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Governors State University OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship Innovator Student Newspapers 3-18-1993 Innovator, 1993-03-18 Student Services Follow this and additional works at: http://opus.govst.edu/innovator Recommended Citation Governors State University Student Services, Innovator (1993, March 18). http://opus.govst.edu/innovator/417 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Innovator by an authorized administrator of OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Student Senate Election Now is the time to step forward and be counted. If you would like to be a Student Senator, election packets will be available from the Division Student Life March 22. You must collect 20 signatures by Monday, AprilS, at 8 p.m. Voting will takeplace from Aprill0-14. Ballots will be countedApril lS. March is This is a great opportunity to become involved with the planning of your � future. rw ,d,��� by Barbara A. Johnson "Teaching Last Fall, when registration appearedto plummet at GS(Jby adults is not the as much as fifty percent, staff same as teaching and faculty worked to find the reason for such a sudden drop 18-22 year olds. in enrollment and to bring stu dents back to the classroom. We know how we Final figures for Fall show a dropfrom the previousyear, but do something no Fall '91 had been a record high. Thepanic did havesome good one else knows effects, however. In lateNovem how to do and ber and early December each college held strategy meetings we've been doing to find ways to increase enroll ment. Thisfive part series will it longer than highlight the special p ople and programs put in place to get anyone else." GSU back 011 track. Leon Zalewski- COE The academic colleges are being covered in alphabetical Because of the program's in order - College of Arts and volvement in the local schools, Sciences (CAS)., College of the schools feel comfortable Business and Public Ad with GSU graduates. There is a ministration (CBPA), Collegeof demand for teachers and many Education (CE), College of GSU graduates find jobs in the Health Professions (CHP)- with COE Student Neal Podell Gets Practical Experience area. a fifth story combining the The multicultural nature of the Board of Governors program South Suburbs and the Educa and Conferences and tion program has meant that from students 1300 stu Workshops. tional 600 students in the past Psychology M.A. program is 900 to other universities have asked dents in four years (88-92). four years and teach them with working with the Chicago Board that a video program be Faculty has decreased due to College of Education 4 fewer professors. of Education, meeting a demand produced about the techniques attrition. The untimely death There are not enough resour Three reasons are cited for the for school psychologists. usedin a multi-culturalenviron rise in enrollment. Students TheDivision of Education has last Fall of a professor put addi ces to handle the students cur ment. The exposure to different were less likely to afford a tional stress on a tight course rently enrolled in the college, always relied on adjuncts to as cultural mixes of students in the residential campus of sist with the programs even schedule. Faculty searches will according to Leon Zalewski, because classroom is touted asone of the the recession and chose to stay though the preference is for a fill two of the positions open. Dean of the College of Educa big pluses of the program. close to home. The State of Il professor teach each class, When asked what the titles of tion. Too few professors, rather to The college actively seeks these positions are, Garrett than low enrollment, is the linois recently created a coun saidGeorge Garrett, chair of the grants for equipment and labs. selinglicense, raising interest in Education division. The replied "Slots get redefined to problem. The college's two They received $5000 from R.R. the M.A in counseling. The minimize gaps." divisions have taken on an addi- division increased enrollment Donnelly to develop a Child The Division of Psych and Play lab for observing childplay Counseling is in similar straits interaction. as enrollment jumped from 305 This college is different from What Do You KnowAbout History? to 530 between 89 and 92. The other colleges of education in division chair, Addison the state, emphasizes Zalewski. describes the 1. What state allowed womento vote before the 1780's, then disenfranchisedthem with the adoption Woodard, "Teachingadults is not the same programs as in "desperate need of a new state constitution? as teaching 18-22 year olds. We ofhelp." know