TIIREJIE March 30, 1982
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Vol. 80, No. 47
Despite national trends, FTE increase reported
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Despite downward national university trends, CSU showed an increase in Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) enrollment this spring, the only one of the six regional universities to do so. In a report presented to President Bill Lillard by Dr. Keith Allen, executive secretary for the Regents of Oklahoma Colleges, the university also recorded an increase in FTE for the year. FTE enrollment, based on a 15 credit-hour figure for undergraduates and 12 credithours for graduate students, was up three tenths of one percent at CSU, but was down by 2.4 percent among the six regional universities. At Southwestern, FTE was down 5.8 percent; down 4.3 percent at East Central; down 3.8 percent at Northeastern; down 1.6 percent at Northwestern and down 1.2 percent at Southeastern. Full-year FTE, including fall 1981 and spring 1982, recorded an increase of 1.1 percent, while the overall university average was down by 1 .4 percent. Southeastern University, Durant, was the only other university to
report an increase 1.4 percent. Southwestern recorded a drop of 4.2 percent; Northeastern, 3.3 percent drop; Northwestern 2.7 percent decrease and East Central minus 2.5 percent. In headcounts, which represent student totals, not class hours taken, CSU was down 1 percent for the spring semester. Overall, the universities averaged a 2.5 percent drop, with East Central recording a drop of .9 percent; Northeastern minus 6.7 percent, Southwestern, minus 4.2 percent and Southwestern, minus 1.7 percent. Northwestern was the only university to report an increase, with 21 more students and a total of 1.641, bringing the increase to 1.3 percent. CSU's totals were 7,545 fulltime FTE students for the spring term, with spring headcounts at 10,710. Full-year FTE statistics indicated an enrollment of 8,868 in 1981-82. Northeastern University reported the next largest figures, with a spring FTE of 4,324, a headcount of 5,159 and full-year FTE of 5,112.
Vista photo by Harry Tonemah
Joe Bointy, CSU senior, demonstrates the Fancy War Dance to 800 Edmond elementary children Monday in the ballroom of the University Center. The dancing demonstration was one of the many activities planned for Indian Heritage Week, March 29 through April 3. See page six for a complete list of the Indian Week activities.
Clinical assignments faked
School suspends three students By Charles Gaylor Three senior students in the nursing school have been suspended from the nursing program after the three and six other senior nursing students were discovered to have faked part of all of a clinical experience assignment, according to Dr. Barbara Henthorn, nursing school chairman.
The three students may apply for graduation next year, after retaking the final semester -- Henthorn. One of the three students was suspended before spring break and the other two in a hearing before the nursing school's Senior Board, a group of nursing seniors who hear grievences and other matters pertaining to the students, held last week.
"All three of the students can reapply for graduation next year, but they'll have to go through final semester again," said Henthorn. Henthorn explained that in the last semester of the senior year, each student is given a project to do in their hospital clinical experiments. In this project, the students are required to draw up a hospital discharge plan for a pa-
The faked hours came to light after the nursing school began to look into attendance problems. tient. These plans are to include instruction for the patients for caring for themselves after they are released from the hospital and calls for the students to visit with the patients in their homes to
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evaluate how the patient is coping and to answer any questions the patient may have concerning their care. "These students took some liberties with these projects, with one apparant outright fabrication and two who took quite a few liberties," said Henthorn. The irregularities came to light while the nursing school began to look into some attendance problems of the students involved in the forgings. Henthorn said that the two who were suspended last week had a
grievence hearing Monday. Their grievence was turned down and the two were still deciding on whether or not to appeal the decision to the campus grievence committee. The name of those involved were not released by the nursing school, citing confidentiality of student records. The seniors in question also declined to comment. Punishment meted out to the other six were, lowered grades for the clinical course, repeating the project, and writing a paper on
nursing ethics, Henthorn reported. "We felt that we had to be stern in our punisment of the students especially since we're talking about ethics as well as patient care," said Henthorn. "We've never caught anybody doing this before, but the impresson I've gotten from talking to other students about this, is that it has happened before, but no one had been caught," said Henthorn. "I imagine though that if we ever catch anybody doing this sort of thing again, we'll deal with it like we have here."
Senate rules on questions By Donna Bennett The Student Senate Judicial Board met last week to rule on two questions, the first time any issue has been brought before the board. Senator Joe McCourry contacted the board with the question of whether the Student Senate president can rule the position of attorney general open. The issue refers to senate president Tim Reese's understanding that he was allowed to appoint a new attorney general since the present attorney general was appointed to finish out an incomplete term. The board rationalized that the senate president must comply with senate bill 78-107 which states in
section 1: "The CSU Student Senate shall have an office of student attorney general, to be appointed by the president of the Student Senate for a one year term." However, the board recognized the author of that bill's intention was to have the term of attorney general coincide with the term of the president and recommended an amendment be presented to the Student Senate for consideration and be voted on in the spring election. The board also considered a question from Senators Gavin McInnis, Mary Kelly and McCourry on whether the Student Senate constitution permits the
executive board consisting of the president, vice-president, secretarytreasurer, and parlimentarian, to vote on legislation. The board's decision was: the executive board should be able to vote on legislation. This was based on Article III, section I, section 1: "The Student Senate shall be composed of the president, vicepresident, secretarytreasurer, parlimentarian, and forty (40) students who will serve as senators." While the executive board does not have the power to executive legislation, it does have the right to vote, rationalized the Judicial Board.