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September 17, 2003
Fort Worth, Texas
Vol. 90, No. 2
News Briefs
Barr Concert Series
The Texas Wesleyan
Stephen Barr Memorial
Concert Series will be held
at Nicholas Martin Hall
Sept: 27-28.
The 2003 McCammon
Voice Competition winner
Erik Nelson Werner and
Fort Worth Opera General
Director Darren Keith
Woods are scheduled to
teach a master voice class
from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on
Sept. 27. The classes are
open to the public to
observe.
Werners scheduled to
perform atvJp.m. Sept. 28
in Nicholas ""Ma rtfti Hall.
The performance is open to
the public. General admis-
sion ticketsare51% All stu-
dents with sphool Identifi-
cation will be admitted for
$5 *■"' '' ' • '* "
For more information
call the Fort Worth Opera
Guild at (817) 731-0833,
ext. 25.
International Club
The Texas Wesleyan
International Student Club
is holding a meeting in the
O'Neal Sells Administra-
tion Building, in the Uni-
versity Club at npon Sept.
19. The meeting is open to
all international students
and others that are interest-
ed. For more information,
contact Satu Birch at (817)
531-4422.
Poster Sale
Beyond the Wall Poster
Sale will be held in the
Quad Sept. 17.
Budget cuts usher concerns from faculty
Whitney Fowler
NEWS/PHOTO EDITOR
Some faculty members
expressed their concerns as the
Sept. 23 deadline nears for them
to submit their proposed budget
cuts to the deans, as mandated
by President Harold G Jeffcoat.
Faculty Assembly
Chairwoman Dr. Beth Battles
said that the issues brought forth
in the Faculty Council thus far
"center on the timeline, and
understanding the President's
motivations on these cuts."
In an interview Aug. 28,
Jeffcoat told The Rambler that
he hopes to make Wesleyan "fis-
cally sounder and academically
better, as well as significantly
more hospitable to students"
through "greater focus on pro-
grams of quality and financial
strength."
Psychology professor Dr.
John Hall said that one level of
concern is that the proper proce-
dures be followed in the event of
deciding to cut entire programs
or departments.
"It's one thing to say we're
going to cut the academic budget
by taking money out of the oper-
ating budgets of the departments
or we're not going to fill posi-
tions with full-time people right
now," Hall said.
However, regarding the
issue of cutting programs, "That
entails a whole different kind of
process in order to be consistent
with our own policies," Hall
said.
Hall
explained that
the university's
policies specify
adherence to
the principles
of the
American
Association of
University Professors, or AAUP.
According to the procedures
issued in the "Red book"— the
AAUP manual — the elimina-
tion of programs must come,
Hall explained, "as a faculty rec-
ommendation for educational
reasons unless the university is
in a financial crisis."
The university cannot elimi-
nate programs or departments
"without following very strict
guidelines," Hall said.
"It's very complex
because there is all sorts
of levels of concern."
- Dr. John Hall
Psychology professor
History professor Dr.
Brenda Taylor, who is vice presi-
dent for the Texas Wesleyan
Chapter of the AAUP, explained
that the AAUP was created in
order to ensure academic free-
dom and tenure and shared gov-
ernance.
Shared governance, Taylor
said, is an understanding
between the
administration
and the faculty
that each has
its own strong
points — the
administration
being the
administrators
and the faculty
being the teachers and the cre-
ators of the academic programs.
"We do have some concerns
about due process and shared
governance on this campus,"
Taylor said.
According to Taylor, the
AAUP had a resolution that
asked the Faculty Council to
request the hiring of an interim
provost at Wesleyan.
Jeffcoat announced on Aug.
28 that Dr. Douglas Nancarrow
had resigned as provost and sen-
ior vice president of operations.
The provost, Taylor
explained, "is the faculty voice
to the president and to the board
of trustees, so that if there is
something that the board or the
president wishes for the univer-
sity and yet faculty believe that
may not be the best thing for the
university, we have a single per-
son that represents our voice."
According to Taylor, any
proposals must go through the
Academic Affairs Committee,
and, if approved, proceed to the
Faculty Council, which is the
executive body of the Faculty
Assembly. After the Faculty
Council makes a decision, the
proposal goes before the Faculty
Assembly, which consists of all
tenured and tenure-track faculty
members.
"Any of these revisions
have to go through those steps
before they're approved," Taylor
said. "It's also in the handbook
that although we may disapprove
of program revisions, it actually
could go into effect because we
don't have the final say — the
See Concerns, page 2
Datatel system up and running
Sara Southerland
STAFF WRITER
The new Datatel system,
brought up for the last of the
offices in June, seems to be a
slow but steady hit on campus.
Costar, the previous system,
was outdated. Dean Carpenter of
the Financial Aid Office said.
"There is honestly no compari-
son. Datatel brings us into the
current century."
Datatel, a single-source pro-
gram that allows outside interac-
tion, connects all the offices of
Wesleyan to one program.
This new program will be
"great for the university," said
the Business Office's Karen
Cole. "It is an integrated system,
so it's a little more complicated.
Time will allow us to learn and
use it more, and in the long run
it will help us immensely."
Datatel may at first be diffi-
cult for some, said the Cashier's
Office's Jamie Cox. But, "It def-
initely makes financial balancing
a lot easier because everything is
already in the computer."
The Windows-based pro-
gram will help to cut down on
duplication of information and
simplify things for the future.
Problems with the system so far
seem to have been few.
"The transition was antici-
pated to be smoother but I guess
we'll just have to wait and see if
they get the kinks out," student
Rachel Loftin remarked.
Many students were upset
on how long it took to get their
paperwork back this summer,
but the reason was attributed to
the system being new.
Resident Assistant Albert
Talley said, "I don't like the fact
that when you register, you can't
see who your teacher is or where
your class is. It's just going to
take time to adjust to it."
Carolyn Hall of Admissions
agreed, "It just takes time to get
the bugs out."
Currently, officials are
working on allowing students to
check their grades online on
Datatel. The ultimate goal is to
get online registration for new
students started.
Photo by Whitney Fowler
Byron Magruder uses the printer in the computer lab.
Students will soon be limited to the number of pages
allowed to print per month. See Opinion, page 3.
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