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NORTH CAROLINA ESLEYAN COLLEGE THE Rocky Mount, N.C. ECREE VOL. 14, NO. 1 ''Wesleyan's Student Voice Since 1984” FRIDAY, SErrEMBER 11,199S Wesleyan opens site in Durham 1 IM PROMPTU CARD GAMES KEPT STUDENTS BUSY WHILE HURRICANE PASSED BY. Hurricane Bonnie blows through campus but causes little damage On Wednesday, Aug. 26, North Carolina Wesleyan College was a flurry of activity. It had everyone anxious with anticipa tion of the prospective arrival that evening. But what was all the ex citement about? Who was this, some new student? A new fac ulty member? Who? No, the cause of all the com motion and activity was Hurri cane Bonnie. This huge storm, stretching almost 400 miles across at one point, had been bearing down on North Carolina for the last three to four days. And now, with winds in excess of 120 mph, she was almost here. Fortunately, because classes were not starting for another week, the Wesleyan campus was almost empty. The first-year stu dents were not due until Friday. Upperclassmen were due back on Saturday and Sunday. The only students on campus were the resi dent assistants, the members of the men’s and women’s soccer teams, the volleyball team, and a handful of others, back for other reasons (one came back early from Kinston to help the post of fice with a large mailing for the admission office). The College was pretty well prepared. The approximately 80 students were moved into two of the large residence halls, Nash and Edgecombe. The students brought pillows, comforters, and flash- (Continued on Back Page) North Carolina Wesleyan Col lege held the grand opening Wednesday of its new Adult Learning Site classroom facility in Durham, near the Research Tri angle Park. Located at the comer of Mi ami Boulevard and Alexander Drive, this site will compliment NCWC’s existing course offer ings in Raleigh, designed to serve the needs of working adults who seek a bachelor’s degree. “From our Raleigh locations. North Carolina Wesleyan has been helping working adults in the Triangle earn their college degrees for almost 20 years,” said N.C. Wesleyan President John White. “The success of our pro gram leads us to open the Durham site for the convenience of our many students there. We are re sponding to the demand for such programs by adult learners and their employers.” At the Durham site, the B.S. in Business Administration will initially be offered, with other programs to be added within the next year. Designed to meet the needs of working adult learners, most classes will be offered on an accelerated, facilitated learn ing format, known a.s ADVAN TAGE. This learning formal is bascil on the facilitation of applied knowledge involving students in participatory activities, group dis cussions, written exercises, projects and presentations. AD VANTAGE classes are offered on five- and eight-week sessions with one four-hour evening class per week. The fall semester at the new Durham site includes three ses sions. Students were able to reg ister for one session or all three at the same time. During this first session, classes are offered in ac celerated five- and eight-week formats, and also in the non-ac- celerated, 12-week format. Al though the grand opening was this week, the site opened Aug. 17 and classes began Aug. 24. Since 1979, NCWC has of fered undergraduate classes in Raleigh. Programs currently of fered include the B.S. in Busi ness Administration, B.S. in Com puter Information Systems, B.S. in Accounting, and B.A. in Jus tice Studies. NCWC faculty adds faces over summer This summer saw the addition of a number of new faces on the faculty of Wesleyan. They are: Dr. Erica F. Kosal, assistant professor of Biology, earned her BS degree from Michigan State University and her MS from North Carolina State University. Dr. Kosal received her Ph.D just this past May. She has been an ■■adjunct for the last three years at , Meredith College while complet ing her doctoral degree. She will be teaching biology and environ mental science courses. Dr. Kosal enjoys teaching a lot. When asked what excited her most about being at Wesleyan, she responded that she “likes the small class size because of the potential for exploration into new activities in lab, and the interac tion with students.” Deborah H. King, visiting as sistant professor of Education, earned her BS and MA degrees at East Carolina University where she is a doctoral student. She was the principal at the New Hope Elementary School in Wilson and previously at Contentnea Elemen tary School in Kinston. Dr. Richard Stafford, associ ate professor of Theatre and di rector of the Wesleyan Theatre, joins North Carolina Wesleyan from Piedmont College in Geor gia where he was Chair of the Department of Speech and The atre Arts. He earned the BS de gree from Stephen F. Austin Uni versity, the MA at the University of Texas at Tyler, and the Ph.D. at Texas Tech University. In ad dition to directing many theatre productions. Dr. Stafford has pub lished several novels. Karin L. Zipf, assistant pro fessor of History, earned her BA degree at Wake Forest Univer sity and MA at the University of Georgia. Zipf says she is excited to be teaching at Wesleyan be cause it means she is back home (in Eastern North Carolina). Zipf also said that she is “ex cited about the opportunity to teach American history, discuss- (Continued on Back Page)
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