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News WESTERN CAROLINIAN July 26, 1984 WCU Education Programs Accredited WASHINGTON-The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education has voted to grant accreditation to all 15 programs submitted by Western Carolina University's School of Education and Psychology, including five new accreditations and 10 reaccreditations. Western's Chancellor H.F. Robinson and Dr. Ciurney E. Chambers, dean of the WCU school of Education and Psychology, were notified of the accreditation following NCATE's recent meeting in Chicago, 111. The accreditation was granted for a period of seven years, through September I. 1991. Programs at WCU receiving initial accreditation are: --The Education Specialist Degree programs in early childhool education, in elementary teaching, and in counseling; -and the Master of Arts in Education Degree programs in educational communications an il information technologies, and in reading. The reaccredited programs are: --early childhood education; elementary teaching; secondary teaching; special education; and K. through 12 teaching; all at the bachelor's and master's levels; -school principalship and counseling, both at the master's level; --supervision curriculum and school psychology, both at the master's and specialist level; —and the superinten- dency at the specialist level. The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education is the only national accrediting agency that is recognised by both the U.S. Department of Education and the independent Council on Postsecondary Accreditation. Western's teacher education programs have been accredited by the organization since NCATE was formed in 1954. The N( an accreditation certifies that programs have been independently evaluated, found to meet standards of quality, and are appropriate for the preparation of educators. Standards for NCATE have been applied with increasing rigor. In 1973, fewer than 10 percent ol the institutions applying for accreditation were denied. During the last three years that figure increased to an average denial rate ol more than 25 percent. "The entire process is quite thorough," Chambers said. "From the self-study, through the external evaluation and the review process, it is evident that NCA I E seeks to certify only programs that are of the proper quality and are deserv ingot public trust and support. "Our people work veiv hard to provide worthy programs and it is veiv pleasing to be rewarded with this type of professional recognition." Chambers said. Western began the NCATE accreditation process in January 1983. The extensive self-study, which included six volumes, was completed in January 1984 Dr. Mil Clark, associate dean of the WCU school, directed the self- study. last March an N( All team, chaired by Dr I enore K. Bierbaum of Southeast Missouri State University and comprised ol educators from (ieorgia. Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, tenncssee, and Virginia, visited WCU for a three-day on-campus evaluation. Members of the executive steering committee for the self-study were Chambers, Clark, Ann Hooper, Judy Stillion, and Barbara Salisbury. Steering committee members were John Bell, Dick Berne, Guy Berchfiel, Jerry Cook, Wilma Cosper, Larry Grantham, Aaron Hyatt, Bill Kirwan, Eleanor I olquist, John McCreary, Gene McDowell, Bob Ray, I om 1 via and Ralph Willis. Camper College Offers Visitors More CULLOWHEE-West- ern Carolina University's Camper Collage will offer courses on plants, river camping and history the weekend of July 27-30. Camper College, in its seventh season this summer. is an effort by the WCU Continuing Education Division to give visitors and vacationers to Western For your pharmaceutical needs: School Supplies Ambassador Cards Gifts Pangburn and Pennsylvania Dutch Candies Cosmetics Child Welfare is Important to Social Work Department A11 for your convenience Cullowhee in Film and Film Developing At Cullowhee Drugs and Gifts CULLOWHEE-Wil- burn Hayden Jr.. head of Western Carolina University's department of social work, has received a $1,500 grant from the Appalachian Studies Conference to complete a 100-piece photograph exhibit and a slide-tape program on blacks in Appalachia. The grant will allow Hayden to have the black- and-white photographs framed. He plans to return this summer to Wise County, Va., where the photographs were taken and interviews were conducted in 1974, for a 10-year update. Hayden and his brother, Ronald Hayden, a Greensboro businessman, will take current photographs and tape interviews to augment the collection they started as an oral history project. Both the photograph collection and the color- slide presentation should be completed by fall. They will be distributed to libraries, schools and galleries throughout the region in 1985 and 1986 by the Appalachian Consortium. North Carolina something more significant than tourist-shop souvenirs to take home. Storyteller Mary Chiltoskey will teach a class on "Plants in Cherokee Legends and Lore" July 27 and 28. Cost is $29. "River Camping," an overnight trip for youths ages 10-13 will be led July 28 and 29 by Doug Woodward of Headwaters, an outfitting organization specializing in outdoor adventure skills. Participants will raft on a mountain river and camp on a wooded island. The $96 cost covers guides, instruction, camp and river equipment, four meals and transportation. "History of the Smokies" is an overnight backpacking adventure for all ages July 28-30. Guides from Nantahala Outdoor Center will take participants along Hazel Creek to Horace Kephart's cabin, an old copper mine and vanished lumber towns. Discussions of economic and sociological changes in the mountain area will be held. Meals and equipment are provided at a $159 cost. An extra discount is available for families. The course will be offered again Aug. 11-13. Headquarters for Camper College is at WCU's Cherokee Center on Acquoni Road on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, where registration is being held. For more information, call the WCU Continuing Education Division at (704) 227-7397. A non-refundable $15 deposit is required for registration University Media Center Monday