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No. 169 (6 pages)
Established in 1893
Monday • July 10, 1995
ollege of Education sponsors administration seminar
□ The week-long seminar
w II address issues concern
ing administration in higher
education.
By Tara Wilkinson
The Battalion
H Participants in Texas A&M’s 28th
annual Summer Seminar on Academic
Administration this week are focusing
on critical issues facing new adminis-
gh near 95 tr; .tors in higher education.
'[ Education administrators are leading
21 representatives from Texas higher-
education administrations in lectures
and discussions. Topics include fi
nances, student needs, conflict resolu
tions, education law and changing soci
etal expectations.
The seminar, sponsored by the Col
lege of Education’s Department of Acad
emic Administration, began Sunday and
ends Friday.
Seminar speakers include Dr.
Charles A. Hines, president of Prairie
View A&M University; Dr. Donald Voel-
ter, president of Blinn College; Kenneth
H. Ashworth, commissioner of the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board; and D. Parker Young, professor
at the University of Georgia Institute of
Higher Education.
Other seminar speakers are Dr.
Bryan R. Cole and Dr. Dean C. Corrig
an, members of A&M’s educational ad
ministration department.
Cole, seminar director and associate
professor of educational administration
at A&M, said the seminar has trained
675 administrators for public and private
Texas higher-education
institutions.
“It gives folks an op
portunity to view a lot
of issues and talk about
them in a non-threaten
ing environment,” he
said. “They’ll go away
with alternatives and
ways to better handle
situations.”
Corrigan, professor of educational
administration, gave the seminar’s
keynote speech.
Corrigan, who was the A&M dean of
education for 10 years before he re
turned to professorship five years ago,
said he wants a restoration of social
purpose in higher education.
University administrators should
"The seminar is an effort to take middle
management and to make them more
efficient or to help them rise to a higher
administrative level."
— Kenneth H. Ashworth
commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
aim to correct the current social condi
tions, in which one of every five U.S.
children lives in poverty, he said.
“The most critical issue is the issue
of mission,” Corrigan said. “Instead of
talking about the courses we need to
provide, I want to talk about how we
use what is taught. Sometimes we get
in our ivory tower and forget we can ap
ply our talents to help people.”
Corrigan said higher education needs
to be reconnected with the public.
“We need to relate the university’s
thoughts and actions to the lives of the
people who pay for the institution,”
he said.
The seminar develops leadership qual
ities that enable new administrators to
initiate progressive changes in education
al administration, Corrigan said.
“We talk about the difference be
tween management and leadership,” he
said. “Leaders are proactive. They are
See Seminar, Page 6
rological Socie-
Institute focuses
[ ign C)n diversity in
higher education
□ Participants in the program began
discussing diversity education prob
lems they encounter on college
campuses and possible solutions.
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their son, versifies discussed diversity education training at
obel. Texas A&M’s first Diversity Education Institute,
i historical 1 The institute began Saturday and runs
from their through Wednesday and is sponsored by the De-
iobel said, partment of Multicultural Services,
ind I come , The program trains representatives from vari-
ounities in ous schools to organize workshops and seminars
Ne haw a related to diversity education for administrators
erving his- and students at their respective campuses,
uctures can Sheri Schmidt, student development specialist
ide.” and coordinator of A&M’s diversity education, said
the Mayors the institute enables representatives to share ideas
; Preserva and learn new approaches to diversity education.
.he Histori; The 28 participants of the institute and several
ion. support staff members attempt to create, through
iber oftbeV ar i° us activities, programs and workshops, an
the award atmosphere conducive to team work and the ex-
Jortance o: pressions of individual opinions and ideas,
ition. fl The institute representatives discussed prob-
to the cit; ^ ems and solutions they have encountered at
t of citizens their schools.
s in Bryan Curtis Polk, ombudsman at the Texas Depart
ing them, men t °t Insurance, said it is important that every-
s them up OIle articulates a certain honesty and openness
Lory of the^ring the workshops.
intained’ “Every participant has to understand what
they bring into a diversity education workshop,”
Polk said. “No one person’s oppression is worse
I . than anyone else’s. When you begin a workshop,
t brim you must first establish each person’s cultural
c identity and move on from there.”
