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THE August 24, 1989 Vol. 88, No. 1
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Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Adjunct faculty cut
As enrollment levels steadily increased, more and more students
found themselves in longer lines—like this one at the finance counter in the Administration Building. (Photo by Stan Pollard)
By Randy Anderson Staff Writer An undetermined number of adjunct faculty were left without jobs at Central State University Monday, the first day of fall classes, due to an unexpected shortfall in funds discovered at the last minute by campus administrators. "The dismissal of adjunct faculty was apparently due to several reasons," said Dr. Albert Lynd, assistant vice president for academic affairs. "In order to respond to the high enrollment at CSU for the fall of '89, we added more sections of certain courses so that we would not be turning away students," said Lynd. "We didn't think we would be exceeding our adjunct faculty budget." "Chairpersons are supposed to work very closely with college deans in hiring adjunct faculty," said Joyce Mounce, administration vice president. "But apparently in this in-
CSU enrollment sets record
By Karnali Mazlan Staff Writer Fall '89 pre-enrollment at Central State University reached record proportions for the second time in the last two years. Registrar Darrell Gilliland said Friday's enrollment tally came to a total of 12,698 students at 5 p.m., up 2.5 percent, or 309 students, from last fall. However, he said, "We enroll more than 570 students today (Monday), for late enrollees and those students who had to reenroll because of non-payment on Friday. "And, by the time late enrollment is completed on Sept. 5, I'm going to estimate our enrollment could reach 14,600 students this fall." Gilliland said Friday's estimates showed substantial growth for sophomore level classes which currently total 2,137 students, a 14.8 percent increase from last year's fall enrollment. Senior enrollment totalled 2,190, up 5.5 percent. Enrollment for junior and
freshmen classes dipped slightly from last fall with only 2,158 juniors are currently enrolled enrolled, a decrease of 1.9 percent, and a drop of .8 percent for freshmen. Current figures show freshman enrollment at 3,367. The number of graduate students also fell .4 percent, a total of 2,846 students enrolled in post-graduate. "The record enrollment this fall is partially because of new admission standards to colleges and universities in Oklahoma," Gilliland said. "A greater number of high school graduates seems to be sufficiently prepared for college, particularly in business and education undergraduate level courses." Accelerated enrollment figures prompted the closing of 550 CSU classes Friday, Gilliland said. "But now, only about 180 classes are closed, after some students had been dropped because of non-payment of tuition and fees," he added. In addition, the growing stu-
dent body has CSU administrators scrambling for additional classroom space. Gilliland said, arrangements have been made to rent classroom space at three area churches. The relocations will primarily affect Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning classes. He said 11 classes are currently being taught at the Baptist Student Union, located near the CSU campus; First United Methodist Church, at 305 E. Hurd; and Dayspring Church of Christ, at Chowning Avenue and Ayers, Gilliland said. He said there have been students requesting additional scheduling for classes at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. "We try to make sure a variety of courses are being offered at these times, and a few more in the afternoon, at 11:40 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 1:40 p.m.," he said.
stance, something went wrong," Mounce added. According to the Dean of the College of Business, Dr. Joe Kinzer, all chairpersons of departments met Monday to make the neccessary adjustments to help balance the budget, which had apparently exceeded the preset limit. "We were asked to cut sections with less than 10 students, unless the class was required for graduation," said Kinzer. As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, three of the four CSU deans had submitted their section deletions to the office of academic affairs. In the College of Mathematics and Science, Dr. G. Kay Owens reported 16 deletions. Dr. Kenneth Elsner reported 14 deletions in the College of Education, and Dr. Joe Kinzer re-
ported eight deletions in the College of Business. Dr. Clifton Warren, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, had not yet submitted his report, according to Mounce. "We're going to use $400,000 for Academic Affairs Dr. Clyde Jacob. CSU had allocated $600,000 to be used for adjunct faculty purposes in 1989-90, said for the fall semester," said Mounce. "Enrollment is usually the heaviest during this time." When asked why adjunct faculty positions were deleted on the first day of the fall semester, Mounce said, "Usually, departments' chairpersons don't get details of adjunct professors un-
Please see ADJUNCTS on page 12.
Full-time faculty hired By Ann Hamilton Copy Editor Central State University has 29 new faculty members for the 1989 fall semester. New CSU faculty members include seven hired in the College of Business Administration, six in the College of Education, nine in the College of Liberal Arts, and seven in the College of Mathematics and Science. "We have needed them for a long time," said Dr. Richard Rettig, chairman of the sociology department, of the two faculty members added in his department. "They are both excellent lecturers, and have great credentials their field," Rettig said. The two new faculty members are Sue Waller and Harald 0. Schweizer. The faculty announcements were made by the respective deans of each college at the General Faculty/Staff meeting on August 17. "Last year we had a retirement incentive program. We lost 21 or 22 full-time, seniorlevel faculty and because of the economic situation, we were unable to replace all of those full-time faculty," said Dr.
Clyde Jacob, vice president for academic affairs. CSU's compliment of fulltime faculty was down 40 or 50 members, due to the overall economic condition in Oklahoma over the past four of five years, he said. "About a year ago, we began to replace some of those positions. We put together a plan to try to replace vacant positions, but obviously not all in one year," Jacob said. "We decided to divide recruitment into two broad areas. The first is replacement for current-year resignations and retirements, and the second category we call 'new' although that's somewhat of a misnomer, because these 'new' positions are really positions that have been vacant for the past four or five years," Jacob said. "Last year, we added eight or 10 full-time faculty in this second category. This year, we added 12, and next year we hope to add 15 faculty in the second category, that is beyond the current-year replacements necessary to maintain our programs," he said. "This should restore our faculty to pre-1985 levels by next year," Jacob said.