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4 -Snuiki' Si.unals, W c‘(iui‘.s(ia> . Si'pl. iill. liITu Chowan Reglstra Institutions Takin r Reveals Many g "D" Credits By D.H. NICHOLSON, Registrar As it was indicated and pre faced in the last issue of 'Smoke Signals" this article is the first of a series of reports concern ing a study started this last summer which involved attempt ed contact by Chowan College with 200 colleges and universities fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Colleges and Schools. This Schools. This attempted contact was initiated through the use of a questionnaire involving the five questions listed below: 1. What is your present policy concerning ‘D’s’ in transfer when the applicant has an overall ‘C’ average and the associates degree? 2. What is your present policy concerning repeat hours? (In other words, do you count as hours attempted everytime that a course is repeated or do you count that course only once?) 3. What are the requirements for continued enrollment at your institution? 4. Would you be willing to grant “conditional admissions" to any student without the associates degree or at least a ‘C average on all work attempt ed if that student, in your estima tion, might show some potential for completion at your institu tion? 5. Approximately how many on campus living spaces do you have available for transfers into your junior class next fall? These specific questions were asked so that we at Chowan College could provide the most current and, therefore, best possible information for our students who would be complet ing their work here and eventually transferring to a senior institution to finish work for the baccalaureate. The preceding questions were also used because they more clearly define the problems which a majority of transfers from two-year colleges most often encounter in the formers’ effort to move into senior institutions. Of the 200 colleges and uni versities mailed this question naire, 148, at the time of this writing (or 74 per cent of the total mailings), actually res ponded. And of the 148 institu tions dr 74 per cent Who responded to the questionnaire, 4 institutions returned the questionnaire with incomplete answers or with a notice that the information they were releasing was considered confidential and, therefore, for a counselor’s use only. Hence, of the 148 institutions which did respond, 4 (or 2,7 per cent of the total respondents) were not used in this study. This would then mean that of the 148 institutions responding to the questionnaire (74 per cent of the 200 institutions mailed the series of questions), 144 (or 72 per cent of the total mailings) responded with answers which are to be used in this report. Referring to Question One concerning the acceptability of ‘D’ course work, of the 144 respondents’ answers used in this study, 75 institutions (or over 52 per cent of the total responses used) clearly indicat ed that they would not accept ‘D’ credits under most of the circumstances and-or qualifica tions as those described above in Question One. Generally, the “Will Nots” stated this with little or no qualification of their own. In other words, courses with a grade lower than a ‘C’ could not transfer under most circumstances. Also of the 144 respondent-institutions used, 69 (or a little over 47 per cent of the total used) indicated that they would take ‘D’s’. However, of this latter group of respond ents, 31 institutions (or 44.9 per cent of the “Will Accepts”) add ed some qualifications to their acceptance of the ‘D’ course work. Hence, of the 69 institu tions indicating that they would accept ‘D’ grades, 38 (or a little over 55 per cent of the “Will Accepts”) added no qualification to their acceptance of ‘D’s other than what was clearly a qualification in the question directed to them. Listed below in separate groups are those schools which will and will not accept ‘D’ course work. Group I includes only those responding institu tions which indicated that they would accept ‘D’ course work under the circumstances set forth in the questionnaire If any colleges or universities in this group had any other qualification in their acceptance of ‘D’ credit, these qualifications will be includt-d with the (,it!i institution (iroup II includes only tho.Sf; institutions which indicated that they would not accept I)’ course work under most circumstances. If any of these institutions indicated other circumstances, the latter will be included with the cited institution. Group I-Those institutions which will accept a ‘D’ course in transfer 1. Texas Lutheran College 2. Southeastern Louisiana College (if credit is earned at regionally accredited institu tion) 3. University of Corpus Christi (Texas) 4. Delta State College (Miss.) 5. Georgia Southern College 6. - St. Mary’s University (Texas) 7. ’• Vanderbilt University (Tenn.) 8. University of Southern Mississippi 9. University of Dallas (Texas) 10. Coker College (S.C.) 11. University of Alabama 12.