through Friday. weekend, NO LATER Summer operating hours, Please make arrange- THAN ^ pRI Hunter Library Building: ments to pick up equipment 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, or materials for use over DAYS. "Round and Round the Garden" Ends Season WCU Teachers Take Part in Exchange ern CULLOWHEE-Stu- dent exchange programs between the United States and other nations have been going on for years, but this summer Western Carolina University is participating in a different kind of international switcheroo: a teacher exchange program. Four teachers from Northern Ireland arrived in Cullowhee July 4 for a visit through July 16. Later this month, two teachers from Western North Carolina public schools and two WCU faculty members will fly to Ulster for a stay. The Irish teachers- Heather Hunter, Dympna McNamee and Neil McGuigan all of Tyrone, and Daphne McCullagh of County Fermanagh—will have visited the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Cherokee Indian Reservation, Fontana Village, the Highlands Biological Station, the Folk Art Center, area schools and the Foxfire project in northern Georgia during their stay. While in North Carolina, the Irish teachers are staying with Sandy Puckett, a teacher in the Jackson County School system, JoAnn H. Jones, and English teacher at Franklin High School, and Dr. Curtis Wood Jr. and Dr. Tyler Blethen, members of the WCU history department faculty. Puckett and Ms. Jones will visit Northern Ireland July 22 through Aug. 5 as part of the teacher exchange program. Wood and Blethen will travel to the New University of Ulster at Coleraine for the fifth Ulster-American Symposium July 30 through Aug. 4. Wood and Blethen have done extensive research on the migration of the Scotch-Irish from Ulster to Pennsylvania, the Shenandoah Valley, Piedmont North Carolina and the mountains of TffE WELL MDUSE SANDWICH EMPORIUM Hot Deli Sandwiches Riverwood Shops, Dillsboro, NC Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat. 586-8588 Western North Carolina The research culminated last year in a traveling exhibition financed in part by a $36,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The exhibition is on display through Aug. 3 in the WCU Mountain Heritage Center. Dr. Richard C. Berne, an associate professor of science education at Western who is helping to coordinate the teacher exchange, said the international teaching swap came about because of liaisons made at the 1982 Ulster- American Heritage Symposium held on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone. The Symposium will be held at Western Carolina University in 1986. Although the four Irish teachers and two Western North Carolina teachers are paying part of their own ways, the bulk of their transportation and other costs are being paid by the sponsors of the teaching exchange program, the WCU Center for Environmental, Energy Education and Nanatahala Power & Light Co. CULLOWHEE-West- Carolina University's summer theatre season will close with the rollicking, high-spirited comedy, "Round and Round the Garden." to be performed Tuesday-Thursday, July 24- 26, in the Little Theatre of Stillwell Building at WCU. Curtain time is 8 p.m. "Round and Round the Garden" is the third in a trilogy, "The Norman Conquests," by contemporary British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. Western's speech and theatre arts Ruth; Kate Marshall of Montreat, Annie; Mary Anna McElmurray of Hendersonville, Sarah; R och Smith Jr. of Greensboro, Reg; and Terry Nienhuis of Cullowhee, Tom. Director is James Epperson, WCU associate professor of speech and theatre arts, and set designer is Chuck Arney. Tickets are $4 for adults, $3 for students and senior citizens and* $2 for children. Reservations may be made by calling the department of speech and theatre arts at (704) 227- 7365. Professor Hayden Receives Grant CULLOWHEE-The U.S. Department of Health department produced the and Human Services has first play, "Table Manners," awarded $14,000 to the during the 1978-79 season, and the second. "Living Together," during the 1982 summer season. "Round and Round the Garden," a comedy based on seduction, features the r'afish assistant librarian, Norman, and his romantic entanglements with his wife and two sisters-in-law. Norman's plans for a weekend tryst with his wife's sister, Annie, are discovered by his wife. Ruth, another sister-in-law, Sarah, his brother-in-law. Reg. and a neighbor. Tom. They all spend the weekend together, flirting and at each other's throats, in an English country home. Howard Allman of Webster plays Norman; Betsy Bisson of Cullowhee, Western Carolina University social work department to help train students specializing in child welfare in practical, hands-on situations. The Office of Human Development Services Child Welfare Traineeship grant will be distributed in the form of stipends to students working in child welfare agencies as part of the field instruction sequence of their curriculum. To receive a stipend, a student must be placed in an agency serving children and their families, must intend on pursuing a career in child welfare and must participate in specialized training during the field placement. The specialized placement agencies include the Jackson County Department of Social Services, the Southwestern Child Development Commission, the Macon Program for Progress, Headstart, the 30th Judicial District Juvenile Court Counseling Services, the Juvenile Evaluation Center, the Developmental Evaluation Center, Hawthorn Heights and Cherokee Child and Family Services. "With the receipt of this grant, it is anticipated that the region will have more highly qualified social workers available for employment in the area of child welfare," said Virginia Sweet, assistant professor of social work at WCU. SYLVA MUFFLER SHOP has moved from Sylva to Cabes 441 Amoco 2 miles south of 116 on Hwy. 23 NC Inspection Station muffler, tailpipe, Prake welding, mechanical work 24-Hour wrecker service

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Date original: 1984-07-26
  • Date digitized: 2019-02-19
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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