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After teaching for about 32 years, Carol Krueger has been appointed the new director of choral activities at Emporia State.
“I feel like the students really want to reach for the stars, to be the best that they can be,” Krueger said.
Krueger said she enjoys students here and thinks they are willing to work, have great sprit and wonderful attitudes.
“I love working with students who want to be the best (at) their crafts,” Krueger said.
MolliChitwood, senior music education major, said Krueger is open to helping students.
“She is great addition to the music faculty,” Chitwood said.
A.J. Pence, junior music education major, said Krueger is a caring, mother-like professor.
“Sometimes, we call her ‘Mama K’ and she will push you to better you,” Pence said.
Krueger teaches three choirs, A Cappella Choir, Chamber Singers and Community Chorus. She teaches courses on choral conducting and choral methods, and supervises student teachers. She is also working on musicianship skills and vocal techniques. Krueger brings in new ideas in teaching with two new music methodologies,Solfege and Takadimi system.
“(Krueger) has great experience in teaching and brings us new concepts, expending our knowledge of singing,” Chitwood said.
Josh East, senior music education major, said Krueger’s teaching is different than that of Terry Barham, past choral instructor, and she uses Solfege instead of piano for learning music pieces.
“She only nurtures students, but not enables students,” East said. “Krueger is willing to let students to figure stuff on their own to reach their potentials.”
According to Pence, Krueger’s goal of teaching at the end of this year is to get students more independent as singers and musicians.
Krueger is planning and preparing for several events, like theFall Concert on Oct. 7 at the First United Methodist Church, Magical Dinner on Nov. 19 and 20 in Memorial Union Ballroom and theChristmas concert on Dec. 5inAlbert Taylor Hall.
Besides teaching and workshops around universities, Krueger writes. She just finished the 600-page “Progressive Sight Sing,” which came out in June through Oxford University Press.
“Dr. Krueger is famous around states, for her books and workshops, and ESU is extremely lucky to have her,” Pence Said.
Krueger grew up in Green Bay, Wis. She received a bachelor’s degree in music education from University of Wisconsin and her master’s and doctoral degrees in music arts from the University of Miami.
Krueger moved to Emporia last month, and she enjoys riding her bicycle around town to learn about the city.
“The variety of housing is wonderful and I love to see the old homes from the 1800s,” Krueger said.
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State Loan Agencies Ranked By Student Default Rates; Area Institutions Among the Worst at Collections
The Washington Post August 25, 1993 | Mary Jordan Nearly one in six students who borrow money from the government for college fail to repay their loans on time, and agencies in Maryland, Virginia and the District that administer the loans have among the worst collection rates in the country.
This year, unpaid student loans will cost taxpayers $2.5 billion, a figure down significantly from the $3.6 billion loss in 1991.
In a continued tightening of oversight of the loan program, yesterday the Education Department, for the first time, released statistics showing how well state agencies were doing in collecting loans.
The government’s intent is to shed light on these powerful financial institutions and embarrass them into toughening their collection efforts. Two months ago, the department’s inspector general severely criticized some agencies for lax collection efforts.
“They have been kind of in the shadows,” said Nina Winkler, director of the Education Department’s guarantor and lender oversight staff. She said the ranking of state agencies with the worst collection rates will help the federal government focus on which ones need closer scrutiny. in our site citibank student loan
It may “embarrass some” guarantee agencies to do better knowing banks, students and state officials can review their poor performance, said David A. Longanecker, assistant secretary for postsecondary education. Some students get “lost in the system,” he said. “If nobody comes to collect, they don’t volunteer.” Almost every state has a financial institution, called a guarantee agency, that acts as the intermediary between banks and students. Generally, a poor collection rate means higher cost to taxpayers. And if an agency is so poorly managed that it goes broke – as occurred in 1990 in the District – taxpayers are stuck with a multimillion- dollar bailout bill.
In the new ranking, the Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission had the worst default rate. Of the 28,000 students whose loans were handled by that institution, one in three failed to repay on time. here citibank student loan
Nationally, the average default rate was 17.5 percent, or about one in six students.
Virginia Student Assistance Authorities ranked fourth highest, with 28 percent of its students not paying their loans. The Maryland Higher Education Loan Corporation had the ninth worst rate, with 20.9 percent failing to repay on time.
Loans for the District ranked high on the default list but were harder to measure because some D.C. loans are still tied to the Higher Education Assistance Foundation. That agency was criticized for egregious mismanagement and was taken over by the federal government. The Department of Education estimated that the bailout cost taxpayers $30 million.
In addition, many new loans from D.C. students are being handled by a Massachusetts agency, which submitted numbers that were believed inaccurate, Longanecker said.
“I didn’t like seeing that we were fourth,” said Bob Schultze, executive director of the Virginia agency. “My only complaint is how old the data is.” The federal ranking is based on fiscal 1991 numbers, Schultze said. Since then, the state has clamped down on bad loans made to out- of-state vocational schools, Schultze said. Students of vocational schools generally have a high default rate.
Jean Frohlicher, president of the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, which represents the guarantee agencies, questioned how useful the new default rates are.
If a state has a lot of vocational schools or many low-income students, it would be natural to have higher default rates, Frohlicher pointed out. Also, she said, students sometimes refuse to pay their debts.
But Frohlicher said that the ranking does give “a benchmark for the first time” for states with similar student populations and circumstances to compare themselves.
Guarantee agencies had default rates of less than 6 percent in New Hampshire, Delaware, South Carolina, Vermont and South Dakota. Some of those states dealt with few loans: Delaware, for example, had about 2,000. The California Student Aid Commission, with a default rate of 21.2 percent, administered almost 220,000 loans.
In addition to revealing the collection rates of the administrating agencies, the Education Department also released the rates of individual banks and lenders. Citibank Student Loan Center topped the list in loan volume nationally and has a 16.4 percent default rate. Other rates varied, from 1 percent to 88 percent, which was posted by the Student Loan Finance Corp., of Aberdeen, S.D.
Until this year, the focus usually had been on the individual schools. Nine hundred vocational schools were warned this week that their federal aid may be cut off.
At the urging of the new administration, Congress voted last month to phase in a system where the government will lend money directly to students, in hopes of reducing costs and defaults. But for the next 10 years at least, federal officials said, some loans still will be administered through state agencies and private banks.
Mary Jordan