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Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Classes, fees top open forum By Bill Kramer Staff Writer
Scheduling difficulties and student activity fee expenditures were topics of discussion in the first campus-wide forum sponsored by the Student Senate and administrators in Dr. Bill Lillard's 15-year span as president of Central State University. The forum was called at the re-
quest of the Student Association to answer students' questions concerning adjunct faculty and class cuts. Media representatives and faculty were denied the opportunity to ask questions during the forum. Lillard and Dr. Clyde Jacob, vice president for academic affairs, spent nearly two and onehalf hours responding to questions from about 80 students in attendance. In addition, about 20 faculty members attended.
Jacob responded to a recurring question concerning spring scheduling by saying that 28 new sections have been added to the 2,180 sections being offered in the spring. However, according to a Nov. 9 article in the Edmond Evening Sun, spring schedule class section offerings dropped this year to 1,680, down from 1,744 last spring. Music sections were not included in the figures because the
enrollment office changed the way applied music lessons are listed in the schedule. "We took every effort to make sure the spring schedule was complete and accurate," Jacob said. Lillard handed out a list of new, full-time faculty and faculty replacements as well as the official university figures for the amount of full- and part-time faculty. He said fewer adjunct faculty are scheduled to be hired for the spring semester because the full-
time equivalent decreases 7.2 percent each spring, according to averages the past seven years. Lillard continued to support his reasons for limiting part-time faculty. He said he wants to have full-time faculty teaching nearly all courses offered. He said CSU currently has 90 percent full-time faculty and only 10 percent part-time faculty. Jacob said the university is tryPlease see FORUM on page 8.
Financial aid office gives tips for spring By Bill Kramer Staff Writer
The big one's coming Haden Riggs, left, and Amy Riggs find a little action in the parking lot between Murdaugh Hall and the Communications Building while filming an upcoming segment for KCSU-2 television station. The segment will be featured on "Haden's World, "a regular part of a show produced by university broadcast ma jors: About Edmond. (Steve Wann )
Students expecting to receive financial aid for the spring semester must present enrollment verification at the financial aid counter in order to be processed, said Sheila Fugett, financial aid director. Those students who received award letters during the fall semester and were awarded a Pell Grant, Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant, Perkins Loan, scholarships, and/or BIA for the spring session should present enrollment verification at the counter as quickly as possible after enrollment, Fugett said.
Financial aid will be automatically applied to tuition, fees and books, she said. She added a word of caution to students who will not receive adequate aid to cover all expenses. "Please remember all fees not covered initially by financial aid will be the student's responsibility to pay when due," Fugett said. Students whose financial sources exceed the cost of tuition and fees may pick up bookslips to charge books and/or housing beginning Jan. 8. Charges cannot be made against Oklahoma Tuition Aid Grants, Guaranteed Student Loans or college work study, she said. Students expecting spring disPlease see AID on page 8.
Faculty urged to lobby regents By Kama! Mazlan Staff Writer
Former Gov. George Nigh told a Faculty Senate meeting Nov. 9 senators need to work together to convince Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education new classroom buildings for Central State University need to be the number one capital improvements project in the state. Nigh said new classroom buildings are a priority project under CSU's 1989-90 master plan, but are not currently the number one need in state education. "Under the state regents' rules, each university in the
state has its own master plan, but new classrooms may not necessarily be a top priority project," Nigh said. "If you don't speak up, they (the regents) think you don't care. If you want clout in politics, you must present thoughtful ideas, reasonable alternatives for changes," Nigh said. Nigh also suggested that CSU have an on-campus body of local regents as does Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University. He said a local board could raise money for the university's needs and oversee the day-today running of the administration. However, the only problem with the idea is that some people from the local community will be appointed to the regents' body, meaning local politics could cause a conflict of interests with university administrators.
Nigh said politics will always play a role in state education. Therefore, CSU's faculty need to articulate firmly, but politely, their ideas for changes to state legislators concerning state education. "To paraphrase from (former British Prime Minister) Winston Churchill, no matter how bad a democratic government system is, it is still the best system. I can give opinions, but you have to decide what is right and wrong," Nigh told the senators. Nigh is chairman of the on-campus Nigh Institute of State Government. Nigh said he doesn't think it is inappropriate for faculty members to endorse anyone running for the state governor's office, as long it is within the rules and regulations of political campaigning.