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The students' voice since 1917
September 9, 1998
Fort Worth, Texas
Vol. 81, No. 12
Schrum
says "no"
Administrative cuts
won't be made
Jason Lamers
News editor
President Jake B. Schrum and
Wesleyan's top seven administrators
declined to take a 15 percent salary
reduction recommended by the
Faculty Council in a meeting July 1.
Tne eight administrators
include Schrum; Tom Armstrong,
senior vice president and provost;
Dave Voskuil, vice president of
enrollment management; Caren
Handleman, vice president of devel-
opment; Dr. Skip Applin, vice pres-
ident of student life and athletics;
Marcia Wilemon, secretary of the
university; Steve Martin, vice presi-
dent of administration; Loralee
Pohl, associate vice president of
human resources According to the
Faculty Council minutes, Schrum
said he had presented the request to
the staff and no one volunteered to
take a salary reduction, and that he
would leave the university before
taking a salary reduction under the
proposed request.
Later Schrum said, "There was
nothing wrong with the request.
However, my response is a personal
one and it simply means that 1 have
no plans to take a salary decrease
during my remaining time at
Wesleyan."
Armstrong said the president is
the authority in matters of salary.
However, Armstrong said, "The fac-
ulty council's recommendation was
taken seriously."
The council also asked Schrum
to reduce the senior staff by one or
more and that the senior staff reduce
the number of non-academic profes-
sional support staff by 10 percent
and replace them with student assis-
tants.
When asked if there was a need
for a reduction of senior staff,
Schrum said, "no."
According to the Salary Equity
Committee Report, the Wesleyan
faculty have been paid average
salaries ranging around the 50 per-
cent mark white the top administra-
tors have remained at the 100th per-
centile compared to other private
universities in Texas.
Joy Edwards, chair/of the
Faculty Council, said the Faculty
Council thought the administration
would take a pay cut in good faith.
In another meeting on July 30,
the Faculty Council described the
outcome with Steve Martin, vice
president of administration, and Dr.
Tom Armstrong, senior vice presi-
dent and provost, "unproductive,"
according to the Faculty Council
minutes.
According to Edwards, Martin
and Armstrong were supposed to
present a line item budget for the
Faculty Council for the 97-98 year.
Instead of the expected in-depth
budget, Armstrong submitted only a
narrative budget for three university
programs: GST 1111, AEGIS and
the international program.
One member asked Armstrong,
why a comprehensive budget wasn't
done before. Armstrong said he did
not know and that there has been a
long history of that at Wesleyan.
Armstrong was also asked if
cutting summer classes had saved
money. Armstrong said Martin is
still looking at the numbers and has
not , reached a conclusion.
Armstrong did say the summer
tuition covered salaries and other
costs.
The final audit of the 1996-97
fiscal year would be available in late
September, said Armstrong.
However,
Armstrong also said five facul-
ty positions have been frozen for fis-
cal year 1999 in the departments of
Fine Arts, Education, Business,
Science and Humanities. These
positions can be reconsidered in
2000.
"As we worked with the
trustees on the budget we struggled
to come up with money for open
•positions, so we froze those position
and filled them with adjuncts'' said
Armstrong.
"It is time to quit the blame
game," said Edwards, "The council
members and guests are here
because they love the university. We
do not want to run the university, but
we want to see that she is in good
hands and is being steered in the
right direction. We must agree to
move forward to establish that in the
future, there will be accountability."
A motion was made and unani-
mously passed that the information
requested by the council was not
provided, and the meeting was
unproductive.
University loses a good friend
Photo courtesy of the Office of Communications
Dr. Ronald Reed, professor philosophy, published
over 200 book reviews for the Star-Telegram since
1981. Reed came to Wesleyan in 1979 as the
coordinator of the Analytic Teaching Program.
Jason Lamers
News ediioY
Dr. Ronald Reed professor of phi-
losophy and education, died at his home
of an apparent heart attack Aug. 24. He
was 51.
Dr. Reed was a native New Yorker
who joined the Wesleyan faculty in 1979
as coordinator of the Analytic Teaching
Program in the school of education. His
education program soon became one of
the world's leading centers for training
teachers to use elements of logic and
philosophy in teaching children.
Dr. Reed was the author or co-
author of 11 books beginning with his
1983 study Talking with Children. He
was a member of the National Book
Critics Circle and published more than
200 book reviews for the Star-Telegram
since 1981. He also reviewed books for
The Dallas Morning News and New
York's Newsday.
Dr. Reed contributed to the
UNESCO Conference on Philosophy
and Children in Paris. He also directed
workshops across the United States and
in Canada, Spain, Germany,. Denmark,
Australia, Ireland, Mexico and Brazil.
During his career at WeSleyan, Dr.
Reed was instrumental in establishing
the Creative and Critical Teaching
Center as well as the scholarly publica-
tion The W&sleyan Graduate Review. He
became the first professor to receive
Wesleyan's Distinguished University
Scholar award, and also accumulated
many other honors and awards.
