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Page Two THE SUMMER ECHO Thursday, July 28, 1966 The Director’s Corner Placement Notes By William P. Malone, Placement Director Grads Qualify For Top Jobs By Cecil L. Patterson Acting Director, Summer School Past and Future Past The 1966 Summer School will be poised on the brink of his tory as you read this column. Before the session becomes part of the past, our Data Processing Center has given some indica tion of what that history will look like. The various sessions enrolled about 1250 students — down about 80 from 1965. About 675 of these were undergraduate, and 575 graduate students. They came from as far east as Rhode Island, as far west as Oregon^ as far south as Florida, and as far as Idaho in whatever direction that is. These f a r-ranging students were instructed by almost 100 teachers in about 200 classes. Although most of the classes ran the full nine weeks, others operated in a variety of terms. There was a three-week session for Cooperating Teachers, a five-week one in Microbiology, a six-week term in a number of areas such as the Institute for Newer Media of Instruction, and a seven-week session for Teach ers of the Culturally Deprived Learner. There was even a two- week session for those engaged in Studies in Facts about Alco hol (There is as yet no report on how this group collected its data or whether it passed out any samples of its subject mat ter.) New among the federally sponsored programs were the National Teacher Corps Train ing Group and, in its greatly expanded form, the Institute for Teachers of the Culturally Dis advantaged Learner. This insti tute on a much more modest scale, had been sponsored dur ing the past two summers by the Southern Education Founda tion. This year, the institute was federally sponsored and con siderably expanded in scope and number of participants. Relinquishing its participa tion in the institute on the CuJ- t u r a 11 y Disadvantaged, the Southern Education Foundaiioii pioneered a new development in the Institute for Cooperating Teachers. This program is de signed to improve the quality of supervision of student prac tice teachers. The 1966 session was also the subject of severa 1 experiments with the internal administration of the programs. Mail registra tion was introduced. About 10 percent of the students availed themselves of the opportunity to register in advance and thus avoid the long lines and hot sun of registration day. The class periods were lengthened to 60 minutes, and all but two Sat urday classes were eliminated. So far, there have been no seri ous complaints about this inno vation. A number of less obvious changes in the Registrar’s Of fice, in the Business Office, and in Data Processing contributed significantly to the smoothness of registration and associated activities. Alas, no one was able to do anything about the weath er. It remained as malevolently sweltering as ever. The only sug gestion this column can offer on that situation is to go to the library—it’s air conditioned. Future Many of the problems of past sessions remained with us. Most of our efforts in the future will be directed at them. The most formidable of those problems is the conflict that arises because our summer session opens before many of the public schools close. One of the best ways to resolve that conflict seems to be a six-week session beginning the last week in June and closing the first week in August. We have been working on that pos sibility for the last two years. You will probably receive some notice of our progress when the catalogs and announcements for the 1967 summer session reach you. More Future. Happy Vacation. Today’s students are much more aware of what is going on in the world than those a generation ago. Hence, the pov erty programs have an appeal to those who wish to make a meaningful contribution to so ciety. This increasing social awareness of today’s students and teachers makes it impera tive that business and govern ment take greater strides in de monstrating their responsible and progressive involvement in the life of the nation and the world. Those who join the Peace Corps, National Teacher Corps, and other pov erty programs clearly transmit the message that the youth of today are dissatisfied with the current con dition of man. All of the de bates, discussions, even demon strations, and uncertainty of the draft, reveal a restlessness and ferment out of which I hope a better day will come. Closed Circuit Television At NCC BY JAMES E. PARKER Director, Audiovisual-Television Center North Carolina College at Durham is entering its third year of using closed-circuit tele vision. The first television course was offered in the spring semester of 1965. English 120 was taught by television two days out of each week. The third day was given over completely to the receiving room teachers. The students taking the tele- vision course did somewhat better in the t e 1 e V i - sion course than they had done in the tradition- a 1 course i n English 110 the previous semes ter, and yet, more materials were covered in the English 120 TV course than had been covered in the traditional Eng lish 120 course. Purpose at NCC The undergirding purpose for which television is used at North Carolina College at Durham is to provide a superior type of instruction for the largest group of students in those areas in which television can be used effectively. Total teaching by television is generally avoided in order to make provisions for the individualization of instruc tion in those areas which can be done best by the teacher work ing with individuals or small groups. Echo The SUMMER ECHO is the summer edition of the CAMPUS ECHO, the student publication in regular session. PHONE 682-2171, EXT. 326 Television demands long hours of careful preparation if it is to be exploited meaning fully. It lends itself to the mul timedia approach to teaching— a