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serving the Tarrant County Junior College district
Wednesday, February 3,1999
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school.”
Bankhead attributes SE Campus’ rise to
the age of the college.
“We’re still in a growing phase,” he said.
Photo courtesy Augie N’Kele
exhibit is available for viewing Wednes-
day, Feb. 3,10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Thursday,
Feb. 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the SUB Living
Room.
student and faculty exchange. I would hope
we create opportunities for students and fac-
ulty,” he said.
Jacklyn Shirley, NW Campus student,
sell Soul Food from 11 p.m. to 1 p.m. Chick-
en wings, cornbread and black-eyed peas
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NE Student Forums
Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 12:30 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 4
at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Center, Center Corner. Dr.
Larry Darlage, NE Campus president, will be present.
University Day
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Room B-
118, NW Campus. Representatives from TCU, UTA,
UT, UNT, SMU, Texas A&M and many others.
Student Success Seminars
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. in the Forum Room. Effec-
tive Note Taking: Getting the Most Out of What the In-
structor Says, presented by Lonzetta Smith-Allen.
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by Andrea Cagle
editor in chief
Students who have stood in
long lines waiting to receive finan-
cial aid may now have relief.
Vice President Al Gore and the
Department of Education have
joined forces as part of Gore’s Na-
tional Partnership for Reinventing
Government to create a program
that would enable students to have
an electronic student account that
will track and maintain aid pro-
ceeds, disbursements, repayments
and current balances across schools.
Representatives have come up
with four main goals for the pro-
gram.
They want to build a common
process for electronic access to the
government and create an electronic
student account based on commer-
cial financial infrastructure to sup-
port the delivery of student aid and
provide customer information.
They would also like to test
modern electronic commerce tools
to improve customer service and re-
duce' taxpayer costs and test the use
of an electronic ID (digital signa-
ture) to complete transactions with
the government and other parties
over the internet.
Jackie Shirley, NW Campus
student, and Andrea Cagle, NE
Campus student, went to Washing-
ton, D.C. as student representatives
of Access America for Students, the
new program.
Shirley attended the speech
Gore gave about the program; and
Cagle attended the conference in
which representatives spoke on
plans with getting the program
started.
“I think this new program will
make things easier, faster for stu-
dents; the paper process (for finan-
cial aid) is too long,” Shirley said.
The pilot program will bring
national recognition to TCJC and
save time and paperwork for stu-
dents, Shirley said.
TCJC is one of eight colleges
across the country to participate in
the Access America for Students
program.
Neil Sattler, representative of
the program and with the Depart-
ment of Education, said five steps
exist in the process flow for getting
money to students and schools.
The university will first prepare
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more positive attention since junior colleges
are not given the same type of recognition as
other institutions.
“I would like to eventually move away
from the NE, NW, SE and South designa-
tions,” he said.
After a brief discussion, the board chose
to postpone the vote on the name change
until Dr. Gwen Morrison, secretary, and
Robert McGee, board member, could be pre-
sent.
A revised version of the ethics policy
was accepted by the board. A previous
ethics policy was in existence but had not
been adopted by TCJC, board members said.
The new policy is based on the Texas
Community College Teachers Code of
Ethics, Jesse Alvarez, director of human re-
sources and chair of the ethics policy com-
mittee, said.
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discussed her recent trip to Washington, D.C.
as one of TCJC’s student who went to the
Access America program for students. The
program, designed by Vice President Al
Gore, is aimed at meeting the needs of stu-
dents with technology by setting up direct
links between colleges and government web-
sites.
Board members approved awarding
tenure to the following instructors: Kirk
Adams, assistant professor of English; David
Benford, assistant professor of social sci-
ences/ business; Angela Chilton, assistant
professor of English; Eloy Gomez, associate
professor of economics; William Kucera, as-
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Journey to the Coast, a wire sculpture by
Augie N’Kele, is part of The Forgotten
Heritage, an exhibit on South Campus in
celebration of Black History Month. The
The Forgotten Heritage, an African wire SEE-130 Monday, Feb. 22, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
sculpture exhibit by Augie N’Kele, will be
displayed on two campuses. The historical
exhibit will be on South Campus Wednesday,
Feb. 3, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Thursday, Feb.
4, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the SUB Living Room.
On SE Campus, the exhibit will be shown in
The board opted to stop collecting So-
cial Security from TCJC student workers,
who generally work 19 hours or less. The
decision does not apply to full-time workers,
Dr. Leonardo de la Garza, chancellor, said.
Spencer said, “It wouldn’t bother their
social security later. It doesn’t contribute to
their annuity.”
The U.S. Department of Education in-
vited TCJC officials to participate in a pro-
gram called the Fund for the Improvement of
Secondary Schools. The program allowed
TCJC officials to visit industrial and techno-
logical sites in Germany, de la Garza said.
“The meeting emphasized we work on
internationalizing curriculum and providing \ sistant professor of science/technology; Sally
Lewis, assistant professor of science/technol-
ogy; Kenneth Moak, associate professor of
science/technology; and Stanley Stascinsky,
assistant professor of science/technology.
