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MEREt?ITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C.
SEPTEMBER 79, 7974
NUMBER 2
Sisn-up date is set^
service projects begin
by Maggie Odell
Some things are timeless, such as Lou and her fishing pole.
Even those who aren’t fishing buffs found some way to take ad
vantage of last week’s gorgeous weather.
Liberal arts core evaluated
by Pam Jefcoat
Five Meredith College
delegates attended a
workshop on a curriculum
reform at Boone, N.C. this
summer. The five. Dr. Lois
Frazier, Dr. Sally Horner, Dr.
Sarah Lemmon, Dr. Allen
Burris, and Pam Jefcoat were
a subcommittee of a task
force for curriculum study
and reform.
The task force which also
includes Dr. Roger Crook, Dr.
Norma Rose, Dr. Charles
Davis, Helen Turlington and
Jean Jackson is actively
considering various aspects of
education at Meredith.
Thirty colleges and
universities from N.C were
represented at the workshop,
which was conducted under
the auspicies of the University
of North Carolina’s Institute
for Undergraduate
Curriculum Reform.
The major question facing
delagates’ teams was that of
whether a liberal arts college
should incorporate career
preparation into its program,
and, if so, to what degree?
With the aid of consultants
from universities all over the
U.S., descriptions of suc
cessful experiments within
N.C., and the guidance of
representatives of the Center
for Instructional Development
at Syracuse University, the
workshop participants an
swered this question with a
definite “yes”.
Before attempting to
answer the second part of the
question, the group examined
more closely the liberal arts
general education core to
determine if desired goals are
being achieved. The group
also evaluated the necessary
balance between this portion
of the curriculum and the
needs of career education.
Concerned with im
plementing constructive
changes, the task force
delineated three areas of
major need. After con
sidering the program of
academic advising and the
teaching methods for liberal
arts courses, liberal arts core
requirements themselves
were discussed.
Examination of the core
curriculum began not with a
critique of present structures,
but rather with a brain
storming session on
educational needs. The group
concluded that true liberal
arts education should address
itself to six major areas.
Among these areas are
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Sign-up day for off-
campus Volunteer Service
wcndc is Monday, September
23, from 9:00-5:00 p.m. in Cate
College Center.
The Volunteer Service
Program, under the directitm
ot Eugene. Sumner of the
sociology department and his
student assistant, Barbara
Yates, is an attempt to
coordinate and promote
service activities for any
interested campus
organization or individual.
Besides coordinating already
existing service projects, such
as those traditionally
supervised by the Phi and
Astro societies, the program
also searches out a variety of
other service projects.
Activities available in
clude work in correctional
settings with the elderly and
with retarded and physically
handicapped children. In
addition. Big Sister programs
need students to work with
several different kinds of
children, including the poor,
the emotionally disturbed, the
juvenile delinquent, and the
potential dropout. The
Methodist Home offers
regular tutoring experience.
Sumner is presently in
vestigating the possibility of
placing students in day care
centers.
Volunteer Services has
compiled a list and descrip-
ticm of these activities and has
distributed them throughout
the dorms.
Sumner noted that
benefits of sowing actively in
the community are those
exploring career possibilities
and testing aptitudes for
certain professions.
Another benefit is that
volunteer work can be related
to courses offered on campus.
Many instructors, par
ticularly in psychology,
sociology and education,
require some practical ex
perience relative to course
work. Credit is often given for
volunteer work in lieu of class
projects.
After the student has
signed up, she will be con
tacted by the agency for which
she will work. Orientation
sessions will be planned, and
time schedules worked out.
Volunteers are requested to
work at least two hours per
week.
Office hours for the
Volunteer Service office,
room 220, Joyner are 2:00-4:00
p.m. Mondays through
Thursdays. Students with
questions are welcome to stop
by the office during those
hours.
TWIG newsbriefs
Evaluations released
Data Processing has
completed the computer read
outs on last semester’s faculty
evaluation surveys. Each
professor has received her
own results; each department
has the read-outs for all its
courses and Dean Burris has
the sheets for the entire
faculty.
The student’s comments
which were not used in the
read-outs are available to the
faculty members through
Dean Burris’s office on an
individual request basis.
No other use is being
made of the surveys or read
outs.
The students were asked
to access various aspects of
each class on a scale of 1 to 5.
The read-outs give the
average grade each faculty
member received-each of his
classes as well as each in
dividual response.
Dean Burris believes that
the read-outs and possibly the
comments will be invaluable
to the faculty and depart
ments in self-evaluation. He
hopes to institute the practice
of having evaluations each
semester.
CREATIVE WRITING
The Creative Writing
class invites all student poets
and other interested students
to visit arty of this semester’s
meetings for a general
discussion of student poetry.
The visitor may obtain
reader-feedback on a selec
tion from her own work, if she
chooses, by supplying a copy
for duplication beforehand to
Mrs. Jones, Joyner 120.
The class meets each
Tuesday and Thursday in
Joyner 115 from 12:30-2.
Creative Writing students
will soon begin a series of
consciousness-raising ex
periences, intended to spark
individual creativity.
Two such experiences will
take the class to one of the
local prisons and to the
Museum for the Blind. At the
Museum students will be
blindfolded for a tour of the
objets d’art.
NEW STAFF
Judy Bryan, a 1973
graduate of Meredith from La
Grange, has joined the ad
missions staff as Admissions
Counselor. Beginning this
year, this position has been
extended, to cover the entire
academic year so as to enable
the admissions office to ex
pand its school visits in the
post-Christinas season.
Miss Bryan is a Magna
Cum Laude graduate with a
major in history. This
summer she has completed a
master’s degree in history at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SOCIAL WORK CLUB
The Social Work Club will
have its first meeting of the
academic year on Wednesday,
September 25, from 6:30-7:30
in the faculty lounge of Cate
Center.
The guest speaker will be
Mrs. Frances Muth, Chief
Clinical Social Worker at
North Carolina Memorial
Hospital in Chapel Hill. She is
a graduate of Meredith and of
the School of Social Work of
the University of North
Carolina.
All students who are in
terested in social work as a
career or who feel they would
like to know more about social
work are invited to attend this
and all meetings of the club.
Kathy McCaskUl is serving as
president.
IT'S A BOY!
Scott Wesley Vandiver
6 lbs. 7 ozs.
September 11/ 1974
CONGRATULATIONS
Fran and Vernon