The News Argus, February, 1980, Page 6
It’S In
The Library
KEEPS THEM IN SCHOOL
Duke Torian, a 1979 WSSU graduate, is an attendance counselor in the
Person County School System. Torian majored in psychology at WSSU and
served an internship in the Counseling Center. He assumed his post in
September.
Psst...
Some Facts Concerning
Circulation
The circulation department
is responsible for checking out
and receiving books borrowed
from the general book collec
tion of the library and is
located at the circulation desk
facing the main entrance to the
library building.
Books from the general
book collection in the stacks
may circulate for three weeks.
A five day grace period will
allow one to return a book
five days after the date due
without penalty; however, if
the book is not returned within
the five days then a fee of five
cents will be charged for each
day the book is kept overdue.
The library is in the process
of changing from the dewey
decimal system of classifica-
By News Argus Staff
A new educational trend is
slowly taking shape
throughout the United States--
adult education or, as some
call it, “lifelong learning.”
No longer is education being
viewed as just for the young.
Instead, it is increasingly being
seen as an activity to be en
joyed throughout life.
“The term ‘lifelong learn
ing’ is really meant to embrace
learning from the cradle to the
grave,” said Dr. K. Patricia
Cross, a research scientist at
Educational Testing Service
[ETS] in Berkeley, Calif. “In
practice, however, most peo
ple talking about lifelong l^r-
ning are primarily concerned
with adu]j learning because
adults present the new wrinkle
in education.”
Cross said it is an old-
fashioned notion that adults
have left their school days
behind forever. The enroll
ment of adults is rising,
especially in community col
leges, and research conducted
for the Commission on Non-
traditional Study indicates
that there is a massive move on
the part of colleges to attract
adult learners.
“By recent estimates, one of
every four adults is currently
involved in some kind of
organized learning activity,”
Cross said. “Experts expect
that by the year 2,000, when
adults over 30 will make up the
majority of the population.
tion to that of the Library of
Congress. Here are examples
of each system; Dewey
Decimal (398.03 J62]; Library
of Congress [Z, 711.2, C726,
1973]. Fiction books are also
found in the stacks. Here is au
example of that classification
system: Fiction T718, 3].
In order to check out a
book, one needs his current
I.D. card on which his social
security number has been pro
perly embossed. I.D. cards
are not exchangeable; each
student must check out books
on his own personal I.D.
card.Lost books must be
reported to the Library pro
mptly and paid for in order to
be allowed to continue to use
library materials.
The library has an open
stack policy which allows one
even more adults will be in
volved in some form of conti
nuing education.
“Colleges and universities
are particularly interested in
adult learners, both because
the traditional 18-year-old col
lege student is a diminishing
commodity and because the
greatest demand for further
educational opportunity
comes primarily from adults
with at least a high school
education,” she said.
Today, more than 80 per
cent of people between 20 and
24 are high school graduates.
This represents a significant
increase over the number of
their parents and grandparents
who earned high school
diplomas.
And the more formal educa
tion an adult has. Cross said,
the more likely he or she is to
seek additional education. A
to go to the stack area to
locate books for Tiimself.
Reserve books are books
designated for special reading
by instructors of certain
classes. Reserve books must
also be requested at the main
circulation desk. Depending
on the request of the instruc
tor, reserve books may be bor
rowed for the following dura
tions of time: library use only
(closed reserve), overnight use,
3 days and 1 week. Reserve
books may be checked out
beginning one hour before the
library closes and are due at 9
a.m. the next morning. Fines
for overdue reserve books are:
25 cents for the first hour or
fraction thereof, 10 cents for
each additional hour or frac
tion thereof.
college graduate, for example,
is about eight times as likely as
a high school dropout to par
ticipate in adult education.
But adults seeking new lear
ning experiences are not
limited to those enrolling in
colleges. In the 1970s, Cross
pointed out, the number of
adults attending adult schools,
employer-sponsored training
programs, or classes spon
sored by churches, community
organizations and similar
groups increased three times as
fast as their numbers in the
population.
While many adults pursue
learning for personal satisfac
tion, others need it to keep up
with technological advances in
their fields.
Alumni
Duke Ellington Torian, a
1979 graduate of WSSU, is
now an attendance Counselor
in the Person County School
System. Torian was a
psychology major at WSSU,
and served an internship in the
counseling center. He assum
ed his post as attendance
counselor and homebound
teacher in September 1979.
A new compulsory atten
dance law was added at the
same time Torian reported to
work. This law requires that a
school principal must notify a
child’s parent or guardian
after the child has had five
consecutive or a total of 10
unexcused absences. After 30
unexcused absences, the prin
cipal is required to notify the
local prosecutor.
Torian’s job is to visit every
school in Person County once
a month to identify potential
truants.
News
Torian is a native of Rox-
boro. North Carolina.
Clark
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team’s chances of winning the
national championship he
says, “we’re just trying to take
the games one at a time.”
Just like any good athlete,
Mark would like to play pro
fessional basketball if the op
portunity presented itself. “If
the opportunity doesn’t come
along,” he says, “the educa
tion that I have received here
at WSSU will enable me to get
a good job,” Mark says, “I’ve
always put my education
before playing basketball.
Coach Gaines, once told me
that whatever I do, do it good.
I would like to believe that I
can be a good student as well
as a good ballplayer.”
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