Campus
Campus Echo
Wednesday, September 6,2006
North Carolina Central University
Elemenatary education junior, Vanessa Joyner, and eiementary education senior, Nataiie Whitney, speak
with a Kenya Teievision Network reporter about their African experiences.
COURTESEY OF BRETT CHAMBERS
Learn now, teach later
Eagle teaching fellows spread their wings in new territory
By Shelbia Brown
ECHO STAFF WRITER
Thirteen N.C. Central
University Teaching
Fellows experienced some
thing new in Nairobi, Kenya
this summer.
Students, along with fac
ulty members ^nd advisors
left Durham on June 17 and
returned on July 5.
“It was a travel and teach
experience,” said NCCU
Teaching Fellows Director
Katrina Billingsly. “We
wanted to introduce the stu
dents to Kenya.”
Nine Kenyan families
were selected as host resi
dences.
In each host family
,either the husband or wife
was a school teacher.
Students lived with the
families and went to school
with the teacher.
The fellows served as
teacher’s aids and learned
about education in Africa.
“Being in Africa made
me appreciate the simple
things that we have here in
America,” said history edu
cation junior Makeda
Miller. Though she said she
had some trouble adjusting
to the experience. Miller
said she would like to
return some day.
Prior to the Kenya trip,
attendees were required to
take a class on the culture
and Kenyan languages, such
as Kiswahili.
Faculty and advisers
began planning the trip a
year ago.
The idea for the trip
came from NCCU professor
Masila Mutisya, a native of
Kenya.
Billingsly said Mutisya'
wanted students to have an
international experience in
in her homeland.
NCCU partnered with
Nairobi’s Kenyatta
University, and Mutisya
went to Kenya in the sum
mer of 2005 to set up the
program with the Nairobi
public school system.
The program was
designed to give NCCU
teaching fellows first-hand
teaching experience.
The Wachovia
Foundation has funded the
teaching fellows program
with a $600,000 grant given
in 2004.
The grant paid the
tuition of Wachovia scholars
and funded the Kenya trip.
The fellows met with one
of Kenya’s 42 tribal groups,
the Massai, and witnessed
their rituals.
The fellows kept a daily
of their African experience
and submitted a final
reflection paper for their
grade.
In addition, each student
received six hours class
credits and 30 community
service hours.
“I had to get accustomed
to their culture... it was a
great experience,” said
James Knight, an English
education major who
served as a teacher’s aid at
the Nairobi Primary
School.
HARRY GLENN
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knew what hit him.”
At her home in
Piscataway, N.J., Cobb-
Glenn dropped to her knees
and prayed.
Phones began to ring and
neighbors came to her door.
Five days after the
attacks, she had the diffi
cult task of telling her son
that his father would never
come home again.
“It was a heinous crime,
and it continues to be a
crime,” she said. “It robs
you. It really does, and it’s
painful. It doesn’t matter
how positive you try to look
at this tragedy,” she said.
Sharon and Harry met as
undergraduates at NCCU in
the School of Business and
began dating after gradua
tion in 1983.
Sharon graduated with a
marketing degree and
Harry with a computer sci
ence degree.
“He was my best friend
and soul mate,” said Cobb-
Glenn.
She said her husband
was passionate about his
family, old school rap,
sports and reading.
As a dedicated communi
ty activist, he frequently vis
ited his old neighborhood in
East Harlem to mentor ele
mentary school kids.
“He was a peaceful per
son,” said Cobb-Glenn.
It is a struggle for Cobb-
Glenn to get up everyday
knowing that Harry is not at
her side.
“I can breakdown in
tears at any given point —
the sky is as blue today as it
was on that morning of
September 11, 2001, it takes
you back, it puts you in a
place you don’t even want to
be,” she said.
“It chokes you up ... it
breaks your spirit.”
For Cobb-Glenn, focusing
and remembering the good
times she and her family
cherished with Harry keeps
her going.
She spent a lot of time
volunteering and serving on
committees formed after
the attacks.
“To be in the company
and support of the people
who have a shared bond —
the loss of our spouses —
helps.”
Even five years later, she
still struggles with her loss.
“It’s one day, one hour,
one moment, and a lot of
prayer to God for courage,
strength to get me through
the day, and to continue to
bless my son ... and every
one else that has suffered,”
she said.
Roosevelt and Birdie
Glenn, Harry’s parents
agree.
“We try very hard not to
think about it, especially
since we live in Harlem,”
said Roosevelt Glenn.
Birdie Glenn explained
that any mention of 9/11 re
opens the wound.
“Around that time,
because it’s on TV and
everywhere else, I just cut it
off,” she said.
NCCU held a memorial
service immediately after
the attacks and planted a
Rose of Sharon tree in
Harry Glenn’s honor, out
side the Hoey
Administration Building.