- Memphis Academy of Arts (with the batchelors degree) 13. Greenstwro College (N.C.) 14. Austin Peay State Univer sity (Tenn.) 15. Presbyterian College (S.C.) (only as meeting course require ments, but not as hours credit) 16. University of Texas at Austin 17. Tarleton State College (Texas) (credit generally accepted at face value if institution is a recognized accre dited one; however, no guaran tee because of the difference in quality of many educational institutions.) 18. Mars Hill College (N.C.) (except in major where the course does not count toward the minimum number of hours required for the major.) 19. Scarritt College (Tenn.) (not transferred in major or minor. Only for general educa tion and general elective re quirement. ) 20. Salem College (N.C.) (not in excess of six hours) 21. Morehead State Univer sity (Ky.) 22. University of Louisville (Ky.) 23. Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) (practice varies with departments) 24. Atlantic Christian College (N.C.) 25. Cumberland College (Ky.) (except in English composition, professional education or in the major field of study.) 26. Campbell College (N.C.) 27. Averett College (Va.) (Al low course credit for up to six semester hours of ‘D’ work.) 28. Florida Southern College (if the person is “qualified for direct transfer) 29. Methodist College (N.C.) (“in courses which fit into our curriculum”) 30. Texas A. & M. Univer- 31. University of Mississippi (at University, Miss.) (but no grade points are given.) 3l Mississippi State Univer sity (State College, Miss.) 33. East Tennessee State University 34. University of North Caro lina at Charlotte 35. Baptist College at Charles ton, S.C. (“The transfer student is given the option of transfer ring his entire transcript or just the “C” and above to Baptist College.”) 36. Ouachita Baptist Univer sity (Ark.) (except in English) 37. St. Leo College (Fla.) 38. University of Southwest ern Louisiana (subject to student’s academic dean’s approval. However, the academ ic dean of the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nursing, and Engineering will not accept a “D” on any trans fer work.) 39. Sul Ross State College (Texas) 40. Tift College (Forseth, Georgia) 41. Georgia State College at Milledgeville 42. Texas Worftan’s Univer sity at Denton 43. Union College (Barbour- ville, Ky.) 44. Southwestern University (Georgetown, Texas) (However, ‘D’ courses in major or minor areas must be repeated.) 45. Pfeiffer College (Misen- heimer, N.C.) 46. Tennessee Technological Institute (Cookesville, Tenn.) 47. Oglethorpe College (At lanta, Ga.) 48. University of Houston (Texas) 49. Loyola University (New Orleans) 50. Blue Mountain College (Miss.) 51. Arkansas State University (State University, Ark.) 52. Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) (‘D’ grades do not carry hours of transfer credit, but are li.sted as ‘pa.s.sed’ on rc'cord and need not Ik' repeated, i 53 Kastern Kc.'ntucky Univer sity (Richmond, Ky. (with a 2.5 or a clear 'C or better) 54. Transylvania University (Lexington, Ky. I 55. Henderson State College (Arkadelphia, Ark.) (Will ac cept ‘D's for General College requirement-not for major or minor or Education course credit.) 56. Union University (Jackson, Tenn.) (if not in required course.) 57. David Liscomb College (Nashville, Tenn.) 58. Lynchburg College (Va.) 59. Berry College (Georgia) 60. Carson-Newman College (Jefferson City, Tenn.) 61. Lincoln Memorial Uni versity (Harrogate, Tenn.) (except in major area) 62. University of North Car olina at Wilmington (only as course requirement, not in student’s major) 63. Carawba College (N.C.) (on a provisional basis) 64. Meredith College 65. High Point College (N.C.) (will accept two ‘D's’ if they are not in one’s major area) 66. Tennessee Wesleyan Col lege 67. Wake Forest University (N.C.) 68. Radford College (Va.) 69. Campbellsville College (Ky.) Group II-Those institutions which will not accept a ‘D’ course in transfer 1. Century College (La.) 2. Texas Tech. University 3. University of Florida (Gainesville) 4. Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (“in most curricula”) 5. Furman University (S.C.) 6. Tulane University (La.) (“Ordinarily not”) 7. The Citadel (S.C.) 8. Norfolk State (Va.) 9. Duke University (N.C.) 10. Tusculum College (Tenn.) 11. Guilford College (N.C.) 12. Southwestern at Memphis 13. Columbia College (S.C.) (“not ordinarily”) 14. Stratford College (Va.) 15. Wesleyan College (Ga.) (however, in most cases, will consider the course or ^gree requirement met.) 16. University of North Caro lina at Greensboro (however, in mostcases.willconsiderthecourse or degree requirement met) University (Texas) 17. College of William and Mary (Va.) 18. Hampton Institute (Va.) 19. Lander College (S.C.) 20. Belmont College (Tenn.) 21. Wofford College (S.C.) 22. Fisk University (Tenn.) 23. George Peabody College for Teachers (Tenn.) 24. North Carolina Wesleyan College (however, does not require that ‘D’ courses be rep^ ed) 25. King College (Va.) 26. Emory and Henry (Va.) 27. Longwood College (Va.) 28. Samford University (Ala.) (but do accept them as meeting subject requirements for degree. The preceding does not apply to English. Students who earn a ‘D’ in English Compositon must take a national placement test scoring high enough or enroll in English 105.) 29. Southern University (La.) 30. Texas Christian Univer sity 31. Florida Institute of Tech nology 32. University of Miami (Fla.) 33. Southern Methodist University (Texas) 34. Newcomb College Women's Division of Tulane University) 35. College of the Ozarks (Ark.) (No ‘D’s transferred unless petitioned through academic deans) 36. Bridgewater College (Va.) (Normally not. However, may be granted credit by special persmission.) 37. Clemson University (S.C.) (only a rare occasion. It is left up to the Dept, head whether or not ‘D’s will be considered or accepted in these special cases.) 38. Newberry College (S.C.) 39. Madison College (Va.) 40. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (Va.) 41. Centre College (Ky.) 42. Tuskegee Institute (Ala.) 43. University of Virginia (main campus at Charlottes ville) 44. Arkansas Polytechnic College 45. Bennett College (N.C.) 46. University of Richmond (Va.) 47. East Carolina Univers4y 48. Virginia Wesleyan College 49. Emory University (Ga.) 50. Hollins College (Va.) 51. Hampden-Sidney College (Va.) 52. Benedict College (S.C.) 53. Randolph-Macon College (men) (Va.) Jacksonville University (Fla.) 55. George Mason College- U. Va. extension (Fairfax, Va.) 56. University of South Alabama 57. Mary Baldwin College (Va.) 58. Stetson University (Fla.) (will not take D' work unless validated through CLEP tests of the CEEB) 59. Brenau College (Fla.) 60. Middle Tennessee State University 61. Virginia Military Institute 62. Sweet Briar College (Va.) 63. Johnson C. Smith Uni versity (N.C) 64. Lenior-Rhyne College (N.C. 65. Western Carolina Univer sity (however, may be used to satisfy a subject requirement in general education) 66. Old Dominion Universit> (Va.) 67. University of Tampa (Fla.) 68. Elon College (N.C.) 69. Roanoke College (Va.) 70. Maryville College (Tenn.) (However, non-acceptance of D credit policy is under study and it may change in the near future.) 71. Virginia Commonwealth University (“generally not") 72. Virginia Polytechnic In stitute 73. North Carolina State Uni versity 74. University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill 75. Grambling College (La.) In the next issue of “Smoke Signals” we will want to look at the responses of the various colleges and universities to the following question: 2. What is your present policy concerning repeat hours? (In other words, do you count as hours attempted everytime that a course is repeated or do you count that course only once?) The News In Brief SPRINGDALE, Pa. (AP) — A man who spent his entire life in this town has left it half a mil lion dollars George Uhlinger once told a friend: “I made my money in Springdale and I Intend to leave it where I earned it." His will, filed Wednesday, left a gross estate of $760,975, in cluding $500,000 bequeathed to the borough in the form of a life insurance trust agreement. Uhlinger, a bachelor, died last Nov. 11 at the age of 79. J. Craig Green, Chowan College Art Professor is pictured in the gallery in Daniel Hall with his works. Monthly art exhibits are scheduled. LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ^ There will be no homecomit^® queen at the University of Kai^^ sas this football season, and possibly never again. The 1970 Campus Homecom ing Committee decided Wednes day to abolish the tradition and urged students to “rechannel their energies into more socially oriented and academic relevant programs." Hal Boyle's Column Memories Tuition Credit ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Night school students at the