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?????? ???B > m 1 ST'"* g South Carolina's Best College Newspaper Friday i Volume LXX No. AA University of South Carolina Columbia, S.C. Jan. 16, 1981 Ruling rr General: By Steve Rkldell Editor USC's College of General Studies could coiiapse li me s.u. ueneral Assembly upholds the Commission on Higher Education^ ruling forcing USC to phase out aii two-year degree programs. \ The commission voted Jan. 8 to terminate USC's General Studies program. USC Provost Frank Borkowski said USC plans to appeal the decision to the House Education Committee and the Senate's appellate body. The commission said seven programs offered by General Studies duplicate programs at Midlands Technical College. The decision is based on studies made by a Cleveland consulting firm. USC was ordered by the commission to lermnnatc us iwo-year programs in secretarial science and hotel-restauranttourism management. The commission said USC could allow students enrolled to complete their programs, but may not admit new students after September 1981. USC WAS also asked to submit a plan to the commission by September for terminating five remaining associate degree programs in occupational fields. USC may submit plans to convert the programs "where necessary and desirable" to four year baccalaureate programs, i fV a ** a - . /According to /Attorney \ (JSC can . By Tom Coyne Staff WrH*f The Attorney General's office said yesterdi include students enrolled at Fort Jackson ii equivalent student count for fiscal year 1980-81 USC Legal Counsel Paul Ward, requested ai the Attorney General's office when the state ( Higher Education would not allow USC to a students at Fort Jackson. The term "full-time equivalent" refers to course hours students take, not the numtx enrolled. For example, if four students take thi they are counted as one full-time equivalent sti In 1973 the Commission on Higher Ed programs onei> oai military installations s supporting. The commission also ruled all sta discontinued. Because of this ruling USC d military students in their projection of full ti students. #j?j? -'v' ^ BWy^, JS? M* B 1 - i llgfjB t -, ;-. . , ^ HMwumS B Bnyjffi 2 Recommendations on criminal jus Gov. Dick Riley's State of the Stat Wednesday. (Photo by Jose Panganit L lay kill Qtnrlioc Borkowski said termination of the twoyear programs would leave Interdisciplinary Studies as General Studies only four-year program. "Their decision to drop the programs is allegedly based on the consultants' report," Borkowski said. "But that is just fraudulent." i IN THEIR report, the consultants said 'he information reviewed "indicated clearly that at-? oss the state significantly different sorts of students are served by the technical colleges and the senior institutions." The consultants recommended that the 1 commission ask USC to periodically review > the educational importance and liabilities of offering occupational associate degrees. It was also recommended that the com- I mission ask USC to study the possibility of integrating the General Studies oc- I cupational programs with related upper- j division programs. j THET CONSULTANTS warned the com- ] mission not to reject occupational programs | proposed by Midlands TEC which seem to { duplicate those offered by General Studies without examining in depth the types of students served and the market's need for such graduates. USC has 60 days to file an appeal under see c/it, page 5 Generals opinion 't count part & In 1979 USC included miltar the Beaufort, Coastal Carolin ly USC cannot Jackson students were not inc 1 the full-time projections. . . The commission discovers n opinion from students and revised USC's pr Commission on students. The House Ways an< sunt part-time the original projections. The commission amended i the number of military students to be inc >r of students ? - -- ~ propnauon f ormula,'' but <1 ee hours each, formula would go into effec idem. Committee on Business and Fi uCii?u ?? was intended to begin in the 191 hould be self- usc officials claim the v te subsidies be established a policy by amer id not include student projections for USC's ime equivalent enable a similar amendmer projection. ffl ^ | " ' l ;: | 'NrJ;^.;^;i^ BS ^g9H mT?r* ^^MFBR^^iSBSMMnB ^ Bp B^^flHhil^S r ..._< .... <ikAmHK^ MOHMft --^MNH Bk W V.v' >iii* * '1 ' tice and state spending dominated 9 address to the Genera/ Assembly \an) jgg I |gj p|||| * ' ^ - - - ^ ^ . ?* > ^ ^ Commission on Higher Edu year programs in USC's Col/e plan to appeal the decison. & -time mili y students in the projection for Ti a and Sumter campuses. Fort esta luded in the Columbia campus entii stud *d the inclusion of military ojections, deleting the military " J Means Committee reinstated Ass? proj ts 1973 policy in June to allow ^ iluded in the "Revised Ap- notl id not specify when this new jf t. At a Nov. 6 meeting, the have inance reported the new policy com Jl-82 fiscal year. jam Vays and Means Committee . iding the full time equivalent . . branch campuses that would "1^ 1 it for the Columbia campus a U?>(J mw to retain 4 By Patty McCarthy Staff Writer USC and eight other state s schools in South Carolina will los< of dollars in federal funds unless oofinn frv nnmnlir MViiVK tv vumpijr w | LI I 1 CUCl CI I IIC3C requirements. A federal Department of Ed neat issued Jan. 7 said South Carolina s< in violation of the 1964 Civil R which prohibits discrimination on of race, color or national origin. The schools have 60 days to resj plans to correct the situation, or el federal funding. Gov. Dick Riley has asked i Commission on Higher Educatin t a college level desegregation plan Carolina eliminating racial se described in the report. SRVKRAI. snffffMtinnfi hnvo hw 7 BF flHppP^pNHp^ !r^.<-'y>. SS^*i?Stjb #SIBS #?P*r~? JPIKHfl| * # > \v si ^ ? '. ?. ..< , / ^ ' * ? ** cation members voted to termii ge of General Studies. USC offic V itary stud !ie CHE claims the Ways and Diisned no such policy. It contend tlement to an amendment by failing lentsinits September 1979 projection le Attorney General's office conclude jmbly's confirmation of USC's Colui ection without the inclusion of the Foi only lead to the conclusion that the Ge ntend that those students be included. the FTE students cannot be counted, > to return $475,000 to the state Ware ment on USC's plans until he talks es Holderman. ie Citadel and South Carolina State C ide military students in their project ved to do so because neither school ents in their fall 1979 projections. 51 desegre federalfv by the Department eliminate segregated col supported Education officials e millions primarily black or w thev take recruit students and gregation balance the schools racic I>ast year. 15 percent ion report state colleges and univc :hoolsare Kight of the schools , ights Act white and were once s the basis South Carolina State Cc black and was once ail bl [>ond with Commission on H se lose all Chairman James E. Be two committees to respt the state steering committee dubt o develop commission" will inclu? for South Stevenson and USC Pi gregation Holderman. The committee will i ment of the desegregatic ?n offered t>m :$K': %- Jc >f ' V-"'>'/,-^ ; >*& n ; -r . x -x ^f|&' '('*/. :?? lP?&WS& late all fwoials say they ents Means Committee s USC waived any to include military s. d that "the General mbia campus FTE T~ ?1 -i a ? 11 jdt^un siuuenis neral Assembly did M the university will 1 said he would not to USC President J Ollege also tried to lions, but were not included military ?gate inds of Education to leges suggested that hite state schools icultv members to il populations of the students in ?rsities were black are predominantly iegregated by law >llege is 94 percent lack by law icher Education stic Jr. has set up >nd to the rvj>ort A >ed the blue ribbon cle Lt. Gov Narv\ resident .kiuks direct the ievelop >n plan stgrmgatJon. p*ge 5