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Columbia Chmnicle Vol. 6 No. 11 Columbia College May 4, 1979 CC REACCREDITED INSIDE: By Alan Bean 3. To develop a major/ minor program tapproximatdy 48 hrs.-majorl with the The North C.entral accreditation team understanding that students wishing to honored Columbia College with a visit, on graduate with no major, have that option. March 27tlr29th. This was to be the second 4. That a ll departments become involved trip for the agency in five years. The in. a nd work together for, the community overall assessment ci Columbia College as extension progra m. BULLETIN an institution of higher lea rning? Very 5. Promote more interaction among encouraging. departments to provide a more unified The whole process begins with the student/faculty relationship. Illinois Board of Higher Education setting 6. Allocate more funds toward the CC Gets Grant up five criteria for all institutions to meet. work/study programs First. the school must state concisely what North Central went a little further a nd to Develop New they stand for, Columbia did this through broke down each department's fine points their 15 month self study conducted last and pitfalls. Da nce was seen as a s trong Science Program year. Consequently this report is subjected program. The only question raised was to the following: declare purpose and then that of the remote location of the center fulfill this purpos.e through the institution's and it's apparent isolation from the rest of P.2 staff, facilities and educational layout. the college. Dance was cited as a highly And lastly the school must be analized by disciplined group of both students and the North Central Accreditation team and faculty. The program could use a nother approved. full-time instructor, as Shirley Mordine is The team intllrviewed students, faculty, the sole organizer shouldering the entire FOCUS board members, a lumni, and staff in an company. effort to get a feel for the College. Also The Theater/Music advisory board taken into account were facilities, received a high reccomendation. North Arts, Entertainment equipment, and evaluations of various Central was a little bit uncertain as to the programs and deparments. North Centr al mo.nagement is did find Columbia quite condusive to "set" educational standards, enough so, to ac· Just Fine credit the school for a period of 10 years. Photography was seen as a department This is the maximum amount of time for true professional preperation with good alloted by the commission. There is one equipme nt a nd a high level of instruction. little s tipulation. President Mirron Suggested were greater access to video P.4 Alezandroff must preside as "chief capabilities and an added course in photo executive" during this time span, or North chemistry. Central reserves the right to send a The Art department was viewed as a n "Focus" tor re-evaluation> team back to expanding department with adequate Columbia. AJex.androff played a m ajor equipment a nd a needed space for three­ CLOSE-UP role in providing Columbia with it's in­ -aiinens ional art. The gallery was tended goal and ultimate accomplishment. recognized for it's national acclaim and Columbia as a college received the ever changing format. Dominic Scianna following flattery: The Arts Management program: "An 1. excellence of faculty t both full and impressive new program with no Picks American part-time> discernable weakness.'· 2. A fulfilling Gen-ed program, with the The Film department was one of a League Winners requirement being 48 hrs. out of a 124 hr. combination of fine staff and superb curriculum. equipment. The department teaches the 3. An exceptional open admissions policy Dr. l\lirron Alexandroff conceptual elements of film as well as the 4. And overall student satisfaction with \ mechanical, and urges the student to P.5 present program of operations. music programs miniscule operations. But broaden horizons. The team suggested Recommendations by the North Central it was re-iterated that this is the intended that the film department could be a hub for Accredita lion board were as follows: purpos.e of the program by design. The focusing the other arts. I. Re-examination of the Life Arts team sympathised with Columbia's efforts Writing/English earned honorable program. Students should be striving for a in finding a location suitable for both mentions with a dedicated faculty and a UPDATE degree by taking advanced courses as classroom instruction and performa nce. fine program. A possible alternative was reflected in the curriculum. Broadcast Communications' strengths suggested for the story workshop for those 2. More full time faculty in each of the include good full and part time faculty, who do not r espond well to it. CC Grade Novice sub areas of departments t Science, good equipment, a nd expansion of the The above represents the highlights in Humanities/ Literature and contemporary program. A recommendation for in­ North Central's three day assesment of Roberts, WFLD's · studiesl And that full-time students be stituting classes in broadcast Columbia's long term goal. A complete required to fulfill their Writing/ E nglish management, business, finance, and basic report will be available to the student body Jack-of-All Trades courses during the first two years. core were covered. in s ix to eight weeks. Tuition hiked for fall tertn / P.6 By Robert Gregory upon the college's small size and is to get students to be more serious about specialization as an advantage, for "We their education. The college mus t NOTICES What can Columbia College students are a n intesively student- serving in­ somehow better cause students to take look for in the near future from their newly stitution. We have an excellent facility and greater responsibility for their own reaccredited school• A still undetermined outstanding faculty. Our teachers are here education." Alexandroff has some definite tuition hike beginning with next Fall for teaching and not spending their time on ideas about how this can be accomplished. Semester is "inevitable" according to research," he stated. "We need to encourage the faculty to "Firepower" College President Mirron Alexandroff, Alexandroff vigorously defended discover ways to make education more Shoots Blanks because of steadily rising expenses. Columbia's faculty, which is comprised enlisting." Alexandroff, however, is . "There is no way a ny college today can largely of part-time a nd inexperienced pleased by the effor ts to date that avoid some increase in tuition," teachers. " It is a great mistake to assume Columbia has made in this direction and Alexandroff told the Chronicle. "It will that part-time teachers are not cited the variety of academic advising certainly be a very modest amount and the pedagogically equal to teachers in other services offered at Columbia to s tudents. P.7 effects of inflation are unmanageable. colleges. It suggests a disability which without it." A lop priority, according to does not even remotely exist." Alexa n­ One thing definitely will not change, Alexandroff, will be lo double the college's droff further asserted that " pound for however, regardless of whatever other independent income within the next four pound, Columbia's part and full-time changes come to Columbia. Alexandroff years, a goal he and the Board of Trustees teachers are far better teachers than a re vowed that "open admissions is the cor­ CATCH hope can be accomplis hed through a found on most other campuses." He added nerstone of this institution. Citing the combination of individual corporate, and that some of the North Central ac­ enthusiastic assent of the North Central THIS deferred donations. Outside income now credidation representatives, who had been accredidation representatives, the stands at some $500,000 per annum, and skeptical at first of teaching qualifications President reiterated that "it is a cardina l doubling it wiU be no easy task, for, as of some of the Columbia faculty ended by policy of the board of trustees, and my Alexandroff puts it, " we don't have an citing the professional orientation of the personal commitment to open admissions Gospel music arnuent constituency or affluent alumni." faculty as one of the strengths of Colum­ is unwavering." Alexandroff did admit Life in general at Columbia is likely to bia. that increasing limitations on college Revival remain largely unchanged in the near This is not to say, however , that space wi ll limit the growth of enrollment in future, in the President's estimation. " We Alexandroff sees no room for im­ the future but insisted that it would not are not in competition with comprehensive provements at Columbia. "Our biggest affect Columbia's long-standing ad­ universities." Alexandroff, however, looks problem, and it is not unique to Columbia, missions policy. P.B pagez Columbia Chronkle May4, tm BULLETIN CC Chemistry right for grant dicatcd the need for a unified sequence or science sequence entitled 'Fundamental which the students would not only be by Steve Taylor courses suitable to meet the needs or Principles or Science...