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The Reporter, September 1976

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  • The Reporter is a publication produced by Western Carolina University featuring news, events, and campus community updates for faculty and staff. The publication began in August of 1970 and continues digitally today. Click on the link in the “Related Mate
  • The Reporter A Weekly Newsletter JLm for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University September 15, 1976 DR. ROBINSON OUTLINES GOALS FOR 1976-77 AT MONDAY'S FACULTY MEETING Chancellor H. F. Robinson expressed his gratitude to members of the faculty for their hard work and achievements during the past year and outlined plans for the future as he welcomed new and returning faculty members at the General Faculty Meet­ing Monday. Special emphasis for the new year, Dr. Robinson said, will go to planning for the future. He pointed out the work that has already gone into preparing for semester conversion next summer, and asked for continued faculty cooperation in the efforts to refine the curriculum and develop material for the new catalog. Next summer will be a short one, he noted. Summer school commencement will be held August 12, with fall semester registration on August 22 and the first day of classes August 24. Final examinations will be held December 12-17, ending the first semester before Christmas. Second semester registration will be held January 9, and the 1978 commencement has been scheduled for May 7. The General Administration of the University of North Carolina has asked Western Carolina to update its long-range plan, the Chancellor said, and we will need to decide what programs and degrees should be included in the new plan and what changes should be made to the existing plan. The University also needs to move ahead on the already-approved program for graduate work in art. The General Administration this year will begin a review by disciplines of the various programs on the 16 campuses of the University system. Education will be the first discipline to be reviewed, the Chancellor said, and Dr. Donald Stedman of UNC will visit WCU the week of November 1 for this purpose. Dr. Robinson said the University welcomes the UNC review, which is intended to make certain that existing programs are current, necessary, fiscally responsible, and comprehensive. We have just completed our first year under the new promotion and tenure document, Dr. Robinson said, and will devote some time during the coming year to refining those procedures. Special emphasis needs to be given to faculty evaluation, to ensure that faculty members are evaluated on the basis of the job they were hired to carry out. The Chancellor also made reference to suggested areas of emphasis for the coming year in the various schools. In education, he noted that the call for "basics" in education is concerned primarily with reading, English grammar, and mathematics. We must inform the public of our excellent programs in those areas, he said, but at the same time we need to take a critical look at these programs to determine whether or not we can improve our teaching and learning processes. The establishment of Western Carolina's new School of Technology and Applied Science gives us a tremendous opportunity to provide a special service to industry and the young people of the state as we develop academic programs in the area of technology. The newly structured School of Nursing and Health Sciences will be concentrating this year on expanding its efforts to meet the needs of the public in serving the health institutions, and in preparing students to meet the state board requirements in areas such as nursing. Among the thrusts within the School of Arts and Sciences will be the creation of a Center of Fine Arts, Dr. Robinson said. The Center will serve as an administrative structure to coordinate the efforts of the departments of music, art, and speech and theatre arts as they seek to place major emphasis on culture and art throughout the region. The Chancellor also noted that Highlands Biological Laboratory, headed by WCU1s Dr. Richard Bruce (Biology), is being brought into the UNC system, giving WCU still another position of influence within the state. New areas for development in the Graduate School include planning toward graduate programs in nursing, home economics, and criminal justice, he said. The Chancellor noted the accomplishments of the AIDP program, and recognized the leadership of Dr. Cliff Lovin, director of AIDP, and Raymond Ledford, Marilyn Jody, Thomas Westcott, and Lawrence Bixby, all associated with the Counseling, Advisement, and Placement (CAP) Center. Dr. Robinson thanked the faculty members for their efforts in counseling and guidance, and noted the need for total faculty cooperation with the CAP Center to make it work most efficiently. He praised Joseph Creech and his group in developing a performance predictor and otherwise upgrading admissions standards, and re-emphasized the need for a provisional admission program at WCU, stressing that it must be implemented without lowering the University's graduation requirements. Other new programs mentioned in the Chancellor's remarks include the Jamaican pro­gram, in which WCU faculty members are preparing a plan for higher education in Jamaica at the request of the Jamaican government, as well as offering master's degree programs to educators in the island nation; the ROTC program, which now anticipates an enroll­ment of some 60 students for its first quarter of operation? and the transfer program, which this fall is bringing in more than 500 new students. Dr. Robinson discussed the construction on campus, and asked for the understanding and cooperation of faculty members in the face of disruption of campus traffic flow because of the projects now under way. The widening of the road between the post office and Dodson Cafeteria is a state highway project, the Chancellor noted, and WCU was not able to control the timing of the project. At the same time that work is going on, he said, the University is placing its telephone lines under ground to permit the removal of the utility poles along that thoroughfare. The Music-English Building work will be a necessary inconvenience,he said, and the parking places lost