The Reporter, February 1993

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 Materials” field to access recent issues.February 1993 Re™ pN/Vo //emw j /sr f/rr/or^nmn thte FC/nae*c/Mu iltttwy /arunnWd S taff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina Where to go from here? /n far/to on campus, a visiting expert points to possible futures for He said WCU must concentrate on fulfilling its role as a comprehensive university rather than a liberal arts or research institution. The university should focus on the "value of output" in its graduates by stressing career, preprofessional, and interdisciplinary education, as well as computer literacy, speaking, writing, and creative problem solving. "Teach things that will help people become hard-working citizens for the good of the nation," Keller said. Other campus emphases should include continued interest in advancing college teaching and a thorough new program for measuring students' abilities as they enter and exit WCU, in areas from physical fitness to literacy. It could combine efforts of the writing center, reading center, speech and hearing center, and other campus agencies, according to Keller. "You could be the first university in America to take student appraisal seriously and scientifically," he said. Other proposals from the visiting scholar, including some of his "fix-ups," are: • Develop three- and five-year baccalaureate degree programs to "legitimize" varying lengths of stay on campus by students with different needs. • Develop academic programs in geriatric and ecological biosciences, as well as adolescent developmental studies, as demand will rise for graduates in those fields. • Open the university's budgeting process and link it with strategic planning. • Build a fitness center for students and university personnel; keep it open until midnight every day. • Improve signs on campus. • Create or improve campus programs in African- American studies, Cherokee studies, and jazz and other distinctively American music. • Increase the range of the university radio station for use in public relations and public education. • Cut course offerings by 20 percent to allow faculty members more time for scholarship, professional development, and advising students. • Limit the university's international activity. • Renovate the University Center to make it more user-friendly. • Attract outstanding retired professors who still want to teach. Two things create change at colleges and universities, Keller said. "The first is crisis. The other is lust, or the desire to be good. I sense that desire at Western Carolina University, and I think your future is unlimited." Transcripts of Keller's talk are available from the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence. Call 227-7196. - Joey Price Visiting expert Dr. Geo rge Keller talks with WCU administrators on strategic planning. Keller shared his thoughts on WCU's progress since 1987 during a February 5-8 stay in Cullowhee. he tooth fairy is not going to come back," visiting scholar Dr. George Keller told Western Carolina University faculty and administrative staff members at a luncheon presentation this week. He said WCU is trying to do too much with too few financial resources. "You're waiting for the state's economy to get back to normal as you see it, but the state already sees itself as normal," said Keller, senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and national consultant in institutional planning in higher education. Keller, who helped initiate the strategic planning process at WCU in 1987, returned to campus February 5-8 at the invitation of the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence to point to goals or directions the university may consider. Keller told his luncheon audience of about 100 on Monday that, because sluggish economies will continue in North Carolina and elsewhere in the nation, WCU must find every creative means on campus to generate revenue to support the institution. His suggestions include producing books and recordings through the Mountain Heritage Center, popularizing current non-revenue sports such as tennis and cross-country running, making entrepreneurial use of the campus in summer, and developing national teaching workshops through the university's new Institute for College and University Teaching (see related story, last page). Keller also outlined opportunities for growth inherent in WCU's status as a comprehen­sive regional university; listed areas of distinction on which the university could capitalize; and offered "random fix-ups" to improve facilities, instruction, and other programs on campus. News briefs BRING YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT PURCHASE REQUISITIONS to an answer session to be held 9:30- 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, February 16, in the Hospitality Room of the Ramsey Center. Staff members from the Purchasing and Controller's offices will answer the Fifteen most frequently asked questions about preparing requisitions, as well as other questions from participants. In addition, Pur­chasing staff members will provide current information on procurement policies and procedures. A question­naire will solicit participants' com­ments at the session. The workshop is cosponsored by the Division of Continuing Education and Summer School and the WCU Association of Educational Office Personnel. For more information, call Elsie Beaver at 227-7347. IF YOU KNOW WORDPERFECT 5.1 BUT WANT TO KNOW IT BETTER, join staff members from the Computer Center for a four-day seminar next month. The