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Diploma? Six
Eight
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Sanchagrin, Stem^ and participating students discuss on cam
pus surveys^ the first phase of the center's research.
Theory, Practice Merge
In Research Center
"It is our belief that stu
dent learning activities and
community needs should be in
tegrated within the life of
any Appalachian educational
institution."Such a quote ex
emplifies the attitude of
people who have become in
volved in the formation of a
community research center
here at Mars Hill. Members of
the. Deoartment of Social and
Behavioral Sciences in parti
cular have felt the need to
facilitate the merging of
theory and practice through
the creation of concrete edu
cational environments.Further
more, these research projects
would provide students with
an avenue through which tliey
could reach competence in ur>-
derstanding and applying the
scientific method of inquiry.
According to directors Ken
Sanchagrin and Larry Stern,
the Community Research Center
will have several important
objectives.First,it will pro
vide the student with a non-
traditional method for demon
strating competence in social
science research. Second, it
will seek to give more ade
quate preparation for stu
dents intending to 'do gradu
ate work in social science.
Third,it will assist regional
groups and agencies in col
lecting and interpreting in
formation. Finally, the Re
search Center will develop
social data concerning the
southern highlands to enrich
understanding of a society
and culture undergoing signi
ficant change.
To accomplish these object
ives the Center will be en
gaged in three types of re
search activities. It will
first provide contract re
search service to community
groups and local government
offices. In mountain counties
community leaders have ex
tremely limited access to re
search assistance; and, in
creasingly local governmental
units are required to gather
certain data in order to
qualify for various state and
federal programs. Also, the
Center will do basic research
designed to help provide a
more adequate understanding
See RESEARCH, page seven
Academic
Eights
Protected
Of major concern to stu
dents and faculty alike is
the protection of their aca
demic rights. In recent years
methods of safe-guarding the
social rights of students and
faculty have been established,
but ways of ensuring academic
rights have been neglected:
no definite procedure for
dealing with problems of an
■ academic nature has been a-
dopted by the college.
The Plans and Policies Com
mittee, however, is working
to change this situation and
is actively engaged in for
malizing a procedure for aca
demic appeal.Since the spring
of 1976 the committee has
been studying the situation
and revising the draft of the
original proposal.
In their work,the committee
has taken into consideration
points of educational law,con
sulting Dean Gehring, who
is an authority in this
area. The committee has also
sought out precedents for
this type of appeal procedure,
but has had to generate all
the material itself. Of this
material the final proposal
will probably include sec
tions concerning faculty
rights, student rights, and
various bases for appeal (not
exclusively grade appeals).
Once the Plans and Policies
Committee completes the .pro
posal, it will be voted on’,by
the entire faculty.
The need for some kind of
academic appeal policy was
recognized in 1974. During
that year the General Studies
team leaders worked on a pro
posal, and in 1975 sent it on
to the Plans and Policies
Committee.This committee sent
See GRADES, page seven