The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XVI, Number 56 Thursday, April 2, 1981
Honors Program Offers Challenge
By Sherry Edwards
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
“We hope to use the
honors program as a re
cruiting device. Some
thing to draw more
students to the campus
by having something
special to offer.” said
Dr. Denise Park, chair
person of Departmental
Honors Committee and
assistant professor of
psychology at UNCC.
The honors courses
are geared to the stu
dent that wishes to pur-
Scholarships
The Scholarship Bank,
a nationwide College
Scholarship Search Ser
vice, recently announced
thousands of summer
job applications are now
available for students in
terested in work in their
career fields, as well as
full scholarship applica
tions.
The scholarship bank
provides students the
opportunity to learn
about the private, off-
campus aid sources
available to them.
According to Steve
Danzy, director of
CSSS, the agency offers
A UNCC coed sunbathes as temperatures begin to rise.
sue a more in-depth
study of psychology
than the non-courses
cover. The courses are
purposely kept small,
about 25 students, so
the student can benefit
from more personal in
teraction with the in
structor.
“We saw outstanding
students in our classes
that could be better
challenged by more in
tensive work,” said
Park. The first honors
course was offered in the
to Bank on
over 50 different sources
of aid, based on need,
merit, as well as geo
graphical desires.
Danzy urges students
to apply now for scholar
ships or work opportuni
ties which not only will
give them experience,
but also provide an add
ed skill to put on their
resume.
For information, send
a stamped, self-
addressed envelope to:
The Scholarship Bank,
10100 Santa Monica
Blvd., Suite 750, Los
Angeles, CA 90067.
fall of 1980 after two
years of planning by the
faculty in the psycho
logy department.
For upperclassmen,
eligibility to enroll in the
Honors program is de
termined by an overall
QPA of 3.0 or better,
and the student is re
quired to write a brief
essay explaining his in
terests in psychology.
The student also needs
to provide the names of
one or two faculty for
recommendation in
Chip Wilson
Utahnah Chick
honors work.
If a student is in
terested in honors work
but does not have the
minimal QPA desired by
the department, he can
submit a special letter of
recommendation by a
faculty member that
knows him well.
High school seniors
who have been accepted
at UNCC with high aca
demic averages are in
vited to enroll in Honors
101 Psychology. In all
cases, the Psychology
Media gets New Board
The Student Media Board installed
its 1981-82 members and elected new
officers in a meeting Wednesday
afternoon.
Installed were Chip Wilson and
Teresa Skipper, co-editors of the
Carolina Journal; Barry Gordemer,
Chair Student Broadcasting Associa
tion, (WFAE); Sandi Constantino,
Editor, Sanskrit; and Tommy
Warlick, Michael Roseman, and
Utahnah Chick, At-Large members.
Carolina Journal Co-editor and
representative to the Media Board,
Wilson, was unanimously elected
Chair of the Board while Chick was
voted Vice-Chair. Constantino was
voted Secret ary/Treasurer.
One of Wilson’s goals for the board
is to rewrite the media board statutes
(constitution), to reflect changes
made in the way the board now
operates. “The recent changes in the
constitution will have to be taken into
consideration, as well as some other
proceedures in the statutes which are
outdated,” Wilson said.
“One possibility is to write a con
stitution which will outline the
makeup and responsibilities of the
board, and then to have a set of
statutes of proceedures which can be
more flexible.”
In the final business of outgoing
board members was to vote on media
awards for the past year. The win
ners will be announced at the Student
Association Awards Program April
23
Graduate Study
Competition Opens
Department Honors
Committee looks over all
credentials and selects
students for the courses.
According to Park,
non-majors are en
couraged to take honors
courses as well as psy
chology majors, but
honors courses above
the 300 level are general
ly for majors.
In order to graduate
with an honors degree in
psychology, a student
must take 9 hours of
honors courses and a 6
The opening of the
1982-83 competition for
grants for graduate
study and research
abroad in academic
fields, as well as for pro
fessional training in
creative arts, is May 1,
1981.
The purpose of the
grants is “to increase
mutural understanding
between the people of
the U.S. and other coun
tries through the ex
change of persons,
knowledge and skills.”
The grants are provid
ed under the terms of
the Fulbright-Hays Act,'
by foreign governments,
universities and private
donors.
Applicants must be
U.S. citizens at the time
of application and hold a
bachelor’s degree or its
hour honors thesis. The
thesis includes a formal
paper by the student,
and a formal oral presen
tation to faculty and
psychology students.
“The students that
are now involved in
honors work seem to en
joy the classes. We feel
we have a good program
for them,” said Park.
For further informa
tion contact the Psy
chology department at
597-2116.
equivalent before the
beginning date of the
grant.
In most cases it is re
quired to be proficient in
the language of the host
country.
Candidates are ineligi
ble for a grant to a coun
try if they have been do
ing graduate orwk or
conducting research in
that country for six
months or more during
1981-82.
It is expected that ap
proximately 516 awards
to 50 countries will be
available for the 1982-83
academic year.
For further informa
tion and application
forms, contact Earl
Backman, 597-2573,
Denny 114. The deadline
is July 1, 1981.