Leeds school of business is decreasing class sizes by encouraging nonbusiness majors to take courses during the summer. Change comes after student satisfaction surveys revealed business graduates were unsatisfied with large class sizes. Enrollment in Leeds has jumped from around 2,700 to 3,600 students in four years.
Leeds school of business is decreasing class sizes by encouraging nonbusiness majors to take courses during the summer. Change comes after student satisfaction surveys revealed business graduates were unsatisfied with large class sizes. Enrollment in Leeds has jumped from around 2,700 to 3,600 students in four years.
Leeds school of business is decreasing class sizes by encouraging nonbusiness majors to take courses during the summer. Change comes after student satisfaction surveys revealed business graduates were unsatisfied with large class sizes. Enrollment in Leeds has jumped from around 2,700 to 3,600 students in four years.
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April 4 - 10, 2006 For the students, by the students. Vol. 55 Issue 11
B-school cuts class size
Maggie McDermott Staff Writer
The Leeds School of Business is
decreasing class sizes by encouraging non- business majors to take courses during the summer. The shift will help the business school reduce the size of its core classes from around 500 students per class to around 250. The change comes after student satisfaction surveys revealed business graduates were unsatisfied with large class sizes. “We would like to increase the quality of school,” said Cathleen Burns, associate dean for programs and senior instructor for accounting. “We have to improve studentsʼ satisfaction.” The demand for smaller class sizes doesnʼt only come from student satisfaction surveys. Burns said the business school is expe- riencing external pressure to change. This pressure comes from Boulder faculty as well as deans from other business schools in Iowa and Wisconsin who recently surveyed the situation in Leeds. “Classes should all be smaller,” said Lindsey Gross, a junior marketing major. She added that larger classes are intimidat- ing, especially as a freshman or sophomore in business core classes. CP Photo/Niall Bouzon Burns said by fall 2006 the school Lori Steward teaches BCOR 1020 in Math 100 on Wednesday, March 22. This introductory class has 408 students enrolled would like to limit enrollment to at least 300 and may be one of the classes to be restructured by the business school. if not 250. She added the situation will be their classes. associate dean for faculty and professor of tunity to incorporate more writing, research closely monitored to ensure satisfaction. “Itʼs the first step in enrollment man- information systems. projects and oral presentations. Enrollment in business classes will be agement,” Burns said. The changes will also increase the qual- “Weʼre eager to have assignments that limited to business majors during normal In the past four years, enrollment in ity of the school, Burns said. She said would really help when they go to work for registration. Business minors and other stu- Leeds has jumped from around 2,700 to smaller classes will allow faculty to meet an employer,” Burns said. dents will only have the opportunity to 3,600 students, according to Ken Kozar, their students. It will also provide the oppor- See CLASS SIZE, page 3 enroll once business majors have chosen
Legislators push to open minority aid to all students
Thomas Ivory ing its diversity on campus, could also be by skin color.” tion. Staff Writer pressured into limiting diversity scholar- The push from legislators is to create a The current federal diversity scholarships ships created for minorities. wider net of diverse students by not limiting help those of color as well as other minorities, U.S. legislators are pressuring colleges “All educational programs are pres- the scholarships solely to those of color. such as those with disabilities or first-genera- across the nation to open minority aid to sured to open up to all students without Scholarships that do focus primarily on tion students. Federally-funded scholarships all possible students, and threatening to cut regard to race or ethnicity,” said Roger ethnicity are created from private donations. are not created based on ethnicity. funding for colleges that do not comply. Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Because these scholarships are private, the Under the Equal Protection Clause, CU, which recently focused on increas- Opportunity. “Students should not be barred funding can be used at the donatorʼs discre- See DIVERSITY, page 4