1 Schmidt said the workshops teach people how
to openly discuss the cultural groups that have in
fluenced them over the course of their lives. The
cultural groups people belong to are defined by
race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation and
it’declined soc k )econorn i c status.
n an an- ’ “The idea behind diversity education is not to
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Bryan, CS link fire dispatch systems
□ The departments are linked to
allow them to respond to emer
gencies in either city.
By Wes Swift
The Battalion
I A new program between the College Station
and Bryan fire departments shortens the time
it takes firefighters respond to blazes by pre
cious seconds, fire department officials
College Station
Bryan
said Thursday.
The two fire departments’ dispatch systems
are linked by the “First Response Automatic
Aid System,” which alerts the nearest fire
fighting and medical units of emergencies, re
gardless of if the emergency is in Bryan or
College Station.
Jim Bland, Bryan fire chief, said the time
saved by this program is vital to combating
any emergency.
“We look at time as the enemy,” he said.
“Either it’s a heart attack, when the first five
minutes are crucial to saving someone’s life,
or it’s a structure fire, when
the first five minutes is criti
cal to containing it.”
The fire departments’ dis
patch systems keep track of
all available units in
both cities and send one
from the nearest sta
tion when an emer
gency arises.
Lee Gillum, CSFD
training assistant,
said if the nearest
unit is not available,
the dispatch alerts
a unit from the
second-nearest
station.
“So if a para
medic is needed at
Villa Maria, but
the nearest one is
responding to an
other emergency,
the signal goes to
the next unit,” Gillum said.
Some College Station fire stations are clcser
and can respond to emergencies in Bryan quicker
than those in Bryan, and vice versa.
Areas like Texas Avenue at Rosemary Drive,
College Main and FM 2818 at Turkey Creek,
which lie near the boundaries of the two cities,
will be affected the most.
The program began March 8 after almost
two years of research by officials of both fire
department.
David Giordano, BED assistant fire chief,
estimated that each fire department has been
dispatched into the neighboring city the same
number of times since the program began.
When asked about residents’ reaction to the
program. Bill Kennedy, College Station fire
chief, said those already helped by the program
did not notice a change.
“The citizens had no idea that Bryan [firelight
ers] were in College Station,” he said. “What mat
tered was that they got the help.”
B-CS residents may reap more rewards
than just improved fire protection,
Kennedy said.
The Insurance Service Offices, an agency
that will begin rating fire protection services for
the State Board of Insurance, gives a 90-percent
discount on fire insurance rates for an automat
ic aid program. That could translate into lower
insurance costs for B-CS residents, he said.
The two fire chiefs said they hope to im
prove the computer systems to allow the two
departments to share equipment, information
and records.
The system could also be extended to allow
the cities’ police departments to share police
records and information.
A&M changes
provisional student
enrollment policy
□ The students are
now allowed to en
roll in the second
summer session.
By Javier Hinojosa
The Battalion
Texas A&M now allows
provisional students to
enroll in the second sum
mer session and the fall
semester, so the students
have more time to pre
pare for college after high
school graduation.
In the past, provisional
students only could enroll
in the first summer session.
Provisional students
were admitted into the
University on a provision
al basis, although they
did not meet admission
requirements.
Thirty-eight provisional
students are enrolled for
the second summer session
and 132 for the fall.
Cary Engelgau, execu^
tive director of the Depart
ment of Admissions and
Records, said provisional
students show indications
that they can be successful
at the college level.
Admissions faculty look
into the individual’s over
all high school record.
“Their records may ex
plain why the student did
not do so well,” Engelgau
said. “They may have been
involved in activities that
drew too much time away
from their studies.”
However, no exceptions
are made for completing
college preparatory course
work such as high school
English, math and science.
Fidel Fernandez, pro
fessional counselor for
General Academic Pro
grams, said there were
See Provisional, Page 6