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VOLUME 23
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE
NUMBER 8
COLLEGE FOR SENIORS MAKES DONATION TO ENDOWMENT FUND
Greg Deal
Staff Writer
The College for Seniors, which is a part of the
North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement,
recently made a $10,000 donation to UNCA to
help the university meet a $250,000 goal in a
challenge grant proposed by the National Endow
ment of the Humanities.
“The National Endowment for the Humanities
awarded a grant to UNCA that was a conditional
grant,” said Patsy Reed, UNCA chancellor. “It was
in support of an endowed chair for a teaching
professor in the Humanities.”
Reed said that the conditions of the grant pro
vides UNCA with $250,000 if the university was
able to raise $750,000 to match it.
She said that the donation by the College for
Seniors was a big part of UNCA meeting its
prescribed goal. “This is a major contribution to
, it,” said Reed.
The N ational Endowment of the
Humanities is a national agency
that funds various projects to en
hance the study of Humanities
across the United States.
“We have, intensely over the
past year, campaigned to raise
money to meet the challenge,”
said Reed. “We have pledges, at
this point, to meet it, and we
consider the campaign to be a
success.”
In addition to the College for
Seniors donation, Reed said that
there were also contributions
from the general administration
and private individuals. “We had
good public support,” said Reed.
The donation of the $10,000
was made at the College for Se-
UNCA ^ tmnAA.
Dr. Norman Gengler, president of the College for Seniors presents $10,000. check to Chancellor Patsy B.
Reed.
Photo by Annemarie Riley
niors’ first brown-bag luncheon
on Oct. 6. Norman Gengler,
president of the Board of College
for Seniors, made a presentation
of a three-foot-long, poster-board
check to UNCA at the luncheon.
“We felt that it was right for us
to give some monies,” said
Gengler. “UNCA has been so
good to College for Seniors, we
felt that it was good for the Col
lege for Seniors to be good to
UNCA.”
Gengler said that the prime feel
ing behind the board’s” decision
to make the contribution was be
cause it wanted to let UNCA
know that the College for Seniors
feels that it is a part of the univer
sity.
Fall Fling Festivities
Robin Werner took a spin in the Gyro at the Fall Fling last week.
Career Fair Will Be Held On Campus
Dan Clifton
Staff Writer
Ptiolo by Lot Ray
There will be a Career Fair held at
UNCA on October 28, in Karpen and
Lipinsky Halls, between 10 a.m. and 1
p.m. All UNCA students and the entire
Asheville community are welcome to
attend.
Company representatives, school sys
tems, non-profit organizations, and
graduate universities will all be involved
with the fair, and they will help answer
some of the questions presented to col
lege students and graduating seniors.
“We are pleased with the diversity of
opportunities represented at the fair,”
said Dale Wachowiak, director of the
Career Center. “We are very grateful for
the time and energy recruiters give our
students. Not only is the information
valuable, but many students are pro
vided with their first opportunities for
networking and marketing themselves. ”
The Career Fair is being organized by
the Career Center, and it has reported
that 35 organizations and schools are
already registered for this year’s fair,
while over 40 are expected. Some of the
organizations include Wachovia Bank,
U.S. Secret Service, IDS Financial Ser
vices, Roche Biomedical Laboratories,
and Champion International.
For graduating seniors and people who
are looking for internship positions,
these organizations and many others at
the Career Fair will provide valuable
contacts, according to Wachowiak.
“Students don’t necessarily receive a
lot of response with just sending out
resumes,” said Wachowiak. “At the
Career Fair there is an opportunity to
make face-to-face contact with a repre
sentative, which helps a company see
you as more than just a resume.”
It is important for graduating seniors
to make these connections because it
starts the networking process which is
important when looking for a job, ac
cording to Kerri Day Keller, assistant
director at the Career Center.
