AQUACULTURE PROPOSAL REVISITED
BCC Chooses Barefoot As New Resources Development Officer
BY SUSAN USHER
A new resources development officer joined the
staff of Brunswick Community College this week.
Glenn fvi. Barefoot uf Wilmington began work
Monday on a part-time basis while continuing to teach
English part time at Cape Fear Community College.
She will join the staff full time in April.
Ms. Barefoot was one of 211 applicants, including
10 minorities, for the post, and one of four interviewed.
The position was previously held by Vickie
Spencer.
Ms. Barefoot will work with various departments of
the school, writing grants and seeking program funds,
as well as working with the Brunswick Community
College Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that
develops community support for the college.
Ms. Barefoot has prior experience in fundraising,
teaching and training, and grantswriung. She will earn
an annual salary of $28,000.
She earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish from
Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va., and
a master of arts in English from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University. She has completed addi
tional courscwork in areas as varied as English educa
tion, group and team development and sales training.
Her previous employment includes extensive expe
rience as an English instructor at Randolph Community
College, Ashcboro, N.C. State University, Raleigh, and
CFCC, as well 10 years of business management expe
rience as co-owner and manager of Barefoots and
Jackson Furniture Co. in Wilmington.
She wrote proposals and managed grants from the
National Endowment for the Humanities for Randolph
Community College; coordinated a successful cam
paign to pass a S3 million bond referendum for the col
lege; and wrote 2 fcdcru! for Randolph County
Women's Aid Sen' ices for Battered Women ami raised
over S1(X),(XX) to acquire and restore shelter facilities
and provide services for battered women.
Her employment was approved last Wednesday by
the BCC Board of Trustees.
Registration Up
Registration for spring quarter is up 22 percent over
a year ago. reported Ben DeBlois, vicc president for ad
ministration. As of Wednesday evening, 746 students
had registered, compared to 612 a year earlier.
By area, enrollment in general education increased
from 128 to 166 students; technical. 311 to 323; and
vocational, 173 to 256 for the largest increase. 48 per
cent.
President W. Michael Reaves said die figures, when
coupled with similar increases for the fall and winter
quarters as well, are "good news" for BCC.
He urged trustees and other friends of the college to
lobby legislators to provide growth funds for the com
munity college system, the largest need identified by
the system.
If approved, BCC would be in line for additional
funding next year because of its high growth rate, he
said.
Proposal Shifting
Reaves announced that The Marine Crescent of
Wilmington, working with Doug Holland, president of
the N.C. Aquaculturc Association, is studying BCC's
proposal for an aquacullurc program. The consultants
will identify potential jobs and placement potential for
program graduates, develop a proposed curriculum and
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He anticipates BCC revamping its application for
federal Economic Development Administration funds
to reflect a more research-oriented approach to the pro
gram.
The original application, now on hold at the EDA's
Atlanta office at BCC's request, called for development
of 60 acres of fish production ponds on campus.
The latest concept would require less space on
campus, with development of about three acres of
ponds as demonstration sites and for working with ex
isting aquacullurc operations.
"We would not be in the business of raising finfish
so much as research," said Reaves.
Responded trustee James R. Rabon. "I think that's
great. 1 think we have possibilities with die three
acres."
Other Business
In other business, trustees:
? Heard from BCC President Michael Reaves that the
stale's 58 community colleges are considering switch
ing from the quarter to semester system to better align
themselves with the public schools and four-year insti
tutions.
?Accepted resignations of Billie Mann, library techni
cal assistant; Ben White, groundskecper; and Brcnda
Bryant, custodian.
?Learned that 26 spring quarter students are receiving
approximately S4,(XX) in scholarships. The latest schol
arship is SI, 500 donated by the Souihport Rotary Club
in memory of John Dosher, Ben Wilson and Doug
Kerr.
SDcBlcis reported that state auditors seemed "very wc!!
pleased" with their findings after a thorough audit, with
no management letter items anticipated at this time.
?Heard from Brenda Fonnyduval, personnel officer,
that Griffin-Archer consultants are developing the col
lege a customized performance appraisal system and re
lated job descriptions When complete, she said, "there
should be no doubt in anyone's mind where he or she
stands. The result will be a lot more communication
about w hat's right and what's wrong and what changes
arc expccted."