because of its construction will be restored as much as possible when the building is completed. Additional parking has been created above the University Center, on the road leading to the warehouse. Other construction projects noted by the Chancellor as being in progress include the new science building, which should be occupied in February or March? the pavement of an additional section of parking at the stadium? the installation of lights on the University's intramural fields? the new artificial turf at the stadium? new bleachers in Reid Gymnasium? a recently completed volatile chemical storage building? a proposed addition to Belk Building for the glassblowing program? new campus street lighting? a beautification program behind Hoey and McKee buildings? and connection to the Jack­son County sewer line. While not strictly a construction project, the new FM station is scheduled to go on the air this fall, as soon as the transmitter is received and installed. Dr. Robinson reported that WCU has requested some $13 million in capital improve­ment money for the next biennium, and that the number one priority was $5.25 million for an addition to Hunter Library. Other projects for which funding is being sought are the renovation of Moore Hall, Stillwell Building, Joyner Building, and Hoey Auditorium, and the fourth-floor addition to Killian Building. In the area of faculty salaries in the next budget, the Chancellor said he believed the General Administration would seek raises of ten percent each year for faculty members. He also said that some progress was being made in bringing WCU's faculty salary levels up to par with those at similar institutions within the system. Dr. Robinson introduced a number of new administrative officials. Among them are Dr. James Dooley, new vice chancellor for development and special services, replacing Frank Brown Jr., who retired August 1? Hugh MacDonell, director of fiscal services and acting vice chancellor for business affairs, serving for Doyle Dillard, who has resigned to accept a position at Agnes Scott College? Dr. Betty Siegel, dean of the School of Education and Psychology? Dr. Frank Ganis, dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences? Dr. Walter Thomas, dean of the School of Technology and Applied Science, who will arrive here October 15? and Dr. C. J. Duckenfield, director of the Computer Center. UNIVERSITY WELCOMES NEW FACULTY, STAFF MEMBERS Sixty-two new faculty and staff members have reported to Western Carolina Univer­sity to begin the 1976-77 academic year. They ares SUE F. BARNHARD—Staff Nurse, Graham Infirmary. DR. FREDERICK T. BEAR—Associate Professor, Economics and Finance. m ROBERT N, BLAND—Instructor and Catalog Librarian, Hunter Library. DOUGLAS A. BRIDGES—Intern-Instructor, English. MARGARET BRADBURN—Instructor, Elementary Education. GORDON W. CAMPBELL JR.—Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Music. DOUGLAS H. CANIPE—Assistant Director for Housing Facilities NORMA B. COOK—Instructor, Nursing and Health Sciences. WILLIAM H, COOK—Research Professor, Modern Foreign Languages. DR. MICHAEL A. COSTELLO.—Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology. NORMAN L. CRAPO—Assistant Professor, Biology. DONALD J. DIXON—Resident Director, Harrill Hall. DR. NANCY P. DIXON—Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction. DR. ARTHUR M. DOUGHERTY—Assistant Professor, Administration and School Personnel. DR. CHRISTOPHER J. DUCKENFIELD—Associate Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Computer Center. DEBORAH E. EDWARDS—Programmer Analyst. THEODORE A. EILAND—Lecturer, Speech and Theatre Arts. DR. PLATON G. GAILEY—Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction. DR. FRANK M. GANIS—Professor and Dean, School of Nursing and Health Sciences. JAMES E. GARDNER JR.—Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Music. \ JAMES M. GIFFORD—Lecturer, History. JANE SMITH HALL—Instructor, Home Economics. JO ANN HAYES—Associate Professor, Nursing. LT. COLONEL ROY H. HERRON—Professor and Head, Military Science. CAPTAIN J. STEVE HUNTER--Assistant Professor, Military Science. TIM JACOBS—Program Director, Hinds University Center. JOSEPH J. JANUFKA—Resident Director, Leatherwood Residence Hall. DR. WILLIAM D. KANE JR.—Assistant Professor, Administrative Science. MARK A. KNOTT—Director of Upward Bound. BRENDA KOMODOWSKI—Library Clerk. DIMITRI D. LAZO--Lecturer, History. RICHARD D. LLEWELLYN—Library Assistant. HUGH W. MacDONELL—Director of Fiscal Services. HARRY G. McALUM—Assistant Professor, Accounting and Information Systems. DR. BRIAN J. MARTINE—Instructor, Philosophy and Religion. DR. BOBBY L. MEDFORD—Assistant Professor, Home Economics. JEANNE M. MURPHY—Instructor, Speech and Theatre Arts. DENNIS W. MURRAY—Instructor, Economics and Finance. SAMUEL R. PARKER—Intern-Instructor, English. ALVA B. PORTER—Staff Nurse, Graham Infirmary. JAMES W. ROWELL—Director of Sports Information. DR. VIJAYA K. SAMARAWEERA—-Lecturer, History. DR. KILMAN SHIN—Associate Professor, Economics and Finance. DR. BETTY LENTZ SIEGEL—Professor and Deajt, School of Education and Psychology.> SERGEANT LARRY D. SIMS—Instructor, Military Science. JOHN 8. SIZEMORE—Visiting Artist-in~Residence, Music. CAROL L. SMITH—Assistant Director of Financial Aid. DANIEL K. SOUTHERN—Assistant Professor, Nursing and Health Sciences; Acting Director, Medical Technology Program. DR. FRANK A. SPAGNOLO—Visiting Assistant Professor, Mathematics. PHILLIP J. STEINBAUGH—Guidance Counselor, CAP Center. ALAN G. STORY—Lecturer, Mathematics. DR, LARRY R, STUCKI—Assistant Professor, Sociology and Antrhropology. DR. WALTER E. THOMAS—Professor and Dean, School of Technology and Applied Science. DR. GERALD E. TYNER—Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences. JANE WELLS—Administrative Assistant, Hinds University Center. DR. ROBERT E. WENIG—Associate Professor, Industrial Education and Technology. DR. THOMAS B. WESTCOTT—Assistant Professor, Counseling Coordinator, CAP Center. * P DR. JOHN F. WIGGS—Lecturer, Mathematics. DIANE T. WOOD—Guidance Counselor, CAP Center. JOHN W. WOOLLEY—Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Music. GAIL G, YOUNG—Instructor, Elementary Education. TRehpeo rter <a> tphueb.l ished beklwy of Public. 293-7327.

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