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THE SUMMER ECHO
Monday, July 24, 1967
The Director’s
Corner
By Cecil L. Patterson
Acting Director, Summer School
Summer Session Miscellanea
About 1,400 students are en
rolled. Excluding the various
sponsored Institutes, there are
nearly 200 courses and 80 teach
ers. Two Institutes are spon
sored by the National Science
Foundation, two are conducted
under the auspices of the Na
tional Defense Education Act,
and two others are financed in
part by various State Agencies.
Five of the Institutes are
continuations or expansion of
previous ones. The NDEA Insti
tute for Advanced Study for
Educational Media Specialists is
new. This Institute is also unique
in that its activities are co
ordinated with a long-term pro
gram—also NDEA financed—for
training Media Specialists. In
addition to the extra-murally
financed programs, the College
also supports a Reading Clinic
and a Speech Education Work
shop from its own funds.
Changes
The nine-week session began a
week later than usual in order to
reduce the conflict between the
Public School calendar school
and Open week of Summer
School. Another innovation is
the six-week Intersession. For
the first time in recent years,
the graduate student who cannot
spend nine weeks here can enter
selected courses in a six-week
session. This session began 26
June in order to allow for still
more time between the end of
the Public Schools and the begin
ning of our summer classes. The
Intersession provides 14 regular
graduate courses and two work
shops. It is too early to say how
this experiment is working out.
Services
Housing.—New Residence 400
(for women) is open this sum
mer. The addition of this facility
has eliminated the lack of hous
ing from which we suiTered in
previous summers.
Dining HaXL.—The Dining Hall
has switched to cafeteria-type
service. This change is reflected
both in the new arrangement of
the meal books and in the kinds
of food available.
Student Union.—New to those
students who were not here dur
ing the regular session is the
Student Union Center. This
unit provides an air-conditioned
setting for various types of in
door games plus a planned and
supervised program of activities.
If you don’t know a game like
bridge, the Union personnel will
teach you. If you must engage
in strenuous activities in a non-
A-V Programs Funded
By James E. Parker, Director, Audiovisual Center
The 1966-67 school year has
been a bounteous year for the
Audiovisual-Television Center.
Three special projects have been
funded by the U. S. Office of
Education.
First, the 1967 NDEA Sum
mer Institute for Advanced
Study for Educational Media
Specialists was funded. The
grant was in excess of $61,000.-
00. There are thirty-five parti
cipants in the Institute. The
Media Institute is designed to
upgrade the competencies of pro
fessional personnel responsible
for new media programs in ele
mentary and secondary schools.
The general objectives of the
Institute are to develop a group
of media specialists who can
(1) organize and administer
new media programs in schools;
(2) select, evaluate, and produce
materials of instruction; (3)
utilize instructional media in an
integrated way in order to
achieve a maximum degree of
reinforcement; and (4) com
municate effectively with other
teachers in a way that will help
them to develop understandings,
abilities, skills and competencies
with respect to new instructional
media. The Institute duration is
8 weeks.
The second project that was
funded by the U. S. OfiSce of
Education was the Experienced
Teacher Fellowship Program for
Educational Media Specialistts in
Schools predominantly Populated
by Disadvantaged Youths. The
ExTFP is a graduate program
in educational media that leads
to a master of arts degree. The
program begins in September
1967 and ends in August, 1968.
The program provides for six
teen full time graduate students.
The sixteen fellows are from
elementary and secondary
schools with high percentages of
disadvantaged youths. Fellows
pay no tuition or other usually
required fees. They receive a
tax-free stipend of $4,000.00 for
the academic year 1967-68 plus
a dependency allowance of $600.-
00 per dependent. Additionally,
they receive a stipend of $800.00
plus a dependency allowance of
$120.00 per dependent during
the 1968 summer session. They
receive no travel or book allow
ance. The college receives, in
lieu of tuition and fees, $2,500.00
per fellow with which to support
the program.
Media Seminar
The central core of the ExTFP
is the media seminar. Rather
than traditionally oriented class
room methods, fellows will parti
cipate in a media seminar twice
each week throughout the year.
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Placement Notes
By William P. Malone
Placement Director
airconditioned environment, you
can join the Union’s “Street
Dances” on certain Friday
nights.
Notices
Recreation.—In addition to
the programs of the students,
the usual program of outdoor
sports activities is continued.
Facilities and equipment are
available for tennis, softball,
volleyball, etc. Recreational
swimming is provided in the
Pool after the regular classes
are over.
Lyceum Features.—Two more
features of the Lyceum Series
remain. The Kaleidoscope Play
ers will present “Other Sides of
the Looking Glass”—^the world
of Lewis Carroll as told in song,
drama, poetry, and dance—
Thursday, 20 July.
