STUDENTS TO PLAY LARGER ROLES
President Cites Long Range Planning
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Vol. 21, No. 1
FAYETTEVILLE STATE COLLEGE
Fayetteville, North Carolina
September, 1967
AFTER MOORE REBUFFS SREB
South's Governors Take Giant Steps
By BETTY COOPER
Reacting to the Southern Re
gional Education Board’s report
that most of the 104 Negro Col
leges in the South often conferred
degrees that were “hollow sym
bols,” Governor Dan Moore said
in August that the four state-sup
ported Negro Colleges and one re
gion?! University in North Caro
lina have played an important role
in higher education through the
years. He added that “Their past
record is surpassed only by their
future potential.”
Since the governor’s reaction,
the Southern Governors’ Confer
ence, September 12 in Asheville,
took a land mark step on the rac
ial front, when it adopted a pro
gram for providing equal oppor
tunities for Negroes in the field
of higher education. The 17-state
conference agreed that;
(1) “It is of utmost urgency that
more and better opportunities
for past-high school and occu
pational training be extended
immediately to much greater
numbers of Negroes.”
(2) “Is is impossible to delay these
efforts until the public secon
dary schools have solved the
problems of teaching disadvan
taged students from all back
grounds with adequate prepa
ration for employment and-or
additional training.”
(3) “Massive resources, including
traditionally Negro Universi
ties and Colleges, as well as
new kinds of institutions and
programs, will be required if
the south is to succeed in such
an endeavor.”
The report found these failures
at the Negro Institutions;
They have drastically inadequate
financial support for all areas of
operation.
Their curricula and their instruc
tional resources have not kept pace
with the Negro’s broadening em-
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ployment opportunities and do not-
prepare students adequately for
advancement in their chosen fields.
They have over-centralized ad
ministrative structures which do
not permit sufficient participation
by faculty members, students or
even by their second-echelon ad
ministrators.
Governor Moore, who was elect
ed chairman of the conference for
next year, had earlier agreed that
SREB hit upon what he considered
to be the crux of the problem for
traditionally Negro institutions, not
only in North Carolina, but
throughout the nation. It said: “In
particular, these colleges must be
able to assure that their graduates
are qualified to compete on a par
with others in the job market.
To realize this, Moore said the
Negro schools are being upgraded
through stricter admission stand
ards, a $1 million “catchup” appro
priation from the 1967 General As
sembly, and by an expansion of
the community College system (see
FSC-UNC Coalition in “Long
Range Planning Article” in column
one).
The Giovernor does not think that
increasing admission standards will
deprive some of our young people
of education. He told a regional
gathering of educators at White
Sulphur Springs, West Virginia,
that “Educational opportunities for
all are being provided in North
Carolina and will continue to be.”
“Those who do not desire or who
are not qualified for college level
work can find sound opportunity
within our community College sys
tem,” he said.
The North Carolina Board of
Higher Education in an interim
study report released recently,
recommended that admission stan
dards of the Negro institutions be
raised to the equal of their white
counterparts by 1972.
WELCOME
FRESHMEN
As president of Fayetteville
State College, I am happy to ex
tend to you a cordial welcome to
this institution. You have elected
to spend your college days at a
school with an enviable academic
record and one rich in traditions
and school spirit. As I welcome
you to the campus, I want to as
sure you that here you will find a
warm and friendly atmosphere in
which students and faculty mem
bers are always ready to extend a
helping hand.
You will find as the year pro
gresses that the opportunity for
personal growth and development
is largely dependent upon your re
action to the facilities and resour
ces of the College. If you invest
your time wisely, you will profit
Placement Office
Reveals Many Jobs
Available
By CORNEL DAVIS
Mr. J. C. Jones, Director of Fay
etteville State College’s Placement
Office, released information to The
Voice which showed that jobs are
plentiful for the Fayetteville State
College graduate. These jobs arc
not just teaching jobs, but
positions in business, industry, and
government.
Representatives from these lat
ter three agencies have frequented
F.S.C.’s campus in search of peo
ple to fill these available jobs. Of
the 138 graduates of 1967, eight
are currently employed in business
and industry, while five are with
governmental agencies.
All 1967 graduates are employed
and Dean Jones reported that he
has had requests for an additional
one-hundred teachers. One - hun
dred and eighteen members of the
1967 class are employed as teach
ers. Twenty members are non
teachers of which five are in the
U. S. Army, five are in government
work, two are in graduate school,
one, Mr. Gilbert Roth, a graduate
assistant at Rhode Island Univers
ity, and eight are in business and
industry.
One hundred and seven mem
bers of the 1967 class are employ
ed within the state of North Caro
lina; thirty-one are in service out
of the state, and seven are employ
ed in the Fayetteville School Sys
tem, one of whom is Mrs. Arletha
McLean, the class Salutatorian,
who works at the Fayetteville Sen
ior High School. Ten-percent of
the graduates are employed in the
general Fayetteville Community.
In addition to the one-hundred
percent placement of last years
graduates, 37 of whom were em
ployed before they received di
plomas, eight former students
were provided teaching positions.
