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! U»* f • Black. Tuesday, November 6. i»79
REQUIREMENTS TO GO UP
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Business school to cut enrollment
4g£ by JOHN KUKLA
By CHUCK CATLETT
Overcrowding and lack of
funds to hire a sufficient num
ber of instructors have prompt
ed the College of Business
Administration to enforce more
stringent entrance require
ments. according to business
school officials.
Currently, a student must
have a 3.0 GPA through 45
hours of work and a minimum
SAT score of 900 to enroll in the
business school. Beginning fall
quarter 1980 an incoming fresh
man will need a B high school
average and 1100 on the SAT.
according to Irwin Harvey,
business school undergraduate
coordinator.
Very high enrollment, leading
to unsatisfactory student-faculty
ratios induced the decision to
raise admission standards. Har
vey said.
A need for tighter enrollment
policies became apparent in
1975 when the school reached a
34-to-l student-faculty ratio,
according to business school
dean William C. Flewellen.
Since then, enrollment has
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dropped gradually each year to
the school's current 26-to-l
faculty-student ratio, only about
eight students above the aver
age of ihe nation's leading
business schools. Flewellen
said.
The need to keep student-
faculty ratios low is an impor
tant concern of the business
school administration. The
American Assembly of College
Schools of Business reviews the
ratios in business schools
around the country on a rotating
basis.
To receive accreditation from
the review board, a business
school must have one faculty
member for every 300 graduate
hours per quarter and one
faculty member for every 400
undergraduate hours per quar
ter. according to Flewellen.
“If a school has more than the
minimum student-faculty ratio
they are put on probation,”
Flewellen said. “If the school
does not correct the problem
they then lose their accredita
tion. which would probably
destroy any business school,”
he said.
The average class size of a
junior division course in busi
ness is about 80 students,
compared to a 29 average for the
entire University. In the senior
division, the business school
classes average 3b students,
compared to 22 students per
class for the whole University.
When asked why the school
did not hire more instructors.
Flewellen said the whole prob
lem centers around the fact that
the business school cannot
obtain the resources for new
faculty members.
I he wide-open business mar
ket forced administrators to
restrict enrollment, according to
Harvey.
"Students recognize where
job opportunities are as fast as
faculty members do. and they
jump into that field.” Harvey
said. Harvey also points to the
need for qualified pei sonnet in
the business world as another
reason for the popularity of the
BBA degree.
“Businesses were willing to
take non-business people and
train them in slower lini<
Harvey said. “But now business
is a booming field, and cmplov
ers want people alr< ..dv
trained."
Business' financial rewards
provide an impressive incentive
to students. "The average sal
ary for a student graduating
with an MBA_ degrt this
summer was SI8.500. Flcwt I
ten said.
With higher adl Ml
dards. the business school turns
away some good students “Ihe
business school faces the same
problem as the law school,
forestry school or any other
school. We have to draw a line
somewhere,” Harvey said. K>
jected students may come to
Flewellen for counseling. "Wi
will explain why he w as rejected
and try to steer him in the right
direction,” he said.
Overcrowding problems ar-
not due entirely to the numbrt
of students enrolled in the
business school, but to a recent
popularity of business courses
among non-business majors.
Flewellen said. Administrates
have reduced enrollment to
allow students from othet
schools to elect basic business
Administrators say the strin
gent entrance requirements
have helped the school gain
national prominence
“One reason for the college ot
business national stature is the
improvement of the caliber ot
the student body.” said Harvey.
“Higher admission standatds
have raised the college from a
good regional school to one with
national recognition.”
The high-quality faculty
lends national prominence ■ •
the school, which boasts eight
professors ranked in the top 1"
percent nationally by their peers
in reference to publications . nd
research work they have done in
the field. Flewellen said.
“Students used to come to
Georgia for a few years and then
transfer to other more promin
ent schools," Harvey said
“Now they are coming to us
for a better education."
Honccorafc, 1171.... (
Lewis somewhat endorses Carter
By SALYNN BOYLES
\ssitant city editor
Civil rights activist John
U wis told the congregation of
the Athens Unitarian Universal-
tit Fellowship Sunday that non
violent protest is “still the most
powerful weapon to bring about
change."
Speaking on the history of the
civil rights movement as pan of
the church’s 25th anniversary
celebration. Lewis urged the
crowd to remain active in human
rights.
“Wc'rc all in the same boat
and not any of us are going to
get out until wc get out
together." he said. “We must
do what v\c can to enhance the
dignity of every person.”
Lewis was an instrumental
figure in the civil rights move-
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mem in the ’50s and ’bOs and
has been involved in Atlanta
politics, running unsuccessfully
against Wythe Fowler in the
1977 congressional race for
Andrew Young's vacated seat.
He is currently director of
domestic affairs for ACTION.
He spoke of his childhood in
rural Alabama. “When the 1954
Supreme Court decision was
passed. I was a boy of 14 in rural
southeast Alabama. That deci-
ri gave us a greater sense of
hope, a sense of optimism that
real change was in the making."
Lewis said the greatest suc
cess of the civil rights move
ment has been the changes it
has brought to the south.
“There is a greater degree of
hope, of optimism in the south
today than in any other area of
the country,” he said. “In those
areas where roads were rocki
est. where there was no light at
the end of the tunnel, those
places arc better. There is
something in the South that is
not in Washington. D.C., or
Detroit, or Buffalo or In Los
Angeles.”
He mentioned Selma. Ala.,
the site of the civil rights
demonstrations in the ’60s. as
an example of a southern town
that has experienced drastic
change since the movement
began.
“When we started only 2.1
percent of the blacks of voting
age were registered to vote in
!m;. ' he said. “More bl.cks
city council, five of the members
are black.”
Lewis spoke of Martin Luther
King. Jr., saying he w.ts the
man who inspired hr to get
involved in the civ! rights
movement. “More 'fan any
other figure .•! -h
the power to urge people to <1
good. " he »
of his beloved
him.”
After his sper h Lewis took
questions ffoffl
and reporters When asked
about the 1980
election he gave . > i: wh o
qualified endorsement of Jimm
Carter.
"Personally n my pi event
capacity I serve at the , lea ,
of Jimmy <
“While in thi‘ position I will
support him.' He add.
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th^rc ; s a rm. of the Klan today
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in New York City and he said h b
Atlanta. Of their ten member society."
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