The following Thursday, 27
July, the series will close with
a performance of the “Porgy
and Bess” singers. This group,
featuring some of the creators
of the original roles in Ger
shwin’s masterpiece, will offer a
program of some of Gershwin’s
outstanding songs.
All Lyceum features are
staged in B. N. Duke Auditorium
and scheduled to begin at 8:30
P.M.
All the lyceum features are
free.
Recruiting Increased Last Year
They will pursue a subject mat
ter minor. They will engage in
two kinds of internships. During
the first semester, half of them
will serve in the Audiovisual-
Television Center, while the
other half serve in public schools
in the Durham area. During the
second semester they will rotate.
The essential requirement of
ExTFP programs is the aim to
meet the needs of a particular
group of experienced teachers
whose backgrounds, interests,
and goals can best be dealt with
en bloc.
Public and private educational
agencies from which the fellows
come participated in the selection
of the fellows, since most of the
fellows entered into agreements
to return to their schools and
they were granted leaves of
absences. A few fellows resigned
their posts, and they expect to
enter new teaching positions in
which they can more fully pro
vide the kind of leadership for
which the ExTFP prepares
them.
Third Project
The third project to be funded
was an Institutional Assistance
Grant. Any institution that had
been awarded an Experienced
Teacher Fellowship Program
became eligible to submit a
proposal for an lAG.
Our experience in the Place
ment Bureau this year held few
surprises. Twenty per cent more
recruiting visits were scheduled
during the spring season than
last year and salary increases
were substantially higher. The
volume of oflfers in all disciplines
was greater. These two items
reflect the tight manpower mar
ket. Even though this year re
presented the greatest increase
in recruiting efforts, we expect
the 1967-68 school year to exceed
it.
Conspicuous
The most conspicuous result
has been the acceleration to more
personalized recruiting with less
dependence on student initiative
for the first contact. More em
ployers are using pre-selection
procedures at all levels and stu
dents are responding by tending
to reserve their interviewing
time for employers who present
the most convincing reasons for
an interest in them as indi
viduals, taking into account all
of their stated interests and
qualifications.
Seek Technical Grads
Many companies looking for
technically trained college gradu
ates cannot fill their employ
ment needs. Consequently, these
companies are recruiting more
non-technical graduates. They
are being pleasantly surprised
to find that in many cases grad
uates from non-technical fields
can do some of the jobs formerly
assigned to engineering and sci
ence graduates. The great de
mand, however, is for technically
trained people. A number of
companies came to the campus
hoping that they could hire even
one person.
Need Candidates
Nationwide hires from the
Federal Service Entrance Ex
amination average about 1,000
per month. As far as the supply
of eligible candidates from North
Carolina College is concerned,
we simply must increase the
number of eligibles. This be
comes increasingly important
when we recognize that the num
ber of graduates selected for
management intern positions
increased 60 per cent over 1965.
New Approach
There seemed to be an increase
also in the number of new ap
proaches to attract students to
sign up for interviews with
enterprising and well meaning
employers. Several firms pro
posed dinner and a social time
for faculty members and those
on the schedule the night before
interviewing.
Exodus
Because of low starting
salaries, well over two-thirds of
our student teachers are taking
jobs out of state. Baltimore and
Atlanta, for example, start at
$6,100.00. What a drain on the
taxpayers of North Carolina.
But, can you blame them?
Top Offer
The top offer this year was
made to Miss Natalie Marshall,
a math major. IBM offered her
$8,600.00—not bad for a B.S.
degree and no experience!
And Finally
Believe it or not, the college
professor, consciously or un
consciously, is probably the most
important human factor in
influencing career decisions.
Presidential Greetings
By Dr. Albert N. Whiting
It is a pleasure indeed to wel
come all of you officially to the
North Carolina College com
munity. We sincerely hope that
your experiences here during
this summer term will be both
stimulating and fruitful. All of
the facilities and talent at this
institution are at your disposal
and we earnestly urge you to
utilize these resources to the
fullest in the extra-curricular as
well as the curricular area. The
larger Durham community like
wise offers a variety of educa
tional, cultural, and recreational
activities. We invite you to take
advantage of these also in what
ever spare time you can extract
from your study hours.
Education today is a most
serious concern requiring a most
assiduous and conscientious ap
plication. Our effort is directed
to motivating, challenging, and
guiding your academic develop
ment. Yours, hopefully, should
be directed to learning and
growing. If either effort is
diluted or only half-heartedly
pursued, obviously the gains will
be seriously reduced. We, there
fore, encourage the search for
maximum encounter and maxi
mum results despite the heat,
the humidity, and other seasonal
developments.
Best wishes to you all.