One of these, Mr, Robert Melvin,
is now with the Detroit Public
Schools, Detroit, Michigan.
Dean Jones noted that the influx
of jobs in all the areas, especially
government, industry and busi
ness, shows that equal job oppor
tunity is now a working reality.
By ROWENA PETERSON
In his initial meeting with the
faculty on Friday, September 1,
President Rudolph Jones empha
sized the need for constructive,
long range planning, cited aid to
ward improvement of F.S.C., and
approved the idea of teacher-stu-
dent harmony, in letting students
play a more vital role in the work
ings of the college.
Dr. Jones said that the United
States’ Government has appropri
ated $67,000 of Federal funds to
support a coalition between Fay
etteville State College and the Uni
versity of North Carolina. Of this
amount, $30,000 has been set aside
to employ teaching fellows, so that
regular F.S.C. teachers can study
for advanced degrees.
greatly from the instruction, asso
ciation, and services available. The
program of the College is designed
to help you discover your needs,
develop objectives and proceed to
achieve goals commensurate with
your greatest potential. I am sin
cerely hopeful that you will, be
cause of your stay here, become a
happy, mature, well-adjusted and
more useful individual.
By; DR. RUDOLPH JONES
Dr. Rudolph Jones
better things In a
better future.
looks toward
well-planned,
Those to study for their doctorate degrees this year are; Mr.
Charles Asbury, educational psychology, the University of North Caro
lina; Mrs. Grace C. Black, business education, Ohio State University;
Mr. Edward Clark, English, Syracuse University, and Mrs. Wilhemenia
Bishop, mathematics, Catholic University.
Not on the same program, but working on her doctorate degree in
English at the University of North Carolina is Mrs. Elaine Newsome. Mr.
Lorenzo Battle has been financed by Carnegie Tech to do special work
on methods of teaching social studies and history, an idea gotten orig
inally from Carnegie Tech by Mr. Battle and Mrs. Wilma King Hunter
and advanced by the two at F.S.C. last year.
A sum of $7,000 is available for visiting specialists in different
departmental areas. These specialists will spend two-to-three days wth
members of departments at F.S.C. $2,000 will be used for exchange stu
dents — from F.S.C. to U.N.C. — for the cost differential between the
two schools — $16,000 is to be used for faculty improvement and
$7,000 is alloted for a full-time, F.S.C. counselor.
F.S.C.’s administrative head said that the new library is complete,
though not ready for use, mainly because custom-made furniture for
it has not arrived (see pix below left). The demise and annihilation of
Bicket and Aycock Halls are a result of their being unsafe for further
use. The physical education plant has progressed in construction to
date as planned, and the new science building has been started. The
State Legislature has provided funds to renovate the old library and
have it serve as headquarters for Audio-visual Aids under Mr. D. A.
Williams, for a new maintenance building, and for roadway, walk way,
and parking conveniences.
In the Legislature’s “B” budget, provisions have been made for
additional personnel in the Financial aid Office, for two library posi
tions, for four security officers, for a new bus, and for an extra $15,000
for library books, the sum of which is augmented by the Federal Gov
ernment in the amount of $18,500, President Jones said.
He cited in addition, North Carolina State’s million dollar “Catch
up” fund, appropriated to the Board of Higher Education, of which
fund, F.S.C. will receive $200,000 dollars within two years, to use as it
sees fit to booster its resources and to produce students who can com
pete for positions with graduates of any college. The fund allots this
money on the basis of raising admission standards to the point where,
by 1972, all colleges in the state will have the same admission stand
ards, and upon the basis of establishing a compensatory (remedial pro
gram) that will enable the predominantly Negro institutions to make
their less fully prepared students function as well as all others.
The President called attention to the Regional Education Labora
tory for Carolina and Virginia (RELCV), of which Fayetteville State
College is a member. RELCV is one of twenty such labs in the coun
try, each of which has a specific function. R.E.L.C.V.’s function is to
act as a spark and a clearing house for new innovations in the field
of higher education, and has one headquarters in Durham. Of course
sharing in the newer and different approaches will enable F.S.C. to
build better programs as it seeks in long range planning.
Dr. Jones said the bulk of the planning would follow registration,
in a series of meetings and discussions about all aspects of the college,
and with an eye toward next year’s Self-Study, prior to the visit by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Associa
tion will, of course, check to see if F.S.C. has kept pace and made im
provements, to determine if it will remain a member.
The President said that Saturday classes would be resumed this
year because students had asked to reinstate the Assembly Hour, the
doing of which will create a shortage of class room space.
Dr. Jones reminded the group of the need for F.S.C. Foundation
that would provide funds over which the school would have the power
to use any way it wanted. He said it was a necessity because we have
no such funds at present which would take care of guests, receptions,
interviews etc. Since Negro State institutions receive less philanthro-
phy than other colleges, the need becomes more apparent, with heavy
reliance upon the well-wishes of the alumni.
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and across
ibrary building viewed from the southeast
the Fine Arts Building's parking lot.
Newcomers become involved for the first time with the
rigors and the excitement of registration.
They taper off near the week's end amid FSC lore
and refreshments at the Presidents' Reception at home.