the Great Depression. During the 1930s, the American Dream became tarnished for many. Numerous individuals deferred their goals, tightened their belts, and learned to cope with everyday adversity. Others experienced personal or economic failures and gave up or left the state. How Kansans confronted these hard times is the theme of this series. The objectives of Making Do have been to assess the effects of the Great Depression and to examine the problems created by the twin calamities of economic depression and drought. We hope that examining the lives of those who lived through the Depression will provide information that will help us better understand our own situation today. The humanities, in particular history and literature, have provided the topics, themes, issues, and research materials for the articles. Music of the 1930s was used to complement the interviews and narrative of the radio version of the series.
Vernacular Architecture Forum: Making Urban and Rural Landscapes on the Prairie Plains
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1996) Domer, Dennis; Swann, Michael
The Kansas Art Reader
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1976) Bell, Jonathan Wesley
The Kansas Art Reader is about a growing place of imagination. Kansas as the growing place shapes the details of our daily lives just as it has the ideas and structure of this book. We stressed this for the cover design, choosing the green of our growing earth-space, and the blue of our sky-space. These spaces and the sense of life they contain are the essentials in Kansas; the painter Robert Sudlow, for example, speaks about them in his conversation with Jani Sherrard, and they are important to almost all our artists-the elemental internalized.
Embattled Lawrence: Conflict and Community
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2001) Domer, Dennis; Watkins, Barbara
If past is prologue, then Lawrence will be a contentious place in the twenty-first century. With abolitionists' fervor from the beginning, leaders of the New England Emigrant Aid Company conceived Lawrence, Kansas, as a line in the sand. Under no circumstance would they permit Kansas to be a slave state. To prevent that from happening, they collected money and people and sent a party of ninety-six like-minded abolitionists to found Lawrence in 1854 as a spearhead for freedom in what would become Bloody Karisas. John Brown, meaning to draw a sword against the evil of slavery, soon followed this idealistic band of crusaders to Lawrence. There he found men such as James H. Lane, who like Brown, would spend the rest of his life wrestling with causes that preoccupied Lawrence. Both Brown and Lane led skirmishes between slavers and free-staters in Lawrence, helping to foment an intense hatred between the combatants that erupted on August 21, 1863.
The Government of Kansas
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2001) Drury, James W.; Stottlemire, Marvin G.
"The Government of Kansas is the comprehensive and authoritative text describing the structures and functions of Kansas state and local government. Written with deep concern for the fundamental and legal bases of political institutions, the text provides students with what many consider the inescapably important grounding in Kansas political history and institutions that is a prerequisite for all informed discussions of public policy issues. I heartily recommend this text-now in its sixth edition-to all students, politicians, citizens, teachers, and administrators interested in Kansas government and public policy."
Cycles of Change: A History of the KU Divison of Continuing Education 1891-1992
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1994) Wilson, Theodore A.
Model Ts, Pep Chapels, and a Wolf at the Door: Kansas Teenagers, 1900-1941
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1994) Holt, Marilyn Irvin
From the Introduction: "The diaries, letters, reminiscences, and memories presented in this publication are themselves a time capsule, preserving for its readers what Kansas teenagers thought and did in the first decades of the twentieth century. The impact of technological and shifting social attitudes in Kansas's post-settlement, post-Victorian decades was recorded, unconsciously, by teenagers. They tell us about their world, and in that telling, we see a reflection of the early twentieth century. It is a view worth considering."
Tribal Governments in Kansas and Their Relations with State and Local Governments
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2003) Sloan, Thomas J.
Teacher Guide for The Government of Kansas
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 2003) Sloan, Thomas J.
The sixth edition of The Government of Kansas offers teachers and students a current review of the types and levels of state government and services available to the state's residents, and a look at the state's history and future.
The Kansas Legislature: Structure and Process
(KU Public Management Center, 1992) Reece, Marshall P.
Many Kansans view the legislative process as a disordered hodgepodge of events that somehow magically results in new rules for our society, enacted as "laws." In reality, however, the legislative process is finely controlled and dictated by law, rules, and tradition. While public policy issues and priorities have changed throughout Kansas' history as a state, the general provisions governing the creation of state laws have remained unaltered.
The Kansas Experience in Poetry
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1978) Leland, Lorrin
Proceedings of the Alumni Reunion
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1994) Downing, David R.
