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Volume 33, Number 19 MAR !! 2000 Columbia College Chicago Monday, March 20, 2000 ~ Vitality ~ Sports Make your destination final. Tun e into the back page for the -Sports Underground.- Pa ge16 Back Page College Council meeting confirms many changes at Columbia, including grading and graduation requirements By Amber Holst still had the option of graduating unde· lhe mel!ling. Despite unanimous approval. major. "Signilicant reSOlLrCI; changes \\ III Assistant Editor clared. however, many mt.!mbcrs of the council did take place to accommodate. in a fair \\'a~. Currently, any student who has accumu­ vo ice their concerns regarding the repcr­ this requirement." responded Bert Gall. Columbia's College Council members lated 124 credit hours with 48 credits in cllssions of implemcnting the policy. I:xecuti ve Vice President of Columbia. voted on March 17 in favor of a proposal appropriate general studies categories may "Operating under thi s proposal means The proposal is now expect;!d to be that requires all students to complete a graduate. An estimated 30 percent of grad. that we must pay more attention to students approved by college President John 13 . major in order to graduate. The College uates do not have a major. and help them fi nd alternative ways to suc­ Duff. Council also approved the much-debated The coun­ ceed," sa id In other council business: plus-and-minus grading system, whi ch is ci l felt that Dennis Ri ch, - Members approved,," proposal to offer a to take effect in the fall of 200 I. students Ma nagement bachelor in fin e art s degree for students The major proposal was developed by the today are Department majorin g in Dance, Photography, Art and Curriculum Committee and th e Academic bringing a cha irp erson. Design, and Theater. The proposal will Affairs Commiuee and is the product of different set Other cO lln cil take efTect in the fall of 200 I . two years of research and di scussion, as of creden· member s - Gall announced that Columbia is plan­ well as the North Central Association 's tials and echoed that ning to purchase a 17.000-square-ftlot (NeA) recommendation. Last year, repre­ expectations sentiment by parking lot just north of the 1415 5 sentatives from the NCA visited Columbia to the regis· emphasizing Wabash building. "We want to grab it as part of the re·accreditation process to lratioo table the need for while it was available," s:tid Gall, who ha ... assure that the college was meeting the and that good advising, no plans for the property al this point. numerous academic , administrative and structure is as well as the - The Academi c AfTairs Committee sa id physical standards. needed in evaluation of they were exploring the option of offering Allowing students to graduate without a order to help J.C. Johnson/ Chronicle departmental a minor in e-COI11Il1t::rce through the major evolved from the time when them College Council members vote unanimously for the resources. Marketing Department. Columbia did not offer majors and when achieve their proposal to change to a major requirement. One member - Latta announced ~ he appointment of all students graduated with a degree in lib· academic of the council Janet Keith as the new associate dean of eral arts. Columbia did not introduce goals, said Academic Dean Caroline expressed concern regarding the capacity curriculum. majors until the late 1980s. At that time, Latta. of the departments to accommodate those the policy was not changed, so students The proposal was strongly embraced at students who would have to declare a Local author Jane Tompkins coming to Columbia opportunities Krause has given the facu lty is By Amber Holst in the form of a book club- in whi ch a memo Assistant Ed itor ber of each department was selected and were given three titles to read, one being Jane Jane Tompkins. author of the hi ghl y Tompkins' A Life in School: What the Teacher praised and somewhat controversial book, A Leal"l/ed. The book was well received by the Life in School: Whaf a Teacher Learned, will faculty, who look forward to discussing her be the guest at the first of three discussions views with Tompkins herself. sponsored by the newly established Center for Tompkin s, who received her Ph .D. from Teaching Excellence. Yale and was formerly a professor of English Tompkins, who currently serves as profes­ al Duke Uni versity, believes the education sor of education at the University of Ill inois at process should be a hol istic one. She has spo­ Chicago, will lead a disCllss ion entitl ed ken openl y up against Ihe corporate and " Finding Your carcer·orient ed fixation higher education ha s Own Wa y" on fallen into. Tompkins believes in tellect should March 23 at 624 nOl be the only pursuit of higher learni ng, but S. Michigan also the cllitivation of self along with the nur­ Ave. room 1107 turing of the imagination. (facuhy lounge) " Human growth can't take place without from 3:30 to 5 self-examination," she has previously stated in p.m. an interview. "The opportunity fo r people to The discus· look at themselves and to understand who Ih ey sion, according are and where they are in their li ves is to Tompkins, absolutely essenti al. Wi thout it , educati on is. if wi ll be an infor­ not worthless, only partial." mal presentation Krause agrees with her philosophy and he beginning with is happy to ha ve her start off the series of dis· Gore comes to Chicago J ane Tompkins a 20-minute cussions. He points out that the Exce llence in introduction. She Teac hing Award given by Columbia hold s the Democrat ic Presidenti al-hopeful AI Gore joined many Ch icagoans on will then open the Ooor for discussion on how same ideals as Tompkins' belief. The purpose March 11 to celebrate St. Patrick's Da y. Gore marched in the downtown "teaching is a question of being rather than a of the award is to recognize and celebrate parade. shakin g hands with many potential voters. methodology. a process of who you are. of teaching strategies that "help students fin d out finding fulfillment and satisfaction in the who they are and to discover their own voices, Mayor Richard M. Daley showed his support for Gore's campaign as classroom. " respect their own individuality, and improve he marched next to the Democratic candidate. Dav id Krause, director of the Center for their self-esteem and self-confidence." On Tuesday, Illinois voters wi ll head to the polls and cast their votes Teaching Excellence, is excited that Tompkins for the men they want ru nning for president. has accepted Columbia's in vitati on to speak Research shows that voter apathy is rampant at the college level. with the faculty. In the few months that the See Tompkins, page 2 center has been operating, one of the many Columbia News and Notes RooseveH faculty votes for union for part-time instructors Part-time fa culty at Roosevelt University voted ovelWhelm­ Ingly to establish the Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Organization as their bargaining agent. More than 84 percent of Roosevelt's part-time facu lty were in favor of forming the organization. Roosevelt is fo llowing the latest trend in Chicago-area higher educat ion institutions al wh ich part-timers are establishing union affiliations with the Illinois Education Association (lEA). The percentage of classes ta ught by part-time faculty has doubled to 45 percent In the last 25 years, according to the lEA's organizer Tom Suhrbur. AI Roosevelt, 60 percent of the classes are taught by part­ timers. In 1998 , parH ime faculty at Columbia voted to make the lEA· affili ated Part·time Faculty at Columbia (P·Fac) their bargaining agent. After negotiations. P-Fac members received a 34 to 100 percent pay raise in the first year of their contract. The lEA has more than 106,000 members and is the state's largest organ ization of education employees. II represents tea chers and support staff members in Illinois public schools and Donnie Seals Jr./Chronicle higher education institutions Columbia's own Dinky and Mr. Ron , also known as Hall of Fame, entertained the crowd with an overflow Students offered chance to study of hlp-hop energy at the Gameworks In Schaumburg this past Wednesday_ in England this summer Moeller to retire at the end of the academi~ year Columbia IS hosting Its 8t h annual summer study abroad pro­ gram In England. .... ---=- - - i t i ~e r.&ure ror Columbia. M oe ller now says that her Students can VISit Dartlngton. England. to study a Wide array By Alan Trubow ravorite times at Columbia were spent working with of classes Including AC\lng Techniques for the Filmmaker and Correspondent Artist.