The Towerlight, December 12, 1980

tl19801212-000 "VOL. LXXIV No. 15 0 ill er.rtg PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY Contents Sports 8 Entertainment 5 Features 3 Weekwatcher 6 Newsbriefs 10 Classifieds 10 Commentary 11 December 12, 1980 Are chestnuts really roasting? It seems like just yesterday we started classes. Now we are in the midst of papers, exams and holidays. A note to freshmen: You will survive your exams. If not, you have the entire month of January to recuperate. Good luck! TL photo by Ken Zeigler Moonlighting: faculty's answer to inflation by Christa C. Marvenko Faculty members have been sup- Plementing their pay by receiving income through other professional services inside and outside of their institution. According to the December 1 issue of the Chronical of Higher education, two kinds of extra earn-gs were reported. Faculty mem- Qers can suppliment their salary by research, additional teaching, ad- Itnnistrative duties, or other services at their own institution. Also, they can receive payments frtnn outside services for consulting, research work, teaching at another institution, or other services. A Chronical of Higher Education sur-vey (November 17 issue) showed that these extra earnings add an average of 21 percent to a faculty use salary. Or. Joseph Cox, vice president for academic affairs, said the most frequent type of additional income for faculty at Towson State is earn-ed through teaching at night, in the annnner, or both. The Board of Trustees rules that faculty members may teach one tight course along with their re-gular four-course load. In the sum-iter, a faculty member may teach �My two courses during a session. , Sheets also said that if the num- Der of students in a night or summer eourse is not sufficient, and a facul-ty member decides to teach that eeurse, he will be paid on a reduced Beale. �Cox said that a faculty member 170 wishes to receive extra income tY teaching off campus is obligated .� request permission. ""These rules 'fre not easy to enforce when a bs acuitY member is earning extra ""come at another institution,"" Cox added. ,.,Cex said that monitoring out-t10 campus work activities is best 50ne by a faculty member's coll-basgnes. ""If a faculty member is t""nd to be violating Board of Trus-i. e. Policies he is sent a letter of ""Qsfst, said Cox. ""I cannot imagine any faculty 'nerniber jeopardizing his job by ignoring Board of Trustees policies,"" said Cox. Cox said, ""These policies are used to insure the quality of our faculty by giving them enough time to spend with their work here at Tow-son."" Presently the number of full time faculty of the University teach-ing for continuing studies at night is 230 members, while 480 mem-bers taught this past summer. Dr. Norman Sheets, dean for divi-sion of applied sciences, said that Towson State full professors teaching a summer course receive $1400 per three-hour course while iassociate professors receive $1 1 50, assistant professors $1075, and in-structors $1000 per three-hour course. Full professors teaching at night receive $1 27 5 per three-hour course while associate professors receive $1150, assistant professors $975, and instructors $900 per three-hour course. Sheets said that the reason sum-mer salaries are higher than night salaries is because faculty mem-bers who teach in the summer have to travel back and forth to school, whereas those who teach at night are already on campus after teach-ing their regular courses during the day. Sheets said, ""We are trying to phase in an increment to make these salary scales equal."" A Chronical of Higher Education survey (December 1 issue) showed that professors of business and economics are earning the highest extra pay. Business and economics pro-fessors, who reported their extra pay, received extra earnings aver-aging $1 1,5 17 above their base sal-ary, which is 39.0 percent of their base salary. In contrast, humanities profes-sors, who reported their extra pay, received extra earnings averaging $3590, which is 14.2 percent of their base salary. Business and economics profes-sors, who reported their extra pay, received extra earnings averaging $4 7 21 from within their institution, while those who earned extra salary In this issue horts editor errY Jackson �ti,kes a few shots TV's bumbling 0rts commen-ata fteo-rs. He gets in at iv good swipes Howard ""the ToUtle) Cosell. eage 9. Goldie Hawn, as private Judy Ben-jamin, declares war on the U.S. Army. Read the review of ""Pri-vate Benjamin"" on page 5. Norman Sheets from outside their institution re-ceived an average of $91 2 6. Humanities professors, who re-ported their extra pay, received ex-tra earnings averaging $2 8 11 from within their institution, while those who earned extra salary from outside their institution received $2440. State plan seeks minority students by Nancy Zeleski The State Board for Higher Edu-cation recently adopted a new state-wide plan concerning the enrollment of minority