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The GCTews Bowling 'Green State University Performance of academic programs to be evaluated by Mary Dannemiller Academy for Educational resources for higher education," the institution's yield in certain Cormier met with other University They have recognized the need staff reporter Development Inc., is released then it has the right to review programs before making Provosts Tuesday to share in- and importance of program sometime next week. university programs and question decisions. formation on different types of evaluation and are doing Stemming from increased in- Titled "Developing a Process for their worth and effectiveness, Karl Those programs not measuring program review. This meeting was something about it, she added. terest by the Ohio Board of Regents Institutional and State-Level E. Vogt, dean of the College of up or generating sufficient followed by a general discussion on At a House Finance Sub- and the state legislature, the need Review and Evaluation of Business Administration, said. enrollment will possibly have to be making recommendations on a committee hearing in Flndlay to adopt a formal University-wide Academic Programs," the report redesigned or engineered to fulfill funding model. Wednesday morning, while Ferrari academic program evaluation was refers to the scope and purpose of Vogt, who was recently ap- their purposes, he added. was testifying on the future discussed by Academic Council. review on both levels. pointed to a state-wide Academic Elmer A. Spreitzer, acting dean Cormier said that the provosts decision of higher education, one In recent weeks, information Ferrari explained that although Issues Committee studying the of the Graduate College and recognized the problems of legislator asked just what the from the Regents shows that the the Committee on Program future of state funding, said that member of the Regents Advisory declining enrollment, the University is doing to insure the topic of review and evaluation of Evaluation (COPE) at the the Regents are not promoting Committee for Graduate Study, possibility of limited funds in the quality of programs. academic programs is "not only University did present a draft of program evaluation or review, but said that the Regents and Ohio future and the need for a certain Given the University's current alive and well in Ohio, but rising on revised procedures and guidelines are asking for alternatives that can universities share the same con- amount of stability in the funding status on program evaluation, the priority list of concerns," to Council last May, it's purpose be used to accurately inform cern-" that they both see some system. But they were more in- Ferrari said he "squirmed" but University Provost Michael R. was to get reactions and society of institutional efficiency need for predictability in funding." terested in focusing attention on added that the experience rein- Ferrari said yesterday. suggestions that could be looked and effectiveness. The universities need to provide quality programs and reviewing forced the need to bring closure to over the summer. "We have to document the case convincing cases of their quality processes, she added. the method of review. He stressed the importance of In essence, the University has to justify our own existence," he and effectiveness and then "go "Almost every institution is He said that if an evaluation seriously looking at a formal been operating a full year without a said. arm-in-arm to the state legislature engaging in some phase of process is not underway by 1982 review process because Ohio formal program evaluation that He asserts that the evaluation (with the Regents) and present program review," Cormier said, when the University is scheduled universities will "hear a great deal coincides with the originally method being sought will have to their budget (needs)," Spreitzer citing Kent State University, Ohio for a 10-year-review for ac- more about program evaluation" established guidelines, he said. define appropriate output and explained. State University and the Univer- creditation, it will "make us (the after a report, prepared by the If society is "dedicating scarce resource effectiveness and assess Associate Provost Ramona sity of Cincinnati as examples. University) more vulnerable." Profs claim thurs- youth not up da£ 10-18-79 on local issues Athletic training by Rick Rlmelspach ataff reporter program accredited As the Nov. 6 election nears, the An athletic training question of how University program which has been students will function as voters offered by the School of arises. Health, Physical Education Two University political science and Recreation as a minor instructors say students are better since 1976, received ac- informed on national and state creditation last June. politics than on local candidates The program is "not just and issues. taping and wrapping," said Roger C. Anderson, associate Scott Martin, a senior professor of political science, said minoring in athletic training. his students appear to be leu He said the program is for knowledgeable on local concerns education students who want because it is hard to pick up in- to supplement their teaching formation on local politics. degrees. "There is very little talk on "Traditionally, the minor has campus about local politics, so been offered mainly to unless students read about issues education majors, but we also in the BG News, Sentinel-Tribune offer it to anyone who wishes or hear about them on local radio to take it," Robert Livengood, stations, it may be difficult to program director of the follow what is going on," Anderson athletic training curriculum, said. said. He added that other factors work The accreditation means against student involvement and the 30 students who are in the interest in local political activity. program are required to "THE FIRST TWO years, complete 800 hours of students live on campus and supervised training com- generally have no direct need to be pared to 1,800 hours before the aware of city issues such as gar- program was accredited. bage collection and rental prices. Then when they do move off campus, they're only there for two NEWS-A University years before they leave, so there student is demanding he be often isn't that much time to build refunded for a course in up interest," Anderson said. which he says the instructor Anderson added that the large limited the class hours. Page number of students that go home 3. on weekends contribute to hometown ties that lessen local weather interest. Mostly sunny. High 65F stall photo by Tim Wasthoven Jamie Sagriat, a senior physical education major, and Leslie University. The atudents paraded in front of the University Union to The most politically-active (18C), 10 percent chance of Hauman, a senior communications and Spanish major, ware trying precipitation. promote an expanded program at the Student Recreation Center. campuses, such as the University yesterday afternoon to create some Interest lor a new class at the See page 5 for a story about the new class. of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, tend to have large populations of graduate students Soviets tour campus pollution research site who have lived in the area for many years and have a greater by Rick Rlmelspach of Agriculture's Forest Service stake in the community, Anderson staff reporter Seek to alleviate problem through joint effort Laboratory in Delaware. said. Because air pollution knows no better understanding of the "In Bowling Green, it would take thetic process of a variety of cash during which he studied air As part of the cooperation, plans a really big issue to get students boundaries, two Soviet scientists complex relationship between air crops, such as soybeans. pollution research and control are almost complete for a Russian toured University research pollution and plants. excited into action. But here, as Other projects examine the facilities. Noble is accompanying scientist to come to the University elsewhere, it is still a case of people facilities in the Life Sciences "What interests us are the ef- cellular effects of air pollution on the Soviet scientists during their next year for research work, Noble Building yesterday as part of a fects of sulfur dioxide on getting interested because they plants and investigate how plants visit to the U.S. and will be sharing said. In addition, a University want to," Anderson explained. joint effort between the two vegetation. We hope to exchange absorb heavy metals, such as ideas and information aimed at professor may be traveling to the countries to alleviate a common information and make suggestions copper and zinc, which are cleaning the air of the two coun- Soviet Union for similar work, DENNIS M. Anderson, assistant problem. to prevent pollution," Alexeyev poisonous to humans. tries. although plans are not final. professor of political science, said Dr. Vladislav Alexeyev, deputy said. "This Is an important problem Before coming to the University, today's students are probably as j director of the Leningrad Botanical ALEXEYEV SAID air pollution for the entire world," Alexeyev the Soviet scientists toured similar well informed as those of five or ten Institute and Yevgeny Miroslavov, HE ADDED that they also want in the Soviet Union is not quite as said.