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reached for comment about the
March 8 meeting.
ECSU is not the only university
in the UNC system having
debates over whether to
purchase or rent books.
There has been a controversy at
Appalachian State University in
Boone, where student and
faculty senates have had
opposing votes, with faculty
voting to change the current
rental policy, and students voting
to keep it.
Student Government
Association Vice-President Nick
Albu said there will be speak-
outs and debates, though nothing
like the marches at ECSU.
“We’re organizing a full-fledged
campaign on campus,” Albu
said.
Bill Ward, Senior Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs
at ASU, feels that students
should want to keep their books.
“Of course, I could understand
it if it’s some intro to sociology
book or something that 40 yeaj s
from now they might want to use
as a doorstop,” Ward said.
Books cost on average about
$900 a yeai' nationally, according
to a survey by N.C. Public
Interest Research Groups.
Currently, students at ASU pay
$76 per semester.
“It has been argued by the
Faculty Senate that the system
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ECSU students display protest signs diiing last November’s rally.
Photo by Toby Tate
stands in the way of academic
freedom, forcing professors to
collaborate on a series of
textbooks over a three-year time
frame,” said Miriam N.
Makhyoun, SGA President at
ASU, in an e-mail. “A committee
has been formed in order to study
the cost-benefit analysis of
maintaining or ditching the
program.”
Unlike the committee charged
with the analysis of the program
at Elizabeth City, which has five
students and five professors, this
committee has only three
students and five professors,
Makhyoun said in the e-mail.
“Our student administration is
in full support of keeping the
program, but perhaps willing to
look into ways in which it can
be made more efficient,” she
said. “We feel that the initial
proposals set forth by the Faculty
Senate looked to ‘throw the baby
out with the bath water,’ so to
speak. At the end of the semester
our Provost, Dr. Aeschleman,
should be forming a decision.”
Recently, Fayetteville State
University faculty voted
unanimously to end its long
standing book rental policy in
favor of buying textbooks.
According to Jeffery Womble,
Director of Public Relations for
FSU, a student survey was done
prior to the vote in which
Womble said some students
supported the change while
some were in disagreement,
though he did not know the exact
number of supporters and
dissenters. The policy is due to
take effect in Fall of 2005.
Most colleges and universities
have never had a rental policy,
but the College of the Albemarle
does have a program to help
students pay for books.
According to Ray Scaffa, Dean
of Students at COA, that’s a good
thing.
“I don’t think I could afford it
nowadays,” Scaffa said. “The
prices are very high.”
Roanoke Bible College helps
keep the prices of books low,
about $250 per semester, by
buying them from an on-line
bookseller. The e-service has a
list of books from the school, and
guarantees them to be in stock.
Exie Anderson, Secretary of
Finance for RBC, said there has
never been a problem with
students buying books.
“The majority of students keep
their books for their personal
library,” Anderson said. “So they
usually don’t sell their books
back (to the bookstore).”
The controversy at ASU is due
to be discussed again during
student government elections in
mid-March.
“The student/faculty committee
will have to battle it out,” said
Ward. “We’ll just have to wait
and see what happens.”
As for Ward’s personal feelings
on textbook prices, he said,
“Frankly, textbooks are a racket.”
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ECSU faculty
look on as
Burnim and
Tippett sign
research
agreement.
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Grant
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contact information for each
municipality, and the final report
will summarize the results of the
surveys. The report also will
recommend ways to improve the
working relationship between
the municipalities and NCDOT.
Researchers at ECSU will be
conducting the study, which
NCDOT is funding through state
and federal research dollars.
According to Tippett, grant
money is not easy to come by.
“Like your funds, our funds are
tight,” Tippett joked with
Bumim at the meeting. “If we
had lots of money, we could
spend a lot.”
Tippett also felt that improving
roads would have an effect on the
quality of education.
“Good roads lead to better
schools, which leads to higher
SAT scores,” he said.
The results of the study will be
used to develop a training
curriculum for small
municipality community leaders
through the University of North
Carolina Institute of
Government. The information
gathered also will encourage
collaboration between small
rural municipalities and the
department in order to aid in the
development of a more efficient,
environmentally sensitive and
modem transportation system in
North Carolina.
ECSU representatives present at
the meeting were Dr. Claudie
Mackey, associate vice
chancellor for academic affairs/
external relations. Dr. Eileen
Oliver, dean of the School of
Education and Psychology, Dr.
Scott Bradshaw, director of
institutional assessment and Mr.
William Barker, head of the
aviation science program.
Mayor Fred Yates of Winfall and
Everett Ward, NCDOT special
assistant to the deputy secretary
and director of historically black
college and university programs,
accompanied Tippett to help
present the grant.
Dr. Gloria Ktiight,
Music Dept, chair
and Dr. Glenda
Griffin attend
Art Dept. Silent
Auction to benefit
the ECSU choir’s
trip to Nigeria.
Photo by Rich
Harvey
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W.
Boycott
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The group also wanted to move
this fall’s homecoming game but
Mickey L. Burnim, ECSU
chancellor, has denied the
request.
“I am sensitive to the desire and
the needs of the alumni, but the
university is part of this
community,” Burnim said.
Burnim formed a committee
called the Chancellor’s Blue
Ribbon Committee for
Coimnunity Relations to see if
some compromise could be
reached between the hotels and
alumni so the boycott could be
avoided.
In early January the alumni
group said it would give the
ECSU committee until Feb. 5 to
have an agreement with city
hotels in place, pledging them to
maintain reasonable rates during
homecoming.
Norman said the rates were
unsatisfactory. He also said,
“Unless they come to us in
writing with reasonable rates, the
boycott is on.”
Many business leaders in
Elizabeth City have expressed
concern about the potential
economic loss to the area should
the boycott go forward.
The negotiations with alumni
and the hotel owners remain
unresolved at press time.
Construction
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center, which was due to be
finished by spring of 2005. The
renovation of Johnson Hall,
originally scheduled for fall of
2004, was pushed back to the
summer of 2005, Lane hall is set
to begin renovation in the
summer of 2005, and the interior
renovation to Trigg Hall in 2006.
Check out the ESCU
office of design and construction
website for a chronology of
events for renovation and
construction of academic
facilities.