NU administrator
denying charges
by JAN PARKS
MMnwkan Staff Wrlttr
A University Teachers College dean has denied charges
that the college administration avoids change and is
unresponsive to student suggestions.
Most of the criticisms made by a Teachers College
Advisory Board member in the April 17 Daily Nebraskan
were based on distorted and inaccurate facts, said Norman
F. Thorpe, associate dean of Teachers College.
The article relates that Pat Tisdale, an Advisory Board
member, had been called into Thorpe's office after she
had attended the first meeting of concerned Teachers College
students to research ideas on how to improve the college.
WI did request to speak with her," Thorpe said", "although
my motive was not to find out everything about the group.
I wanted to talk to her because I had heard that a staff
member from another college was working with the group.
She said this was not true, and that, was all I asked
her." r:
Thorpe denied a charge that Teachers College ad
ministration is deaf to the demands of students.
"From visiting other schools, I hate a feeling we are
as sensitive to students' suggestions as. are most other
schools,' he said.
"We recognize the Advisory Board as a representative
body of students," Thorpe said, '"and a number of their
suggestions have been incorporated by Teacher's College."
He cited TAPP (Teaching Assistant Pilot Program),
an experimental program which involves Teachers College
students in the public schools, student teaching during their
sophomore and junior years as well as during their senior
year.
Miss Tlsdale's complaint that Dean Walter K. Beggs
does not meet with the board is unusual, Thorpe said.
"I attend the meetings, but Beggs has not been invited
by the board."
The suggestions made by the group of concerned
Teachers College students "were nothing new," he said,
"and nothing we had never heard before."
"There is a misconception that Dean Beggs and I can
do anything we want as far as making changes is concerned,"
Thorpe commented. "This is not true. Any change made
within the college must go through the department struc
ture." Thorpe said he would like to see the student surveys
which Miss Tisdale said have shown Education 31 and
61 courses to be rated fair to poor. In the article, Miss
Tisdale commented that change has not been made in
the two courses despite the poor ratings.
"The student evaluations that I have seen have shown
these courses to stack up pretty well to other University
courses," Thorpe said.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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