This volume was prepared as part of the celebration to recognize the contributions of the staff, faculty, students, and alumni of the department of Aerospace Engineering on the occasion of the 50th graduating class. Included you will find a brief history of the department, reproductions of presentations given at the 50th celebration, material and photographs from the 50th Anniversary held in Lawrence on-April 15-16, 1994, and a listing of the members of each graduating class from 1944 to 1994. I hope it will faithfully document this special point in the history of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Kansas and will honor the students, faculty, staff and alumni who have been, and are, the KU Aerospace Engineering Department.
The Foundations of American Distance Education: A Century of Collegiate Correspondence Study
(Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1991) Watkins, Barbara L.; Wright, Stephen J.
A century after correspondence study began in the United States, the Independent Study Division of the National Continuing Education Association has launched an ambitious project to record the history, achievements, ideas, issues, and research pertinent to practitioners, faculties, and students in distance education. The publication of The Foundations of American Distance Education: A Century of Collegiate Correspondence Study offers the profession an opportunity to gain a sense of perspective on the past, as well as on the present, that will help prepare to meet future challenges. Within this field, it has been common to cite two periods of historic development, each of which was connected to the publication of a book that had important consequences. The first is Bittner and Mallory's University Teaching by Mail (1933), which describes the origins of the field and the integration of correspondence study into American universities, and the second is Wedemeyer and Childs' New Perspectives in University Correspondence Study (1961), which assesses the incorporation of new technologies. In addition, the two volumes of the Brandenburg Memorial Essays on Correspondence Instruction (1963 and 1966), which were products of a distance education "summit" seminar in the early 1960s, prompted a new professionalism. Correspondence study practitioners began to take a modest pride in their own profession, and to insist upon steadily raising the professional level of their own scholarship and teaching. It is my hope that this new volume will have a similar influence on the profession. The past century of correspondence instruction has been a remarkable period of growth and challenge. Present demands are equally enormous: integration of more sophisticated media in instruction and management, improvement of testing and evaluation, and meeting the educational needs of an increasingly diverse population. In the past century the proliferation of the correspondence study /independent study I distance education movement has generated educational change throughout the world. Today researchers and practitioners bring into the field new concepts, perceptions, and scholarship, as well as new teaching-learning models. The lessons of the past emphasize that much hard work, innovation, and initiative are necessary to keep pace with the challenges of the times. The articles in this volume provide opportunities for reflection, practical information, and guidance for independent study' s second century.
The Eisenhower Era
(Division of Continuing Education, University of Kansas, 1990) Heller, Francis H.
The Eisenhower Era is a twelve-part radio I newspaper series designed to provide fresh perspectives on the Eisenhower presidency and on the mid-century period. This series uses primary-source material, including oral histories and documentary footage from the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-as well as interviews with historians and biographers-to help Americans better understand the influence of the mid-century period on our own era. Many issues that President Eisenhower confronted-for example, national defense, nuclear power, the cost of fighting limited wars, environmental destruction, civil rights, national health insurance, the cold war, the stress of change, the heightening divisions between social classes, and the importance of presidential image-are still with us. The Eisenhower Era has been aired on 30 radio stations and published in 75 newspapers across the state of Kansas. Because of its wide appeal, we have prepared this collection of the series articles as a permanent resource for classroom use and for the pleasure of those individuals who want to know more about our foremost Kansas hero and his role as a national and international leader. Much of the credit for the success of this series goes to two individuals: Francis H. Heller, Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science emeritus at the University of Kansas, and John Katich, University of Kansas assistant professor of radio and television. Professor Heller served as series adviser and helped organize the series contents; he also wrote several articles for The Eisenhower Era. Professor Katich produced the radio version of the series. Scholars who wrote articles for The Eisenhower Era include Burton I. Kaufman, professor of history, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Judith R. Johnson, assistant professor of history, Wichita State University; M. Albert Dimmitt, adjunct professor of history, Penn Valley Community College; Bruce R. Kahler, professor of history, Bethany College; James C. Duram, professor of history, Wichita State University; and Loren E. Pennington, professor of history, Emporia State University. Donna Butler helped edit the articles for the series. Rachel Hunter narrated the radio version of The Eisenhower Era, and Adrienne Rivers-Waribagha assisted with the production of the radio programs. Donna Flory supervised project funds. Malcolm Neelley and Joan Davies provided word-processing and layout services. All of these individuals have contributed significantly to the quality of this series.

Browse

Recent Submissions