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4 Collegian / News
Wednesday, November 29,1989
Cornerstone program to benefit honor students I
By Norma Hofmeister
Managing Editor
The program theme is Beliefs,
Knowledge, Creations, Institutions:
Cornerstones of Character and
Civilization.
“We prefer not to call the
program an honors program. The
students who enter the program will
have a solid foundation from high
school,” Mike Matthews, chairman
of the NE Campus English
deaprtment, said. “We call it the
Cornerstone Program because these
four comers will form their first four
semesters of college, then they will
move on to a senior institution to
capstone, or finish their foundation.”
“If we receive the grant, we will
seek funds for scholarships for high-
ability students,” Matthews said.
The program is the result of a
steering committee comprised of
Matthews, Dr. Linda Hines, NW
Campus Division Chairman of life,
psychology and social sciences; Betty
Clark, South Campus associate
professor of English and Dr. Bill
Lace, director of college relations.
“This program is a good concept,
a really good idea. I would assume
we will pursue other avenues of
financing the program if the grant is
turned down. But, I really doubt it
will be rejected,” C. A. Roberson.
Chancellor of TCJC, said.
Dr. Sue Milner, NW Campus
English professor, has been selected
as the Designated Project Director.
Dr. Bill McMurry, NE Campus
English professor, will direct the
program on NE Campus. Clark will
direct the program on South Campus
and Dr. Milner will direct the project
on NW Campus.
The program is not designed for
students with a specific major in mind.
It will prepare them for a wide range
of liberal arts programs in senior
institutions.
Specific teachers will be
assigned to the program, and will
take part in a three-week study
seminar in May 1990. Major
humanists will train the teachers, who
will team teach the classes.
The 30 faculty members should
be ready for the program to begin
with the 1991-1992 school year.
“We should find out one way or
another in April if we are to receive
the grant. We may be asked to modify
the proposal or be required to initiate
a pilot on one campus in fall 1991
instead of going with all three
campuses,” Dr. Bill Lace, director of
college relations, said.
Humanities will be stressed
throughout the program. The first
cornerstone will stress History Of
Ideas: Individuals and Their Beliefs.,
This semester will establish an
OFHA changes to HOLD
By Jonathan Allen
Reporter
Boasting a membership of
almost 30 people, the Organization
for Human Awareness (OFHA) has
changed its name to HOLD
(Handicaps Overcoming Life’s
Difficulties) to explain better what
the organization is meant to be.
HOLD’S goals include
promoting awareness of the
physically disabled on campus and
trying to bring about changes that
would assist all handicapped persons
in their everyday routines. According
to LaDonna Shelly, HOLD president,
these are not easy tasks.
“People don’t know how to
start a conversation with a
handicapped. They are afraid to
offend us,” Shelly said. “Able-bodied
people do not understand that the
handicapped are only physically
limited. Everyone has a limitation in
one form or another.”
Sponsored by the Service
Center for Opportunities to Overcome
Problems (SCOOP), HOLD has as
its motto People Come First, and
works to assist the almost 200
handicapped people on TCJC
campuses.
Some of the problems that
continue to plague handicapped
students on the campuses are
manually-operated doors and
inaccessible bathroom stalls
Shelly said, however,
improvements are occurring.
“The ramps around the
campus are fine and more parking
spaces have been provided, although
the width of the parking spaces could
have been made wider to
accommodate wheelchairs,” she said.
Besides helping themselves,
HOLD members are dedicated to
helping others as well. The group is
presently involved with a food, toys
and clothing drive to help needy
families during the holiday season.
HOLD will participate in a
Christmas craft sale Dec. 5-7. All of
the crafts are handmade by
handicapped people.
Participation in these projects
will not go unnoticed, as the group
plans to award a $50 scholarship to
the most active HOLD member each
semester, beginning in the spring.
Board approves budget change
$3.5 million set aside for aerospace program
By Troy Hatch
Editor in Chief
The TCJC District Board of
Trustees approved a change in the
school’s budget that will set aside
$3.5 million for the aerospace pro-
gram at NW Campus during its last
meeting.
To show the airlines that TCJC
is committed to expanding the aero-
space program, funds will be avail-
able for a new aerospace building
and equipment, Chancellor C. A.
Roberson said.
To handle 500 students per
semester, its proposed expansion size,
the program will need eight new
faculty and a 60,000-70,000 square-
foot facility, he said.
Roberson added that since
American Airlines, which will proba-
bly recruit several hundred TCJC
airframe and powerplant mechanics,
will open its facility at Alliance Air-
port in December 1991. Conse-
quently, TCJC needs to expand its
aerospace program in the next year to
18 months.
