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Clinton's plan would cut logging by a third WASHINGTON (AP) — A Northwest forest plan nearing approval by the Clinton administration would allow logging at only one-third the peak levels of the 1980s for western Oregon, western Washington and northern California, congressional aides say. House Speaker Tom Foley, DWash., said none of the administration options allow for much logging and predicted they would have trouble winning congressional approval.
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Gays who express preference will be banned, says Pentagon WASHINGTON (AP) —Men and women who declare their homosexuality by word of deed would be banned from military service, but would not be asked and could serve as long as they did not draw attention to their sexual orientation, according t o a pub 7 lished account of a Pentagon document. The plan outlined is essentially the so-called "don't ask, don't tell" ad hoc policy adopted earlier this year at the suggestion of Sen. Sam Nunn, DGa., chairman of the Senate Armed Service Committee.
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THURSDAY June 24, 1993
UCO Political Science Professor Dr. John George takes time to autograph a copy of his book, "Nazis Communists, Klansmen and Others
on the Fringe." George held a book signing at Bolinger's Book Store in Oklahoma City lastSaturday.. (Photo by Chris Smith)
George Nigh, University of Central Oklahoma president, received "very high marks" on his first evaluation by the Board of Regents for Oklahoma Colleges. At their regular meeting, June 18, board members discussed Nigh's employment at UCO for the past year during a half-hour executive session. Along with praise by board members, Nigh's salary was increased by $12,500, bringing it from the annual $76,000 to $88,500. According to board practices, all firstyear regional university presidents are paid the $76,000 salary with the $12,500 increase to be awarded after the first year. Enrollment increases are examined to determine additional pay the following years. Nigh's tenure at the university began in July of 1993, replacing Bill J. Lillard who retired after serving at UCOs top position for 17 years. Joyce Mounce, vice president for administration, said that the overall statements made at the meeting were that Nigh received an A-plus.
UCO to implement assessment program in '94 that do not work. "None of the assessment is tied to reStaff Writer stricting the graduates, it's all tied to curriculum improvement," said Maltby. Students working for a bachelors degree The University of Central Oklahoma will will be tested three times. They will be be implementing a new institutional assess- tested upon entry to the university, at mid ment program for the spring semester of level (general education level) ,at gradua1994. tion, and then for overall satisfaction with The program comes after a statewide the campus environment. mandate from the Oklahoma State Regents Students who are already enrolled at for Higher Education. UCO will only test at the mid level point, or "Schools are required to start showing if they have already completed general results of the assessment process," said Karen education , at the graduation level. Maltby, Director of Institutional AssessMaltby stressed that the assessment ment & Academic Support Services. would in no way act as a barrier for graduThe assessment is aimed at curriculum ation. improvement and not at the student. "There's just a wide range of methods Maltby said that the plan would not be that can be used for outcomes assessment fully implemented. And when the plan is and our departments are right now in the implemented it will be aimed at curriculum procas of developing those methods." improvement, it will be ever changing in The assessments will be handled by evthat there will be things that work and things ery different department on campus. By Steve Sager
Maltby said die regents did not mandate how the assessments had to be done so each deparunent will be able to decide it's own style of assessment. Maltby said that for entry level students they use predominantly test scores, they use ACT scores for the first cut and if students are below a certain level they will be required to take a computerized placement test. The placement tests are a series of three short tests in english, math and reading which will help the adviser and the student decide where they should start their studies at UCO. The students will not be forced to take any remedial courses, the tests are only for the purpose of telling the student where they would best be suited to begin. The program is going to be funded by charging students $1 per credit hour in the form of student fees.