method of using a variety of instructional materials which are used in an integrated way so that each reinforces the other. This method makes for greatly enriched instructional presenta tions. Consequently, students re ceive a better quality of instruc tion. Video Tape North Carolina College at Durham is in the process of pur chasing a video tape recorder. This video tape recorder will be available for use during the fall semester of 1966. It will ex tend the flexibility of the tele vision facilities by making it possible to pre-record a tele vision lesson, thus freeing the television teacher to serve as a receiving room teacher or to en gage in some other academic activities on some occasions, especially when live telecasting is not essential. Video tape recordings provide a means for television teachers to observe their own teaching methods as a means to improve ment. Special experiments or events may be video taped for use in subsequent presentations. Video taped lessons may be made available to students for re-use or for catching up lessons which they missed because of illness. Video taped lessons may provide an excellent source of review materials for students. Exceptionally well prepared and effectively presented lessons may be stored by means of video tape for re-use. TV Contributions The Southern Regional Edu cational Board recently publish ed a monograph which features ten examples of the use of tele vision in higher education in the south. The captions to the various sections of this mono graph vividly and succmctly catalogue the contributions that television can make to higher education; Television magnifies. Tele vision is a close-up medium. It makes it possible for all stu dents to see detail in a way that even first-row students are un able to see in a large lecture hall. Television records, preserves, re-uses. Video tape recorders make these advantages possible. Television observes. By means of television, students in the teacher training program can have access to an improved quality of observation. Television reaches out. Tele vision makes it possible for more people to receive instruc tion of a higher quality and/or of a special nature. Television ig research and development. Where television is being used effectively, almost always one will find a continuing program of research seeking to determine better ways of teaching. Tele vision is revision. Most people who explore television as a means of teaching show, or de velop in the process, a healthy orientation toward change, a predisposition to experiment, to try new things and to adopt them when they prove useful. Television motivates. It is a means of bringing to students the voices and expressions of the best talent in the respective academic fields. Television com bines with other media. Its ef fectiveness depends upon the ex tent to which it uses films, slides, charts, models, maps, realia. Some Reluctance Despite the eagerness of the recruiters, many of our students are still too reluctant to believe that business and industry are sincere in their promises. Some students are still afraid that they will be hired as window dress ing, without long-range career and promotion opportunities. To combat these suspicions, recruit ers have resorted to bringing along successful Negro employ ees as exhibits. Opportunities Growing The range of opportunities is expanding and shows that American business and govern ment have important roles to play in the civil rights move ment. They have the obligation to abide by the spirit of the law as well as the letter and to utilize moral influence -md per suasion on behalf of civil rights goals whenever they can do so effectively and positively. Also, they are going further than pro claiming a policy of equal op portunity and passively waiting for minority groups to put in an appearance. They are com ing to the campus in unprece dented numbers and are actively recruiting on a competitive basis qualified Negroes for profes sional, managerial, and other white collar openings. More and more students are therefore accepting positions out of the state and out of the South and the region. A fleeting glance at the fol lowing partial list of positions accepted by 1966 graduates of North Carolina College reveals several significant facts: In de mand most are accountants, chemists, mathematicians, libra rians, stenographers, technici ans, salesmen, research assist ants, management trainees, and applicants qualified to fill many office jobs. 1966 graduates in non- traditional areas: Maxine Battle, caseworker, Philadelphia Department o f Public Assistance; Mary Louise Batts, Chemist, DuPont, Wil mington, Del.; Andrea Blue, stenographer, Soil Conservation Service, Washington, D. C.; Lo renzo Clark, physicist, NASA, Hampton, Va.; Lalie Cobb, stenographer, Glidden Paint Co., Cleveland, Ohio; Leon Creed, sales repres^tative, IBM, New York City; |Tim McCoy Deck, Job Corps, Camp Breckrinridge, Ky.; William Dorsey, IBM, Pro duction Management, Raleigh, N. C.; Samuel Frink, Peace Corps; Christine Faulcon, IBM, Raleigh, N. C.; Dorothy C. Gaither, biochemist. Food and Drug Administration, Washing ton, D. C.; Earl Glenn, National Teacher Corps trainee. Naomi Green, technician. Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Patricia Hairston, steno grapher, Soil Conservation Serv ice, Washington, D. C.; Malcolm Haith, chemist. Cone Mills, Greensboro, N. C.; Mildred Har dy, stenographer. Soil Conser vation Service, Washington. D. C.; Barbara Harmon, technician. New York City Health Depart ment; Richard Harney, account ant, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Newark, N. J.; Kenneth Harris, VISTA, Madison, Wis consin; Patricia Hawkins, chem ist, DuPont, Newark, Del.; Vera Henry, chemist, Norwich Chem ical, Norwich, New York; War den Hopkins, IBM, sales repre sentative, Paterson, N. J.
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