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UNCW Graduate School
names first dean
Chalk up another first for The University
of North Carolina at Wilmington. In June,
UNCW named its first dean of the Graduate
School, Dr. Eric G. Bolen.
Bolen comes to the university with 10
years experience as associate dean of the
graduate.school at Texas Tech University in
Lubbock. “Hiring Dr. Bolen is another posi
tive step toward shaping this university into
a quality level institution,” said Provost
and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Charles L. Cahill.
“We have identified someone with exten
sive experience to lead the development of
our graduate program. His job is to make us
think as a graduate school, to help the fac
ulty and community become sensitive to the
fact that we_^a graduate level school,”
Cahill said.
Bolen is enthusiastic about his role as
dean. “I think it’s an exciting opportunity
and a challenge to be the first dean of the
UNCW Graduate School,” he said. “The big
gest challenge will be to strive for the quality
in graduate education that is commensurate
with the expectations of tiie university and
the system.”
UNCW begins fall semester with
enrollment of 6,581 students
The University of North Carolina at Wil
mington began the 1988/89 academic year
with an enrollment of 6,581 students, up
from 6,501 in the fall of 1987. Among these
are expected to be 1,300 new freshmen, 425
transfers, and 289 graduate students.
Last year’s freshman class numbered
1,650. This year, because of space and
budgetary limitations, UNCW is trying to
limit freshmen enrollment to no more than
1,400. Controls in the form of a $25 tuition
deposit, earlier application deadlines, and
increased admission requirements were
initiated this year.
However, according to Director of Under
graduate Admissions Diane Zeeman, total
undergraduate applications were up more
than 1,000 over 1987/88—5,524 freshmen
applied, 1,162 transfer students, and 81
unclassified.
Zeeman noted that as of August 1, of the
3,159 fi'eshmen and 553 transfers admitted,
1,401 freshmen and 442 transfers had paid
tuition deposits. “It is fairly typical to have
about 100 no shows at registration, so we
are on target with the 1,300 freshmen an
ticipated.”
Minority enrollment projections are not
yet available, although Z^man said that 208
new black students have been admitted, up
from 196 this time last year.
Although approximately 100 students
were on a waiting list for housing at the
first of the semester, Director of Auxiliary
Services Margaret Robison said that housing
placements were not a big problem. On-
campus housing accommodates 1,558 stu
dents and the housing office maintains a
referral service for apartments available in
the area.
A new residence hall with 400 beds is
under construction and is expected to be
open by fall 1989. A new cafeteria situated
near the student housing area is expected to |
be under construction within 60 days.
Also under construction are 550 addi
tional parking spaces, scheduled to open ■
during the fall of 1989. Currently, 3,800
parking spaces are available on campus.
Students, faculty and staff must pay a 150
annual parking fee, an increase of 14 over
last year.
To control congestion and to ease park
ing for commuters, students who live on
campus are issued resident decals and are
not permitted to park in the front part
of campus between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m.
weekdays.
For the first time this year, the residence
life staff surveyed all fi-eshmen planning to
live on campus with a person^ question
naire obtaining information about proposed
major, preferences, neatness requirements,
and activity interests. Using this informa
tion, roommates have been matched based
on anticipated compatibility and living
patterns.
An outgrowth of this survey is a new
program in Residence Hall 85 known as the
“Women in Business” floor for 18 freshmen
women. These women are planning to major
in business and have shown leadership po
tential based on prior activities. Faculty from
the Cameron School of Business Adminis
tration will be involved throughout the
school year to give programs about business
and to explain the variety of career oppor
tunities available.
Charles Maimone, assistant dean of stu
dents for residence life, said that business
related experience will also be provided for
the young women. “They will be required
to participate in hall government and be in
volved in a community service project each
semester. This is the first time our campus
has attempted this kind of residence hall
programming,” he said.
— Mimi Cunningham
Dr. Eric 6. Bolen
“Being the first dean,” he continued,
“will give me the opportunity to build, to
see things flourish, and to enhance the pro
grams that are here at UNCW.”
Educated at Utah State University (Ph.D.,
1967; M.S. 1962) and the University of Maine
(B.S., 1959), Bolen’s disciplinary interests
are plant and animal ecology, with emphasis
on the conservation and management of
natural resources; urban ecology; environ
mental history; and ornithology and related
biological sciences.
He holds membership in various conser
vation and omithologic^ societies including
the National Audubon Society, the Society of
Wetland Scientists, a life membership in the
Wilson Ornithological Society, and is both
an elected and life member of the American
Ornithologists’ Union.
Bolen has been recognized in Who's
Who in Science and in the American Men
and Women of Science, 15th ed., 1982. In
1981 he was named Paul Whitfield Horn
Professor, the highest faculty honor be
stowed by Texas Tech University.
Bolen’s office is located in Room 212,
Hoggard Hall. He can be reached at
(919)395-3787.
— Mimi Cunningham
Allison Norment contributed to this story.
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