The Carolinian [November 20, 1997]

              FYI
CED 678, mini-conference
Master's students in the Depart-ment
of Counseling and Educational
Development at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro will
present a professional development
mini-conference, "The Professional
Counselor: Crossing the Bridge to the
21st Century," on Monday, Novem-ber
24 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm in
Room 251 of the Ferguson Building.
Topics which will impact counsel-ing
professionals now and into the
21 st century will be presented. These
include "Confidentiality Regulations
for Minors: Exceptions to the Norm
in Cases of Substance Abuse." "Dual
Relationships: Can You Avoid
Them?," Managed Care: Should We
or Shouldn't We?," and "Marketing
School Counseling: An Important
Piece of the Puzzle." Poster sessions
on these and other topics will run con-currently.
The public is invited to this
free event.
Can collection for Urban Min-istries
begins Nov. 24 in all
UNCG Dining Service loca-tions
From November 24-December 16.
UNCG Dining Services will hold a
canned food drive for Urban Minis-tries.
To kick off the food drive. Din-ing
Services invites students, faculty,
and staff tp bring a can of food to
Spencer's Thanksgiving Buffet on
November 24. Individuals who bring
one or more cans of food to Spencer's
on Nov. 24 will receive S1.00 off the
price of their meal.
Drop boxes for the cans of food will
be available in every dining location
through December 16. All cans will
be donated to Urban Ministries of
Greensboro. Help UNCG Dining Ser-vices
give to the Greensboro commu-nity
by collecting I .(KM) cans or more
of food.
UNCG nursing professor wins
award for excellence in nurs-ing
education
Dr. Rebecca B. Saunders. an as-sociate
professor of nursing at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, has received the 1997
Award of Excellence in Education
from District 4 of the Association of
Women's Health. Obstetric and Neo-natal
Nurses (AWHONN).
Saunders received the award at the
District 4 annual meeting in early
November at The Greenbrier Resort
in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. The
award is given annually to a member
who. through excellence in teaching,
improves the practice of perinatal and
women's health nursing. Saunders
was nominated by other members of
AWHONN.
District 4 encompasses seven
Southeastern states and has more than
3,000 members. Nationally,
AWHONN has 18,700 members. *
Saunders has been a nurse for more
than 30 years. She has published nu-merous
articles in professional jour-nals
and was co-editor of the textbook
"Child Health Nursing: A Compre-hensive
Approach to the Care of Chil-dren
and Their Families." Her re-search
has focused on couple rela-tionships
in pregnancy and infant
feeding. She is co-director of College
Bound Sisters, a program aimed at
reducing teen pregnancy.
Saunders joined UNCG's faculty in
1977. In 1995, she was selected as
one of the Great 100 Registered
Nurses in North Carolina by The
Great 100 Inc., a Raleigh-based nurs-ing
organization. She received her
doctorate from UNCG.
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Race relations discussed at UNCG
•Videoconference discusses affirmative action, diversity, multiculturalism
Natalie Watson
News Editor
Race Relations in Higher Education.
A Prescription for Empowerment and
Progress, a live, interactive,
videoconference was held Wednesday
in the Alexander Room of the Elliott
University center here at UNCG.
The conference was coordinated hy
Black Issues in Higher Education, a na-tional
publication, devoted to explor-ing
issues important to Blacks in higher
education.
Held via satellite, students, faculty,
and other members of the university
community were able to view the con-ference
on a large screen television.
Panelists included Christopher Edley
Jr. a scholar, and Professor of Law at
Harvard University, Attorney Sumi
Cho. who teaches on courses Race,
Racism and United States Law at
Depaul University, Dr. Juan Erancisco
Lara. Assistant Vice Chancellor. Uni-versity
of California at Irvine, and Dr.
Stanley Fish, Professor of English at
Duke University.
Topics for the teleconference in-cluded
how to successfully anticipate
and overcome challenges to your af-firmative
action and diversity program,
building effective and influential cam-pus/
community coalitions that can get
results, avoiding the divide and con-quer
trap along race and gender lines,
and how to move from an a defensive
to an offensive position on affirmative
action, diversity, and multiculturalism.
The panelists also went in to great
detail discussing issues such as race
based scholarships, race relations on
campus, white supremacy, and the re-cent
increase in applications to histori-cally
Black colleges as opposed to pre-dominately
White schools.
" Since the ban on affirmative action
programs was placed on state schools,
the number of Black students apply-ing
to Black schools has increased, and
the number of Black students apply-ing
to White schools, has decreased
significantly", said a member of the
panel from Fisk University, a histori-cally
Black College.
The panelists also suggested solu-tions
to sensitive diversity issues, such
as more dialogues and/or conferences
like this one, or symbolic gestures by
the President, to ease American race
relations.
The conference was moderated by
Dr. Willie Baber, of the UNCG depart-ment
of Anthropology, and co-spon-sored
by Human Resource Services,
The Office of Minority Student Affairs,
Conference on the African American
Culture and Experience, the
Multicultural Education Programming
Committee, and the UNCG Human
Relations Council.