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Rescue America needs to protest, not terrorize The anti-abortion group "Rescue America" held its national meeting in Oklahoma City, this past weekend. Thankfully, a repeat performance of the maelstrom two years ago in Wichita was avoide, I. Thirty-three demonstrators were an -ested for trespassing, and 17 remain in prison as self-described political prisoners. These people are not political prisoners, iiiey are simply trespassers. The cause for which they stand has no relevance to the charges leveled against them. They have been sentenced to 10-days in jail after refusing to give their names when arraigned. The tactics used by Rescue America border on terr'ffism. The same group sponsored the rally at which Dr. David Gunn was shot and killed. Although Gunn's killer was not technically a member of Rescue America, the organization's president called the event no more or less significant than any of the abortions perfonned at the clinic. Such an attitude is frighteningly prevalent in what passes for the pro-life movement. The First Amendment to the Constitution izuarantees the right of the people peaceably to assemble. Rescue America, and the similar group, Operation Rescue, claim these demonstrations as their right. As long as such demonstrations take place on public property, and do not result in the assault of other people, the groups are perfectly within their rights. The members of Rescue America t:.:ed to learn to vent their frustrations with the Godless hordes of society in a more constructive manner. Blatant defiance of laws designed to protect a person's space can not be ignored, no matter what the case. No group can be allowed to decide which laws to heed and which to ignore. If such defiance is tolerated, the result would be nothing short of anarchy. Constant terrorism and invasion of privacy and personal space are not viable options to influence the policy makers who decide the issue of abortion rights. These tactics appear to be no more than an attempt to bully lawmakers into outlawing abortion simply to placate the members of these groups. In their current state, the members of Rescue America appear not so much "political prisoners" oppressed by a heartless government as they do common thugs.
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UCO accreditation continued By Steve Sager
Staff Writer The University of Central Oklahoma's accreditation has been continued by the North Central Association (NCA) of Colleges and Schools following a comprehensive review of the campus last October. The preparation for this visit began almost a year and a half ago when a task force of faculty, administrators and students began a self-evaluation of the campus and
compiled a self- study report. The report was then sent to NCA. "They came here in a sense to verify what we said about ourselves," said Dr. Albert Lynd, associate vice president of Academic Affairs. The report was made to find whether or not the institution fulfills the criteria for accreditation by the NCA at the master's (arts and sciences and professional curricula) degree, including the General Institutional Requirements and the Criteria for Accreditation. The report also gives advice and suggestions which recommend changes to the university.
According to a statement of affiliation, UCO will not have a comprehensive visit for another 10 years. However, there will be a focus visit by NCA in five years to evaluate the adequacy of physical facilities, instructional equipment and instruments and general institutional funding. "It's great news that our accreditation has been continued without a comprehensive evaluation for 10 years," said UCO president George Nigh. "As for the focus visit in 1997 on facilities and funding, we could have guessed that.
Accreditation team lists UCO's strengths, concerns Strengths ✓ There is a strong and dedicated faculty, committed to the mission of the University. Despite heavy teaching loads which result from continuing, growth in enrollment, many are also productive scholars/per formers/ researchers. f/ Faculty, students, administrators, alumni, and community leaders share a vision of the institution's capacity to meet the needs of the metropolitan constituencies it serves_ ✓ There is a widely held belief on campus that the new president is ideally suited to assist the University in securing significant private investment in the institution. Community leaders corroborate this belief. ✓ The institution has a strong commitment to full and early compliance with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act is a definite strength. ✓ The institution has developed a comprehensive assessment plan with entry level, mid level, program outcomes and student satisfaction assessment_ Several pilot projects are already underway. The plan is well conceived and well within the institution's capacity to implement. ✓ The University is beginning to implement recommendations of the Enrollment Management Committee that have resulted in improved support services and could result in higher student retention . ✓ The University enjoys a technologically current library with holdings
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and services completely accessible to the handicapped. ✓ The University's commitment to enhance the global awareness of the student body is reflected in a large international student body representing 83 countries, an International Studies Program, and a required segment within general education.
