Graduate events set for next week Graduating seniors and graduate students may pick up their caps and gowns next week in the Council Room of the University Center. Students will check out caps and gowns by alphabetical order, with A-D going April 26, E-M April 27, M-S April 28 and T-Z and students who missed their time April 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Night students may pick up their caps and gowns April 26, 27
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and 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. A $1.50 deposit on tassels will be required when checking out caps and gowns. Students will return caps and gowns immediately following graduation, May 6, in the Council Room. Tassels and hoods will be: drab, School of Business; light blue, School of Education; kelly, School of Liberal Arts; bronze, School of Mathematics and Science; yale blue, School of
Special Arts and Sciences; and blue and gold, graduates. Graduation rehearsal will be at 3 p.m. April 29, at Wantland Stadium. Commencement exercises will begin at 7:30 p.m. May 6, with graduates meeting south of Old North at 6:30 p.m. to make the traditional march. Women will be required to wear dresses, tan hose and black shoes. Men are required to wear dark suits, shoes, ties and socks, and
white shirts. , In case of rain, the graduating class will be broken into three segments, with the Graduate School, School of Business and the School of Liberal Arts convening in the Broncho Fieldhouse; the School of Education and the School of Mathematics and Science in Mitchell Hall; and the School of Special Arts and Sciences in the University Center Ballroom.
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Any questions about graduation should be directed to Jon Wright, director of certification, at 341-2980, ext. 295. The president's dinner for members of the graduating spring class will be held at 6:30 p.m., April 29, in the University Center Ballroom. Students are required to RSVP by April 27. Guest tickets are $6. Invitations and tickets must be presented at the door.
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Nigh to lecture to '89ers George Nigh, 22nd governor of Oklahoma, will be the guest speaker at the 1889er Society banquet at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the University Center Ballrdom. The society will be celebrating the anniversary of the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run, which occured April 22. Members of the society are the descendants of the original runners. Nigh was elected governor Nov. 7, 1978. He had previously served as lieutenant governor, becoming the first to be elected governor. He began his political career in 1950 in the House of Representatives, serving four terms as Pittsburg County's representative. In 1958, he was elected lieutenant
governor, the youngest in state history. In 1968, Nigh finished the unexpired term of Gov. J. Howard Edmondson, who had resigned, and in 1979 finished the term of Gov. David Boren, who resigned to pursue a senate career. Nigh served as lieutenant governor from 1967-1971, in 1971-1975 and 1975-1979. Nigh was born in McAlester on June 9, 1927. After serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Navy, he attended Eastern A&M Junior College at Wilburton and earned his bachelor of arts degree at East Central Teacher's College, Ada. He and his wife, Donna, have two children, Mike and Georgeann.
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Campus reaction was favorable to Saturday in the Park II, held Saturday near Broncho Fieldhouse, as evident by the crowd that turned out. The rock group Fyre was one of four groups that performed at the day-long event.
Program quality attracts students By Sheryl Kudy
Part One Graduating from college is something many parents dream of for their children. Today, just like everything else, the cost of a college education is rising. Prospective students are interested in finding low cost, quality education. It is also on the minds of many high school seniors. Some are considering attending CSU and they want to know about the quality of education. At CSU, the state of Oklahoma pays approximately $3 for every $1 students pay in tuition,so the state is also interested in the quality of education. One thing that affects the quality is the classes a student enrolls in, so the advisement of counselors is important. On campus there are less than 10 counselors for 12,000 students. As a result, some students are not
getting adequate advisement. According to the North Central Accreditation report made in March of 1979, classes do not seem to be taken in proper sequence. This report said that for best results, the classes should be taken sooner to be applied in the upper division classes. The Blue Ribbon Committee study two years later found that: "Advisors are meeting with department chairpersons to improve the enrollment and advisory process." Allowing time to study also affects the quality of education. Ann Lynch, history instructor and Faculty Senate president, feels that the counselors are not telling students, especially in-coming freshmen, about the average amount of study time needed. Experts recommend students study two hours daily for every hour enrolled.
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Lynch feels that the teachers are spoon feeding a lot of information. Consequently, this has kept her from covering the material she feels she ought to cover. The demands by teachers affects education. "The expectations of teachers are always very high," said Dr. Patrick Cassens, vice president of academic affairs. This sentiment was echoed by Dr. David Hart, dean of the School of Mathematics and Sciences. He pointed out that in the science departments, where many degrees lead to the health field, the expectations and demands must be high because of the subject difficulty. Dr. Hart believes the students appreciate this later when the classes at the specialized schools become harder and the student has a good background from which to draw. He also noted that post-graduate schools, businesses and industries hire, readily, students from his school. Teaching loads at Central State are high. Teachers commented on this and it was noted in the North Central report. Lynch believes they are higher than they look. Central State averages approximately 14 hours a semester teaching loads. Elsewhere, the average is 12, nine for graduate instructors. Once time in class is considered, with grading time and student conferences, no time is left for
teachers to research their fields of expertise, let alone keep up with current articles and books that are pertinent to their classes. In addition, time has to be spent preparing lessons and tests. Although the teaching load is reduced for department chairmen, the extra duties that go along with these positions also demand precious time. Lynch noted that the heavy teaching loads are worse for the teachers with more seniority, because, unlike the younger instructors, they do not have recent schooling to depend on. Thus, they may not be "up" on their fields. This is when sabbaticals are important. They enable the teachers to delve into their fields and do extensive research for times ranging from two months in the summer to a full year at other schools or jobs here and abroad. According to Dr. Cassens, fullyear and summer sabbaticals are available for the instructors. Full year sabbaticals average about one year in every five for the instructors. In recent months, another method to improve the quality of teaching has begun, student evaluations. Because the evaluations began last semester, faculty drafters feel it is too soon to tell if evaluations will achieve the objective, to grade instructors. In the past, evaluations have been based on chairmen's corn-
ments to the vice president and on student comments. A way to detect instructors who are failing the students, whether for problems originating at home or a disenchantment with the field or with teaching, must be devised, according to Lynch. The problem can then be dealt with by corrections or by encouraging work in areas other than teaching. "We do not have, to my mind, a strict enough system of picking these things out and dealing with it," she said. Lynch went on to explain that students do not know about "up to dateness." They can judge, however, whether the teacher is good or bad by the way the class is run. According to Dr. James Perry, dean of the School of Business, one of the ways to insure quality is self-examination. "Self-examination demands that people exercise leadership. That is required, not only to maintain integrity of current progress but to identify the new direction that should be taken. There is a big difference between leadership and administration." As he sees it, administration should keep operations flowing. Leadership uses energy and dynamics and available resources to get from the present to the future. To maintain the quality of education, therefore, leadership should be directed toward evaluation.