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Western Carolinian Volume 59 Number 22 (21)

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  • 4 Opinion March 17, 1994 Western Carolinian Wall Street Journal article get replies from: Editor's note: The following are letters sent to The Wall Street Journal with copies furnished for print in the Western Carolinian. If you are interested in replying to The WSJ, call(212) 416-2000for instructions. Chancellor Coulter Editor: TonyHorwitz's "Class Struggle" article (February 15) strikes a responsivechord with many academicians, no doubt including thousands even less fortunate than Western Carolina University's young Professor Reynolds considers himself to be. From our viewpoint,Mr. Horwitz mistakenly portrays the situation against an unlikely and uneven contrasting of Colgate University and West- em Carolina. In the very different climates of elitist private universities on the one hand and the public egalitarian campuses on the other, he strives to make specific the nature of his generalized and valid thesis: times are tougher for young academicians than they were for their fathers and mothers. By choosing two institutions of such opposite purpose, role and mission, Mr. Horwitz collapses his case. The true comparison would lie in the different opportunities awaiting young professors at Colgate thirty years ago and those available at Colgate today, on the one hand, and similar comparison at West- em Carolina, where professors today have opportunities not even imagined by predecessor professors of the early '60s. Mr. Horwitz smacks a bit of provincialism in pronouncing Western Carolina University "unheralded." We can live with the implication thatMr. Horwitz had never heard of us before including us in his article, but to generalize his lack of knowledge as though it were a universal condition betrays either a brevity, or total lack, of rudimentary inquiry. Western was scarcely "unheralded" by the American Assembly ofCollegiateSchools of Business when it granted our School of Business unconditional nine-year accreditation "based on the school's effective leadership, an outstanding self-study document, clearly stated goals and objectives, a cluster of professional faculty in each discipline, increasingly higher credentialed students and graduates, a sound curriculum, demonstrated innovative educational activities and excellence in micro computing and library resources." Project Management Institute did not consider the university inadequate when it selected Western as its first accredited site for the first master's degree in project management in the United States. These are but two specific examples of similar laudatory accrediting comments made by such national bodies as the National Medical Record Administration, National League for Nursing, National Environmental Health Association, National Accrediting Association ofClinical Laboratory Sciences, National Emergency Medical Care Association, Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology and numerous other national bodies that scrutinize our academic programs. Indeed, in every academic discipline in which Western Carolina University offers a degree, and for which national accreditation exists, Western Carolina is fully accredited and "heralded." Western Carolina University was, in fact, greatly heralded by the American Association for International Programs in Higher Education in 1993 when our bachelor's degree program for Jamaican teachers was selected as one of the three top programs in the United States. Both through its Center for Improving Mountain Living, its International Academic Programs Office and through the International Center for Private Voluntary Organization/University Collaboration in Development, headquartered here, Western Carolina has conducted social and economic development projects in more than 130 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe. We are a widely recognized university leader in providing technical assistance to Third World nations, transferring the technologies developed by universities of the Appalachian Region to such undertakings as water harvesting and aquaculture work in arid regions of Africa and Asia, reforestation in Nepal and a grassroots natural resource management venture in Burkina Faso. Active faculty and student exchange agreements with Yunnan University in China, the Ministry of Educationin Jamaica, China's Shandong Finance Institute, the Hogeschool Holland Business School and West Braband Business School, both in the Netherlands, the Regional Technical College of Galway, Ireland, the Euro American Institute of Technology in Nice, France, Thailand's Ministry of Education and the University of Swaziland bespeak a campus of vitality, well known in many parts of the earth if not at 200 Liberty Street. While these are evidences of growth and development in more recent decades, Western's gifted child program in the 1950s, first in the nation, was widely heralded by Life Magazine, which in that period also discovered and trumpeted the industrial in- service program we carried on to provide educational opportunities for plant employees on-site in manufacturing concerns, a program that has blossomed into a full-time resident-credit center in Asheville, North Carolina, some sixty miles away. Mr. Horwitz had a good and major thesis which needs expounding in this day and