center will offer interme­diate WordPerfect classes 2-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, March 2-5, for users who have taken the beginning class or have worked with the bas ics of the application. A similar seminar for advanced users will take place in May. The intermediate seminar will be held in the School of Business microcom­puter laboratory (Room 320, Forsyth Building). The cost of $10 covers materials. Registration is required by Friday, February 19, at 227-7282. BUY A BOOK FROM THE JACKSON COUNTY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, when the organization holds a small book fair in Sylva on Saturday, February 13. The event will take place 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Jackson County Public Library annex. Many books will be available, as well as some audiovisual materials and a number of magazines. Proceeds will be used t o purchase new books and videos for the library. Donations for the sale will be accepted. For more information, call Donna or Tracy at 586-4497. February 12. 1993 WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Sunday 14 Baseball, Cats vs. UNC-Charlotte. Childress Field, noon. Men's basketball, Cats vs. VMI. RAC, 3 p.m. Women's basketball, Cats vs. Georgia Southern. Statesboro, GA, 1 p.m. 21 Video, Mo Money. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Golf, Cats vs. USC-Aiken, NationsBank Invitational. Cedar Creek Golf Club. Aiken, SC. Church service, sponsored by Organization of Ebony Students. Grandroom, UC, 11 a.m. Baseball, Cats vs. Wright State. Childress Field, 1 p.m. Women's basketball, Cats vs. Marshall. Huntington, WV, 3 p.m. Video/discussion, Malcolm X. Grandroom, UC. 7 p.m. The next issue of the Reporter will be published on Friday, February 26. Items for publication in that issue should reach 1601 Ramsey Center by Wednesday, February 17. Monday 15 Seminars, "Conversations with Women in Business" (through February 19) and "You Are What You Eat: Food, Culture and Behavior" (through February 20). North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Video, Mo Money. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. 22 Video, White Men Can't Jump. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Golf, Cats vs. USC-Aiken, NationsBank Invitational. Cedar Creek Golf Gub. Aiken, SC. Seminar, "I Wanna Hold Your Hands" (through February 26). North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Men's and women's tennis, Cats vs. DeKalb. Atlanta, GA., 2 p.m. Key HFR H.F. Robinson Administration Building Mountain Heritage Center Music Recital Hall Ramsey Activity Center University Center Telephone numbers to call for more informa­tion appear after some listings. MHC MRH RAC UC Tuesday 16 Video, Mo Money. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Workshop, Purchasing Policies and Procedures. Hospitality Room, RAC, 9:30 a.m.-ll:30 a.m. (227-7397). Workshop, "Using SAS on the VAX." Room B-15, Forsyth Building, 2-4 p.m. (227-7282). Women's basketball, Cats vs. South Carolina. Columbia, SC, 7 p.m. Theatre, A Fiddler on the Roof, musical. Hoey Audito­rium, 7:30 p.m. $12 adults, $10 senior citizens, $ 5 students. 23 Video, White Men Can't Jump. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Golf, Cats vs. USC-Aiken, NationsBank Invitational. Cedar Creek Golf Gub. Aiken, SC. Workshop, "Introduction to BITNET, Internet, and FAX." Room B-15, Forsyth Building, 9:30-11:30 a.m. (227-7282). Satellite broadcast, "Multime­dia: How Does it Really Work in the Gassroom?" Cherokee Room, UC, 1-3 p.m. (227-7282 or 227-7341). Round robin faculty exchange begins. Hospitality Room, RAC. 4 p.m. (227-7196). American History Quiz Bowl. UC, 7 p.m. Free. Symphony Band Concert MRH, 8 p.m. Totally Tuesday Comedy Night, with Wanda Sykes. Cherokee Room, UC, 9 p.m. $1 students, $3 others. Free pizza from Pizza Hut. The Reporter February 14-27 Wednesday 17 Video, Mo Money. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. University club, featuring continental breakfast. Faculty lounge, UC, 7 a.m. "Summer Recreation Job Fair *93." Grandroom, UC, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Theatre, A Fiddler on the Roof, musical. Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $12 adults, $10 senior citizens, $5 students. Baseball, Cats vs. Winthrop. Childress Field. 2 p.m. Women's tennis, Cats vs. Mars Hill. Reid Courts, 2:30 p.m. Faculty Senate. Room 104, Killian Building, 3:30-5 p.m. Men's basketball, Cats vs. East Tennessee State. RAC, 7 p.m. 24 Video, White Men Can't Jump. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Baseball, Cats vs. UNC-Asheville. Asheville, NC, 2 p.m. Women's tennis. Cats vs. UNC-Asheville. Asheville, NC, 2:30 p.m. Faculty Senate, Room 104, Killian Building, 3:30-5 p.m. Men's basketball, Cats vs. UNC-Asheville. RAC, 7 p.m. Public talk, "Public Art, Private Views," with Stephen Lockwood (see exhibits box below). Room 104, Belk Building, 7 p.m. Free. Thursday 18 Video, Mo Money. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Demonstration, "Use the MS-DOS 5.0 Shell." Room B-15, Forsyth Building, 11 a.m.-noon (227-7282). Health Sciences Career Day. RAC, 4-7:30 p.m. Skits, "Martin Lawrence" and "Studs." Grandroom, UC, 7 p.m. Free. Theatre, A Fiddler on the Roof, musical. Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $12 adults, $10 senior citizens, $5 students. 25 Video, White Men Can't Jump. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Band night Cherokee Room, UC, 8 p.m. $.50 admission. Friday 19 Video, Mo Money. