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T4E March 9, 1989 Vol. 87, No. 40
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Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
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Physical plant employees were called on to pull this vehicle out of Monday morning's snow near the Math/Computer Science Building. (Photo by Joe Hartpence)
Faculty to hold colloquim By Kamal Mazlan Staff Writer The Graduate College at Central State University has received 45 proposal papers from the graduate faculty at CSU for its on-campus colloquium on April 5, said Acting Dean Dr. George Avellano. "This is nearly a 50 percent increase over last year when we received less than 30 papers," Avellano said. March 3 was the last day for CSU graduate faculty to submit their papers. The Graduate College at CSU is sponsoring the colloquium for the fifth time since 1985, on the ongoing theme: "To Enrich Scholarship." Avellano said the colloquium is a forum for graduate faculty to discuss their current research and writings with colleagues and a dialogue to examine the creative process of the papers. "This is their final quest for peer review before going national with their scholarly works," Avellano added. Dr. Clyde Jacob, vice president for academic affairs, is scheduled to open the colloquium at 8:30
a.m. on April 5 in the Council Room at University Center. Between 9 a.m. to 12 noon, the colloquium will be divided into three one-hour sessions, with three graduate faculty members in one session, to discuss the 45 papers. The sessions will be held in five rooms at the University Center—Seminole, Chickasha, Choctaw, Cherokee and Senate. A college-wide graduate faculty meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Council Room. The 350-member faculty at CSU meets once a year as a body, Avellano said. The final program will be an organizational meeting of the Human Rights and the Animal Welfare committees at 2:30 p.m. "Each of the committees will draw guidelines for CSU's policy to protect the rights of individuals and animals in research," Avellano said. The committees was set up this semester. Members of the Human Rights Committee are Dr. Paula Smith (from the College of Business), Dr. Peggy Guthrie (Maths and Science), Wanda Johnson (Education) and Dr. Sandra Mayfield, a
faculty senate representative. The Animal Welfare Committee members are Dr. Herbert Giles (College of Business), Dr. Joseph Grzybowski (Math and Science), Dr. Jill Devenport (Education) and faculty senate representative Cynthia Coleman. "We're inviting for the first time about 45 CSU graduate assistants to this year's colloquium. Also, graduate faculty that are participating are encouraged to bring one or two of their outstanding graduate students. "The reasons are to allow the graduate students to be observers of a presentation of their faculty and to create stronger bonds between graduate faculty and graduate students," Avellano said. Avellano said graduate faculty participation in the colloquium at CSU "has been growing and it is still growing." All the papers will be published in "Proceedings of the Graduate College Colloquium-1989" and will be made available at the Max Chambers Library, Avellano said.
This is the second of a two-part series regarding the Senate Faculty proposal requiring published research from graduate faculty. The first part covered the wording and status of the proposal, and some of the faculty opinions. The second part picks up with Dr. Kenneth Elsner, dean of the College of Education, expressing concern over required research for graduate faculty. By Larry Floyd Copy Editor Elsner said some national studies show that at comprehensive universities, such as OSU and OU, research draws teachers away from the classrooms. He said he saw this happen when he was in graduate school. Other scholarly activities and community service can be even more important than research and should be given equal importance to graduate faculty status, he said. Elsner said he would vote against any research publication requirements for graduate faculty at this time. "We ought to do a little more study before we pass that," he said. Dr. Kay Owens is dean of the College of Math and Science, the college that conducts the most research at CSU. Owens said she supports an increased emphasis on research, but she doesn't see funds available to pay for the adjunct staff needed to cover the reduced graduate faculty teaching load. "The reality of it is that it won't work," she said. Owens also said a requirement of research alone may be too restrictive of the kinds of activities in which graduate faculty should participate. "I think more than published research must be considered," Owens said. Dr. Joe Kinzer, dean of the College of Business, said of the published research requirement, "The intention is honorable and good. But when you place that publishing requirement on faculty, you see the teaching effectiveness go down." Kinzer said other scholarly ac-
tivities besides research are important for graduate faculty, and he would support an increased emphasis on these if the resources for additional faculty was available to cover the reduced teaching loads. President Bill Lillard said he is supportive of research for faculty who want to get involved with it, but he considers scholarly activities and community service by faculty equally as important. He also said budgetary constraints must be considered with any requirements that would result in a reduced teaching load. Lillard would not say whether he would support a proposal requiring published research from graduate faculty. "It would not be appropriate for me to comment before the proposal has been passed by the senate," he said.
"The intention is honorable and good. But when you place that publishing requirement on faculty, you see the teaching effectiveness go down." Due to a lenghty illness, Jack Annis, president of the Board of Regents for Oklahoma Colleges was not available for comment on research requirements at CSU. Regent Linda Grantham, a past president of the board, said the board has had no recent discussion about a research requirement at CSU and would make no policy statement until a proposal was made to the regents. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education largely determine the direction of higher education in the state and determine how research funds are Please see Research on page 8.
Adults return to college for personal needs By Glenda Sides Student Writer Adults return to college when the time is right or the personal need is great enough to warrant the return. Factors involved in the return are job skills, personal growth, earning power and a need to make a change in personal lifestyle. Non-traditional student is a term attached to adults who return to college after a period of non-academic life.
Darrell Gilliland, director of admissions and records at CSU, prefers to call this type of student the "mature student." "Our population is so diverse, we have more of a general student with age, experience and background," Gilliland said. The "headcount" of CSU students registered for fall 1988 was 14,378. Of these students, 46 percent are over 25 years old, 28 percent are between 21-25, and 26 percent are under 21.
CSU is also a metro university which attracts students who have attended junior college and housewives of those who have transferred to the Oklahoma City area. Gilliland gave these as reasons for CSU's large number of "mature students." "At one time CSU considered doing a program devoted to the non-traditional student," Gilliland said. The problem of organizing this type of program, was that non-
traditional students had other committments diversified to the point that to meet at a given time was not possible, he said. David Park is a full-time junior advertising major who returned to college after 16 years working in sales and free-lance writing. "I felt the opportunities in the `real world' I wanted to explore could only be accessed through the holding of a degree," Park said. Park is willing to invest his time
and money in order to attain his goal. "The time investment goes with the territory. A person will only get out what is put in. The answer lies not in measurement by dollars so much as, what will be the price if I don't," Park said. Millinda Donahue returned to college after 10 years working in sales. She is now a full-time student at CSU, majoring in public Please see College on page 8.