"Ron Reed was a great respecter of
opinions," said Jake B. Schrum, presi-
dent of Wesleyan, "He always had an
open mind and an open heart, and mea-
sured success not by students' answers
but by their questions. He constantly
urged his colleagues to think across dis-
ciplines in order to enrich their world
view. Our community has suffered a
great loss. We will miss Dr. Reed very
much,"
Dr. Tom Armstrong, senior vice
president and provost, said, "Dr. Reed's
death created a major void in the faculty.
Not only was he a teacher but he was a
mentor to the students of Wesleyan."
Dr. Reed earned his bachelor of arts
degree at St. Francis College in
Brooklyn, his master's at City
University of New York, and his doctor-
ate at the University of Western Ontario
in London, Ontario, Canada.
Reed is survived by his wife, Ann
Reed; son, Jeremy Reed; and daughter
and son-in-law, Rebecca and Wade
Pfleger.
Memorial contributions may be
made to the Adam Reed Scholarship
Fund, which Dr. Reed established at
Texas Wesleyan in memory of his son.
Allen Henderson considers the state's
review of Wesleyan school of
education "ridiculous"
Jason Lamers
News editor
Wesleyan and 34 other Texas universities
have been placed on "Accreditation Under,
Review" because the universities failed to
meet the 70 percent passing rate for first time
teacher certification test takers.
The exams, called EXCET, must be taken
by graduates to gain certification to teach in
Texas schools.
The State Board for Educator
Certification divided the test takers from last
year into four groups based on race: black,
hispanic, white and other. The five people at
Wesleyan in the black group had a 30 percent
passing rate and the three people listed in the
other category had a 50 percent passing rate.
"It's ridiculous to give Wesleyan this rat-
ing because of a statistical anomaly," said
Allen Henderson, dean of the school of educa-
tion.
Wesleyan had an overall passing rate of 84
percent out of 82 students who took the test.
Because of the small number of people in
the failing groups, Wesleyan and 18 other uni-
versities have the right to appeal the SBEC
review, said Henderson.
According to the SBEC, if the failing
group of people contains less than 10 people,
the university has the right to appeal the deci-
sion.
"The fact is that we have petitioned for a
waiver regarding the review status because the
two groups below standard are less than 10
students, thus are not supposed to count in the
status assessment. All other groups are above
the 70 and 80 percent standards," said
Henderson.
Last Wednesday, the Star-Telegram
reported .Wesleyan's education program was
"sub par" and was in danger of losing its
accreditation. Henderson disagreed with the
article and said, "The problem is the way the
Star-Telegram portrayed it."
Henderson said he fully expects for the
school of education to be fully accredited after
the SBEC sees his appeal which he said has
already been sent.
The SBEC is only two years old and is, "a
flawed system," said Henderson.
Southern Methodist University and.The
University of North Texas are both rated
"accredited under review" because of the same
statistical problem that Wesleyan has.
Austin College, which is not under review,
had more than 93 percent passing rate for first
time test takers.
Dr. Barbara Sylvester, chair of Austin
College's education program, said people
should not judge programs on the rating alone.
"If you don't know all the stories behind them,
the figures can be misleading. Anybody who
works with statistics knows that when you
have a very small sample they become much
less reliable."
Holly N. Ellman, media relations manager
for Wesleyan, said, "It is expected that recon-
sideration of Wesleyan's status will be favor-
able. Texas Wesleyan has consistently per-
formed in the top 10 percent of education
schools in the state of Texas on the educator
preparation exams."
Student Misty Bates first American
to attend Yonok college in Thailand
Marla Montgomery
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Misty Bates, a senior political
science major at Wesleyan.
enrolled June I as the first
American student at Thailand's
Yonok College.
Bates will study for one school
year in an international exchange
program arranged by Texas
Wcsle\an. Yonok College and the
American-Thai Foundation's U.S
office in Fort Worth.
"Although I cannot become a
part of every culture, I do aspire to
have every culture become a part of
me," said Bates.
Bates belongs to several inter-
national clubs and committees at
Wesleyan. She recently competed
in Arab League debates and studied
political science in Israel. Bates
also studied at Edge Hill
University-College in Ormskirk.
United Kingdom, in 19%.
Bates said! she, hopes that her
experiences in Thailand can help
her make a difference in public ser-
vice. "improving the ways that gov-
ernment agencies, non-profit orga-
nisations and educational institu-
tions serve the public I can apply
my studies of Thai government and
culture to further prepare for my
career m public services and to help
and teach others as others haw
helped and taught me "
Wesleyan assists students in
developing a comprehensive under-
standing of the world by interna-
tional exchange with institutions
around the wor/d. Weslevan and
Yonok College plan to expand the
program so more students can
study in a different culture.
"The international education
program at Wesleyan is designed to
introduce the campus community
to the knowledge of what will be
the global village Of the 21 *t centu-
ry." said Helena Busseli,
Wesleyan's assistant to the provost
for international programs, acade-
mic policy, and planning,
Wesleyan recruits international
undergraduate and graduate stu-
dents to participatejn the Intensive
English program. Currently 42 stu-
dents are in the Intensive English
Program. Students can also partake
in other international course study
options such as international stud-
ies and international business
administration
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Coach Kenny Medina stands in front of the site the new Texas Wesleyan soccer field
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