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by Anabelle Stephenson
associate editor
Programs celebrating African-American
heritage and designed to raise awareness of
black history and achievements are sched-
uled on all four campuses for February.
B. F. Maiz, poet and author, will make a
presentation on all four campuses. His first
appearance will be on SE Campus, Wednes-
day, Feb. 10 at 10:10 a.m. in the C.A.
Roberson Theater.
Maiz will be on NW Campus, Thurs-
day, Feb. 11, at 9:30 a.m. in Theater North-
west; on NE Campus, Monday, Feb. 15, at
9:05 a.m. and at 10:10 in the Center Corner;
and on South Campus, Tuesday, Feb. 16, at
9:30 a.m. in the Recital Hall.
Vesta Wheatley, NW director of student
activities, said “He will read original poetry
and discuss how poetry is a form of commu-
nication.”
Maiz’s program includes a poetry work-
shop in which he will discuss writing
poems, Wheatley said.
Maiz has also designed a special pro-
gram for Black History Month titled
Langston, Liberty and Love. It centers
around three main topics, Wheatley said.
“It celebrates the poet Langston Hugh-
es, the birthday of Rosa Parks, which is in
February and Valentine’s Day,” she said.
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District enrollment is up from last year
while one campus suffers a small drop,
Suzanne Carter, NE Campus registrar, said.
NE Campus enrollment rose 3 percent
from 8,468 last spring to 8,718 in the current
semester.
Enrollment on SE Campus rose from
5,736 to 6,304, an increase of 10 percent.
NW Campus saw an 9.9 percent in-
crease in enrollment from 3,584 to 3,939.
South Campus enrollment dropped 2.9
percent from 6,786 to 6,591.
District enrollment rose 2.9 percent
from 23,603 in the spring of 1998 to 24,277
this spring.
“This continues a trend,” Dr. Bill Lace,
executive assistant to the chancellor, said.
“In the fall of 1993 we started seeing a
steady decrease in enrollment, but about two
and a half years ago we began to see a turn-
around.”
South Campus Student Activities and
the African-American Student Organization
will sponsor events to follow the theme
Proud of My Heritage!
“All the activities we do are for all stu-
dents and their structure walks across gen-
der and ethnic lines,” she said.
Proud of My Heritage t-shirts drawings
will be held after each activity. Proud of My
Heritage buttons and bookmarks will be
given away at each event, Dobbins said.
The celebration began yesterday with
You Are What You Eat by Dennis Dunkin.
The Majestic Honor: A Historical Per-
spective of Blacks in the Bible will be pre-
sented by the Rev. Ernest Sargent.
Open Mic Poetry will be Thursday,
Feb. 11, at 12:30 in the SUB Forum Room.
Free refreshments will be served, Dobbins
said.
“Students may come and share short
stories and poetry. We did this last semester
and it was fascinating,” she said.
The Black Business Fair will be Tues-
day, Feb. 16, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the SUB
and Tuesday, Feb. 23, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lobby. On the same day, South Student Ac-
“He takes you from being kings and tivities, the African-American Student Orga-
queens in Africa to being brought to Ameri- nization and South Campus Food Service will
ca. Its an awesome exhibit and its all done
in wire,” Annie Dobbins, South Campus
counselor, said.
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South Campus’ drop in enrollment is in-
dicative of a trend that has been occurring
since the opening of SE Campus, Lace said.
Students who have previously been
forced to attend South Campus now have a
campus closer to their homes, creating a drift
of students toward SE Campus, Lace said.
“The rate of decrease has slowed,” he
said. “The geographic balancing-out should
be almost done.”
The district’s full-time equivalent (FTE)
is a figure that represents the number of full-
time students on campus, Dr. Cathie Jackson,
director of admissions and records for the dis-
trict, said.
FTE usually computes to around one half
of the district’s total enrollment, Jackson said.
“Our average course load is around six-
eight hours,” she said.
Lace said FTE is the main basis for de-
termining funding and has risen about 5 per-
cent over last spring.
“We have more people enrolled, but they
are also taking more credit hours,” he said.
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“This is good because this is one of the se- “We’re beginning to level off some, but we’re
mesters used for determining funding for the still growing.”
Lace said overall the district is doing well.
“This is the largest headcount gain we’ve
had in some time,” he said. “It’s very pleas-
ing to see those numbers.”
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ty of education we provide.”
At this time, Winnett said she would not
consider the name change.
Gary McClaskey, board member, said
the name change would be a way to attract
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Trustees postpone TCJC name-change vote
by Anabelle Stephenson
associate editor
TCJC’s name change, adoption of a new
college code of ethics and social security for
student workers were three items discussed
at a recent Board of Trustees meeting.
Lilly Tercero, coordinator of special
projects, presented board members with re-
sults of the name change survey. Of the
4,419 students, faculty, administrators and
staff polled on all campuses, 71 percent
voted to change the name. Of the 71 per-
cent, 41 percent voted to change the name to
Tarrant County College.
An estimated $100,000 would be used
to cover the name change, Joe Ed Spencer,
vice chancellor of business affairs, said.
Robin Medina Winnett, board member,
said, “The name TCJC is an institution. It’s
not so much what is in a name but the quali-
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