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Thanksgiving Break: No Blue Banner Next Week
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“There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense." - Vice President Dan Quayie
The University of North Carolina at Asheviiie
Thursday, November 21, 1991
Acker: New
Trees Won't
Crowd Quad
Barry Bridges
Staff Writer
UN CA landscaping crews do not plan
to cut down any of the trees on the
quad area to make room for new ones,
according to Melissa Acker, building
and grounds supervisor.
“There are no plans at this time to cut
any trees down,” said Acker. “ Alot of
the trees on the quad are in decline,
and we’re just trying to prepare for the
future. We’ll do some of our normal
pruning in the wintertime, but that’s as
fer as our plans go.”
Accordii^ to Acker, the university
has purchased new trees and shrubs
with the aid of grants from America
the Beautiful and the Small Business
Administration, totalling $7,913.
Acker said that the crews are installing
the new trees now because they will
take decades to reach maturity.
“Planning ahead is really important
when you’re talking about landscap
ing,” said Acker. “In 20 years, you’re
going to have some nice shade trees to
sit under.
‘The best time to planta tree is a tong
time ago,"said Aacker. "The second
best time is now."
UNC Board Of Governors To
Review UNCA's Classification
University May Become First Liberal Arts School In System
Barry Bridges
Staff Writer
Photo By Eric Connor
Physical plant workers remove grass and top soil before planting
new trees in the Phillips Hall courtyard, Physical plant crews have
been landscaping and planting on the quad and other areas around
campus since October.
According to Chancellor Samuel
Schuman, a team of consultants has
recommended that UNCAbe reclassi
fied as a level-one liberal arts college
in the North Carolina university sys
tem. Schuman reported this recom
mendation at a Nov. 14meetingofthe
UNCA Administrative Assembly.
“In effect, it’s official recognition by
the state system of what we have pro
claimed all along to be our mission,”
said Schuman. “It recognizes that we
are principally an undergraduate insti
tution whose focus is on teaching, not
research.”
According to Schuman, four con
sultants from the Carnegie Commis
sion for the Advancement of Teaching
were hired by the UNC General Ad
ministration and Board of Governors
to review the missions of the 16 con
stituent schools in the state system.
Schuman said that the team “enthusi
astically endorsed” the reclassifica
tion of UNCA from a level-two com
prehensive university to a level-one
liberal arts university.
“The state classifies all the constitu
ent campuses, and the classes are com
prehensive, doctoral, and research,”
said Schuman. “Within each of those
three classifications, there is a ‘one’
and a ‘two,’ two meaning primarily
regionally-based, and one meaning
more of a national reputation.
“We have been classified as a com
prehensive-two institution, which
means we are a regional institution.
What the consultants are recommend
ing is that the state add the liberal-arts
classificatioiL We would be the only
one [in the UNC system],” said Schu-
man.
According to Larry Wilson, UNCA’s
vice chancellor for academic affairs,
the Carnegie Commission is an affili
ate of the Carnegie Foundation. Wil
son said that the Carnegie Foundation
is a private organization that performs
various services for university sys
tems.
“It has a pretty broad range of re
sponsibilities, one of which is devel
oping classifications for colleges and
universities,” said Wilson. “They is
sued a report called ‘ A Nation At Risk’
a few years ago, a fairly comprehen
sive study of colleges and universi
ties in the country. They issue reports
on the status of higher education and
try to help improve it.”
“It was a heavyweight group of
consultants,” said Schumaa “They
included the presidents of the Uni
versity of Michigan and Penn State.
Nine of the 16 constituents asked for
changes in state classificatioa
“One of the requests was partially-
granted, and one was wholly- granted.
We were the one that was wholly-
granted. That is, I think, wonderful
news for us.”
Schumansaid that the Board of Gov
ernors will now take the consultants’
suggestion under consideration. He
also said that former Interim Chan
cellor Roy Carroll deserves credit for
his efforts to make UNCA a liberal
arts institution.
“The consultants’ report will now
be discussed and weighed and prob
ably modified by the Board of Gov
ernors,” said Schuman. “I think Roy
Carroll had a great deal to do with
this.”
Tentative Site Found For Daycare Facility
Sonya Klepper
Staff Writer
UNCA, in a joint effort with Highland Hospital, MAHEC
and the Forestry Service, hopes to lease and renovate the
old grammar school on Vivian Street as a daycare facility
for students, faculty and staff, according to Don Lisnerski,
associate professor of management.
“If we don’t have a facility, we will not have a program,”
Eric lovacchini, vice chancellor for student affairs, said.
“The grammar school is ideal for what we want to do.”
Highland Hospital owns the grammar school. UNCA
officials are waiting on the hospital’s decision as to whether
or not it is feasible to lease the building, according to
lovacchini.
“We expect to hear fiom Highland Hospital sometime
after Thanksgiving,” lovacchini said.
