The
Volume X, Number 8
grant
By Julie Ball
News Editor
UNCA has just received its largest
academic grant ever.
The National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH) has given $94,840
to UNCA’s humanities program, ac
cording to Dr. Sandra Obergfell,
chairman of the humanities program.
The university will use the money
for a Faculty Development Seminar
in humanities and a Faculty Intern
ship Program. These programs are
designed to increase the coherence
of the four humanities courses that
all UNCA students must take, ac
cording to Obergfell.
"The goal of the grant is to foster
coherence throughout the curricu
lum," said Obergfell.
Increased coherence of the pro
gram will allow for greater flexibil
ity as professors will be able to
teach more than just one particular
course, according to Obergfell.
"I think the faculty is going to
have a better and deeper idea of the
program," she said.
The Faculty Development Seminar
frees UNCA faculty members from
teaching one course in order to do
in-depth study of a reading list con
sisting of 12 or 13 works spanning
the four courses.
Most faculty members are "anxious
to get to work on this," according
to Obergfell.
The Faculty Internship Program
will give faculty members experience
in a class which they have not
taught but intend to teach in the
future.
"The students need to know that
Please see Grant page 16
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April 2, 1987
UNCA
receives
Cats
Members of UNCA’s Rhapsodies in Blue pose
in the costumes for their upcoming show. They
will perform pieces by George Gershwin and
from the musi^ "Cats" on April 5 at 4 p.m. in
the Humanities Lecture Hall.
Photo—Clark Bell
Members are: (front row, left to right) Sue
McVay, Anthony Angel, Chuck Taft, Tracy Fa
gan, Linda Bailey (back row, left to right)
Nancy Skinner, Greg Miller, Cammie Howell,
Brad Summers and Loretta Boone.
Wilson named vice chancellor
By Leta Parks
Staff Writer
After over a year of searching,
UNCA now has a new vice chan
cellor of academic affairs.
The UNC Board of Governors has
approved the appointment of Dr.
Lauren Wilson, from Ohio Wesleyan
University, to fill the position va
cated by Dr. Laurence Dorr in 1986.
Wilson, currently executive assis
tant to the president of Ohio Wes
leyan, will assume his new position
July 1.
Wilson gave "the very enthusiastic
and positive way the search commit
tee dealt with my^ candidacy" as a
major reason for taking the position.
He also said the students he in
terviewed during his visit to UNCA
Please see Wilson page 16