Thursday, June 9,1983/The Battalion/Page 3
Bidding opens in July
for building renovation
by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M’s Facilities Plan
ning and Construction Depart
ment will open bidding July 6
for a contract to renovate the
Civil Engineering Building this
fall, the project’s manager said.
Advertising for bids on the
$2.5 million project began Sun
day, and the Texas A&M Board
of Regents is expected to award
the contract late in July, said Ro
ger Killingsworth, planning and
estimating supervisor for the de
partment’s Facilities Planning
Division.
Dr. Donald McDonald, head
of the civil engineering depart
ment, said construction on and
renovation of the building prob
ably will begin in September and
should be completed in about 13
months.
McDonald said the building,
which has housed the civil en
gineering department since the
mid-1950s, presently is used pri
marily for faculty offices. He
said one of the objectives of the
renovation is to return it to an
academic building with more
classroom space, labs and pro
ject rooms.
Some of the faculty will be
moved to the new engineering
labs, the Academic and Agency
Building and the Highway Re
search Center, which is next to
the civil engineering building,
McDonald said.
Much of the project will in
volve bringing the building up
to modern standards, he said,
since this fall’s renovation will be
the first work done on the build
ing since the 1960s.
McDonald said the depart
ment has been assigned clas
srooms in Goodwin Hall, the
Animal Industries building and
Zachry Engineering Center this
fall to make up for classroom
space lost during renovation.
staff photo by Brenda Davidson
in the
C’mon now!
)uis Martin, a graduate student in animal science Louis has worked for the beef cattle center
Crowley, struggles with a stubborn calf, for several years and is manager of the center.
Community education cuts
[cross nations, culture
the shad* by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
committf \ Community education is he
ms other oming a household word in
nr Livifly communities, the director
Hexas A&M’s Center of Com-
has Diet
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lunity Education says. It cuts
cross all classes and cultures,
low it cuts across countries,
is void oil JRobert Berridge and Dr.
y l.etterloBf Whetten, assistant director
>r all huniJthe center, travel throughout
OR for ’exas helping public school sys-
is start community education
grams. Not only do they help
communities start the sys-
's, but they also train people
n them, evaluate them after
y have started, and furnish
\ #^Bp rrnat i° n on funding
V \f ^‘In addition to that, we do a
of one-on-one consulta-
is,” Berridge said. “We don’t
ithere and philosophize, we go
Tices onh® to the individual schools.”
i dumpili®fter attending a workshop
as-beens lere conducted by the center, a
li^l sJpresentative from the Lima,
feru, school system asked the
Miter to conduct a similar work-
“' Ildlstlc hop there.
B(The program) was very
witful,” said Whetten.
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you know
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and universities not involved in
ternationally are missing a
tremendous opportunity.
“Educators throughout the
world are increasingly sharing
approaches and problem
solving techniques,” Whetten
said. “Educational concerns can
no longer be viewed from a local
standpoint only.”
Nor can they be viewed only
from a standpoint of the tradi
tional three Rs for the tradition
al 12 years, Berridge said.
“Maybe the system we’ve been
using for 200 years needs to
change somewhat,” he said.
“And that’s what we’re trying to
do.”
The Center of Community
Education, a division of the De
partment of Educational Admi
nistration, is one of 15 in the
United States. It has helped
establish more than 100 com
munity education systems
throughout Texas. Both Whet
ten and Berridge hope that’sjust
the beginning.
“We’re really building an atti
tude,” Whetten said.
“Community schools provide
what the community has said it
wants, not what a school official
says it needs,” Whetten said.
And that, he said, is the beauty
of the system.
Community education is an
organized effort to integrate a
communities educational, social,
physical, recreational and health
programs for people of all ages.
Commonly, through state and
privately funded offices, public
school systems open their build
ings, at nights, on weekends and
during the summer to commun
ity education classes of all sizes
and types.
Reading, writing, arithmetic,
baseball, bellydancing, ballet,
computing, cooking, account
ing, aerobics, drafting and
drumming are just a few 7 of the
courses offered through com
munity education programs.
“What we’re really looking at
is changing the concept from
schooling to education,” Ber
ridge said. “We’re trying to get
people to realize that, in our
high-tech society, education is
lifelong. We’re trying to get the
parents back to school.”
Whetten added, “In a com
munity school, the doors are li
terally opened up to the com
munity.”
And that, both educators said,
produces amazing spin-offs.
Research the center has con
ducted indicates that systems
with community education are
more successful in selling school
bonds; have higher attendance,
better discipline and less vandal
ism in their regular schools; and
have a higher degree of com
munity awareness and involve
ment.
“(People involved in com
munity education) say it has re
juvenated their communities,”
Berridge said.
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