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November 5, 1987 University of Missouri-St. Louis Issue 588 Gallagher Joins Faculty Curators Face AIDS., Pay by Carolyn Kruczynski the morning nEWS anchor for KVUE Cecilia Dames While Marlin told the Board of "The testing is in the infantile reporter TV in Austin, Texas. Reporter Curators that while each Campus stage," UM-St. Louis Chancellor Gallagher has gone on to v: : , K for will be running its own AIDS educa Marguerite Barnett acknowledged. Local television news co-anchor, AIDS; assessment tests and main tion program, there will be some She · commented later that the Karen Gallagher, will be teaching a all three television networks. In taining tenured professors were the . general guidelines for the univer results from academic testing could course here at UM-St. Louis next addition, she was named one of major issues discussed at the Board sity to follow. be used in long-range planning,to semester. The title of the course Ametica's "MOst Outstanding of Curators meeting, Friday, Oct. Although there have been no advance the academic quality of the will !it leievision News. Young Women'.' in 1984, and has co 30. instances of AIDS reported to the University system. "In terms of " Basically, it will be a course to hosted the local . Jerry Lewis Proposals and discussions U.M. Administration, a policy needs quality assurance, accreditation is a teach students how a TV newsroom Telethon to benefit kids with mus focused on the following points: to be put in place, Marlin said. minimum standard," Barnett operates--what goes into putting on cular dystrophy. She became a • General guidelines being "We are an educational institu contended . a newscast," said Gallagher. member of the Channel 2 news staff developed for staff and faculty tion and people in the community Each campus in the UM system is She went on to say that the course in November, 1986. members with AIDS, (Acquired will be looking at how we handle the responsible for developing its own will "Go behind the scene-how we Immune Defiency Syndrome). AIDS issue,"Marlin said. assessment testing program. work as a team and how we get the Gallagher is looking forward to • Plans for implementing a student Marlin told the Board that faculty UM-St. Louis has plans to use the product ori the air." teaching at UM-St. Louis. She is peer AIDS education program; and staff members who have con American College Testing College planning a teaching style that will .The purpose bf the assessment tracted the AIDS virus will not be Outcome Measure Project(ACT Gallagher has an extensive back be "less traditional than most." She program, and the testing methods discriminated against. AIDS vic COMP). This test focuses on skills in ground in journalism. She is well plans to bring in a great deal of employed by individual tims will be entitled to employee communication, problem solving Karen Gallagher known for her intense political,· newspeople to speak. She has also universities. health benefits. Professors with and value clarification. The test will interest and writing expertise. As also a member of Alpha EpSilon received some pOinters from .The University of Missouri pro AIDS will be allowed to teach as long be administered on a percentage KTVI Channel 2's 6 and 10 p.m. 'Rho, the National Honor Society of colleague Julius Hunter, who has fessors' pay scale came under sharp as they are physically able. basis to freshman, juniors, and weekday news co-anchor, Karen Broadcasting at Boston College. had teaching experience. criticism by a UM-St. Louis Previous to the Board meeting, seniors. According to Dr. Burger, Gallagher adds a "straightforward, ''I'm excited, really delighted professor. Marlin met with the Inter-Campus chair of the Psychology Depart Student Council and proposed they ment, five percent of the senior conversational style" to the news Gallagher began her career as a with the prospect," Gallagher said. Nancy Marlin, UniverSity of Mis create a peer-education program. class and eight percent of the junior team. news writer for WBZ-Radio in Bos "It's something I've always wanted souri Vice President for Academic This program would be voluntary class will be tested. Gallagher graduated Cum Laude ton. From there, she went on to pro to do. Affairs, gave an update on the UM and run by students. According to Another issue discussed at the from Boston College in 1980. She duce WBZ-TV's news and public ''I'm goingto domy best tomake it system's AIDS education program. Marlin, the Missouri Department of Board meeting of concern to UM-St. double-majored in political science affairs. show, "Eyewitness News a valuable experience for myself Marlin is a member of Governor Health has staff available to train Louis was the U.M. professors' pay . ,. and speech communications. She is Conference." In 1981, she became and the students." Ashcroft's Task Force on AIDS . students to implement such a scale and its impact on the quality of program. education. Bashers The Board of Curators gave close " I call it the brain drain," Dr. scrutiny to the assessment testing Michelle Hoyman of the political program the U.M. administration is science department of UM-St. implementing. Louis, told the Board of Curators. RenegOn To illustrate how low the UM sys Assessment testing is being developed in response to a request tem's pay scale is, Hoyman noted from Governor Ashcroft's Task that the pay-scale was higher for ·PastBashing Force on Education,according to many St. Louis public school UM-ST. Louis Associate Chancellor teachers with Ph.D.'s. (CPS)--Education-bashing has Blanche Touhill. The effect of low pay is that many · become a national fad, and campus The goal of assessment testing is professors put themselves on the t .. · leaders-while grateful for the to decide whether U.M. bac open-market (actively seek posts · attention-say they're beginning to calaurate graduates have a firm with other universities). The result, · resent it. intellectual basis in the liberal arts Hoyman says, is that universities · Since 1983--when the Carnegie and sciences. Assessment tests lose associate and full professors Foundation and the U.S. Dept. of measures students' ability to write and these professors are replaced Education issued separate, widely and speak coherentlY,to think by assistants. "Assistants are less influential reports criticizing critically, to understand important experienced and cheaper," American higher education-- social issues and to understand Hoyman said. groups, associations and publishers "The Board of Curators is com . ~ major scientific and technological have been releasin&91her •. criti u ~ _ issues. mitted to bringing the UM system up at a dizzying rate. One of the-fundamental questions to the stand-ard-s--o fthe "big eight" As of last week--when the asked by the Board was whether a universities, Dr. Touhill said. Last "Educational Excellence Network" two- or four-hour test can year the state legislature granted released a report blasting American accurately reflect the information the UM system a 4.5% increase in history textbooks as "dull"--two wanted. ) funding," Touhill said. books criticizing colleges more generally were on the bestseller lists. Two weeks before that, 37 college presidents sent an "open letter" to their colleagues, asking them to champion "school reform" measures to improve teacher Benefit Ball education. Gu~st's oHhe Optometry School's "Shadow Ball" mingle in the foyer of the St. Louis Public Library Since 1983, reports have savaged during the '~enefit's cocktail hour. Guests included many UM-St. Louis administrators such as the state of college teaching pro Chancellor Marguerite R. Barnett and Chancellor Emeritus, Arnold B. Grobman. The second annual .. ;. grams, college ethical instruc gala event received over $50,000 in donations with a $10,000 donation from the International tion,student materialism, disrepair Association of Lions Clubs. Tickets were $125 per person. Story on page 3. in campus research labs, adminis trative bureaucracies and virtually every other aspect of American higher education. The avalanche of reports, Dean's Group Is Unknown Fore however, is beginning to strike some educators as excessive. ~ students a give-and-take with Dean Members of the Dean's Student "The extent of the problem is vas John Kilgore Jones. It is a direct line of com Advisory Group for 1987-88 are, tly overstated," said Prof. Stephen reporter munication between the sudents Helen M. Larsen, A.O.J.; Margaret Brookfield of Columbia University and the Dean. Ballard, Anthropology; Miriam Teachers College. The Dean's Student Advisory Silberman, Art; S. Catherine Silver, "We may well need to improve," Group will meet for the second time Biology; Barbara Berglund, added Vniversity of California "If a student has a problem, the this semester on Friday. Chemistry; Mike Sykuta, Santa Barbara Chancellor Barbara group makes sure the grievance The group, organized by Terry Economics; Eileen Carlson. Uehling, "but we're not in that bad goes through the proper channels," Jones, Dean of Arts and Sciences, said Stewart. "The group sees how English; Steven Flinchpaug~-His~ a shape." has been in existence since 1983. tory: Tim Sullivan, Mathematics; Most higher education-bashing, to best get the problem resolved. Meet The Chancellor According to Jones, "The group "We're a great group of people, Rebecca Sweeney, Modern Foreign said the American Council on Chancellor Margueritte R. Bar Two students, who believed has two purposes. One is to let me the problem is that no one knows Languages; Julie Anne Aguhob, Education's Elaine EI-Kbawas, nett met with Evening College they were too late for further know the problems that inhibit the about us," said Stewart. "If a student Music; Patricia Wells Ter Haar.