University of Rochester can pay their tuition by credit card. A university spokesman said Wednesday that the new plan hopefully would replace a de ferred tuition arrangement. He said the advantage of using credit cards was that the school would get its money immediate ly- Fulltime night tuition and fees are $230. NEW YORK (AP) — Memo ries have rose-colored lenses. We don't depend on memories so much on sunshiny days. But they are a great comfort when skies are gray, the rain falls, and aches and pangs afflict the bones and heart of man. Memory softens or erases the hurts we knew in other times and casts a magical glow around them. It works on our spirits like a friendly medicine that leaves no bitter afteref fects. You have a fair-sized ware house of yesterdays yourself it you can look back and remem ber when— The winter season wasn’t offi cial until the newspapers car ried pictures of rich old John D. Rockefeller giving a dime tc some kid on a Florida golf course. There were more pot-bellied stoves than pot-bellied people in America. If a mother learned her daughter had been seen doing the shimmy on a danCe floor, well—she felt the whole family might as well get on the next train and leave town forever, as they’d all been disgraced be yond redemption. Important Hours POOL Monday thru Friday—3:00 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Saturday— 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Sunday— 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. GYM Monday thru Friday— 2:00 to 5:00. Saturday and Sunday— 1:00 to 5:00. LIBRARY Monday thru Friday—7:30 to 9:30 and 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; LIBRARY Monday thru Friday— 8;30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m., 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Saturday—8:30 to 12; 00'noon. Sunday— 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. INFIRMARY Monday thru Friday— 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Saturday—By appointment only. During prohibition days, if a fellow awoke with a hangover and couldn’t get hold of a boot legger, he could always obtain emergency relief by drinking his wife's kitchen bottle of vanil la extract or buying some cheap hair tonic from an understand ing barber. A housewife could take a dol lar bill, spend an exhilarating afternoon shopping in a five- and-ten-cent store, and still emerge with a quarter in change left. More people ate buscuits than bread at breakfast time. A preacher was often admired less for the inspiration he of fered his congregation during his Sunday sermon than for the authority with which he gave them hell. A sidecar was something at tached to a motorcycle—not something poured by a bartend er. Not so many things bugged people, and nobody had even thought of bugging telephones. The man-iE-the-street felt safe in the street. The national goal was to “See America First "—not knock it first. Those were the days—remem ber? Cockroach Race! What was this business the other day? Wayne County deput ies were called to an address where complaints said there was a disturbance. Officers arrived to find a crowd of happy, cheer ing, excited young men. They were having a cockroach race. Yeah, a COCKROACH RACE! They'd put the cockroaches in a cup, shake them up and dump them out. The roach mak ing it to a given line first was proclaimed the winner. What do you know about that! It could catch on and become a national thing. Might even end up with a Cockroach Rose Bowl, with a queen and everything. We can see it now: “Here she comes. Miss Cockroach of 1975!" On second thought, maybe we’d might just as well forget it. — Goldsboro (N. C.) News-Argus The Chowan Chorus? Just two freshman rats repeating the honor code as part of their punishment. Rat Court was held on Sept. 7 at the Chowan Football Stadium. That's eating in style I’rolcssors llcliiis a]il (lalewood assisi in si'r\'i]i,u Ihc loolhall loam at a dnini'r in tln'ir hotior 'I'hc Alhli'lic- (’i)mmit!cc and (’hci'rU'adci s. I!i a\clli's. aiul Ma joi i'lli's sovx i-d the ('l)owaii liravcs. We don't- fly airplanes. We can't train elephants. We're not good cooks. We don't- build airplanes. We'll probably never go to the inoon. We don't practice law. We don't alter clothing. We can't hang wallpaper. We can't set a broken leg. We don't sell clothes. We don't make ceramics. We're not painters. We can't fit shoes. We don't fix TV sets. We don't sell furniture. We can't fill prescriptions. We don't know jewelry, Wrfre not farmers. We don't savvy hardware. We don't sell groceries. 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