6 - Morrisvilfe and Preston Progress, Thursday, Dec. 18, 1997
Campbell offers college courses at
Morrisville National Guard Armory
By Mary Beth Phillips
By day, the soldiers drill at the
National Guard Armory in
Morrisville, practicing weapons
handling, and other military skills.
By night, the drilling is by teachers
who are helping about 150 adults
earn their college degrees under a
program by Campbell University.
Campbell has been a leader in
offering college classes at military
bases, including Camp Lejeune at
Jacksonville and Pope Air Force
Base at Fort Bragg. When they set
up a satellite at the National Guard
Armory—first in Raleigh in the
mid-1980s, and later moved to the
armory at Raleigh-Durham
Airport—most of the students
turned out to be civilians.
“They are young, middle-aged,
senior adults who have not finished
their degrees,” said Pat Todd, direc
tor of the program. “They are con
scientious, ambitious, and very
eager to learn,” he added.
The program offers a flexible
schedule of classes with two back-
to-back two-month terms each
semester, overlapped by a three-
month term. The Spring Semester
schedule will begin Jan. 12. A short
term will be held from Jan. 13 to
March 13, and another short term
between March 24 and May 22.
Meanwhile, a full term will be held
from Jan. 12 through April 27.
Classes are from two to four hours
long, depending on the credit.
Advance registration will be held
Dec. 16-19 at the National Guard
Armory. General walk-in registra
tion will be held from 4 p.m. to 7:30
COLLEGE CADET—Steve Lappe (left), Sgt. First-Class and college
student, talks to Pat Todd, the director of Campbell’s college classes
at Morrisville National Guard Armory.
p.m. Jan. 7.
Eight students are required to
make a class, but many classes have
as many as 20. Teachers will work
with a student who needs only one
course to graduate, for example, if
the class has not filled up, Todd
added.
Choosing faculty for the courses is
a joy, with all of the universities in
the area, and even many corporate
executives who enjoy teaching.
“Everybody’s first love is teaching,”
Todd said. “I have a great pool of
teachers.” He also draws permanent
faculty from the main campus in
Buies Creek, south of Raleigh.
Todd is a retired career army man
himself, and taught high school in
Durham for a short time.
Because Campbell is a private
school, if a student takes 12
semester hours or more, he will
receive a legislative tuition break of
$725 per semester. That cuts tuition
cost in more than half at Campbell’s
evening program, which charges
$110 per semester hour.
“Some people have a family and a
full-time day time job, and are doing
it [a full load of classes],” Todd said.
“Then they take a break and come
back and do it again.”
Because of the flexible schedule, a
student could take two three-hour
courses for the first two-month ses
sion and two more courses during
the next session and be considered
full time. Or they could take one
course in each of those sessions and
two courses during the longer, over
lapping session.
The most popular course offered is
Principles of Management, Todd
said. Many students do 28 hours of
preparatory courses for an M.B.A.
degree. They can then take the 30
remaining hours at Campbell’s
M.B.A. program at Peace College.
The satellite campus offers degrees
in business administration, applied
science, health science, and many
associate degrees including eco
nomics, government, and history.
Students coming in with associate
degrees can earn a Bachelor’s of
Applied Science or a Bachelor’s of
Health Science, and they can com
plete the requirements for a minor in
business administration at the same
time.
“One problem I have is the stu
dents want to rush things,” Todd
said. “I advise them, it takes a full
time student four to five years to
complete a degree, and you are
going part-time, I try to diminish
their concern about time.”
The success rate is great. Students
may take a break for a year or two
but they always come back, Todd
said. The completion rate is very
high. So far, from the campus at the
Armory, about 250 students have
received their degrees.
“T get the most pleasure visiting
with prospective students who want
to finish their college degrees,”
Todd said^ “I can offer them two or
three viable options to get their
degree, on a varying schedule. It’s
good to see them jump on it, and
you can see them grow, academical
ly and intellectually throughout the
Uiree to five years here.”
Kaiser Permanente moving office to Morrisville
Kaiser Permanente will lease most
of the space in the new office build
ing under construction in Southport
Business Park, Southport’s Project
Manager Mitch Adams announced
last week.
“They are one of our oldest ten
ants,” he said. The Health
Management Organization has
leased about 30,000 square feet in
the first Southport building since it
opened in the early 1990s.
The company will lease about
50,000 of the 60,000 square feet
available in the new building, and
keep about 15,000 square feet of
laboratory space in the other build
ing, Adams said.
The company is moving its admin
istrative offices from Highwoods
Office Park in North Raleigh to
Morrisville, Adams said.
Beverly Thompson of the public
relations department at Kaiser
Permanente said about 150 employ
ees will be moving from the
Highwoods offices into the
Southport office in late spring or
early summer. The lease for the
offices in Highwoods will be up in
June and no Kaiser employees will
remain there.
There are no plans to hire addi
tional employees, she said,
although some of the employees
already in Southport will probably
come across the street to the new
offices.
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