students at all public universities. The goals of the previous plan, which was adopted in 1974, were set to be achieved by 1980. J. Harrison Ager, chairman of the task force that prepared the new plan, said most of the goals set by the previous plan have been reached by most schools. Javier Miyares, Higher Educa-tion research specialist with SBHE, said minority enrollment in the state has increased from 10.2% in 1970 to 18.9% in 1979. While the main target of the 1974 plan was the recruitment of new minority stu-dents into the higher education sys-tem, the new plan focuses on the re-tention of the new students once they have been admitted. The plan proposes equal retention rates for white and black students or an improvement by 10% of the re-tention rates for minorities that have been admitted by the regular admissions criteria. The retention rates for students entering by special admissions cri-teria is to be the same as regularly admitted students after their first year. However, the plan has set some guidelines for recruitment of minor-ity students into the technical fields such as computer science, architec-ture and engineering which have historically been underrepresented by minorities. The plan also addresses low at-tendance by minority students in the graduate schools and the first professional levels of continuing education, such as medicine, dentis-try, and law. The plan proposes an increase of 9.6% of the total students in the targeted departments for each in-dividual school, said Ager. Each school is to submit its own specific plans for recruitment to SBHE by January, 1981. Ager said the task force has al-so recommended that two addition-al studies be conducted. One study, said Ager, would ev-aluate the whole picture of financial aid, not just as it relates to minor-ities, to discover if sufficient funds are available to all who wish to continue their education, the curr-ent utilization of funds, and any administrative deficiencies that may exist in handling the funds. The purpose of the second study, Ager said, would be to investigate ways to enhance the image of the state's historically black institu-tions- Bowie, Choppin, and Mor-gan. The study would look at the pro-grams offered at the traditionally black institutions as well as the community perception of the schools and the present racial proportions in the attempt to make them more attractive to other race students, said Ager. - ""We have always looked at our entering student body and made special attempts to track and re-tain students that.. .we described as ""high risk,"" said Morris. The students are identified by SAT scores of 350 or below and sup-plemental testing. The Test of Standard English (TSWE) is a new subscore which is extracted from the verbal SAT score to determine placement in the developmental program, said Col-lins. Until last fall Morris said the program consisted only of a prepar-atory writing course and an orien-tation course. Now, said Morris, that program has been expanded to include cour-ses in math and reading. A total of 17 credits in developmental courses are now available. ""I believe that this program, in addition to just working on skills that a student needs, gives them a much better idea of what is expec-ted of them-what is coming in their college level courses,"" said Morris. ""I think many students washed out because they simply did not have the time to catch on,"" said Morris. There is even follow-up counseling provided, she said. The registration materials for all students enrolled in developmental courses is pulled, appointments set up and help given in scheduling the appropriate courses for the next semester, said Morris. Morris said approximately 160 students are on the Fall '80 list. The Study Skills Center is anoth-er avenue of academic support open to students at Towson. The Study Skills Center, said Woodus, provides individual as well as group tutoring in a wide variety of undergraduate subjects and even some upper division courses. Most students are either referred by faculty members or simply walk in requesting tutoring, said Wood- US. ""In terms of the retention effort I think that what we do here is extremely important,"" said Wood-continued on page 10 MINORITY ENROLLMENT* 1972 (actual) 1974 goals for 1980 1979 (actual) 1985 (goals) Bowie State 67.5% 51% 83.3% 71% Coppin State 94% 73-80% 93.1% 95% Frostburg State 4.6% 6-8% 7.6% 8% Morgan State 95.8% 73-77% 91.9% 88% Salisbury State 4.3% 11-12% 8.2% 8-10% St. Mary's 3.7% 13-14% 5.7% 8% Towson State 5.9% 14-16% 11.8% 13-16% Univ. of Balto. 