Concerns ✓ The team is concerned about the leveling effect of a rewards system, for both salary adjustment and promotion in rank, that values time in grade more heavily than demonstrated meritorious performance. ✓ The University suffers from inadequate space for both academic and administrative purposes and the absence of stateof-the-art equipment and instru n ientat ion. This problem is compounded by a continued growth in enrollment and an inadequate capital budget. ✓ Resources for support of faculty and professional development needs are marginal. ✓ Private investment in the institution has been virtually non-existent as the total value of the endowment of an institution more than 100 years old is only S1.2 million. ✓ The extremely high use of adjuncts remains a concern both for its potential impact on the perceived quality of instruction and advising at UCO and its potential to mask the fact that the University lacks adequate faculty resources to meet the educational needs of a growing student body. ✓ Spiraling enrollment in the face of limited human and physical resources or capping enrollment.
✓ There is widespread student dissatisfaction with registration procedures and the advising of students both in their freshmen years and in their particular majors. This concern first surfaced in the strident surveys and was corroborated in conversation with faculty and students during the team visit, V The retention and graduation rates for new entering and transfer students seem low for a metropolitan institution. ✓ Comprehensive long-term planning, a concern in the 185 evaluation report, does not yet integrate physical plant planning, student assessment, program review, academicplaning and budgeting and enrollment management. ✓ Graduate proerams may be over extended. The Table of Contents. p. 5, Ciraduate Catalog. lists 24, not including options. ✓ The institution does not fully appreciate implications of the shift of the funding model in the office of die Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education from one that is essentially enrollment driven to one that is program driven. ✓ The team senses a perceived deficiency of COMM nicat ion among. administrative levels. especially from above down, which dates from the 1979-1982 reports to the present. ✓ There appears to be a disproportionate funding between the men and WOMen athletic programs in addition to the fewer opportunities available to the female student population.
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By Steve Sager
Staff Writer The University of Central Oklahoma's photography club, F/ 64 will sponsor a trip to New Mexico during fall break, Oct. 1519. The trip will take the students sightseeing and shopping in Taos and Santa Fe. "We're going to drive up, have a good time and take photos. Do the typical tourist thing," said Diane Skermetta, a member of the club. The trip is open to any student, and costs $277.84 if there are 15 participants. A deposit of $35 needs to be given by July 15 for those interested. The fee pays for transportation, by chartered bus, and lodging, but no meals. Students may also earn credit for the trip. For more information contact Dr. Woody Gaddis at Ext. 5125, or at home at 348-7283.
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June 24, 1993
Police nab car thief in Norman By Joe Umbarger Staff Writer
Bob Curtis, UCO grad student, helps Logan Smith, Peter Slucky and Ryan Howell with their art projects. UCO art students are working with Edmond teachers and State
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Professors attend conference; learn about job opportunities By Joe Umbarger Staff Writer Two University of Cen tral Oklahoma professors were selected to attend the 1993 Summer Conference on Opportunities in Biostatistics and Public Health. Dr. Peggy Guthrie and Sandra Leonard were two of 25 faculty members from universities in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Alabama to receive invitations. Ironically, because Guthrie and Leonard work in different departments in different buildings, they had hardly met each other before the conference, and neither knew the other had been invited or had accepted. "The thrust of the conference was for us to find out what job opportunities exist in the areas of public health and biostatistics," Guthrie said. "They also brought us up to date on the health care crisis." The conference was held June 6-11 at the University of TexasHouston School of Public Health. Funding for the conference was provided by a federal grant from US Public Health Service, Bureau of Health Professions. This was the second year of the conference, which is funded for one more year. It was designed to
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"acquaint science and mathematics professors from undergraduate institutions about the opportunities in public health," said Dr. Ronald B. Harrist, associate professor of biometry at UT, and director of the summer conference. "We are facing an acute shortage of biostatisticians in the corning decade," Harrist said. Leonard believes the shortage may have resulted because some people are unwilling to relocate, and many employers aren't looking for biostatisticians per se, but are looking for qualities and experience that someone in that field possesses. "One of the things the conference covered," Leonard said, "was what future needs there would be,
so we could inform our students about the kinds of jobs that would be available to them after graduation." Leonard said the conference consisted of six lectures a day of two basic types of presentations: background presentations, in which people told how they got into Public Health, and technical presentations that described in detail what qualities and skills were needed. "What I enjoyed the most was to see the broad spectrum of opportunity for people with applied math, some I was not aware of, and being able to pass it on to students," said Leonard. "Also, when you teach applied statistics, it's nice to have the latest research to share with students."
