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Campus Echo
October 24, 1974
Five-Year Plan Envisions
Changes in Society
In 1925, North Carolina
Central University became the
first state-supported liberal
arts college for black people in
the United States. A five-year
plan presented to the Board of
Governors of the University of
North Carolina examines the
changed missions of the
university fifty years later.
The plan is based on a
number of assumptions about
the structure of society, the
economy, and higher
education during the next five
years.
The university assumes that
the job market for the college
graduate will expand, but not
as fast as the number of
college graduates seeking
employment.
During the next five years,
students will be graduated to
begin careers which were
virtually unknown at the
beginning of their college
' days.
As a result of the changes in
the character of jobs and of the
essential tightness of the job
market, the plan assumes,
“students will develop new
attitudes. They will demand
programs perceptibly relevant
to their vocational choices and
become increasingly critical of
the traditional liberal arts
emphases.
Volume 1, 11
North Carolina Central University
October 24, 1974
MISS MARILYN ANN
SUTTON of Hallsboro. North
Carolina, is the fifth of five
children. She is the daughter
of Mr. & Mrs. Leroy A. Sutton.
Sr. Miss Sutton is a 1971
graduate of Hallsboro High
School and is now 'majoring in
Biology at North Carolina
Central University. Her future
plans include graduate studies
in Biology.
Miss Sutton has participated
in the Biology Club and is
active in Beta Kappa Chi
Scientific Honor Society. She
has been a research trainee at
Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee. Marilyn is a
member of the University
Touring Choir.
Majors Named
SCF Fellows
Five mathematics majors at
North Carolina Central
University have been named
Shell Companies Foundation
Fellows for 1974-75 by the
department chairman. Dr.
William T. Fletcher.
They are Gina Bullock,^ a
sophomore from New York
City; Eldner L. Arrington, a
sophomore from Nashville,
N.C.; Tandra L. Johnson, a
junior from Fayetteville;
Theresa L, Little, a senior from
Roxboro; and Kenneth A.
Moore, a senior from Trenton,
N.C.
The scholarship awards
were made possible by a grant
from the Shell Companies
Foundation, Inc. The
foundation established a
system of unit grants of $1,000
annually to public colleges and
universities. North Carolina
Central University was one of
22 colleges and universities to
receive the grants in 1974.
Half of the unit grant is used
for genera! facu It y
development. The other half is
intended to aid deserving
undergraduate students.
NCCU’s Shell Companies
Foundation Fellows were
selected “in recognition of
noteworthy achievements in
their undergraduate studies
and for the scholarly attitude
with which they have
performed in the department
of mathematics,” Dr. Fletcher
said.
Constnictifin
Dolaved
The Communications
Building now under
construction to the north side
of B.N. Duke Auditorium is
designed to house the English
Department. Dramatic Arts
Department, Audio-visual Aid
“They (the students) will
want to get out to work quicker
and to be prepared for several
possible careers. Career
counseling services will need
to be improved and closer
liaison with representatives of
employers will have to be
instituted. Programs will need '
to become flexible enough to
prepare the student to cope
with change itself and to think,
not in terms of one career, but
in the sense of serial careers."
The university's major
undertaking in the five-year
period, 1975 to 1980, is the
establishment of a
time-shortened bachelor's
degree, oriented toward
career programs rather than
conventional majors. The
programs planned are in
Media and Communications,
Community Psychology,
Public Administration, anc^
Recreation Administration. ^
Th r^ of these four
three-year programs are based
essentially on existing
courses, which will be
refurbished and combined to
form the new programs. The
Media and Communications
program will draw on the
resources of existing
departments, but will be
sufficiently new that “new
program” permission from the
UNC General Administration
will be needed.
Planning and development
of these programs will cost
approximately $500,000 but
will require no state funds, the
five-year plan says.
The changing employment
picture will also affect persons
outside the traditional
college-age bracket. The
number of persons who will
need and want additional
education in mid-career will
continue to increase.
The university has asked for
the creation of a position of
Director of Continuing
Education to meet the needs
of the mid-career student.
Mr'-ilvn A. Sutton
Hallsboro, N.C.
Miss Homecoming
Center, Speech and Hearing
Center, and the Foreign Aid
Center.
This new structure will have
several facilities connected
with the above departments.
One facility is an auditorium
with a three-hundred-seat
capacity. This auditorium will
be the home of the
productions to be presented
through the Dramatic Arts
Department. Other facilities
are language laboratories,
classrooms, offices for the
different departments, and a
television Studio.
Because of the difficulty that
rocks ' presented in the
construction of the foundation,
the building will not be
occupied on December of this
year'. Despite a six-month
delay, the Communications
Building will be completed
June 1975. Occupancy is
scheduled for September
1975.
Undine K. Brickers
Elizabeth City, N.C.
Miss NCCU
The university also plans to
institute three new degree
programs at the
undergraduate level, clearly
career-oriented. They are a
major in jazz in the department
of music, a major in church
music in the same department,
and a major in law
enforcement in the
department of political
science.
Elements of the law
enforcement program are
already in existence as a
concentration in political
science.
The plan describes the new
major program as follows:
“The Bachelor of Arts in Law
Enforcement is designed to
provide bachelor-level training
for both in-service and
potential law enforcement
officers. It is an extension of,
not a competitor with, such
programs in the Community
Colleges and Technial
Institutes.”
The degree program in jazz
“is designed to widen the
career choices of the students
in the Department of Music by
permitting them to train tor
another area than .the
traditional teaching career ...
The program in jazz will enable
the students to compete for
positions in the popular music
area,' the plan says.
Employment opportunities
are also the reason for
instituting, the degree program
in church musief
Overall, academic programs
at the university “will be
directed toward newer,
non-traditional careers for the
typical North Carolina Central
University student. Emphasis
will be placed on establishing
those programs which make
maximum use of existing
resources.”
Part Two of a continuing
five-part series deals with
Personnel needs at NCCU.
MISS UNDINE
KASSANDRA BRICKERS of
Elizabeth City, North Carolina
is an only child. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Evelyn
Brickers and the late Wilbert
Brickers. Undine is a 1971
graduate of Northeastern High
School and is a Sociology
Major at North Carolina
Central University. Her future
plans include attending the
University of Maryland,
Baltimore City to pursue a
masters degree is Psychiatric
Social Work.
Miss Brickers has
participated in the Big Sister
Organization and is presently
an active member of the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority. Inc.,
and the Sociology Club. She
was also a Nu Gamma Alpha
line queen in 1971-72. Undine
has been named to "Who's
Who Among Students in
American Universities and
Colleges " and also nominated
to become a member of
Gamma Chapter Kappa Delta
Sociological Honor Society.