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Men's and women's indoor track and field, Cats at Southern Conference Championships. Lexington,VA (through February 20). University Club. Riverhouse Restaurant, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Friday night skiing. 4:30 p.m. (227-7206). University Club dinner and theatre. Dinner, Riverhouse Restaurant, 6 p.m.; theatre, Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Seminar, "A Step Back in History," with guest speakers. MHC, 7 p.m. Theatre, A Fiddler on the Roof, musical. Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $12 adults, $10 senior citizens, $5 students. Annual LMP All-Nighter. UC, midnight. $3 students, $5 others (227-7206). 26 Video, White Men Can *t Jump. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Men's and women's tennis, Cats vs. USC-Spartanburg. Spartanburg, SC, 11 a.m. Graduate Council meeting. Room 510, HFR, 11 a.m. Lunchtime talk, with Mable Carlyle, "Teaching in Zambia." Room 218, Killian Building, noon-1 p.m. (227-7337). University club. Riverhouse Restaurant, 4:30-6:30 p.m. Saturday 20 Video, Mo Money. Second floor lounge, UC. Free. Baseball, Cats vs. Wright State. Childress Field, noon. Men's tennis. Cats vs. Lincoln Memorial. Reid courts, 1:30 p.m. African-American Leadership Conference. Forsyth Auditorium, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Theatre, A Fiddler on the Roof, musical. Hoey Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $12 adults, $10 senior citizens, $5 students. Men's basketball, Cats vs UT-C. Chattanooga, TN, 7:30 p.m. Sickle Cell informational benefit, "Just for the Health of It." Old Student Union, 9 p.m. 27 Spring break begins (runs through March 7). Library closed for spring break. Women's basketball, Cats vs. East Tennessee State. RAC, 1 p.m. Men's basketball, Cats vs. Georgia Southern. RAC, 3:30 p.m. Men's tennis, Cats vs. College of Charleston. Charleston, SC, 4 p.m. Exhibits "Consuming the Image," contemporary graphic design (through February 26). Belk Building art gallery, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday (or by appointment, 227-7210). "Migration of the Scotch-Irish People," a permanent exhibit, and "Irons in the Fire," a slide-tape show on mountain blacksmithing; and "A Quiltin'," an exhibit of nineteenth and twentieth-century quilts. MHC, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. "Photography" by Mark Wood. Chelsea Gallery, UC, 8 a.m.-l 1 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.- 11 p.m. weekends, February 9-February 25. "To What Do We Aspire?," a sculptural installment by Stephen Lockwood (through April). Belk Building, 7 p.m.-midnight, Monday-Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. The Reporter February 12, 7993 The Reporter Is published by the Office of Public Information. Mail notices and changes of address to the Reporter, 1601 Ramsey Center. 1,450 copies of this public document were printed at a cost of $108.50, or $0.13 per copy. Western Carolina University Is an Equal Opportunity Institution. Teaching institute to focus first on community colleges Development of seminars and workshops for faculty members at community colleges will be among the first tasks of the new Institute for College and University Teaching on campus. Ben Ward, director of the institute and of the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, will work on community college programs with institute staff members Dr. Scott Higgins, Dr. Terry Nienhuis, and Dr. Mary Ann Nixon. The institute, established last month by the University of North Carolina Board of Gover­nors, is intended to become a resource for higher education in the state, region, and eventu­ally the nation. Programs will include seminars, conferences, and workshops on teaching and learning, with topics tailored to current interests of specific audiences. Currently housed with the Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, the institute will receive funding from WCU, endowments, fees, and grants. Planners seek nominations for research conference Thursday, February 25, is the deadline for nominations of student papers for the university's annual Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference, now in its third year, is scheduled for Thursday, April 1. Nominated papers must be original and well-researched. Papers may be coauthored, as long as the primary author is an undergraduate student while writing. Faculty members making nomina­tions may recommend or require changes in the papers. The conference steering committee will also evaluate each paper for admission. The Undergraduate Research Conference is in its third year at WCU. Seven conference partici­pants have also been invited to present their papers at the National Undergraduate Research Conference in March at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. For more information, call Dr. Gordon Mercer at 227-7475 or Dr. Anne Rogers at 227-7268. Activities • Dr. Susan C. Brown is coeditor of Preface to the Future, a book published by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRS A). In addition, Brown made a presenta­tion entitled "The NIRS A Assessment Document - What It Can Do for You!" at the organization's state workshop in Greensboro in January. In a December issue of the NCAA News, Brown published the results of a study she conducted with a faculty research grant in 1990-91. The study examined hiring trends for top- and entry-level administrators responsible for women's athletics in North Carolina collegiate athletic programs. • Dr. Martin Fischer, Dr. Bill Ogletree, and Dr. David Shapiro (Communication