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Lara Dyan Mitchell, 19, was arrested in Cleveland county for the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after allegedly stealing a 1987 Camaro from the Broncho II Apartments June 12. Kayla Lemons, a junior at the University of Central Oklahoma, said the Camaro was for sale and a young woman, later identified as Mitchell, came to Lemons' residence at 600 N. Chowning and asked to take the car for a test drive. "She drove this other car up," Lemons said, "and I even made
sure the key she had fit the ignition. Everything seemed okay." That car did not belong to Mitchell, although police said it had not been reported stolen. Lemons said she became suspicious when the car was not returned, and phoned police to report the car stolen. "It was stopped the next day by police in Norman," said Sgt. Ted Jones, Shift Sgt. for UCO's security department. Lemons' car was being driven by Mitchell. Also stolen, according to Lemons, were approximately $500 of personal items inside the car, including a car baby seat, and a stroller, that were still missing after the car was recovered.
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University of Central Oklahoma students may soon have "one-stop shopping" at the Office of Financial Aid. President Clinton's S tudent Aid Reform Act, if passed by Congress, would replace the current Federal Family Education Loan program with the Federal Direct Student Loan program. Proponents claim the plan will simplify the way students' loans and repayments are made, and save taxpayers $4.3 billion through fiscal year 1998. Students will be able to apply for government loans directly with their financial aid office through a computerized network, instead of wading through mounds of paperwork from various financial institutions. The new system does not reduce the amount of money available to students, but will reduce the amount of private institution "middle men" that profit by issuing and servicing loans under the current loan program. "At this point we can only project how we'll be affected," said Kenda Henthorn, associate director of financial aid at UCO. "Frankly, I don't think they (students) will see a difference." Student loans are the largest financial aid program at UCO, Henthorn said, processing millions of dollars for students. The cumulative loss to the private lending sector is estimated in the billions of dollars. Presently, lending institutions such as banks, guaranty agencies, and the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) receive a subsidy of 3.1 percentage points above the Treasury bill rate for originating guaranteed student loans with private capital.
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a standard "fixed" payment currently used by most borrowers, an extended payment with a lower fixed rate but longer fixed repayment term, a graduated payment that increases over a fixed term, and EXCEL accounts which base repayment rates on the borrowers income and level of debt. When implemented, part of the savings from the plan will be used to reduce the interest rate for student borrowers, an advantage Nelson says students will never see. The plan would be phased in over a four-year period beginning academic year 1994-95. The goal is to move 4 percent of new loan volume to direct lending the first year, with full implementation in the 1997-98 academic year. The National Student Loan Data S ystem, underdevelopment since 1989, will network the Department of Education with borrowers and servicing institutions across the nation. Furthermore, because of the millions of tax dollars lost through
loan defaults, the program includes legislation giving the Secretary of Education access to borrowers' income through information from the Internal Revenue Service. The program requires the Secretaries of Education and Treasury to develop a plan to provide repayment options through the IRS and wage withholding.
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UCO helps FAA clear air with new computer system By Joe Umbarger
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a number of private organizations, and the University of Central Oklahoma are working on a variety of solutions to current and future airline traffic situations. "We are helping the standard development branch of the FAA certify a new computer system that can be used to test new methods for safety," said Dr. James A. Yates, math and statistics professor at UCO. Last spring the FAA awarded Yates and assistant professor Raymond E. Beasley, also of UCO, a grant totaling $120,000 to test the new system, which includes computers and the assistance of two graduate students. "A large part of the work will be dedicated to the development of generic procedures to test similar systems developed in the future," Yates said. The system, made by IME Aerospace Corporation and called the Universal Procedural Development Simulation System (UDSS), is a software package running on a specially-designed computer. "The UDSS is not unlike the computers integrated with flight simulators used to train pilots,"
Yates said. He and Beasley will work with people who help certify those simulators. "In earlier years," Yates said, "a new procedure was adopted only after months or years of very expensive tests using actual aircraftor full-fledged simulators." The new system, once approved, will allow data to be produced in minutes or hours instead of months or years. "Milllions of dollars could be saved in the process," Yates said, adding that the cost savings would give testers far more opportunity to run additional tests or try different scenarios. "We don't have any results yet," Beasley said. "We're still collecting data at this point." Simulations of pilot or ground controller errors could also be made, which broadens the ability to develop ways of preventing accidents. Yates said one of the biggest jobs will determine exactly how close calculated results need to be to actual flight data. "Ultimately, the FAA computers and software should be able to simulate flight very close to real aircraft," Beasley said. "to give anwsers to preliminary problems." "I think it's going to work," Yates said. "This has been a great learning experience for everybody involved."
