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16The Tar HeelThursday, July 13, 1978
Why stu
summer?
by Karen Eagle
Staff Writer
It is 93 degrees; humidity is 100 percent.
You have just spent $128 and you are
sitting in a classroom wondering, "Is it
worth it?"
In a five-week period, students find
themselves wading through volumes of
information in record time.
According to Richard Settle, the
RTVMP associate director of operations,
"A student doesn't really have time to
absorb what he hears through lectures or
reads because the class moves so fast."
In spite of the heat, expense and work,
people come to summer school. According
to Mildred Prillaman, administrative
assistant to the summer school director,
the summer program offers many
advantages for a student.
Prillaman said summer school gives
students the opportunity to graduate
early by going year-round. Students can
take courses that might be closed-out or
not offered during the regular terms or
bring up quality point averages.
Prillaman also said that some students
are visitors who are not in a degree
program here at UNC, but are taking
summer courses for enrichment.
Ken Mack, a senior majoring in
psychology, said he was in summer school
"to bring up the Q.P." Terry Casey, a
speech communications major, is
attending summer school "to lighten the
load during the regular year."
Kathy Henderson, a junior majoring in
journalism, is going to summer school to
get ahead. Kathy said, "I got advanced
standing of a semester, so I decided to take
a semester in the summer and graduate
early."
Prillaman said, "Preparation time
between classes has been cut so severely
that teachers have to cut down on outside
requirements."
But, Prillaman said class enrollment in
the summer is so low that more individual
attention is available. She said a class that
may attract 35 students during the fall or
spring may attract only 15 students in the
summer.
Keith Norwood, a broadcast journalism
major, believes that "good professors keep
the quality up and continue to make the
courses interesting."
Dr. Russell Graves, professor of
dramatic art, thinks the quality depends
on the subject and student. He said,
"Some courses are best taught under
intense circumstances, such as foreign
languages."
The most popular courses taken are
physical education, business, education,
and psychology in that order. Prillaman
said, "Summer lends itself to physical
education. If you have one heavy lecture
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course, your physical education course
won't interfere."
Other popular courses are chemistry,
physics, and other lab courses. Prillaman
feels that students take lab courses in the
summer so their fall and spring terms are
free for extra activities.
There has been a slight decline in
summer school enrollment for about the
last five years. "This is a trend that's
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Prillaman said. Enrollment is generally
less during the second session, she added.
The total enrollment for the 1977
summer school was 11,784 with 6,675
students attending the first session and
5,109 students attending the second
session. In comparison 12,047 students
attended summer school in 1972.
According to Prillaman, the cost of
summer school is approximately 40
percent of a regular term's tuition and
fees.
Part of tuition pays the salaries of the
faculty and staff. Prillaman says there are
approximately 600 faculty members and
about 750 courses. Over 30 percent of the
faculty are full professors.
How do professors feel about summer
school? "It's refreshing," said Graves.
Because of the shorter period, the
material has to be restructured.
Settle said, "Any student who exerts
the energy to go to summer school wants
or needs the class a little more."
If you are the student sitting in the
classroom wiping sweat from your brow,
wondering why you are here, stop
wondering and pay attention. Those five
weeks are shorter than you think!
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