Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Summer is usually a time for relaxing and taking some time off, but for some eager students it is a time to get ahead of the game and take classes toward graduation.
The question for University of Kansas students is not whether to take summer classes but where to take summer classes.
One option that many students may not consider is the University’s Edwards Campus in Johnson County.
The Edwards Campus is not home to the majority of traditional students. According to the Edwards Campus Web site, 90 percent of the students work full-time, more than half are married and the average age of the students is 32 years old.
In the summer of 2000, the Edwards Campus began a summer program for traditional students looking to take courses they had previously dropped or to speed up their graduation date.
“It was the result of a demand expressed by KU students and students from other colleges who live in the Johnson County and greater Kansas City area who came home for the summer looking for light course work,” said Bob Clark, vice chancellor of the KU Edwards Campus.
Before the program began, the Edwards Campus did not have an undergraduate program. When it noticed demand for one, it began a relationship with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University.
Going into its fifth year, the Edwards Campus summer program, otherwise known as Summer at KU in KC, has been reasonably successful, Clark said.
The first several years the program saw an increase in enrollment, but from last year to this year it is pretty flat, Clark said.
Last summer, students enrolled in 1,673 credit hours at Edwards Campus. This summer the numbers have increased slightly, with students enrolled in 1,712 credit hours. Although it is still an increase, it does not compare to the increase from the first several years, Clark said.
“Our decline in enrollment is due to the fact that we changed from resident to nonresident tuition,” Clark said.
When the summer program began, the tuition rate was the same for residents and nonresidents.
“It was intended for students on both sides of the state line so they wouldn’t have to pay nonresident tuition,” Clark said.
Problems arose when traditional students from the University began attending the Edwards Campus to avoid paying nonresident tuition fees, Clark said. The solution was an increase in tuition rates for nonresident students.
Clark does not expect the program to increase much in the future but said he thought the Edwards Campus was still filling a need for local college students during the summer.
– Edited by Liz Nartowicz
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