9.6% 16-17% 22.3% 16-17% UMBC 9.4% 18-20% 18.3% 13-16% UMCP 5% 13-16% 7.3% 10-12% UMES 74.9% 50-60% 82.2% 75% Percentages for 1972 and 1979 enrollment and 1980 goals are for full-time undergraduates. Percentages for 1985 goals are for entering full-time freshmen only except for the University of Baltimore, which is full-time undergraduates since it has only juniors and seniors. Organizations devise requirements Someface continuing education by Francis C. Broccolino If Towson State students are planning to enter certain professions, they may have to continue their educations periodically until they retire. For every state now has legislation requiring continuing education for some professions, although regulations vary from state to state. ""More and more of the professional organizations are writing it (contin-uing education) into their by-laws (as requirements) for the professionals to get recertified,"" said Dr. Norma Long, dean of continuing studies. Although mandatory continuing education has only recently reached widespread popularity, the movement actually started over 30 years ago. Years of Growth Dr. Joseph Cox, vice-president for academic affairs and dean of the Uni-versity, said mandatory continuing education has its roots in the 1940s and 1950s when many states began requir-ing teachers to return to school so they could update their skills and learn new techniques in teaching. During that time, Towson State and the University of Maryland at College Park played vital roles in continuing education for teachers. ""Even in 1970,"" Cox said, ""most of the students at Towson during the summer were teachers or profes-sionals taking teaching courses."" � However, in the early 1970s, an idea surfaced that this type of professional updating was essential for all profes-sions because many professionals had not update their studies for 30 years. California and New York took the initiative in continuing education by mandating that all people in health-related fields must return to college periodically to learn new techniques. This philosophy was appled to other fields, and ""the idea swept over the country,"" Cox said. Although the purpose of continuing education is to insure competence in certain fields, many people oppose making this education mandatory for all professions. Criticism of Mandatory Education ""Except for health-care fields, most continuing education is probably bet-ter not mandated by the state, but left to the individual employers to work out,"" said Cox. ""It would be silly,"" he said, ""for the State Department of Education to mandate a course in teaching Spanish children when people in Garrett Coun-ty would not need such courses, whereas those in Baltimore might."" Other educators have been critical of mandatory continuing education because some professionals have taken courses not relevent to their fields, but have received credit for continuing their studies anyway. For instance, some people have taken trips to Hawaii and received three credits even though the trip had nothing to do with their fields. Cox ex-plained that such practices could end compulsory education. ""The challenge is going to be to make continuing education meaning-ful, or else you might as well scrap it,"" Cox said. ""The idea is good, but it Joseph Cox (the practice) has not been conducted very well. Professors at the University have varying opinions on whether continu-ing studies should be mandatory in all fields or only certain ones. Disciplines at the University Dr. Richard L. Hilton, chairperson for biological sciences, said contin-uing education should not be compul-sory for all fields, only those concerned with public health. Concerning other fields, he said, ""I would rather see a person continue his education because he wants to, not because he is forced to do so. If the individual shows ambition by taking additional courses, that person is more likely to advance."" He said the only field within biological sicences requiring cantina-ing studies is science education. In other areas of biology, Hilton ex-plained, ""mandatory continuing education is not necessary."" Similarly, in business administra-tion, most fields do not require con-tinuing education. William R. Brown, chairperson for the University's largest department, said continuing studies should be required for those acting in the public interest or for those who must be relicensed pen- , odically. In business, these requirements ap-ply specifically to two fields: real estate and accounting. Realtors, for instance, must acquire 12 credit hours of study every three years to have their licenses renewed. Certified public accountants (CPAs) also must take additional courses for relicensing. Raymond J. Castaldi, an associate professor of business administration and a CPA, said CPAs must accumulate 40 hours of study a year to be relicensed annually. Castaldi said he favors this pro-cedure because ""it maintains the professional competence of the CPA. I can't imagine how anyone could keep up with all of the changes in the accounting field without taking addi-tional courses."" All courses taken by the CPA are relevant to that person's area of practice, Castaldi added. Although these two business field are the only ones requiring additional studies, Brown said some professional business organizations devise their own guidelines, which include con-continued on page 10 "