F.ventually die system will be used as a basis for
awarding merit pay increases.
?Learned that BCC staff will renovate the first class
room at the Southport campus as a model for local
businesses and civic groups interested in taking on a
room as a project. Cost is expccted to be about S5,(KX),
said Building and Grounds Chairman A1 Woolen.
?Approved budget revisions that include increased
funds from the state for child care for students attend
ing summer classes and for nursing students serving
clinical and hospital rotations and for new industry
training.
?Adopted a conflict of interest policy for employees
and trustees, as recommended by auditors. BCC fol
lows the state law on the subject, but has never had its
own policy in place, Reaves said.
BCC Board Working On Campus
Plan To Meet Demands Of Growth
BY SUSAN USHKR
Brunswick Community College
trustees are trying to develop a new
master plan for the main campus
north of Supply, anticipating addi
tion of new programs, growth in en
rollment and the demand for space
those changes might create.
The trustees were to begin their
work Wednesday, March 25, at a
5:30 p.m. workshop in their board
room, using as a starling point a
"rough first draft" presented last
week at their regular meeting.
"It's a good working document,"
Chairman David Kelly told Kenneth
Phelps of Boncy Architects, the con
sultants hired to develop the five
year plan. "We had to get it on paper
so we could react to it."
"Some of the priorities I personal
ly think ought to be rearranged," he
continued as trustees took their first
look at the study and accompanying
maps. "But I'm willing to listen to
the arguments."
The study looks at space needs
based on 12 priorities and attempts
to devise a plan for campus develop
ment. Projected program expansion
was assessed based on data provided
by faculty and staff, while indicators
used to set priorities came from ad
ministrators.
Both the ratings and the estimated
space needs arc based on "guesses,"
Phelps said at the Wednesday night
meeting, and need refining.
"It's a beginning," Phelps said,
stressing that the document was a
rough draft presented so that some
body "could shoot at it."
"We reached the point where we
didn't know who else or what else to
ask," he said. "Nothing would
please me more than for you to take
a red pen and mark this thing all to
pieces."
Tentatively assigned as top priori
ty and needed in 1993 is space for a
" It's a beginning."
? Kenneth Phelps
Boney Architects
recreational grounds management
program, including a vocational ed
ucation bay area, equipment shed
and nine -hole, 6()-acre golf course
(or a par-3 course which would re
quire one-third that space).
To the first target date of 1995, al
so identilied as top needs are addi
tional spacc to house an expanded
allied health curriculum, including
an associatc-dcgrec nursing program
and food scicncc/food service cur
riculum. Several additions to the al
lied health curriculum arc expccted
this coming year with no demand
for additional space.
Other priorities identified for
1993 through 1995 include:
?A greenhouse for the Brunswick
Interagency Program, which is also
seeking a sheltered workshop pro
gram;
?A scencry shop and other storage
for the new auditorium;
?A day care/child care center that
could be located either on or off
campus, depending on whether it
would primarily serve the campus or
the general public;
?A three-acre fish pond, equipment
shed and classroom/office area for
the proposed aquaculturc technology
program;
?A business laboratory to incorpo
rate computer technology and desk
top publishing and similar applica
tions.
Other needs identified through the
year 2CXX) includc a new mainte
nance and storage facility, with the
old one renovated to house the
woodworking shop, new classroom
facilities to house continuing educa
tion workshops and seminars: space
for emergency services personnel
training, including a physical train
ing/obstacle coursc; as well as na
ture trails and walkways; space to
house an aviation managemcni/com
mcrcial pilot program; recreational
areas to includc a swimming pool
and pool house; and a physical edu
cation facility.
The draft study divides the cam
pus into three sectors, north (north
of the U.S. 17 bypass) south (exist
ing campus) and central (the area
around the new auditorium). Those
areas arc defined generally by natur
al "barriers" such as the new U.S. 17
bypass, a Brunswick Electric right
of-way easement, existing U.S. 17
and the new access road to U.S. 17.
The college's northern property,
across the bypass, will be accessible
by only one road.
As one example, Phelps suggest
ed that might tend to make the north
sector more useful for lower-density
applications such as the golf coursc
and recreational facilities, while aca
demic space might be concentrated
in the central campus area.
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