The Exponent, 1972-12-01

              Northern EXPONE Volume 72, Number 12
Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401
December 1, 1972
Wollman explains enrollment dro
Northern eliminates positions
because of budget guidelines
THE SECOND concert in Big
Name Entertainment will be Dec. 4
at the Aberdeen Civic Arena.
The Johnny Rivers Show, spon-sored
by Campus Events Board, will
begin at 8 p.m.
The opening act will be Danny
GRADUATE enrollment for the fall
semester at NSC has dropped to ninety
students, fifty-five less than last year's
spring and fall average head count.
Dr. Harris J. Wollman, division
chairman of graduate studies, stated last
week that "The impact on enrollment at
the undergraduate level is pretty much
reflected at the graduate level. I think
this is consistently true across the coun-try,"
he added.
Dr. Wollman qualified the statistics
released from his office, however. "The
graduate program at our institution is
primarily a summer program," he men-tioned,
"and the fall enrollment cannot
always bu c onsidered an accurate index
of attendance."
The number of graduate students
has been increasing for several years. Not
since the 1965-1966 school term has the
enrollment been as low as it is now.
*figures released from Office of Admis-sions
and Records and graduate division
Since the figures indicate no stable
correlation between the two enrollments,
the administration has made no projec-tion
for next spring or summer. Gradu-ate
attendance depends to a great degree
on the courses being offered, according
to Richard Van Beek, dean of Admis-1
sions and Records.
In addition to handling the graduate
enrollment and statistics, the Graduate
Office provides vital services to under-graduate
students. Students applying for
graduate schools can be guided in their
O'Keefe whose single "Good Time
Charlie's Got The Blues" is currently
in the Top Ten.
Tickets for the concert are avail-able
at Engel's Music Store for $2,
$3, and $3.75. They may also be
purchased at the door that evening.
decisions by the office.
"There's a definite way to go about
making graduate school applications,"
Dr. Wollman cautioned, "but if you're
familiar with the system it's much easier."
He urged students to consider attending
graduate school before they complete
their junior year of college.
The Graduate Office administers the
Graduate Record Exams ( similar in de-
FOLLOWING a two-week suspen-sion,
Student Senate met for two hours
Tuesday and passed bills concerning fa-culty
reduction, class attendance and an
ice skating rink. Also discussed was Sen-ate
Bill 51, a position paper concerning
student control of the activity ticket. Sen-ate
then adjourned until Wednesday.
Ali ough senate was adjourned
for a two-week period, only one bill
was presented at Monday's agenda
meeting. A second agenda meeting
had to be scheduled for Tuesday in
order to place other bills on the
agenda.
A resolution concerning faculty re-duction
states, "Present proposals to eli-minate
a significant number of faculty
members at NSC poses a continuing
threat to the quality of education. We
feel proposed eliminations are being
made without proper consultations or
gaining a full input of ideas." The bill
also states that before faculty reduction
is proposed to the Board of Regents, the
administration should meet with faculty
and students to seek a consensus of
opinion.
A bill was passed recommending
that the official policy on classroom at-tendance
be changed to read, "There is
no attendance to be required at NSC.
Attendance is up to the individual stu-
IN RESPONSE to the decline in en-rollment,
Northern State College officials
have identfiied 22 instructional positions
which will be eliminated for the next
year. The 22 positions include five teach-ers
who are retiring and 17 teachers
whose positions will be eliminated.
The reduction in faculty size re-flects
the decline in enrollment which
has seen the college go from a peak
of over 3,100 students in 1969 down
to 2,300 students in 1972. Although
the teachers whose positions will be
eliminated have been notified, the
names of the faculty who will be leav-ing
and the cuts by each division have
not been made public.
Dr. Lester Clarke, vice-president
and dean of academic affairs, said, "We
doubt that any real good could come
from the release. Indeed, harm could
come to those who do not wish to an-nounce
their leaving at this time. Re-leasing
the lists of names has not been
done in past years until near the end
of the academic year."
The decision to reduce the faculty
size in part reflects the use of "zero-base
budgeting" for the first time. This meth-od
of budgeting determines the number
sign to the ACT high school proficiency
test ). The office aids students in select-ing
schools for application and in obtain-ing
financial aids.
