THE YISTg Jan. 21, 1982
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Rache's Place is one of the many restored buildings that make up South Park City, (a museum located in) Fairplay, Colo. At one time a saloon, Rachel's was closed down during the Prohibition Era and later re-opened as a candy shop. This
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building was one of many that Carol Davis, director of the museum, showcased when she visited CSU Tuesday. For related story, see page three.
NCA team to revisit campus in November By Kim McConnell First in a series In November, CSU will become a focal point when a North Central Association (NCA) team returns to campus to complete an interim report in response to the major weaknesses cited in their spring, 1979 review. According to this report, it is also the responsibility of this team to "review and designate the time of the next comprehensive evaluation." When the NCA evaluation team visited the campus in they found enough trouble spots to warrant only a five-year extension of accreditation, with the team instructed to return in three years to check campus progress. Accreditation is normally awarded for 10 years. This interim report cited three major weaknesses, according to Anne Lynch, Faculty Senate president, including the lack of faculty participation in government, limitations in selfevaluation and research, and academic leadership faults, particularly in the office of Vice President for Academic Affairs.
"This is to be a focus report, which means it will look at just those three points," Lynch emphasized. "The (Faculty) Senate is concerned with the faculty partipation in government." Although it has been almost 31/2 - years since the NCA team visit, Lynch said she has seen very little overall progress made on her end. "There has been no significant change in faculty organization or responses. We have had a dayto-day operational change, but no structural change," she said. New committees have been added to the list, but several have problems that have not been solved. "Most (existing committees)
were not meeting when the NCA team was here," lynch said. 'Some are pretty active now, but some organizations are not very good." According to Lynch, one committee is chaired by a member of the administration who, as leader of the group, has the power to veto any legislation the group may propose. The chairman also controls appointments to subcommittees. "Faculty cooperation is in a fairly passive position," Lynch said. "If he is not interested, the committee is helpless. Some are not happy with the way the committees are run." Lynch also cited as an example the group` planning for the 80s,"
an organization formed at the State level to deal with state education problems. "We have the people on it. They held one meeting. The committee at the state level is not dynamic," she said. To counterwiegh the bad points, Lynch said that some progress has been made at the faculty level. Members of the reserch councils are now elected rather than appointed. There have also been moves toward the self-evaluation and planning weaknesses by instituting student evaluations as part of the total concept of evaluation. "The student forms are a small part of the full evaluations," she said. "We evaluate the chairmen
of our departments, although not the deans or the vice presidents. We also didn't evaluate the president this year." "We're also proposing the have a full faculty evaluation of the faculty senate," she adeed. Lynch felt that the 1979 NCA evaluation "pretty well" reflected the situation as it then existed. "The people who investigated thought the people at CSU would have no problem solving the weak points, she said. "Three years down the road, we should have a lot to show. We should have a package wrapped with ribbon on it. We have the resources we need to solve every problem they have here.
Personal freedom great shock By Kim MiConnell "The greatest shock to me was the personal freedom. In the streets of Shanghai, they were wearing blue jeans!" said Carl Reherman, mayor of Edmond
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and administrative assistant to President Bill Lillard. Reherman was one of 33 educators from Oklahoma higher education institutions who toured China last semester. The 15-day trip was coordinated through the office of the State Superintendant of Schools, Dr. Leslie Fisher. "A year ago, Chinese delegates came to Oklahoma to look at our education programs with the hope of upgrading their programs. They were looking at our successes and failures," said Reherman. Perhaps the greatest impression China left on Reherman was the sheer number of people. "There are one billion people in China. That's 31/2 - times the size of the U.S.," he said.
"There is little in the way of hostility ," Reherman added. "You don't hear Chinese raise their voices to one another." China is a country trying to emerge from the past and, Reherman said, the U.S. might be able to play an important role in that movement. "They are determined to upgrade their lifestyle. They need the U.S. as a very necessary passport to a more secure future. I would hope to take advantage of that, ' Reherman said. "It is to our best advantage to make friends. They need our technology, we need to invest in manpower that is disciplined." Reherman has several favorable observations about education in China. In Shanghai, for exam-
ple, students in mid-high school, grades six through nine, are required to work at least one hour a day in the school factory. "It creates good work ethics," said Reherman. While China is similar to the U.S. in their academic programs, their Vo-Tech programs are very primitive. Reherman, however, foresees some problems when China becomes more industrialized. "Unless China undergoes a massive fussion, they will have a very difficult time adopting to technology. If there is more technology, there is less need for manpower," he said, adding that Chinese society is left to deal with the "98" people put out of work.