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THE August 29, 1989 Vol. 88, No. 2
ITISTA
Tuesday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Auction nets 5 percent By Kamal Mazlan and Bill Kramer Staff Writers Central State University auctioned $125,000 worth of physical plant equipment on July 17 at CSU, but the return was only $6,500, said Philip Arnold, vice president for administration. "The attendance at the auction was poor because it was held on a Monday. Also, the manner in which the auction was advertised was poorly done by the auctioneer," Arnold said. Arnold said the university
expected to collect 10 cents on each dollar, but due to the poor turnout, the university made only five cents on the dollar. "The bottom line is we're disappointed that we didn't get more money from the auction. We have taken steps to ensure that future auctions will be conducted in a better way, and with much publicity," Arnold said. "From the management standpoint, we knew we had too large an inventory in the (CSU) physical plant. We needed to dispose of obsolete and accumulated inventory
that was really unnecessary, and the best option was through an auction," Arnold said. A former CSU employee who wishes to remain anonymous, said that most of the items up for bid could have been used. "They could have used up ev-
ery item in that auction," he said. The Edmond Evening Sun reported Thursday most of the equipment auctioned was new, and that CSU held the auction
Please see AUCTION on page 8.
Adjunct cuts, cancelled classes affect 240 students, 61 classes
KCSC's smaller 190-foot radio antenna tower
was dismantled Wednesday from its location near Wantland Stadium because station officials said it was obsolete. The tower has not been used by the station since 1979. (Photo by Stan Pollard)
Nurses score high
take the national examination, assessment tests are given durStudent Writer ing their last semester of course Just plain luck and a very work. The assessment tests are conscientious faculty are the similar to the licensing exam, reasons for Central State Uni- and help to pinpoint trouble versity nursing students' near- areas for the students. perfect pass rate on the national Personal conferences are then licensing examination, said Dr. scheduled for those students Barbara Henthorn, nursing de- with problems, Henthorn said. partment chairwoman. "Since the first class in 1972, CSU's pass rate on the exam all graduates have been able to is 98 percent, she said . find jobs," Henthorn said. Students must take the exam "With a nation-wide as well in order to become registered as state-wide shortage of nurses. nurses, graduates are well "It really is very hard to pre- aware that they will be able to dict the reasons for the success find a job. Six out of 51 recent rate," said Henthorn, "but graduates have jobs out of state, close, personal guidance and the rest are working in Oklaadvisement have been the most homa," she said. beneficial factors in my stu"These statistics are motivadents' performances." tion in themselves for future Before the nursing students nurses to excel," Henthorn said. By Debbie Blossom
By Kamal Mazlan Staff Writer Approximately 25 adjunct faculty members at Central State University were dismissed last week due to a last-minute discovery of a $120,000 shortfall in the university's part-time teaching budget, said Dr. Albert Lynd, assistant vice president for academic affairs Thursday. The sudden reduction of the adjunct faculty resulted in 61 class sections being either cancelled or combined with other classes, Lynd said. The College of Liberal Arts deleted 25 classes, the College of Business, 13 classes, the College of Math and Science, 12 classes and the College of Education cancelled 11 classes, Lynd said. Lynd denied that this situation was caused by miscommunication between campus administrators and department chairpersons. "It's no fault of the chairpersons. They operate in concert with their deans on what is known as FTE (full-time equivalent) in hiring part-time faculty. The class schedule (at CSU) was put together using the FTE approach," Lynd said. But on the week ending Aug. 18, the administration officials discovered that they were very close to using all of the year's budget in one semester, about $520,000. CSU had allocated $600,000 to be used for adjunct
faculty purposes in 1989-90, of which $400,000 was budgeted for fall. Registrar Darrell Gilliland said about 240 CSU students were affected by the cancellation of classes last week. Gilliland said 90 percent of the classes deleted had fewer than 10 students. "We'll refund all of their money for the classes cancelled, if they choose not to enroll in another class or reenroll in an alternative course by this week." "People were hurt of course when classes were cancelled, including the students. But it wasn't deliberate on anyone's part. It just had to be done, to live within our (part-time teaching) budget," Gilliland said. "I think the reductions will have a small effect," Lynd said, "but action will absolutely be taken to ensure that this does not happen again. I also firmly believe adjunct faculty understands that we hire them semester by semester." But Dr. John King, physics department chairman, offered another opinion. "The dismissals amount to a breach of faith," he said. "I think, in the future, adjuncts would be reluctant to start teaching at CSU without a written commitment from a department chairperson. Some of the adjunct faculty members laid off were hired as long as a
year ago, with the expectation that their appointments would be approved after they started teaching," King said. "The one adjunct faculty member I had to dismiss gave up his vacation to prepare for his class. He had reason to get angry but he didn't. If it had been somebody else, it could have been worse," King said. "I had heard rumors that this might happen," said 0. W. Johnson, part-time physics teacher, when he was told he was being dismissed. "It's one of those things. As adjunct faculty, we were hired as needed. Nothing has changed. I'll probably teach again at CSU," said Johnson, who teaches full time at Rose State College. and had been teaching at CSU on and off since 1970. CSU junior Ron Craig, from Del City, said he wishes he had stayed home last week. "Two of my classes were cancelled without prior notice. It's bad enough having to get up early for class, but to find it cancelled on the first day, wow, that's something else." "I had been enrolled in the classes since summer to make sure I got the teachers I wanted," Craig said. "Like me, a lot of students were really mad about the cancelled courses. I think the administration needs to pull their act togther, or else the students will study someplace else."