In response to the resulting cost
of the expanded program, the board
agreed that the aerospace lab fee could
rise from the current $8 to $24.
Tuition districtwide will proba-
bly go up next fall to stay in line with
other colleges, Roberson said.
The monthly department re-
ports for November concerned the
police academy on NW Campus.
Ted Phillips, police academy
coordinator, explained to the board
that since 1986, the program has
graduated 340 students, 336 of which
passed the state peace officer licens-
ing exam on the first attempt
The program is one of the first
in the region to offer training in cul-
tural awareness and human relations,
Phillips said.
TCJC’s firing range is state-of-
the-art and one of the best in the
nation, he said.
In other business the board:
• Approved a training agree-
ment with Harris Fitness Center for
the dietetic technician program.
• Granted a traffic easement to
the city of Hurst for the installation of
a right-turn lane at the recently in-
stalled traffic light on the southwest
comer of NE Campus.
• Agreed to apply to a large
local foundation for funds to expand
the nursing program.
understanding of the foundations of
human beliefs and a sense of
chronology in the development of
Western civilization from antiquity
to the Post-Reformation Age.
Readings will be from the Old
Testament, Plato’s The Republic, St.
Thomas More’s Utopia and many
others.
“Students will be assigned
mentors, professors who will work
with them throughout the program,”
Matthews said. “Visiting humanists
will visit during the semester and
teach. The first major visiting
humanist will be Dr. Theodore Rabb,
historian at Princeton University,”
The second semester
Cornerstone, History of Thought:
Individuals and Their Search for
Knowledge, will present the
development of philosophy,
mathematics and the sciences from
ancient times to the present.
“Aesthetics: Individuals and
Their Creations,” the third
Cornerstone, is designed as a critical
and analytical study of art/
architecture, music and drama to
develop awareness in students.
“Student’s will be with the same
teachers most of the day for most of
their classes,” Williams said.
The fourth Cornerstone, Human
Society: Individuals and Their
Institutions, integrates the disciplines
of history, economics and sociology
in sequence through readings from
original sources.
The program will begin with 30
students on each campus. Each
semester, another 30 will be allowed
to enter.
“A number of universities have
already endorsed the program, stating
they will be honored to accept TCJC
Cornerstone graduates,” Matthews
said.
College makes selection
for Piper nominees
Faculty members nominated
for the 1990 Minnie S. Piper Foun-
dation Award were releasedrecently
by the faculty recognition commit-
tee on TCJC campuses.
Russell Hollingsworth, asso-
ciate professor of computer science
and natural science was nominated
from NE; Dr. Carolyn Robertson,
department chairperson of natural
sciences and professor of physical
science and biology, from South;
and Jan Mercer, associate profes-
sor of biology, from NW.
The Piper Award is given each
year to a faculty member for his or
her outstanding teaching ability.
“There are five members on
the faculty recognition committee.
Nominations are made and submit-
ted from the faculty members on
each campus and given to the com-
mittee,” Cook said. The candidate
will be chosen in the spring of 1990.
Writing labs help
in improving skills *1
Writing labs are available on all
campuses to students needing extra
help or wanting to improve their
writing skills.
“Tests are given out which fo-
cus on weak points in particular areas,
such as verbs,” Shawn Stewart, NE
Campus instructional assistant of
writing , said. “We give the test at
the beginning of the semester and
again at the end, so it can be deter-
mined whether the student has im-
proved.”
Each center houses computers,
books, film strips and other para-
phernalia designed to help the writer
improve his skills.
“ Work sheets are designed for
your level and then we push you
beyond that level,” Paula Guerrero,
NW Campus instructional lab aide,
said.
Writing labs on all campuses
are more than willing to help those
students who are not regularly en-
rolled in reading or writing classes.
But the aides do ask that these par-
ticular students use the labs during
the afternoon hours.
“ One on one help is offered for
individual students needing assis-
tance with grammar or spelling,”
Mike Eason, South Campus con-
structional associate, said. “These
students don’t necessarily have to
be enrolled in writing courses.”
South Campus writing center,
locatedinACB-170, isopen Mon-
day-Thursday 7:45 a.m.-9:40 p.m.,
Fridays 7:45 a.m.-5p.m. and Sun-
days, 2-6 p.m.
The writing lab on NW Cam-
pus is in A217 and A212. It is open
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday 8-
5 p.m.
The writing lab is open Wed-
nesdays 8-4 p.m. and Fridays 8-3
p.m.
NE Campus writing lab can be
found in the ACB building. It is
open Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-10
p.m., and Fridays 8 a.m.-12 p.m.
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