The New Voice of African-American Students
North Carolina Central University
April 27,1990
Spangler Moves To Kill Nursing School;
NCCU Officials Promise Fight To Save It
From Staff Reports
Bernard Allen, chairman of
the North Carolina Central Univer-
istyBoard of Trustees, vowed to
fight the proposal to close the
NCCU Nursing School and move
it to Fayetteville State University.
“I am very disturbed,” said
Allen, “I don’t think any of us is
willing to dismantle the nursing
school.”
Allen said UNC system Presi
dent C.D. Spangler Jr. showed
lack of respect for NCCU in his
handling of the proposal. Span
gler proposed to the Committee
on Educational Planning, Policies
Gantt Urges:
Don't Forget
Your Roots
By Albirda F. Jackson
Managing Editor
Harvey Gantt, a native of Char
leston, S.C., and participant in a
sit-in at a lunch counter in his
hometown 30 years ago, told stu
dents they were at North Carolina
Central Universityto "solve prob
lems and search for truth."
Gantt delivered the keynote
address at the 41 st Honors Convo
cation April 6 before an audience
of 900.
The U.S. Senate candidate en
couraged and challenged the stu-
dCTts being hcmored at the McDou-
gald Gymnasium ceremony.
He said they represented “new
leadership” to bring about a change
in the political process in Amer
ica. He said that college students
and Programs of the UNC Board
of Governors that the NCCU nurs
ing program be established at
Fayetteville State in partnership
with Pembroke State University.
Spangler’s decision was based
on poor passing rates and declin
ing enrollments at some UNC
nursing schools. Spanglef wants
to make nursing education avail
able to the southeastern part of the
state and spur the recruitment of
minorities into nursing.
Dr. Marion Gooding, dean of
NCCU’s Nursing School, said
Spangler’s reccomendation was
untimely. “Our program was given
until 1994 to increase perform
ance on tests and enrollment,” said
Gooding. “We’ve done all those
things.”
Allen, who was angered by
having to find out about Span
gler's proposal through the media
said, “This university deserved
more respect.”
The Committee on Educational
Planning, Policies and Programs
is scheduled to meet and act on the
prqxjsal before NCCU’s next board
meeting. Allen said he will try to
meet with Robert L. “Roddy” Jones,
chairman of the Board of Gover
nors, for an explanation of the
proposal, and is prepared to call
an emergency board meeting of
the NCCU board.
Several nursing students have
given letters of support to Allen,
who has advised them to show
“discipline” in their opposition to
the proposal.
“1 hope you will trust us to do
what is best,” Allen said to some
20 students.
NCCU Chancellor TyronzaR.
Richmond has called the proposal
“premature and ill-founded.”
Richmond has received a written
copy of the proposal which he
said goes “at least three steps
beyond the recommendations of
the consultants.”
In the report by five nurses and
nursing educators, closing NCCU’s
school was not recommended.
Instead, the consultants advocated
strengthening the programs at
historically black institutions.
Dr. Gooding remains optimis
tic about the status of the Nursing
School. “We’re counteracting the
recommendations being made,”
she said. “We are expecting a
good report from the reaccredita
tion committee. I really think we
were moving too fast for the board
and they want to cut us off.”
Administration Proposes
New GPA Standards For SGA
A 2 J Average Will Be Required
Former Charlotte Mayor
Harvey Gantt gives Keynote
should want to go to college to
become more than “bourgeois”
and do more than find a spouse.
“What is it that turns young
people on? What is it that drives
you crazy?” Gantt asked.
Gantt said that when the
“Greensboro Four” sat at the lunch
See GANTT, page 3.
By Albirda F. Jackson
Managing Editor
After last semester’s controversy over Student
Government Association President Fred Feely’s
eligibility to remain in office according to the North
Carolina Central University Student Government
Association constitution, Feely remained in office,
but the university is in the process of changing the
constitution in order to clarify the present constitution.
In September this problem arose, as students
and some administrators urged Feely to resign from
office, because they believed that he did not have
the necessary hours to continue being SGA presi
dent and that he was not actually a senior.
In a September interview with The Campus
Echo, when asked if he was a senior, Feely said, “I
never thought one should provide academic records
for publication.” But according to some NCCU ad
ministrators, Feely is not eligible to hold the office
of SGA president, which requires the candidate to
have 90 hours and be classified as a senior.
According to Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs
Dr. Roland Buchanan, the revised co; titution is
“anticipated to be effective for the 1990-91 ” election
term. The following revisions are “proposed changes
for SGA election” of the newest constitution, Buchanan
said. Article Eight, Section five. Part A. says; “Can
didates shall be investigated by the Election Board
and certified by the Registrar as having a cumulative
grade point average of 2.7 and in good financial
status with the University. Candidates for President
shall by normal scholastic progress be able to qualify
as a Senior (90 hours) not later than the Second
Summer Session following the election and candi
dates for Vice-President shall by normal scholastic
progress be able to qualify as Junior (56 hours) or
Senior not later than the Second Summer Session
following the election, and may not serve such posi-
See CONSTITUTION, page 3.