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well-known in the community and
have no problem finding teachers.
Persons often have heard about the
program from friends and volunteer to
teach courses, the coordinators said.
KSU free university also advertises in
the campus newspaper and talks to
local clubs to find teachers skilled in
particular areas, according to Maes.
Both professional and nonprofessional
persons teach courses, she said.
About 50 per cent of Heliotrope's
teachers also are professional teachers.
Many have their doctorates, Yodcr
said.
"The only real criteria for teaching
at Heliotrope are an ability to
communicate, a thorough knowledge
of the subject and a lot of
enthusiasm," she said.
Unlike the other free universities,
the three-man Heliotrope staff
interviews all potential teachers before
the course descriptions appear in the
catalog.
"We always have too many
applicants wanting to teach the ISO or
so courses our office feels it can
handle," Yoder said. "Interviewing
them beforehand is a good way of
eliminating the real kooks who often
cancel the courses they planned to
teach at the last minute."
Teachers and students at all three
free universities decide when and
where classes will meet and for how
long.
Teachers offer courses in everything
from bread baking to how to open a
small business, according to the
coordinators. .
Most classes meet an average of
four to 10 weeks, but some meet only
once, they said.
One free university course at KSU,
a dinner club for married couples, met
for over two years, Macs noted.
The KSU free university publishes a
new catalog each fall, spring and
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summer. In addition, a Christmas
catalog is published, which offers
courses for "people who want to make
their gifts and have a non-commercial
holiday," Macs said.
The number of courses offered in
each catalog averages about 200.
Student enrollment at any one time is
about 500.
The Denver Free University, which
offers about 120 courses in each
quarterly catalog, averages about 800
students at one time, Smart said.
"However, Denver is a very
transient community, and enrollment
has varied all the way from 40 to
2,000."
The difference is partially due to
catalog appearance, staff coordination
and weather conditions on registration
days, she said.
In its monthly catalog, He'iotrope
offers about 150 courses, Yoder said.
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