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MAR ; M992
Vol. 30, No. 5
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Laurlnburg, N.^.
March 1992
SAGE PROGRAM TO BE REORGANIZED
Lorrie Jean
Staff Writer
A proposal to reduce
the St. Andrews Gen
eral Education (SAGE)
program to a five-course
sequence by dropping
junior SAGE was unani
mously approved by the
faculty on Feb. 25, and
will go into effect fall
term 1992.
The deletion of jun
ior SAGE will accom
modate transfer stu
dents, give students the
opportunity to travel
abroad in overseas pro
grams, and streamline
the previously six-
course SAGE program.
Orientation will be
extended for first year
students to be used for
tests and an introduction
to SAGE. SAGE 105:
Self and Community
will replace SAGE 101:
Tutorial in Communica
tions I and SAGE 105
will focus more on writ
ing skills. Two-thirds of
the course will follow a
common syllabus and
one-third of the course
will follow the
professor's own sylla
bus. Like SAGE 101,
freshmen may sign up
for SAGE in their de
sired topic of interest.
Second semester
freshmen SAGE 206:
World Cultures I will
combine SAGE 102:
Tutorial in Communica
tions II and SAGE 221:
Christianity and World
Cultures. The new
course will be part of a
three-course "World
Culture" sequence that
will have a common
syllabus. This SAGE
course will concentrate
on writing skills, with
emphasis on defending
a thesis.
Sophomore SAGE
will make up the last
two courses in the
"World Culture" se
quence. Fall term
SAGE 207: World Cul
tures II will replace
SAGE 222: Christian
ity and World Cul
tures and SAGE 207
will emphasize critical
thinking skills. Spring
term SAGE 208: World
Cultures III will replace
SAGE 321: Christianity
and World Cultures.
SAGE 208 will focus on
oral skills. Each term
sophomore SAGE stu
dents will write two term
papers defending a the
sis. An award will be
given for the best writ
ten paper during fall
term and for the best oral
presentation of a paper
during spring term.
No SAGE course
will be offered junior
year, but students who
will be juniors spring
term 1993 will have to
take SAGE 208.
Senior SAGE 409:
Global Issues and Per
sonal Choices will be
offered during the fall
instead of spring term of
the senior year to ben
efit seniors who are in
volved with other
projects during spring
semester. Some areas
covered during senior
SAGE will be job inter
views, resumes, and
other material important
to know after gradua
tion.
Last summer 11 fac
ulty members met for
about two weeks on a
grant from DuPont to ex
amine the SAGE pro
gram and to see how they
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ADMISSIONS STAFF EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
Rusty Murray
Staff Writer
The admissions office
has broken records and
exceeded predictions for
next year's freshman
class, due to a solid foun
dation set up by the pre
vious director and an in
novative, idealistic new
interim director, and the
staffs own enthusiastic
efforts, according to three
experienced admission
counselors.
The freshman class
was 190 students in 1990
and 169 in 1991, includ
ing transfer students. The
predictions for this year
are already up 100 stu
dents without transfer
students. Recently the
office broke a record
with 69 applications in
one week, and there is
strict competition for
breaking the 1989 record
of 289 new students.
What do the admis
sion counselors see as the
cause or causes for this
recent turn around?
"Joe Rigell had very
much to do with the turn
around. He put together
a brand new staff, and
new territories were set
up as well. Basically,
Joe's ideas got the ball
rolling," said Kris Deal
of his former boss. Kris
Deal has been with the
admission office since
October 1990 and has
also been part of the
change.
Dean Thomas L.
MASTER OF FINE ARTS PROGRAM
IS PROPOSED FOR ST. ANDREWS
Gary Brazzell
Staff Writer
St. Andrews Presby
terian College enters the
arena of graduate de
grees on August 29,
1992 when the first class
of the Master of Fine
Arts program in creative
writing begins.
It will be only the
fourth low-residency
MFA offered in the
United States, said St.
Andrews MFA director
Ronald H. Bayes, dis
tinguished professor of
creative writing. All ini
tial classes are to be held
at Sandhills Community
College in Pinehurst,
N.C.
Attractions
"Sandhills is the most
central location," ex
plained Steve Smith, di
rector of the Sandhills
honors program. "An
MFA is a rather special
ized degree, so we need
to draw from a large
population. We need to
draw from the Triad,
Charlotte and so
forth...The Sandhills lo
cation will attract stu
dents from all over the
state."
Smith also cites the
class schedule as a
strong attraction. Stu
dents will attend six to
seven hours of classes
eight Saturdays each
term and will be ex
pected to do significant
Benson, temporarily in
charge of admissions,
gets the counselors praise
for his work. "Dean
Benson has kept the pace
going with his leadership.
Because he is also the
dean of the college we
are able to get things done
more quickly. He is also
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amounts of outside work
in the interim. Bayes
added, "The innovative
schedule will enable
homemakers, blue col
lar and white collar
workers and senior citi
zens to continue their
education without inter
fering with their already
busy schedules."
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