“Even in death he still
finds a way to take care of
us. He’s our guardian
angel,” said Cobb-Glenn.
Today, Jaylan is actively
involved in sports.
“He plays travel basket
ball and soccer. I keep him
focused just like his father
would,” she said.
SURCHARGE
Continued from page i
finish in four years and it
affects transfer students,
freshmen, and in-and out-of-
state students.
So how is this any concern
of the N.C. General
Assembly? Taxes.
As of fall 2006, tax payers
kick out $8,735 per student
per year of enrollment with
more than 173,000 students in
N.C. public institutions. Do
the math.
“Students don’t realize
that N.C. taxpayers pay per
student enrolled full time in
a N.C. institution, regardless
if you pay by way of financial
aid or out-of-pocket,” said
Bernice Duffy Johnson, assis
tant vice-chancellor for aca
demic services. “The longer a
student stays in school, the
more money the state has to
give to the student. This
money is needed for salaries,
new buildings and pro
grams.”
One mass communications
“super senior,” who asked to
remain unnamed, started
pursuing his undergraduate
degree at NCCU in the late
90s and is now looking to fin
ish his 4-year plan this
December. He has double the
amount of maximum credit
hours and his surcharge has
reached almost $300.
“It’s really embarrassing,”
said the student. “But some
times circumstances occur
that keep you from finishing
what you had planned. In my
case, it was a child.”
Students give many rea
sons why they rack up credit
hours. Some fail or withdraw,
and some even register for
classes to get a refund check
and then drop them.
Whatever circumstance, stu
dents are charged for any
overage and the fee is added
later in the semester.
“And it’s not like they tack
it [surcharge] on during the
registration phase,” he said.
“They wait until midway
through the year to add the
charges.”
All regular semester
courses taken at N.C. Central
University, including repeat
ed, failed and courses
dropped after the last regis
tration date count toward the
allotted 140 credit hours.
“Honestly, the university
is supposed to dismiss a stu
dent after 168 attempted
undergraduate hours,”
Johnson said. “However
there are some exceptions.”
Evidently, this super sen
ior has been extremely
exceptional. He began his
four-year plan when mass
communications was only a
concentration in the English
department.
“Yeah, I’ve been here a
while,” he said humorously.
“I mean, it’s alright to take
mad classes, as long as
there’s a plan behind it. On
the other hand, if you want to
waste time, you should with
draw and explore other
avenues.
PRINTING
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,it costs us on average nearly
$50,000 per year to maintain
print supplies for the 10
open computer labs main
tained by ITS on the cam
pus,” Marrow said.
He said the cost does not
cover the other 30 computer
labs maintained by the indi
vidual departments.
According to Marrow, the
software use will reduce
printing costs by 50 percent
during this first year.
Marrow said the
University opted for con
trolled printing after they
noticed that paper waste
occurred in high volumes.
According to a Rochester
New York- based print asset
management company,
Pharo’s Systems
International, Inc., 40 to 60
percent of annual printing
is discarded because it is
unnecessary.
NCCU joins over 1,000
higher education institu
tions across the country in
using Pharo’s software in
controlling print.
The University of
Kentucky, which provided
free annual printing for its
35,000 students at a cost of
approximately $600,000 with
about 6.4 million sheets of
paper in 2003, reduced the
costs by controlling stu
dents’ printing according to
Pharo’s Systems
International.
At that rate, NCCU’s 8,500
student population would
cost the University about
$145,000 in one year.
After introducing the
printing controlling soft
ware in which 100 free
prints were provided to stu
dents per quarter and a fee
for extra prints, the
University of Kentucky print
volume dropped by 72 per
cent for an estimated annual
saving of $74,000.
Some students said con
trolled printing at NCCU
was long overdue, while oth
ers don’t agree with the idea
of charging students.
“I feel certain that this plan
will work There is always a lot
of unused printed paper in the
Shepard Library,” said history
junior Nikki Barbee.
“It’s definitely going to
make me think twice about
what I print before I do it.”
Mass, communications
senior Christopher Jackson
said the University should
find other ways of curbing
the problem.
“To charge students an
additional cost for printing
after we have been charged
for other things is ridicu
lous; we pay for a technology
fee,” said Jackson.
“What they should do is
put a block on websites that
are not deemed educational,
and maybe that will deter
students from printing
unnecessary items.”
ft’s time to start preparing
for the “world of work.’
2006
Annual
Fall
Career
Fair
October 5 9:30 am to 1 pm
L.T. Walker Complex
Network opportunity for
career positions, co-ops,
and internships.
Professional dress is required.
University Career Services
William Jones Building, Room 005 ,
530-6337/mstuckey@nccu.edu
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Campus Ministry
525 Nelson Street, NCCU Campus
For more
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in Campus Ministries
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