THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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CAMPUSVOICE
Monday, December 18, 2006
Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, N.C.
51st Issue
Placement tests:
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What is their place
in students ’ education?
By KENNY CREECH
and
CHRISTIAN TURNAGE
Staff Writers
Every year, legions of students
walk across college campuses for
the first time. In the community
college system all of them
have to take a placement test
to show where they are in their
understanding of the information
required for college.
Many of us don’t understand
why we have to take these tests,
or what they’re used for.
Placement tests are required
in the community college
system because of a statewide
open door policy. Any person
who applies at a community
college is accepted, but what’s
the best way to put everyone
in the classes they belong in?
Placement tests.
Sharon Price in the advising
center uses these test scores
to point students in the right
direction.
“Based on test scores, students
take classes to build skill levels
in math, reading and English,”
she said.
Many students test into college
classes and don’t need to take
developmental classes at all,
but for others, developmental
classes are a must.
Some students haven’t used
algebra in years and must relearn
math in order to go on to college
Students take a placement test at Wayne Community College.
Photo by AMANDA HESTAND
level math classes. Others don’t
know the importance of math
and English in high school and
so they don’t prepare themselves
for college level classes.
Of all the placement tests
that you must take at WCC, the
Computer Information Systems
070 test is the only one that
is not required by the state.
Students must take this test to
get into most CIS classes or to
take online courses.
Placement tests ensure that no
one gets into a class he or she
can’t handle.
Who decides what you
must score to place out of
developmental classes? These
scores vary from school to
school. Up until now it has been
the decision of each individual
school.
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Forty-three students inducted into Phi Theta Kappa
By CHRISTIAN TURNAGE
Staff Writer
On Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. in Moffatt
Auditorium, the international
honor society. Phi Theta Kappa,
inducted 43 new members. All
new inductees are required to
have at least 16 credit hours and
a 3.5 grade point average.
Phi Theta Kappa does a variety
of things in the community,
including helping with Relay for
Life and the Wayne Community
College Foundation Golf
Tournament.
Its president, Michelle Rogers,
received a leadership award
for her work on Return the
Warmth, a plastic bottle drive
that earned $500 to purchase
fleece jackets for the Free Will
Baptist Children’s Home.
Phi Theta Kappa has two
induction ceremonies each year.
Inductees are:
Christa Bizzel, Paul Bollin,
Ashley Bower, Lisa Cantrell and
Tamara Carlson.
Creech, Barbara Denning and
Donna Doering.
Brenda Elam-Coney, Caroline
Finch, Shelly Gross and Hope
Hughes, Brittany Johnson, Susan
Joyner, Kimberly Kennedy and
Michael Lang, Amy Larson,
Kari Lee, Michael Maness
and Lashonda Miller, Laveme
Murriell, Kelly Pate, Susan Paus
and Larry Pereira.
Christen Price, Shannon
Roberson and Donna Rogers.
Jennifer Sarmento, Carey
Speirs, Carol Tsui, John Turner
and Brittany Vick.
Morgan Wall, Jennifer Ward,
Joyce Waters, Jamie Weeks and
Also, Evan Chan, William Monika Lai. • Respass, Maria Rigdon, Ryan Susan Williams.
Two Wayne Community College students honored
Courtney King
Courtney King, a student at
Wayne Community College,
has been awarded a scholarship
by the N.C. Association for the
Education of ;Young Children
(NCaeyc).
•Mrs. King, who will complete
an associate in science degree
in early childhood education
in 2007, was presented a $500
Barnes-Barnette Educational
Scholarship. This scholarship
is awarded to a student who
has a minimum 3.0 grade point
average arid is a member of
NCaeyc. It is-renewable as long
as the student pursues a degree
in early childhood education.
Mrs. King plans to continue
her education at East Carolina
University and earn a
bachelor’s degree .in birth-
through-kindergarten teacher
eduQation.
Matthew McNair
Matthew McNair was named demonstrated leadership and
student leader by the Southern
Regional Council on Black
American Affairs. McNair,
who represented North Carolina
at the Organization’s annual
conference in Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., received a $500 scholarship
to participate in the event.
He was nominated by WCC
president Dr. Ed Wilson-and
met .the selection criteria of
promotion of African Americans
in community colleges.
McNair is involved in the
college’s Human Services Club
and is the first president of
the Minority Male Mentoring
Group.
He was named to Who’s Who
Among Students at WCC and is
an active volunteer in community
and church activities.