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Volume 25, Number 1
October, 1971
Aloan Williams, ISE English coordinator, gives
demonstration durinq recent visit.
New Freshman Program
To Be Student Centered
By Joan C. Mclver
A new educational project
known as the Five-College-
Consortium Program began this
year at Fayetteville State
University under the direction of
Mrs. V.P. Fleming. The purpose
of the consortium is to help
create a new environment
supportive of the new effort. It
includes independent resources
and a colleagueship with
like-minded faculty at FSU and
in other institutions.
The aim of this program is to
graduate students who will be
able to cope with the world and
its problems on their own terms
and to work to try to change it
for the better. This means that
stu lents must know specific
things about specific subjects.
This also means that students
must know how to find their
way around the intellectual,
moral, and aesthetic worlds,
which ultimately should be one
world.
Quite a number of Black
students have failed in school, or
their SAT scores were not high
enough to get into a college.
This was not because they could
not learn, but because the
material and subject matter was
not relevent to their
backgrounds. As a result, some
Black educators saw a need to
establish a program for the Black
society of tomorrow. Presently,
this consortium program has
been in operation for five years.
There are three groups of
colleges and universities engaged
in the program, making a total
of 28 colleges and universitites.
Fayetteville State University is
in the second group along with
four other schools known as the
Five-Consortium Program.
“There is a need for a change
in our present day edtcctional
system,” Mrs. Fleming said.
“Students should realize that
this is the only program that
deals with the entire freshman
m
Evelyn Jones,
"Miss FSU”
curriculunx It is not a remedial
program, but basic college work
and relevant to the students.” In
this system, the instructor
realizes that his students have
ideas of their own about life and
its situations and may want to
express them. He re.specls the
student and the student respects
him. The classroom is
student-centered. Therefore, the
classes become more meaningful,
and the students are totally
involved in class, and they want
to learn. The cla-sses are usually
arranged in a casual circle, and
the instructor is there only to
direct the discussions.
“There will be problems in
establishing any program, but as
time goes on, problems will
decrease in number,” she said.
This program is designed to
allow for flexibility, and it has
no set pattern. The teacher sets
up the classroom as he sees fit
for the learning situation.
A long range purpose of the
project is to bring about changes
in the regular college curriculum
through the example of the
success of the project. It would
take the form of changes in
institutional structure to permit
students and teachers to
originate and carry forward
experimental educational
programs as part of the regular
business of the college. Such
changes would include free time
anrt special facillUes for teacheis
to develop and try out new
materials, and permission for
students to take the new courses
without loss of credit. This
project also hopes to
demonstrate the possibilities of a
reduction or decrease in attrition
rate, particularly in the first two
years of college.
Homecoming Set
The spotlight will be on
Fayetteville Slate University
from October 11-16 as it
schedules its most dynamic
Homecoming ever. The theme
for this year’s celebration is,
“Power to the New Day”.
Floats with beautiful black
sisters, reunions with old friends,
the crowning of a breath takingly
beautiful queen, and “all day, all
night gigs” are only a few of the
gala activities planned for the
week. And one of the most
anticipated attractions will be
the football game where
Fayetteville State will play the
Winston-Salem State University
Rams in a true battle of the
season.
During halftime ceremonies
at the game. Miss Delphine
Robinson, a senior business
major from Rose Hill, will be
crowned “Miss Homecoming
1971-72”. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Robinson,
Jr. She was “Miss Sophomore”
in 1969 and she competed in the
1971 “Miss Fayetteville
Pageant”. At FSU, she is
corresponding secretary of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
and a member of the Voice Staff
and Student Senate. She enjoys
swimming, sewing, reading and
most of all, meeting and greeting
new people.
In Higher EducaHon
Restructuring Key
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Dr. Lyon
The restructure of higher
education in North Carolina is
the major concern of the many
problems we face today.
President Charles “A” Lyons
said during his prepared address
at the Convocation opening the
Fall Semester last Thursday.
There will be some changes
made in higher education, and
our concern is "how we ate
going to be affected by it.” At
present, he said. "There appears
to be no recognition that
institutions like Fayetteville
State e.xist.”
When the special session of
the Legislature convenes on the
26th, the role of the
predominately black institutions
will be to seek inclusion in the
legislation such things as
formulation of admission
policies on the local level.
“When control of your
admission policies is lost, then
the major control of your
destiny is lost,” he said. Dr.
Lyons has had experience in the
college admissions field.
A number of things have
already been decided he told his
audience. Among them he
named (1) a strong central board
(2) Boards of Trustees on
individual campuses (3) central
board control over budgeting (4)
local board control of faculty,
staff, and student affairs (5)
central board naming of
institution heads.
“I believe a strong central
board is a good thing,” Lyons
said. “But how the power is
shared with the local board is
important. We hope to forestall
all the power on the central
board.”
In citing the importance of
local institutions having control
over he said, “If I had been
admitted to college on the basis
of National standardized tests
and admissions policies, I don’t
know if I would be here today.”
Speaking to his students he said
“I know that if they were used
as the sole basis for admissions
many of you would not be
here.” Optimistically, though,
the president made clear that
when all is done, he expects
Fayetteville State to come out
ahead.
Delphine Robinson,
"Miss Homecoming"