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Softball team to get new field By Bill Kramer
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Staff Writer Immortalized in the pages of sports history are the precious few who've reached the improbable milestone of hit tin! .400 throughout a major league baseball season. For good reason, few belong to the .400 club. The last inductee is Hall of Runer Ted Williams, who hatted .406, 52 years ago in 1941. It's no secret that two current players, Toronto Blue Jays first baseman John Olerud (.401) and Colorado Rockies first baseman Andres Galarraga (.430), are flirting with the achievement, although nearly 350 at-bats and about 90 games remain.
Commentary But just what does it take for a player to achieve such lofty status? Based on 600 at-bats, or 3.7 trips to the plate per outing in 162 games, a player must collect 240 hits. It would be like going 2-for5 in 120 games. Sounds next to impossible, right? But times may be changing. Rod Carew and George Brett come to mind as the only ones in recent history to get close to the .400 plateau. Brett's 1980 season saw him return from a month-long injury by increasing his average from .360 to over .400 through early September, bu t he finished at .390. Three years later, ex-California Angels speedster Rod Carew maintained a .402 average through July 14 before cooling off to a .388 clip by year's end. Several factors can be offered for the surge in hitting in 1993. Two are obvious: Colorado and Flordia. The expansion of major league baseball from 26 teams to 28 has spread the already thin pitching even thinner in both leagues. So don't be surprised should Olerud or Galarraga hit .400 this year. They'll be joined by several others over the next few seasons.
The Lady Broncho softball program will soon reap the benefits of the University of Central Oklahoma's so-called "master plan" for campus modifications. Since the present softball field rests on an area needed for a large-capacity, paved parking lot, a new softball facility is in the works. Construction is expected to begin this month for the new softball field, which will be equipped with a modern sprinkler system as well as expanded dugouts and a press box. "I'm really excited because they've allowed me to be in on all the planning," UCO coach Gerry Pinkston said. "These people are doing everything they can to make it a nice facility. "I'm sorry they're having to take away the football team's practice field to do it, but I had nothing to do with that decision." The practice football field A UCO physical plant worker begins work on a backstop for will he relocated to the vacant the new softball field. The Lady Bronchos old field will be used area north of Wantland Stadium. as a parking lot. (Photo by Chris Smith)
Keck paves way for UCO golfers Senior Randy Keck led a fair Central Oklahoma showing at the NCAA II championship golf tournament May 17-20 at the Turlock (Calif.) Country Club. Keck, a senior from Lindsay, fired a four-round total of 302 on the rugged course at the 72-hole tournament. His two-year career at UCO ended on a high note, although the Bronchos failed to live up to their 10th-ranked billing. Aside of Keck's team-best performance. teammate Craig McClain earned all-Region acclaim for his season average of 75. Abilene Christian of Texas, a fellow Lone Star Conference team, captured the national team title on the strength of a combined score of 1.160. The Wildcats finished five strokes ahead of runner-up Columbus College (Ga.) and also crowned the overall winner. Jeev Singh. The sophomore phenom shot a remarkable 6-under 282, winning a playoff for the championship.
