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Thursday, May 25,1995
Task Force Helps Minority Education
BYROBYN TOMLIN HACKLEY
STAFF WRITER
Despite inadequate funding, the recom
mendations of a Blue Ribbon Task Force
from spring 1993 are helping improve the
quality of education received by African-
American students in area schools, ac
cording to a report presented to the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro School Board on May 18.
The status report highlighted school
programs aimed at improving the academic
success of black students in the system.
The report detailed progress made on
each of the 36 specific initiatives set up by
the original seven member task force.
The expansion of the school system’s
afterschool program and the coordination
of a Summer Opportunities program for
over 100 of the system’s 1,600 black stu
dents are two of the most exciting improve
ments, said Ken Touw, school board chair
man.
While preliminary reports did not indi
cate significant improvements in African-
American students’ average test scores,
school board officials said they felt that it
would take several years for their efforts to
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The task force’s status report was pre
sented to the school board by Tina Hester,
interim coordinator of enrichment pro
grams at Lincoln Center.
During the meeting, Hester briefed the
board on specific programs that have been
effective during the last year.
"The effects of the task force’s
reccomendations are that they have served
to raise the consciousness level of the whole
community about the specific needs of
African-American students in this com
munity," Hester said.
Hester told the board that the Task Force
would meet again this summer to review
the status of the program and to devise a
plan of action for next year. She said that
the Blue Ribbon group intended to choose
several of the most successful initiatives
and concentrate on those during the 1995-
96 school year.
The task force was established in re
sponse to disparities noted in the average
test scores of African-American students
in comparison to the rest of the students in
the system.
Chapel Hill-Cairboro schools have tra
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ditionally boasted some ofNorth Carolina’s
highest average standardized test scores.
However, African-American students have
lagged behind the district’s overall aver
ages.
The Task Force’s reccomendations were
designed with the goal of improving the
educational atmosphere and the achieve
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can population.
One new initiative discussed during the
meeting was the coordination of a
systemwide Summer Opportunities Pro
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system’s disadvantaged and minority popu
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At Chapel Hill High School, the Sum
mer Opportunities program is run by
Vanessa Copeland, the school’s family
specialist and Bob Kepner, a math teacher
and the school’s representative to the Na
tional Association of Educators.
Copeland said this was the first year that
the Summer Opportunities Program would
take place at CHHS.
CHHS’s program is being funded
through a joint effort between the school
system and the high school.
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The Chapel Hill Town Council discusses changes to the East Entranceway Comprehensive Plan Monday. The plan
addresses urban sprawl, sustainable development and a mix of uses at a pedestrian scale.
Town Council Debates Mixed Use
At Site of Meadowmont Project
BY JOHN SUTTON
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council dis
cussed a proposed amendment to the Com
prehensive Plan that would allow a mixed
use of land and would promote develop
ment along the N.C. 54 entryway during
their regular meeting Monday night.
Discussions over the current Compre
hensive Plan began because of the pro
posed Meadowmont development which
would be located along the N.C. 54
entryway.
Council member Joyce Brown wrote a
report including recommended changes to
the Comprehensive Plan which incorpo
rated comments from a May 15 public
hearing, from the council and from the
corresponding work study group.
“I tried to take the work study group’s
work, public comments, written comments,
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as testing, grading, planning and diversity
in the classroom.
Some departments encourage but do
not require their GTAs to attend these
courses. “We’re trying to work mainly
through GPSF to require all GTAs to have
some formal training,” Hoffmann said.
The increasing reliance of state univer
sities upon graduate students as teachers is
not just a local problem, but has been a
point of contention around the country,
McCormick said. The issue was researched
in an institutional self-study report com
piled over the past two years at UNC as
part of the reaccreditation process.
The study made 17 recommendations
that dealt specifically with meeting the
criteria of the reaccreditation committee.