Dr. Wollman advised that there is
"a lot of money available" but that stu-dents
have to know the procedures to
make the most of it. "That's our primary
service to the undergraduate," he con-cluded.
dent."
In other action, Student Senate
established an ice skating rink for a
trial period. The skating rink will be
south of the industrial arts building
and will be in operation this year.
Tentative plans are to move the skate
rink to the student park on Lincoln
Street next year and build a warming
house. It is possible that students will
be assessed a one dollar fee next year
to pay the cost.
Senate Bill 51, a position paper on
student control of the activity ticket
monies, was read. The resolution calls for
1 ) eliminating health, picture, and post
office fees from the activity ticket and
including them in a service fee; 2) Sen-ate
control of men's athletics; 3 ) a study
of identification card costs; 4) certain
fees to be set by senate; 5) voluntary
Alumni Association fee payment; and
6 ) allowing no organization except Sen-ate
to have reserve funds. Bonded in-debtedness
reserves will be allowed. Sen-ate
planned to consider the resolution at
a meeting Wednesday.
Terry Bagaus, Student Association
president, announced that a meeting with
Dr. Clarke concerning the faculty reduc-tion
would be held Tuesday, Dec. 5 in
the Fireside Lounge. The meeting time
was not set.
of teachers in each division according to
the number of credit hours generated by
the students taking courses in that area.
The enrollment for next year is pre-dicted
to be 2,250 full time equivalent
students. A full-time equivalent student
is one taking sixteen hours of credit per
semester.
The number of teachers allowed
in each division is determined by di-viding
the number of full-time equival-ent
students taking courses in that di-vision
by the faculty-student ratio. The
faculty-student ratio for each of the
different areas of education were de-termined
by a committee composed of
representatives from the state colleges.
The ratios differ between areas of
study within each college reflecting
the different needs and programs of
the institutions.
According to Dean Clarke, the fa-culty-
student ratio for lower level
courses after the cuts have been made
should be about 1:22.6. The ratios for
upper division courses and graduate
courses will be about 1:17 and 1:11,
respectively. The overall ratio for the col-lege
should be about 17 students per
faculty member for the 1973-74 school
year. This estimate is for 130 faculty
members and 2,250 students.
Although 22 faculty positions will be
°Unmated this year, no cuts have been
made in the administrative staff of the
college. According to Dean Clarke, the
college is now working on zero-base bud-geting
to be used in determining the
number of administrators. During the
past year two new administrative posi-tions
were created.
Clarke also said that there is a
possibility for more cuts to be made
after the budget is finalized. He said,
"It will be in April when we'll know
what the appropriation is. We will
then know whether the 22 people we
have identified are enough." Depend-ing
on the size of the appropriation,
the college could rehire some of the
leaving professors or be forced to re-lease
up to eight more.
Dean Clarke also stated that no aca-demic
programs, courses, or activities
will be discontinued because of the re-duction
in staff. He said he expected
that most of the new course offerings
which have been announced will be im-plemented
although some courses will
have to be delayed.
Clarke reported that in the area of
music, the necessity for a further review
of program and staff is necessary. An
ad hoc committee has been appointed
to study that specific area, and a pre-liminary
report is to be submitted to
President Baumgart by Feb. 1, 1973.
This committee was convened for or-ganizational
purposes Nov. 28, 1972.
Columnist postpones
speaking engagement
DR. RICHARD Cinclair, chairman
of the Cultural Affairs Committee at
Northern State College, has announced
that syndicated newspaper columnist
Jack Anderson will be unable to appear
for a Cultural Affairs Committee Lec-ture
on Dec. 11.
Anderson had been scheduled to
speak Dec. 11, at 8:00 p.m. in the John-son
Fine Arts Center on the campus of
Northern State College.
Cinclair said that he expects the
lecture will be presented at a later time.
His committee is pursuing another date
for the engagement suitable to both the
columnist and the college.
school
term''
ave.
spring/fall
undergrad.
enrollment
ave.
spring/fall
grad.
enrollment
1965-1966 2,239 94
1966-1967 2,505 137
1967-1968 2,841 120
1968-1969 3,117 136
1969-1970 3,169 132
1970-1971 3,113 166
1971-1972 2,809 145
fall, 1972 2,303 90
Senate considers faculty reduction,
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Dews activity ticket appropriations