Understaffed computer labs
Jonita Hernry
StaffWriter
Recently, there have been more
than a few complaints from UNCG
students about limited computer lab
staffing. Although there are 19 com-puter
labs on campus. Bryan 213,
Stone 127. Mclver 254, and the
superlab are the only labs that are
stalled with a total of about 40 lab
assistants. According to recent re-ports,
other labs are not staffed due
to lack of financial resources. Lab
officials are attempting to find fund-ing
for additional lab staffing. "We
did not realize that the budget in-crease
for machinery would cause a
decrease for staffing," said Todd
Sutton. Assistant Director of Comput-ing
Services. He apologizes for the
staffing problem.
Lack of resources for staffing is
puzzling to frequent lab users. "Why
is there money to build new facilities
and reconstruction that costs millions
of dollars, but no money to staff 19
labs?" said senior Kelly Power. An-other
UNCG student said, "We
should not have to worry about suf-ficient
help when we go to the lab."
Computing Services would like
students to know that they can call
the superlab if assistance is needed.
The problem is then handled by a
Senior Student Lab Assistant
(SSLM). Sutton said if the SSLM
cannot handle the problem over the
phone, he or she will go directly to
the lab where the student needs help.
However, some students such as
Crystal Barnes who have problems
in the labs without assistants do not
know this until it is too late. "I was
in a lab without an assistant and I had
a problem with a computer. There
was only one assistant in the build-ing,
and by the time I found out that I
could call the superlab. it was too late.
I had to restart my assignment."
Computing Services has extended
its hours of availability. Students can
receive assistance by contacting the
superlab Monday thru Thursday. 8am
to 12pm. Friday and Saturday 8am
to 7pm. and Sunday. 1 pm to 12am.
The super- and citilabs will be open
during Jackson Library's extended
weekend hours starting in December.
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Empty seats where lab assistants should be are a common sight in the
campus's 19 microcomputing labs. This may cause many more problems
when the new extended hours begin in December.
High school students take college courses in UNCG's Fast Forward program
Sniff reports
Carson A. Norcross is getting a
head start on college during his jun-ior
year at High Point Central High
School.
Norcross is among 431 high school
seniors and some juniors in five coun-ties
who enrolled this year in Fast
Forward (FWD). a new program be-ing
offered through the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro. The
program allows high school juniors
and seniors to take regular UNCG
courses, which are conveniently
taught at their high schools.
"When I heard about these
courses, it sounded like a good pro-gram
to me," said Norcross. "So far
this year. I'm really happy with my
history course. The writing-intensive
part of the course is pushing me and
giving me an idea of what college
work will be like when I get there.
The class is really motivated. We've
formed study groups on our own to
go over the material."
Norcross is taking a United States
history course at High Point Central,
where he is a member of the SAVE
club and will be on the tennis team
next spring. Four other high schools
in the Guilford County Schools —
Page. Northwest. Southern and
Southeast — are participating in the
Fast FWD program in its first year.
Through Fast FWD, high school
students can earn both high school
and college credit, according to
Henry Sholar. manager of the pro-gram,
which is offered through the
UNCG Division of Continual Learn-ing.
This year, students have enrolled
in introductory level courses in alge-bra
and trigonometry, calculus, west-ern
civilization, English composition,
English literature and U.S. history,
according to Beth Baldwin, who is
the associate manager for the pro-gram.
"The students are taking the same
introductory courses that are offered
at UNCG," said Sholar. "When the
courses are completed, they will have
a transcript with their grades just like
regular students here at UNCG."
Students signed up for the Fast
FWD program last spring, Baldwin
said, after being approved by their
high school principal or guidance of-fice
for the experience. Once en-rolled,
the students have library privi-lege
cards for UNCG's Jackson Li-brary
and many have taken orienta-tion
tours which have been tailored
to individual courses. The next sign-up
period for the 1998-99 year will be
early next spring, and both Sholar and
Baldwin are expecting the number of
students registered to grow substan-tially.
Other high schools with students
enrolled are Reynolds and Mount
Tabor in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Schools; McMichael,
Morehead and Rockingham County
in the Rockingham County Schools;
North Davidson in the Davidson
County Schools: Salisbury High in
the Rowan-Salisbury Public Schools;
and Oak Ridge Military Academy.
The students pay regular UNCG
tuition and use the same textbooks
used in regular UNCG courses. Cred-its
earned by students in the program
may be transferred to other colleges
and universities or used at UNCG.
"The semester-long course accli-mates
students to college academics
and to what will be expected of them
when they go off to college." Sholar
explained. "But the course is taught
in a familiar setting — the students'
own high schools — and no one has
to leave the campus."
High school faculty members who
teach the courses must meet all re-quirements
of the Southern Associa-tion
of Colleges and Schools for
teaching college-level courses. That
means they have a master's degree
and at least 18 hours, or six courses,
in the academic subject area. All of
the teachers went through a one- or
two-week orientation program during
the summer, where they learned about
UNCG grading policies, created a
syllabus for each course, shared cop-ies
of tests given by UNCG faculty
members, and began to familiarize
themselves with the college text-books.
The workshops were taught by fac-ulty
members from UNCG depart-
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