The Nashville University Center: Report of the Executive Director, 1972-73
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 086 050 HE 004 949 TITLE The Nashville University Center: Report of the Executive Director, 1972-73. INSTITUTION Nashville Univ. Center, Tenn. PUB DATE 1 Sep 73 NOTE 43p. AVAILABLE FROM Nashville University Center, Box 890, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee ($1.00) EDRS PRICE MF-$01.65 HC-$3.29 DESCRIPTORS *Annual Reports; Arts Centers; *Educational Finance; *Higher education; *Interinstitutional Cooperation; *Program Descriptions IDENTIFIERS *Nashville University Center ABSTRACT This document presents the report of the Executive Director of the Nashville University Center (NUC) for the academic year 1972-1973. Following an overview of the Nashville University Center in 1972-73, emphasis is placed on fine arts in the Center, the fine arts festival, library cooperation in the Center, cross-registration, departmental communication and cooperation, international programs and affairs, the State Department Consortium Program, the calendar of the NUC, linguistics, interuniversity transportation, students, the Fisk/Vanderbilt dual degree program in Science and Engineering, cable television, a women's studies program, the interuniversity psychology Consortium, joint purchasing and warehousing, planning and management systems, and the financial statement of the NUC and NUC committee membership. (MJM) NASHVILLE UNIVERSITY CENTER COUNCIL 1972-73 MEMBERSHIP FISK UNIVERSITY James R. Lawson** Rutherford H. Adkins* Tandy Tollerson III Theodore R. Sykes Marvin Wyche Jeffrey Caffee MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE Lloyd C. Elam Ralph J. Cazort* Charles W. Johnson Salil K. Das Mahlon Cannon James Murphy GEORGE PEABODY COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS John M. Claunch C. B. Hunt, Jr.* William W. Force Charles H. Ball Robert P. Thomson Dorothy L. Durham Norman Allard SCARRITT COLLEGE FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS Gerald H. Anderson Ralph W. Decker* James I. Warren Randy Dillard VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Alexander Heard*** Nicholas Hobbs* Randolph Batson John E. Chapman F. Hamilton Hazlehurst Howard L. Hartman Forrestt A. Miller Paul Gazzerro, Jr. William R. Riddle Timothy K. Mariani Karen Stall * Executive Committee Members ** Chairman of Council 1972-73 *** Chairman of Council 1973-74 FISK MEHARRY PEABODY SCARRITT VANDERBILT TO THE COUNCIL OF THE NASHVILLE UNIVERSITY CENTER: I am pleased to present to you this Report of the Executive Director for the academic year 1972-73 in accordance with the pro- visions of the Constitution of the Nashville University Center. It has been a gratifying experience to be your executive officer during this past year, and I look forward to another year of challenge and accomplishment. I hope you will call on me often individually and as a Council when through cooperative effort we can work together to fulfill our highest aspirations for ourselves and our institutions. The Nashville University Center depends heavily on the many good people who chair and serve on its committees. Likewise this report owes much to these same people who were willing to put on paper their thoughts on the work of their committees. I must, however, take full responsibility for what appears herein, since I have remolded their work to fit into the overall scheme of the report. Richard H. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: An Overview of the Nashville University Center in 1972-73 3 The Fine Arts in the University Center 5 Fine Arts Festival II 6 Library Cooperation in the University Certer 9 Cross-registration 11 Departmental Communication and Cooperation 13 International Programs and Affairs 15 The State Department Consortium Program: The International Educational Exchange Project 17 The Nearly Common Calendar of the NUC 19 Linguistics 20 Inter-university Transportation 21 Students and the NUC 23 The Fisk/Vanderbilt Dual Degree Program in Science and Engineering 25 Cable Television 27 A Women's Studies Program 29 The Inter-university Psychology Consortium 31 Joint Purchasing and Warehousing 33 Planning and Management Systems 33 An Ear to the Ground 35 Financial Statement of the Nashville University Center, Fiscal Year 1972-73 38 NUC Committee Memberships 39 11 t; v. ',. INTRODUCTION: An Overview of the Nashville University Center in 1972-73 The 1972-73 academic year was the fourth year of the Nashville University Center as an organization. The organi- zation was begun to conduct a massive study -- directed by my predecessor Dr. Nelson Fuson, guided by a Council repre- senting the five NUC institutions, carried out by a large set of committees, and tutions. The initial expectations and enthu- funded by the Ford Foundation -- to inves- siasms were important to the effort, but tigate how the five member institutions their inevitable collision with reality