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MERCER ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — A judge in small claims court today rejected a man's bid to have a tobacco company pay the cost of his treatments to stop smoking. Al Deskiewicz, 51, sought to have Philip Morris Cos. pay the $1,154.53 he said it cost him to quit smoking after 34 years. He said he was lured into the habit in the late 1950s by the "Marlboro man" image promoted by the company.
'The Real World' returns to MTV LOS ANGELES (AP) —For the voyeurs in the crowd, MTV is hack with a second season of "The Real World." After five months and 2,000 hours of videotape, the results have been sliced and diced into 11 hours of twentySothething angst. "Real World" begins its 22-week run at 10 p.m. EDT Thursday on the cable channel.
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Students are unprepared for college By Roy Howe Staff Writer One of every three students who enter college in Oklahoma is not sufficiently prepared for higher education coursework when they are admitted, says a recent study by the State Regents for Higher Education. At a cost of $18.7 million, remediation classes, zero-level courses designed to bring a student's competence to a sufficient level to enter a class, saw an increase of 14 percent from fall 1991 to fall 1992. This increase has higher education officials concerned with the costs involved. "When one considers that taxpayers have already paid for courses at the high school level, the cost of remedial college courses becomes amplified," said state regents vice chairman Glenn A Cox. "Paying twice for the same classes is unfair to taxpayers and to college students whose higher education resources are being used to teach what are essentially high school classes," Cox said. George Nigh, University of Central Oklahoma president, said that he has "mixed emotions" regarding college classes designed to prepare students for higher education. "I think that a certain amount of it is our responsibility, but I think that we have to make sure that we don't neglect the other students," he said. Nigh explained that it is the high school's responsibility to prepare students for entry into college. "You can't address the remediation problem at the college level, you really ought to address the remediation problem at the high school level," Nigh said. "If we graduate students from high school with a degree that says you're ready for college courses, then the colleges should know that's
true," he said. The study focuses on both the entering freshman who has recently graduated from high school and the first-time entering adult student. The regents' study shows that during the 1992 fall semester, higher education institutions in Oklahoma provided remedial classes to 18 percent of the students admitted directly from high school and to 44 percent of the students admitted by the adult admissions policy. Remediation by subject area at Oklahoma institutions shows that mathematics, with 65 percent, topped the list in 1992 for remediation classes being, taken. Twenty percent of the remedial classes taken were in English and 10 percent in 1992 involved Developmental Reading,. A new area being tested for competence, science, resulted in 5 percent of the remediation classes in Oklahoma. During the same time period, UCO offered seven intermediate algebra classes, one elementary/ intermediate algebra class, two remedial English classes, one reading and one remedial science class. The university offers two remedial algebra classes this summer with 77 students. Students entering UCO between the ages of 18 and 21 are admitted only after their high school core curriculum and American College Testing Program (ACT) scores are examined. Any entering student with a score below 20 on any of the four areas in their ACT test or a deficiency in their core curriculum must be tested in that area at the university's Learning Resources Center. "That's a good prediction of readiness for college," said Karen
Maltby, director of institutional assessment and academic support services. Entering adult students will first have their high school core curriculum examined to determine if testing may be needed to assess deficiencies. The university's Computerized Placement Test takes about 20 minutes for each subject and 40 minutes for the math assessment. "We are assessing students to find out where the best place for them to start is so that they can succeed," said Maltby. "Remediation is not to punish them," she said, "it's to place them properly so that they don't have lower grades on their transcript that they will have to deal with later. It's all geared towards success." The state regents are currently proposing a "three-point" plan designed to decrease the need for and cost of remediation. First, the plan would provide high schools, parents and students with a subject by subject listing of the knowledge and skills students should acquire by taking the 11 high school courses currently required for college entry. Second, they are urging to further strengthen higher education's assessment system by using ACT subscores in science, mathematics, reading and English to evaluate the student's readiness for college-level work. Third, the regent's plan calls for secondary education to increase the number of courses required for college entry from the current 11 to 15. Nigh said that he does not want to go on record as saying remediation is bad. "What we ought to work on is unnecessary remediation," he said. "If people are not adequately trained to begin with then that creates a problem," he said.
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