If the building can be leased, the childcare needs of
UNCA and its partnere. Highland Hospital, MAHEC and
the Forestry Service, will be met, lovacchini said.
Highland Hospital, MAHEC, the Forestry Service and
UNCA are the foitr largest employers in the immediate
area.
Lisnerski, at a recent Faculty Senate meeting, said one
option is to lease the old grammar school on a short-term
basis, two or three years, as a trial run.
According to lovacchini, if the program is a success on a
short- term basis, the grammar school might be purchased
or another site for a childcare facility could be located for
continued use.
A management company based in Nashville, Term., Cor
porate Childcare, will provide UNCA and its partners with
direction in how to open up and operate the childcare
facility, lovacchini said. Their role is to take care of
renovations needed in order to get the facility up to code.
“We’ve got some start-up costs but no dollars,” lovacchini
said. “It is possible that Corporate Childcare is willing to
finance start up costs but we are still looking at our
options.”
lovacchini added that, like any other student service, the
users of the service will pay a fee.
“All of the expenses before and all of the expenses after
will have to come from the users,” lovacchini said. “I don’t
see us, as an institution, asking the state to build this
fecility. I don’t see it in the priorities.”
“If we get the facility, we would look at forming a
corporation,” lovacchini said. “The corporation would
consist of representatives from each of the four partners
with aboard of directors who would eventually operate the
childcare facility.”
If this plan works, lovacchini said the childcare corpora-
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Staff Photo By Genie Castillo
This former grammar school on Vivian Street could be the future site of a daycare facility for the
children of UNCA students, faculty and staff. University officials have proposed a short-term lease of the
building from its owner. Highland Hospital. The school is located a few blocks from campus in the
Montford historic district.
SGA Plans To Create
Campus Smoking Policy
Summer
Session
Faculty
Pay Scale
1982
1991
Summer School Budget Gaps
May Upset Faculty Pay Scale
Connie Krochmal
Staff Writer
The Student Government Associa
tion (SGA) has formed a committee to
establ^h a smoking policy for the cam
pus, according to Steve Alexander,
executive to the SGA president
“From what I have heard rumor-wise,
they are planning on blocking off pretty
much every area from smokers except
the outside,” said Lea Boccia, a sopho
more with an undecided major.
Though SGA considered adopting a
no-smoking policy last year, the mea
sure did not pass, according to
Alexander.
The committee, which will be com
prised of students, faulty, and staff, is
headed by Jennifer King, executive
for internal relations, according to
Alexander.
A ban on smoking in buildings at
UNCA would bring the campus in line
with some other campuses in the state
university system, according to Sharyn
G. McDonald, director of Highsmith
Center.
“Chapel Hill and North CarolinaState
■^^versity are the only two that still
allow smoking that I know of,”
McDonald said. “UNC-Greensboro
and UNC-Charlotte have both banned
it. I went to a meeting and was told by
other people at the conference that
some universities in other states were
adopting similarpolicies. The Univer
sity of Virginia does not allow smok
ing.”
UNCA does not have a smoking
policy that applies uniformly to all
buildings on campus, according to
McDonald. She said smokers can
smoke in areas or buildings that have
not been designated as non-smoking.
“I don’t know how they decided
Kaipenwas non- smoking,” McDonald
said. “The library also decided they
would not allow smoking.”
Susanna Roper
Associate Editor
According to Thomas Cochran, as-
41.94% sociate vice chance'llor for academic
affairs, UNCA is facing a $13,000
deficit in the operating budget for this
coming summer session. “The money
is just not there unless we go outside
the system,” he said.
Cochran prepared a report on the
operation of UNCA’s summer school
session and submitted it to the Faculty
Senate, which met Nov. 14.
According to Cochran, summer ses
sion has a separate budget, in terms of
instruction, from the regular term bud
get. Both budgets are funded based on
the calculation of a full-time equiva
lent (FTE) figure determined by the
state.
“FTE is a calculation that we use for
both students and faculty. We are
funded on the basis of what’s called
Figures Courtesy Of Tom Cochran, Associate Vice Chancellor Fof Aademic Affairs full-time student equivalent in the
Full
Professor
Associate
Professor
Assistant
$465
440
420
$660
583
530
32.50%
1.19%
summer and during the academic
year,” said Cochran.
Full-time students are those taking
12 or more credit hours. The FTE
figure is reached by adding up all the
students’ semester hours, then di
viding that sum by 12 to determine
the equivalent of full-time students
UNCA has. The state’s allocation to
the academic budget is then based on
this composite number, said Cochran.
The number of faculty members
the uiuversity needs is also deter
mined by this figure. At this time,
Cochran said, the student-teacher
ratio is 16 to 1 at UNCA.
The report shows an improvement
in summer school faculty salary over
the pastlO years. However, when
compared to academic year salaries,
Cochran said, faculty are receiving
only half the compensation for their
summer school instruction. In an
ideal situation, summer school in-
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