had could cooperate to their mutual advantage. to be survived. We have done so and the During the years which have followed this future looks_ bright. large study many of the original commit- tees have continued and they have proceed- Each of the sections which follow this ed to implement the recommendations one &stalls a substantial area of effort and which came out of the first year, and accomplishment in the work of the Nashville other recommendations made since, where University Center. By way of summarizing feasible.This past year the NUC began the accomplishments of the NUC to date, working under a formal Constitution and one can cite the following: was also able to employ a full-time direc- tor, and these two circumstances have no- - In the fine arts, an annual fine arts ticeably accelerated the pace with which festival, a Christmas concert, a catalogue the NUC could move forward. of fine arts offerings, a quarterly calendar of fine arts events, joint planning of future One senses, in reflecting on the recent resource development; past, that the overall trajectory of the NUC has been subject to two conflicting forces. - A continuing and expanding program First of all, there has been the impeding of cross-registration; force which arises with the wearing off of initial enthusiasms. More important, - A shuttle service among the cam - though, has been the force of a gradual, and puses, the use of which this year was 32% a gradually accelerating, accumulation of greater than the previous year; accomplishments and progress which es- tablishes a solid base for optimism about - The development of a very active the future of the NUC as a vehicle for ex- Inter-university Psychology Consortium panding the cooperation among these insti- with a full-time coordinator; The launching of a major study of - Increased interaction among certain how to bring about the optimal amount of groups of counterpart departments; open library access throughout the Univer- sity Center, funded by the Council on - The extension of the intra-mural Library Resources; sports programs of Fisk and Vanderbilt to include each other in the competition; Joint planning of the academic calen- dar and a nearly common calendar; - Initiation of a dual degree program in science and engineering between Fisk - An inter-institutional linguistics and Vanderbilt. major; The amount of direct involvement by - A grant of $20, 000 from the State the NUC as an organization in the matters Department during the coming year to listed above, and in all of the complex fund various aspects of international ex- ways in which these five institutions inter- change; relate; varies considerably.In any case, such accomplishments always depend on - A common type of identification the initiatives and commitment of individ- card across NUC institutions which iden- ual students, faculty members, and staff tifies a student as enrolled in an NUC in- people. This suggests that the more fun- stitution and the extension of these cards damental task of the NUC is to foster a to some groups of staff; climate of communication and cooperation among its five members. To put this - A limited exchange of listings of another way, the NUC seeks to increase events among the several campus ca- the extent to which each part of the schol- lendars; arly and educational community represen- ted by these institutions perceives the - A program of shared purchasing and resources of the rest of the community as warehousing, begun on a limited basis but available to him to aid him in his own likely to expand rapidly; scholarly, educational, or personal growth and acts on that perception. The increase - Two recent letters on NUC concerns, of cross-registration and the developments one related to cable television, the other in the Inter-university Psychology Consor- to inter-university transportation, to city tium, cited above, are really more indica- officials jointly signed by the five NUC tive of this general (and, I should say, very chief executives; long term) trend within the 'University Cen- ter than of any specific action of the NUC. - A women's studies program started It should be quickly added that the poten- at one institution with participation planned tial for this kind of cooperation greatly for the other NUC institutions; exceeds what is already occurring in the University Center. 4 . nsK,44A . j -96 ,741.72Mani. SUZE ',4,14r THE FINE ARTS IN THE UNIVER- SITY CENTER The fine arts continues to be the program area afforded the highest prior- ity by the NUC. This is an area where the potential payoff for cooperation appears to be very great. For one thing, in almost every one of the fine arts areas there is an obvious need for improved physical facili- ties for performance and exhibition; it is to be a major priority of the NUC during felt that a joint attack on this problem the coming year.Hopefully, the Christmas would be useful.There is also a recogni- Concert will also continue.