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  • Thursday, February 2,1967 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN PageS Interviews For U. Status Continued Dr. Floyd Cunningham, head of the Department of Business, was asked the question, "How has the study of university status touched your department?" He answered in the following manner: "The Board of Trustees approved the reorganization of the Collge into separate schools, rather than the now existing departments. The present Business Department is one of these proposed schools. President Reid appointed a committee to implement this acitivation of schools." I questioned him about when the School of Business would be in effect. He answered that it would be up to the Committee to label the correct time for this advance, but added, "I would hope that the School of Business would be ready for such a move by the Fall of 1968." Dr Cunningham and I then moved into a more specific area concerning the building in which the School of Business would be housed. (The new housing for "the School" should be ready for use in the fall of 1968.) He had this to say about the present state the Department is in: "As you are well aware, our current existing facilities are woefully inadequate. The new building will certainly give us the needed physical facilities (office space, laboratories, conference space, classrooms, etc.) This gross inadequacy will definately be corrected." He also commented on the areas of academic expansion by saying that accounting, economics, and marketing will be dealt with heavily. The fact that the Business Department is seeking accreditation by the American Association of the Schools of Business, was of great interest to me. Dr. Cunningham said, "I am going to ask for an evaluation to be made by this association in 1968," and added that, "their requirements are much more stringent for admission than the Southern Association of Schools and Colleges is for accrediting colleges with university status." He said also that they, the AASB, require a full-time attorney on the teaching staff, which he hopes to attain by this fall. DR. KILLIAN Dr. C. D. Killian, Head of the Department of Education, stated, "University status has not spurred my department too awful much in its growth. For the past two years, we have developed a one-year degree program in General Experimental Psychology, and a two- year Master's Degree program in Clinical and School Psychology. The Board has already approved this, and we hope it will be iniated in the fall of 1968." As in the case of the Department of Business, the Departments of Education and Psychology will have a new building which is now under construction, and is to be finished in the fall of 1967, We also discussed the addition to this building. Dr, Killian said, "There will be an addition to this building in the form of an annex financed mainly by federal funds which should go under contract shortly. This annex will consist of two units. One unit will be a Mental Retardation Center which will house the present Developmental Evaluation Clinic (which will be expanded), and a Learning Disorder Clinic, The other unit will house the present Mental Health Center, which will be expanded to meet federal standards. These programs will serve the region and the college. They will also serve as a loboratory for various paramedical and medically-allied training programs." Dr, Killian also disclosed that $50,000 has already been appropriated for a closed- circuit television system to be installed in this building and an additional $50,000 has been asked for—for the same purpose. $50,000 has also been appropriated for increased audiovisual development The total cost of this new education and psychology building was quoted at approximately $1,400,000. DR. CRUM Dr. Mabel Crum, Head of the Department of English, expressed a concern for the English Department's being massed into the proposed School of Liberal Arts, This concern was based on her fear that appropriations would not be sufficient enough to expand the department as fast as some of the other departments, or schools, are to be expanded. From our conversation, Dr. Crum seemed to expound with bubbling excitement at the potential of the Department of English. She forecasts that within ten to fifteen years, this area will offer at least five majors with the additional staff and facilities she expects. The next topic discussed with these faculty members was the staff under their jurisdiction. Dr. Killian stated that the Education Department has 30 Phd.'s at this time, and he seems to be pretty proud of them: "In the past ten years, we've done more in educational research, and more to influence education By PHIL SHOOK in this state, than any other school in the state." He did not stop here, His last comment was. .. "We are as well prepared to offer the Doctor's Degree in Education as any school in the state—BAR NONE." Ph.D.'s NEEDED Dr. Cunningham: "At the present time we have six out of 20 full-time doctorates degrees within our Business Department staff now. I have al ready signed another for the coming fall term. He specializes in the field of public fi nance. "For university status, the Southern Association requires 30% for an institute's staff to have Doctor's Degrees, My goal is 50% for this department, and I hope to double the present number by the fall of 1968," He added, "It should be remembered that a doctorate is not the sole criterion used for judging a good professor," Dr, Crum stated that, "The primary problem in attaining necessary staff is the financial aspect." Dr. Cunningham had an interesting point to make concerning reorganization, "Our present organization, i.e. department, rather than schools, offers a horizontal structure with a broad span of control. For instance, take the Dean of the College. At present, he has ten department heads answering to him. While at the same time, our administration has generally acknowledged the fact that an administrator should not have more than four or five men answering to him. When organizational developments come about, or to be more specific, when departments are reorganized into schools, the Dean will have only these four or five deans of the schools answering to him. This, in turn, will decrease the horizontal span of control and transform it into a more vertical span, which is more desirable. It will enable everyone to do a much better job, and a more effective on. (NOTE: This is not to be misconstrued to mean that the dean or any other responsible person, is not doing a competent job.) Also, concerning organization, Dr. Dodson compared our state, and its colleges that have reorganized academically, to our state and Western, "The trend followed by other schools is to develop from various departments, then to divisions, then on to schools, and finally to various colleges within the university. We have grown to such an extent that we will bypass the division step, and advance on to the next one, that of schools. Our academic organization is set up for 400 to 400 students." To illustrate this point, he stated that, "When I was at Mississippi State Teacher's College in the years 1924-27, their academic organization was exactly then as ours is now. We have sort of dragged our feet along those lines." He went further to comment: 'I think that we should have four schools. However, that doesn't make that much difference because every school has to develop as lt is individually geared to do so." On the subject of separate status, Dr, Dodson said, "Separate status is bound to come sooner or later, North Carolina's system is patterned after California's where there is one university and branches throughout the state. Right now, that state is in the midst of a turmoil over the matter." Editor's Note: Next Tuesday, space permitting, this series will be wound up with its finale. That is the summation of the interviews with our administration. I think that you will find this extremely interesting and factual because lt goes into this matter with depth and facts that have been heretofore un- mentioned. The oldest human community known has been discovered in Italy. Kcologists have discovered the remains of a house built at least 200,000 years ago, considerably before the 'last ice age.' This is 50,000 years earlier than the oldest human dwelling previously discovered. 1967 Readers' Digest Almanac Diseases of the heart and circulatory system were the greatest single cause of death among Americans in 1965. Newly installed officers of Theta Xi Fraternity are front row, left to right: Randall George, Corresponding secretary; Jake Terry, Vice-Pres., Tommy Howell, Historian; and John McClure, Scholarship Chairman. Second row, left to right: Tim Atkins, Sergeant at Arms; Doug Yeargen, Trea surer; Vern Ellis, Pres.; and Rick Hutcherson, Pledgemas- ter. Not pictured is John Tate, Social Chairman. SPRING FASHIONS Spring & Summer treats - niceties very much in demand, which is not uncommon for John Meyer and his creations. Any co-ed will glisten as a swan on a picturesque lake adorned n these stylish fashions. Muted and fresh mountain-flower colorings that meld and match with infinite precision. Taste, shown here by Miss Linda Davis, a sophomore from High Point, is the password to fashion this spring. This dress/suit is an outstanding example of John Meyer's Spring Creations. It consists of a matching A-line Skimmer style dress and round collar jacket Also there is an optional matching skirt if you like the more popular skirt/jacket suit Linda Is looking through the new selection of records the V.S. has just received. Sfyr Varsity &tjop Traditional Clothing for The Gentleman It His L ady I wssssssss
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