how we do something no 2. Who was the first biologist that virtually started the ecology movement with her book The division has absorbed an Silent one else knows how to do and additional 220 majors with no Spring? we've been doing it longer than increase in faculty. the In anyoneelse." School Psychology program, 3. Born in 1930 in Germany, her family fled the nazis in 1934. A renaissance and reformation 'We need to 'Celebrate, scholar, she later became provost of Yale in 1974 and acting president in 1977. Her appointment to adjuncts aresupervising interns. Publicize, Research• this nation spite of the difficulties, president of the University of Chicago in 1978 made her the first woman to a head a major American In of life-long learners." said Dean Zalewski is very upbeat university. Who is she? Zalewski. He noted that the about the strengths of the col average person has six careers lege andits"experiential-based" 4. She was an American feminist and reformer born in 1793, in Nantucket, Mass. A well-known in a life-time, not just jobs. prog . quaker lecturer for temperance, peace, labor rights and abolition, she aided fugitiveslaves and helped rams He envisions research on the education program, stu form the Philadelphia FemaleAnti-slavery Society. When the world Anti-slavery Conventionrefused In teaching the adult learner, to dents start out with two to recognize women delegates, she joined Elizabeth Cady Stenton in organizing the first Women's study the students at GSU. He trimesters of language arts labs, Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848. Who was she? explains, the professors know observing teachers in a school what works, but haven't had the 5. in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, she was the first woman orator to speak out against setting. Students know early in Born time to pin down why it works. the program if what they are in slavery. She became oneof the most popular speakers for African-American and Women's rights. He would like to see an experi coined popular rallying cry for Women's rights: "Ain't I a woman." Who she? for. She the is ment done is class methods at GSU. Pagel GSU INNOVATOR March18, 1993 0uuuy � !Bit� Clubs And by Barbara A Johnson SURVIVED MIDTERMS••• but can't survive the MOVIE TICKET PRICES? Discount movie tickets are available from the Organizations Student Life service desk in A2100. Save about 30% OFF REGULAR PRICES and see a flick before it HITS THE VIDEO MARKET. Thetickets are goodfor General Cinemaand Cineplex Odeon theaters. Update ENVIRONMENTALLY AWARE SCUBA DIVING PHOTOGRAPHERS... are invited SUBMIT THEIR WORK to Shedd Aquarium's Environmentally Aware Underwater The Future Teachers Association will be hosting a candlelight bowling party on Photographic Image Competition (EPIC). What a way to recycle thoseWILDLIFE PICS fromyour Jamaicangetaway. Photos must Saturday, April 3, 1993. The party will be held at Lakewood Bowl, 5125 Sauk Trail, be received by April 1 to get in the show. Winners will be in Richton Park. Tickets cost $15.00.This price includes a buffet dinner from 9-10 announced May 8 during the Our World Underwater Dive Trade p.m, shoe rental and candlelight bowling from 10 p.m.- 1 a.m. Show in Chicago. For all the details,call EPIC at (312) 986-2300. Prizes will be awarded and a cash bar will be open. Tickets can be purchased at the FfA meeting on March 19, at 12:30 p.m. in room 02309,or by calling Pat Raczynski MOSQUITOS DON'T TRANSMIT AIDS... but a lover IN FECTEDWITH IDV CAN. It cantake up toten yearsfor a person at (708) 425-6763 or Lori Sims at (708) 430-3130. ••• with HIV to get sick but they PASS ALONG the disease even though they APPEAR HEAL THY. Find out thefacts aboutAIDS. The Division or Science will sponsor a Chemistry Colloquium with W.E The love you save could be your own. Klopfenstein of Westernlllinois University on March 24 at 6:30 p.m. in room F2331. Thetopic will thebe "Search For New Uses of Soy Bean Oil". Coffeewill be served A FREE ABROADTRIP ... could landyou in a foreignprison. at 6p.m. Be wary of people who ask you to BRING BACK A PACKAGE ••• in exchange for a free vacation. The package could CONTAIN DRUGS. Youare blamed even though you did notknow what was On Tuesday, March 23 at 1 p.m., Pattie Fine will present an "I Like Your Style" in the box. workshop in room A1805. Topicswill include: discovering your own leadership style; dealing effectivelywith HARD-TO-FIND MULTICULTURAL CLOTHING AND other leadership styles; and making the jump from student to job leadership. BOOKS... are easy to find in Park Forest. The Teacher/ Parent Admission is free, but reservations can be made in A2201.