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  • June 28, 2000 NEWS WESTERN CAROLINIAN WCU Hosting Legislature School Some 300 students scheduled to attend OPI Some 300 secondary school students will have an opportunity to develop their leadership, critical thinking, and communication skills as they attend the Legislators' School for Youth Leadership Development at Western Carolina University this summer. The two-week residential program for rising eighth- through 11th-graders is administered by WCU's Office for Rural Education. Students will attend one of two sessions ~ June 25-July 8 for students in the eighth and ninth grades and July 9-22 for students in the 10th and 11th grades. During their stay, students participate in leadership skills courses and other courses in personal safety, Appalachian culture, fine arts, computers, outdoor recreation/education and other topics. Community service work and discussions about current issues are important aspects of the program. Students are encouraged to choose one issue to work on when they go back home so they can use their newly acquired leadership skills to make a difference in their home communities. All the students who participate in the WCU program attend schools in the Office for Rural Education's service area, which includes the 49 westernmost counties in North Carolina. The program is funded by the General Assembly. Legislation mandates that 75 percent of the student participants come from rural area: of the state, providing thos students with enrichment o portunities they might not dinarily receive. A similar school operates1 2 East Carolina University. CIS Grad Credits Degree With Success by Jonathan S. Wertheim Contributing Writer Is a degree from WCU worth anything in the marketplace? One recent grad thinks his degree is. "I graduated in Spring 2000, and I'm already working in Web design for a successful company," said former CIS major Seth Wertheim. Now living in Greensboro, the 24-year-old Wertheim has only positive things to say about the university's Computer Information Systems program. Switching his from a business concentration to CIS, Wertheim feels he made the right decision when he changed majors from business to CIS. "Accounting was something I really had to concentrate on and because I was interested in starting my own company I'm glad that I went through the business courses that I did," Wertheim said. He found Web design more attractive, however. Instead of taking a planned year's vacation after graduation, CESS Offers Educators Intensive Graduate Courses During June & uly by Samantha Helms Asst. News Editor Professional educators will have a chance/to earn graduate credit this summer and still have time left to enjoy their vacations as Western Carolina University offers a variety of intensive graduate-level courses ranging in duration/from one to four weeks. Western's Division of Continuing Education and Summer School will offer courses in compressed formats during the months of June and July. The courses, designed for teachers, counselors and other educators, offer three credit hours. "This format had proven to be iery popular," said Oak Winters, /dean of Continuing Education and Summer School. "The intensive courses make the most of a concentrated time frame, so that a person with other responsibilities can earn graduate credit by spending only a weeks out of summer vacation in class. "We've gathered faculty who have experience both in the application of knowledge in a school setting as well as having excellent reputations as scholars," Winters said. Among the faculty will be Ralph Peterson, author of "Life in a Crowded Place: Making a Life in a Community." Tyler Blethen, director of WCU's Mountain Heritage Center and author of several books and monographs on the culture of the Southern Appalachians, will teach a one week course on enhancing student learning using traditional Appalachian crafts. The class is offered July 10-14 at the Mountain Heritage Center on the WCU campus in Cullowhee. "Participants shouldn't expect a typical classroom experience during his course," Blethen said. "We've got a significant number of demonstrators and some of the learning will be hands-on. We also have two field trips planned so participants can experience a different kind of learning situation than the classroom atmosphere." Among the other intensive courses is "Assistive Technology/ Augmentative Communication for Students with Severe Disabilities," July 10-21 at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Tuition for North Carolina residents is $ 110 per credit hour. An application fee of $35 is required of students not currently enrolled at WCU. Housing and food services are available for participants who choose to stay on campus in Cullowhee. For more information, call the Division of Continuing Education and Summer S.chool at (828) 227-7397 or (800) 928-968. Wertheim and some partners started a small company that creates Web pages for clients in North Carolina. At the same time, he applied for jobs all over the United States. "It's a really good thing that we started our own company, because I have so much more respect for my boss and I realize the commitment it takes to run a successful computer business," he stated. "Within the first three days of my employment, I was able to implement a little computer code trick that I learned from a professor and really impressed my boss" Wertheim strongly advises anyone who is undecided about a major or who is thinking of switching, to give the CIS major consideration. 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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 Carolin...

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