Disorders) made presentations at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, which they attended in San Antonio, Texas, with Yvonne Saddler (Communication Disorders) and three graduate assistants. Fischer presented two instructional laboratories entitled "Advanced HyperCard Applications in Speech-Language- Hearing." Dr. Ogletree presented a poster session entitled "Evaluation of a Severely Multiply Handicapped (SMH) Preschool Team." Dr. Shapiro joined representatives of five other universities to present a miniseminar entitled "Assessing Clinical Competence." • Dr. Otto Spilker (Health, Physical Education, and Recreation) gave presentations on developing skills in physical education with limited equip­ment and large groups at a seminar entitled "Phys­ical Education With a Purpose," held in Winston- Salem. Participants were educators from private and public elementary and secondary schools. Grants and contracts news This column from the Office of Research and Graduate Studies focuses on initiatives, issues, and deadlines in grants and contracts activities. For eleven summers, WCU has hosted the Mountain Area Writing Project (MAWP), which serves K-12 teachers in North Carolina's Eighth Education District. Fifteen teachers enroll in WCU's summer school program to work toward six hours of graduate credit while receiving training and experience in becoming better writers, improving writing instruction, and applying an objective process to the assessment of writing. Using the National Writing Project as a pattern, the institute includes: developing positive teacher attitudes toward writing; examining research on learning to write; viewing writing as a process of communication; and learning to score composi­tions through the Focused Holistic Scoring method. Dr. Jim Addison (English) and Joan Lance of UNC-A are codirectors of the project, which is funded by the State Department of Public Instruction and the National Writing Project (University of California, Berkeley). February 12, 1993 The Reporter Re™ pNMo/eNwt s f#rror/\mm tFCmae/cMu i/l+t%y / arthned SO ft>a ff of Western Carolina University February 26, Cullowhee, North Carolina Looking for a way to get your child to eat right? Just trust the human body, says a WCU professor. The end of the food fight you're struggling to get a young child to eat a proper diet, you may be working too hard. Evidence suggests that children will come near balancing their own diets when allowed to eat foods they choose them­selves, says Dr. Bruce Henderson, professor of psychology. Henderson led a session entitled "Children, Family, and Food" this month at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching as part of a seminar on food, culture, and behavior. Dr. Hal Herzog, professor of psychology, also led a session, entitled "The Psychobiology of Hungry and Full." "There are certain kinds of things we're born to eat. The love of sweets is inborn, for example," Henderson said. But there's a conflict between the development of individual inborn tastes and the process of socialization, which teaches kids they must eat nutritious "adult" food and not only the tasty treats they love. You can cut down on conflict by trusting the unconscious "wisdom of the body," which Henderson says prompts children eventually to eat proper nutrients and a suitable number of calories. Other tips he offered: • Make a variety of foods available to your children, but repeat "new" foods fre­quently. The more often they see a dish, the less weird it will seem to them. • Serve dessert at the same time as the rest of the meal. That way, your children won't necessarily regard sweets as special and preferrable over other foods. WCU one of two high scorers in new teacher-ed reviews Recent accreditation reviews by the State Depart­ment of Public Instruction (SDPI) and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) place Western Carolina's teacher-education programs among the top in the state. Forty-Five North Carolina colleges and universities that prepare teachers were evaluated under new state and NCATE standards. Western Carolina's fifty-two bachelor's, master's, and specialist programs in teacher education met a total of 704 required SDPI standards and thirty-six NCATE standards. The performance made WCU one of only two institutions offering both under­graduate and graduate programs that met all state and national standards. The other institution that met all standards is Meredith College, which offers seventeen programs in teacher education. State and NCATE accreditation for all WCU teacher-education programs was extended until 1997. Campus nursing association is state 'chapter of the year' The Western Carolina University Association of Nursing Students last month received the "Chapter of the Year" award for 1992 from the North Carolina Association of Nursing Student (NCANS). The award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to nursing and NCANS, came at the state association's annual convention in Raleigh, February 4-7. Elizabeth Simmons-Rowland, assistant professor of nursing and adviser to WCU's chapter, attended the convention with eight junior and senior nursing WCU students. Criteria for the award are active participation in NCANS, contributions to community and school, and recruitment and retention in the local chapter. The WCU chapter's activities for 1992 included teaching projects on tuberculosis and dental hygiene at an Asheville homeless shelter; donations of money and textbooks to nursing students in Zambia; a Halloween safety class for second- and third-graders; and blood-pres