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The Salemite
Vol LXVIII No. 2
Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
December 1987
Salem Adopts
Graduate Program
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hy ]ulie Stone
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Holt Long looks on while Rosemary Finger takes on the traditional role of
carving the turkey at the annual Christmas Dinner. In the midst of hurried
schedules, Salem students enjoy the warm spirit of this evening.
Salem College has taken the
first step toward adressing the
need for better qualified teachers
by initiating a graduate degree
program in education. The two
that will be offered are a Master of
Arts in Teaching (MAT) in
Elementaiy Education and Special
Education and a Master of
Education Degree (MED).
According to the Carnegie
Report, A Nation Prepared:
Techers for the 21st Century, 1.3
million new teachers will be
needed by 1992. To meet this need,
23% of all the college graduating
classes between now and 1992
would need to prepare to teach.
Currently, approximately 5% of
each graduating class prepares to
teach. In addition, the Basic
Education Program adopted by the
state of North Carolina in 1985
provides funds to lower class sizes
for all grades K-12. As a result
10,000 new teaching positions in
North Carolina are projected by
1992. Of these, 5433 will be in the
elementary grades.
Currently, Salem does not offer
an undergraduate major in
education but does offer teacher
certification programs. On
December 1, a Graduate Education
Council was appointed to set
policy with regard to admissions,
retention and exit requirements of
the MAT and MED programs. The
Council is comprised of five Salem
faculty members. Associate Dean
Dorothy Russell has been
appointed chairman.
The MAT degree builds upon
the undergraduate study of the
liberal arts and sciences. It is
designed for liberal arts graduates
who have not had any education
courses. They can obtain teacher
certification in addition to a
Master Degree. Salem students,
will have the option of seeking
teacher certification as a part ol
their four year undergraduate
program or postponing professional
training until a fifth year. The
MAT program is designed as a full
term program that would take twc
summers and one year to complete
and will be a collaborative effort
between Salem College and the
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SGA Rallies Stuiient Support
by Susan Webb
The Student Government has
been working towards meeting
several goals they established at
the beginning of the school year.
At the SGA meeting Tuesday,
November 10, Millie Eubanks, the
President of SGA, asked for help
and support from the students.
'The college is not used to students
asking for change . . . We really
need to let them, [faculty and
administration], know that we are
here and interested in Salem."
Duing the meeting she told the
students of Executive Board's plans
to achieve these goals. The five
goals include rescheduling/
reformatting sit-down meals,
reestablishing the Bookstore
advisory board and possibly
creating a used book exchange.
making use of Corrin Refectory as a
temporary space for Big 3+3 dances
until the Student Life Center
provides a permanent space to
entertain, refurbishing living areas
in the dorms, and providing some
kind of scholarship for leadership.
The original plans were to
present these goals to the student
body, find out what they wanted
and then to present these concerns
to the various administrative
bodies. This plan was presented to
Dr. Litzenburg at the beginning of
the year; he suggested that
Executive Board find out all the
facts surrounding their proposals
before submitting these ideas to
the student body and sent them to
the appropriate administrators for
the information. The SGA has been
on a "fact finding mission" and
have been acting on several
different proposals since the
beginning of the Fall semester, such
as the sit-down meals and the
bookstore problerq. The Student
Government, however, wanted to
know which concerns were
uppermost in the minds of the
students.
The SGA submitted a poll
listing the goals they hope to
achieve during this academic year
and asked students to rate these
goals in order of importance to
them. Students ranked these
objectives listed on the poll in the
following order: rescheduling/
reformatting evening meais,
maintaining dorm living
conditions, reestablishing a
bookstore advisory board,
providiing a scholarship for
leadership and their last concern
was using the refectory for dances.
The poll results will help the
SGA emphasize those goals which
are most important to Salem
students in their talks with
administrative personnel. The
Student Government is confident
that administration will work
with them on these issues though
the process may seem a little slow
at times. However, SGA does stress
that they need to feel the support
of the students behind their
efforts. As was mentioned at a
recent Legislative Board meeting,
student organizations are only as
strong as their supporters.