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Phillips handing out 1,100 pink slips BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Phillips Petroleum Co. said Tuesday it will cut an estimated 1,100 jobs by the end ofinne as the energy company tries to save money. The cuts will affect 850 employees and 100 full-time contract personnel in Bartlesville, where the company is based. About 150 employees at the Houston office and several field locations also will be laid off. Employees will be notified of layoffs beginning in early March. The notification will be complete by the end of the month.
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banishes Indian monikers PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) —Indians have disappeared from the sports pages of Oregon's largest newspaper, along with Braves, Redmen and Redskins. The Oregonian has declared the nicknames of those sports teams offensive and will not print them. "We do not expect the rest of the journalistic world to fall into line behind us, nor do we presume that our action will change any team names," Managing Editor Peter Thompson said in a statement. "But we have concluded that we will not be a passive participant in perpetuating racial or cultural stereotypes in our community — whether by the use of nicknames or in any other way."
Trucker charged in sewage dumping
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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) Norman is negotiating with a sewage removal company whose driver allegedly was caught dumping sewage on the ground. Randall Speer, 39, of Oklahoma City was arrested last week. Speer was charged with two misdemeanor counts of discharging sewage without a permit after a Cleveland County Health Department investigation linked him to raw sewage dumped at another location.
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THURSDAY February 20, 1992
Assessments set to begin for students in fall '92 By Pam Thurman Staff Writer Assessment testing set to begin in the fall at the University of Central Oklahoma will benefit both students and teachers, said Karen Maltby, director of Institutional Assessment and Academic Support Services. "Neither the departments nor the students need to be worried," Maltby said. "The assessment program is not geared toward evaluating individual students, but by using assessment activities to measure student's academic progress we are able to determine the effectiveness of the university's programs." The program will be designed to provide feedback to the departments regarding the academic programs they have designed, Maltby said. "It will also give students an idea of how well they are doing, and they can decide what they need to work on for their own personal growth," she said. Eventually students will be assessed four times in their college careers: when they enroll to decide placement in appropriate courses; when they complete general education requirements; before graduation; and one last time to determine a student's satisfaction with the university's programs and services, Maltby said. Maltby said exams for incoming freshmen, and students who have completed general requirements are expected to be ready for the fall semester, but not all students in these categories would be assessed.
66 Students may not recognize the value of their degree until later, or vice versa, students may not discover until later that their education program didn't meet their needs. —Karen Maltby Assessment Director The last test will be given initially at graduation, Maltby said, but she hopes that as the assessment program builds its resources they will be able to assess students three and six years after graduation. "Students may not recognize the value of their degree until later, or vice versa, students may not discover until later that their education program didn't meet their needs," Maltby said. Clyde Jacob, vice president of academic affairs, said the assessment policy was approved by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education in the summer of 1991, and is financed by a $1 per-semester-hour fee that was included in a tuition increase last fall. V
UCO's Reggie Evans drives to the basket. The Broncho basketball team is ranked 19th in the nation this week, the first time UCO has been listed in the NCAA II national poll. See related story page 6.(Photo by Mark Zimmerman)
Faculty senate calls for salary changes Dr. Lon Dehnert questioned the equity of the proposal. He said he was opposed to a professor in one field being paid more than a professor in another area. If a market differential were to become a The University of Central Oklahoma Fareality, an instructor in the business college culty Senate proposed a pay card revision could theoretically be paid more than a full allowing for a market differential at their professor in the music department. monthly meeting last week. According to the current pay card the Instituting a market differential would albase salary for teaching faculty with a maslow the university to offer faculty members ter's degree is $18,000. Seven additional a salary similar to what they could receive in areas exist that administrators use to detertheir field outside an academic environmine a faculty member's total salary, inment, senators said. cluding years experience and hours taught. "The current pay card should be made The faculty senate had published a selfmore flexible concerning the market diffestudy survey that indicated more than 50 rential so the university could be more flexible in attracting new faculty," one senator percent of the UCO faculty believes a market factor should be added to the pay said. card. Dr. Herbert Giles said in some discipHowever, President Bart Binning said it lines, such as the financial arena, UCO canwas a preliminary publication and the full not afford to hire professors with doctorate results would come later. degrees. The survey addressed three other ques"In the past four years we have been tions in addition to the market factor. studying it, we haven't hit on something the According to the results, more than 42 administration would buy, or the regents percent think the university seeks faculty would buy," Giles said. involvement. Almost 40 percent feel the faHowever, Dr. Terry Clark pointed out culty senate is the voice of the faculty, and that if a pay increase wasn't applied across nearly 50 percent believe the senate memthe board, new assistant professors might be bership appropriately represents the univerhired in at a pay rate higher than current full sity community. professors. Binning said approximately 70 percent of The senators added an amendment to the proposal that would give all professors cur- the university's faculty responded to the survey. rently working at the university a pay increase. See Senate, back page
By Sam Powell Staff Writer