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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,
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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.
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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."
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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
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Generals opinion
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ly USC cannot Jackson students were not inc
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n opinion from students and revised USC's pr
Commission on students. The House Ways an<
sunt part-time the original projections.
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the number of military students to be inc
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year programs in USC's Col/e
plan to appeal the decison.
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By Patty McCarthy
Staff Writer
USC and eight other state s
schools in South Carolina will los<
of dollars in federal funds unless
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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.
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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.
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eliminate segregated col
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gregation balance the schools racic
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the basis South Carolina State Cc
black and was once ail bl
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two committees to respt
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