time and with which I take noexception. But even superficial investigation beyond the impressions of a very new and, we thought, contented faculty member would have revealed far more positive information about this 105-year old senior campus of The University of North Carolina than his article suggested. It would ha ve been good to have met and conversed with Mr. Horwitz when he visited our campus. The promise of better days in American Proud Catamount alum Dear Editor, After reading the February 15 issue of the Wall Street Journal, I feel compelled to make a few statements on behalf of my university based on my understanding and candid observations of today's Cullowhee campus. Surely, every faculty member and professor must realize that Western is a committed regional teaching university. West- em does not propose to be a major research university. Western's mission is to develop a community of scholarship and learning. As quoted from the Roll and Mission Statement of the university, "The most important activity at Western Carolina University is student-teacher involvementin learning." Should it be a surprise to anyone that there may be areas of "limited" research equipment and resources? Research and creative activity at a regional university should be encouraged but to the extent of supporting student-teacher interaction and learning. As for Western's "unsophisticated" student body, allow me to offer the following observations. I have had the pleasure of numerous campus visits in the last few years. Ihavewalkedinthebaseballparking lot during homecoming and have been in and out of dorms, cafeterias and other buildings. I have always found Western students to be genuine, amiable and quite socially adept. IknowmanyWestemgradu- ates who are productive, creative, true assets to their communities and still, believeit or not, know on which sides of a plate to place a knife, spoon and fork! Students in Cullowhee should be proud of their value- oriented western North Carolina heritage. I would encourage students to build on what is best about the Southern Appalachian mountains. You need not apologize to anyone! In 1967, I found myself equally prepared, quite often better prepared than many of my "big name" university colleagues, for my post-graduate professional school work. This does not imply that Western should becontent with the "status quo" or "business as usual", but we all must call for and support more teaching positions, better salaries and improved job security and encourage research relative to learning. Such efforts can only build a better and brighter WCU for the future. A proud alum, Dr. Gerald E. Edlin, Lynchburg Virginia Class of '67 Chairman of the Board Please see Coulter pace 6 Dear Editor: The Wall Street Journal has always enjoyed a reputation as a national newspaper of integrity, accuracy and balance. It daily enlivens and enlightens those of us who consider ourselves faithful readers. Thus I must admit I was taken aback to read in the front page article, "Class Struggle" (February 15, 1994), that the fine university, of which I serve as Board Chairman, is just an "unheralded school in the Appalachian Foothills." My fellow trustees, more than 30,000 living graduates, 6,000 currently enrolled students, over 300 highly credentialed faculty members and more than 700 administrative and support staff know Western Carolina University as the senior, westernmost campus of The University of North Carolina. We know it as a comprehensive university "heralded" by national and international associations and learned societies as well as the recipient of many national awards and recognitions. I cannot quarrel with Tony Horwitz' portrayal of young would-be college professors who may face a job market very different from that of their parents. His article does accurately illuminate the fact that academia today is not immune as it once was to the market and economic conditions which affect Americans in all occupations. Mr. Horwitz, of course, knew exactly whathewasdoingwhenhedecided toadd color to accentuate the disparities about which he was writing. Thus, we see the elder and morefortunateProfessorfeynow portrayed "sipping a martini" at Ihesy van campus" of Colgate while dowri *>u in Appalachia we have the younger■ Prot sor Reynolds languishing without his o personal laboratory, eking out an exist ^ on a $32,000-a-year salary, marooned in modest home he bought with help rrorn parents," surrounded by an "a*0?™* cated student body," with access oruy "outdated" equipment and conffon^ "limited fundingforresearch. Inep* ^ that the younger professor wasitre^ fortunate one is perhaps true, now ^ suggest a first year professor isnt plete source of information to aa^ ^ describe Western Carolina University her resources. HorwiB As an experienced writer, Mr. n ^^ knows there are a myriad of ways ^ he could have characterized Western. ^ lina University,a lively intellectua ioe its 105th year, purposely serving an ^ diate region in the mountains otrMo ^ lina, fully accredited by every nati ^ ^ crediting organization related ^.^pfo- demic programs and busily engager ^ ductive research and service not ^ ^ this western region of North Caro ^^ through technical assistanceP^orid Name globe, primarily in Third pactions. These more positive and tri" sUp. teristics, however, would not Please see WooorrM* 6
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