“Networking is the top way people get
jobs, but it’s not necessarily who you
know, it’s how you utilize who you
know,” said Keller. “Networking is re
ally starting out with a few contacts and
building on them. It’s kind of like a tree,
and you keep branching out and grow
ing. It might not be until that fifi:h
branch of contacting people that you
find an actual job opportunity.”
Wachowiak does point out some tips
for people attending the fair who are
going to be looking for job opportuni
ties.
“Seniors should look presentable, neat
and clean, and should have a resume
ready and available to present to the
representatives,” said Wachowiak.
“When they are talking, they should
behave professionally, ask questions and
show enthusiasm.”
The Career Fair is not only for gradu
ating seniors, it will also present oppor
tunities for students to look at graduate
schools and to learn about various ca
reers and different lines of work that can
be incorporated within specific majors.
Representatives from Western Caro
lina University and Winthrop Univer
sity will be in attendance, as well as the
National Climatic Data Center,
Transylvania County School Systems,
and the Affordable Housing Coalition.
“I think people who are early on in
their college career often don’t know
about the finer points of careers or what
types of jobs are available to them,” said
Wachowiak. “Students will see various
aspects of certain careers, and will get a
clearer picture by talking to people who
are really out there doing it. The stu
dents will get a fine tuned image of the
different classifications of these particu
lar jobs.”
Wachowiak and Keller point out that
the Career Fair is only the beginning to
Please see "Fair," p. 8
New CERUFICAnON PROGHAM POSES CHAUINGE FOR EDUCMION GmJAIES
Dan Clifton
Staff Writer
A new national board certification program is in
place for teachers of grades kindergarten through
twelve. This voluntary process will not replace the
state certification program, but will provide teach
ers with benefits and prestige, as stated by the
National Board for Professional Teaching Stan
dards.
According to Karen Garr, teacher advisor to
North Carolina Governor James B. Hunt, there
were 1,500 teachers, nationwide, who initially
started out in this program last year, with 535
ending up finishing the process. In North Caro
lina, 100 teachers started the process, and 52
finished.
Even though teachers do finish the process, there
are no guarantees that they will receive the board
certification. “Only 20 percent of teachers that go
through this standards program will actually get
the national certification,” said Arthea J. (Charlie)
Reed, chair of the Education Department. Each
teacher who finishes the process must go before a
national board that evaluates their work and de
cides if it merits certification, according to Reed.
The process does have an assessment fee of $975,
but Governor Hunt has helped passed legislation
to support the teachers.
“The state has allocated money so that the teach
ers will be reimbursed for the $975 fee, but only for
the first time that they go through the process,”
said Garr. “Teachers are also authorized up to
three days of release time for working on portfolios
or other board activities, and we award a four
percent pay raise to teachers who become nation
ally certified.”
In other states like Mississippi, teachers who pass
the certification requirements will receive a $3000
bonus when 80 percent of the board’s certification
areas are available to teachers.
Reed pointed out that the curriculum won’t
change within the education department here at
UNCA.
“Because of the emphasis
in this institution on critical
and creative thinking, as well
as the integration of disci
pline, our students are go
ing to be well prepared if
they choose to go through
this process,” said Reed.
“They’re fiarther ahead than
people who might have gone
through other programs.”
Currently there are over
300 students involved in the
education program at
UNCA, which accounts for
approximately 10 percent
of the total student popula
tion. According to Reed,
they will still get state certi
fication as they always have,
but the faculty will be attempting to prepare them
for the national certification process.
Arthea J. [Charlie] Reed, professor of education
Photo by Randy Marrs
“My goal is that all
UNCA education stu
dents will move on to be
come nationally certified
at the earliest possible
date,” said Reed. “I think
that, eventually, a univer
sity will be held account
able for the percentage of
graduates who are nation
ally certified.”
In order to apply for the
national certification pro
cess, a teacher must have at
least three years experience
teaching. Also, the program
is in a trial period where
only the areas of middle
school language arts teach
ers or middle school inter-
Please sec "Certification," p. 8