Two of those recommendations addressed
the need for UNC to establish guidelines
for the appointment, pay, evaluation and
reappointment of GTAs. At the time of the
SACS recommendation, the administra
tive committee was well on its way to
compiling the data necessary for establish
ing University-wide standards, he said.
Steven Birdsall, dean of College of Arts
and Sciences, is the chairman of the com-
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the Sierra Club’s proposal as well as the
notion of sustainability we’ve been work
ing on,” she said.
The council, the mayor and the town
manager had a work session to discuss the
proposed amendment.
The Comprehensive Plan, which acts as
the foundation of Chapel Hill’s growth
management system, called for strictly resi
dential growth along N.C. 54. The council
opened hearings on development propos
als for this area in September 1994 which
led to discussions on whether residential
only development is still appropriate for
the area.
Council member Rosemary Waldorf es
tablished the council’s main goals in mak
ing a change in the Comprehensive Plan.
“Our goals in contemplating this change to
the Comprehensive Plan are:
■ To preserve and protect the appear
ance of the entryway;
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mittee appointed by McCormick to gather
data and develop campus-wide policies. A
progress report must be made to both the
BOG and SACS by November 1995.
The committee has collected extensive
data on the differing roles and responsibili
ties of GTAs across the campus.
According to Paul Ilecki, who is work
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■ To give the council control and flex
ibility over the development of this corri
dor;
■To establish that we have decided
that a mix cf uses rather than truly low
density residential is what needs to happen
out there,” Waldorf said.
The proposed amendment defines
mixed use as development which balances
office, retail, and housing within the same
zoning area. Mixed use includes a variety
ofhousingthat accommodates residents of
low, moderate, and upper income levels.
The amendment also includes pedes
trian and bicycle facilities throughout the
development.
In other guidelines, the proposed amend
ment called for the preservation of the
meadows and designation of land for pub
lic facilities.
The council plans to discuss the matter
further during its June 12 meeting.
ing to collate the information, it is essential
that appropriate standards are set with “a
thorough appreciation of the vagaries of
teaching life on campus.
“Training and supervision should in
crease with responsibilities,” he said. “We
want to define clear guidelines.”
HOOKER
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himself with UNC’s mission and attitude
toward change. As UNC’s eigth chancel
lor, Hooker said he will try to preside over
an increase in minority faculty and student
recruitment. “It is something I will abso
lutely bust a gut to accomplish,” he said.
Moving from president of a five-cam
pus system to chancellor of a single univer
sity should pose no problem, Hooker said.
“I think it will enable me to work more
productively, having seen the world of a
university from both perspectiveshe said.
After his arrival, Hooker said he would
talk to individual departments and use
focus groups of both students and staff to
learn about UNC issues and needs.
Carmen Buell, Hooker’s wife of two
years, said she planned on moving down to
North Carolina in July and not finishing
out her sixth term in the Massachusetts
House of Representatives.
She said she hadn’t started looking for a
job in North Carolina, but wanted to find
work in the health care field. Buell did not
rule out the possibility of eventually seek
ing elected office in North Carolina.
Chancellor Paul Hardin said he would
help Hooker’s transition in any way the
new chancellor wanted.
“When he asks for advice I’m going to
give it as wisely as lean,” Hardin said. “He
has indicated that he wants to talk to me
and several other people here,”
Although the local media has written
extensively about critics of Hooker’s ad
ministrations at UMass and at the Univer
sity of Maryland at Baltimore County,
where he was president, Hardin said that
Hooker’s past wouldn’t handicap his new
administration. “I believe this community
will give the new chancellor the courtesy of
a clean slate,” Hardin said.
Before leaving June 30, Hardin said he
had several items on his agenda, including
internal priorities in the Bicentennial Cam
paign, long-range planning and hiring a
new Internal Auditor for the University.
“I’m leaving the vice chancellor for
Hooker,” Hardin said, referring to the up
coming appointment of a permanent vice
chancellor for student affairs to replace
| interim Vice Chancellor Edith Wiggins.