The Lumberjack, October 8, 1987.

              U J I L
NORTH Ei
KALAVAR
3 3 2 2 S . 3 0 0 EAST
SALT LAKE C I T Y , UT 8 4 1 1 5
HERN ARIZONA I NI VFRSI I )
0U1K RATE
U I- fO P A6t PAID
MMlT#7»
rllim tt, Am. 66001
Volume 81, No. 11 Oct 8. 1987
NAU enrollment figures
hit record high at 13,445
R obert C rook
news reporter
If your classes have a few extra people in them, park­ing
places are a litlle harder to find and there are never
any Snickers left in the vending machine, the answer
may be a record enrollment of 13,445 students on the
m ountain cam pus.
, This semester’s enrollment entails a growth of about
1.8 percent from the fall 1986 semester, said Stephen
C ham bers o f NAU’s institutional studies.
“ It’s a pretty healthy picture for N A U ,” Cham bers
said o f this semester’s enrollment report. Many institu­tions
in the West are suffering from declining enroll­ment,
he said, but NAU’s fall semester enrollment has
been increasing steadily since 1983.
The fall 1986 enrollment was 13,208; 237 fewer than
for this semester. Cham bers said he had expected a
growth o f 1.5 percent for this semester.
; T h is f a ll’s
growth of 1.8 per­cent
was down 2.9
percent from last
fa ll, how ever,
m ak in g the
growth in fall of
last year aboui 4.7
percent. The fall
1*985 enrollm ent
was 12,615.
■ Last s p rin g ’s
e nrollm ent was
12,737.
T he 13,445
e n ro llm e n t for
th is sem e ster
breaks down into
U ,417 students
studying on cam ­pus
and 2,028 stu­dying
in m ore
th a n 40 c o m ­m
u n i t i e s
t h r o u g h o u t
A riz o n a w h ere
the university of­fers
c o u rs e s .
C ham bers said.
Growth occurred
rin both area*, he
said.
O f the more than 13,450 students studying at NAU,
3,691, or about 27 percent, are freshmen; 2,064, or
about 15 percent, are sophom ores; 1,830, or about 14
percent, are juniors; 2.457, or about 18 percent, are
seniors; and 3,039, or about 23 percent, are graduate
students. A bout 3 percent, 364, are unclassified.
The ratio o f in-state to out-of-state students is about
4 -to -l, with 8,001 students reported to be residents and
2,156 reported to be non-residents. The university’s
enrollment showed 3,288 students were not classified
as either resident or non-resident.
The enrollm ent report indicates there are 9,451 full­time
students who carry 12 or more credit hours, and
3,994 who are part-tim e students with a class load of
fewer than 12 credit hours.
Cham bers said U.S. D epartm ent o f Education
statistics show the enrollment for Native Americans and
Hispanics, the largest minority groups on campus, also
increased this semester.
In the number o f Native Americans enrolled in the
fall semester of 1984, NAU ranked fifth among more
than 1,700 other four-year institutions across the United
States. Native American enrollment was 650 in fall
1984. This semester, it is 737, Cham bers said.
NAU also
ranked in the top
100 o f the same
1,700-plus institu­tio
n s for the
n u m b e r o f
H isp an ic s who
were enrolled in
fall • 1984.
C h am b ers said
820 Hispanics arc
enrolled ai NAU
this semester, up
152 from the 668
who were enrolled
in fall 1984.
“ I t ’s g re a t,”
R e g istra r Kris
M cClusky said of
th is s e m e ste r’s
e n r o l l m e n t .
‘■‘Registering all
of them w asn’t
that h a rd .”
M cClusky a t­trib
u te d the
record enrollment
to N A U ’s off-cam
pus programs
a n d stu d en t
a ssistan c e p ro ­gram
s.
“ Student retention is high,” McClusky said.
“ W e’ve enjoyed some good demographics and an ex­panding
population base,” said Jim Moore, assistant
director of admissions. “ W e’ve done a good job get­ting
the word out what a good school NAL' is.”
Fall sem ester enrollm ent
throughout the decade
14.000
13.750
I?,500
l?,2SD
13.000
12.750
12.500
12,250
13,205
College of Business strives to gain re-accreditation
R obert C rook
news reporter
Negative evaluations have prom pted the College of Business A dm inistra­tion
to make efforts to improve its faculty research, budget and accoun­ting
program , officials said.
Joseph W alka, dean of the college, and Ron Pitt, associate dean, said
the college was evaluated in November 1986 by a visiting team o f the
American Assembly of Collegiate Schools ot Business, comprised of faculty
and deans of business colleges throughout the nation.
The deans said the assembly found the college’s budget and faculty
research lacking and did not accredit the college’s accounting program .
In April, the AACSB put the College of Business A dm inistration’s re­accreditation
on a "deferred status,” said Walka. He said the AACSB has
given the college until April 1988 to make reforms before it could gain re­accreditation.
The college is fully accredited now, however, he said.
The AACSB also denied accreditation for the college’s accounting pro­gram
Walka said it was the first time the college had requested accredita­tion
for the program . “ We didn’t expect approval on our first (try), he
said.
The request for the accounting program had to be made while the entire
college was under evaluation, Pitt said.
The college has worked at getting re-accredited by hiring m ore faculty
and getting more funds. W alka said.
The college has hired an additional five permanent faculty members, he
said. An additional faculty member was hired this semester on a visiting
basis, Walka said.
He said tw o m ore accounting faculty members will join the college in
January. In addition, the college will hire four m ore faculty members for
the fall 1988 semester
This semester, the college also received an additional $30,000 in non­personnel
items, Walka said.
“ We were relatively under funded when com pared to the credit hours
we te a ch ,” he said. ‘T hat’s because the college had not been aggressive
in seeking its share of university funding.**
Walka and Pitt said the college plans to increase the research output not
only by the hiring of m ore faculty, but by placing more emphasis on faculty
research.
W alka said the college is granting lighter class loads to those faculty
members who submit plans for research projects The lighter loads are
awarded on a competitive basis according to the research plans that are
submitted, he said.
“ W e’re not a research institution,” Pitt said. ‘’O ur main concern is
teaching.” W alka said that faculty research contributes to the body of
knowledge o f business and “ translates into better teaching,” however.
Both deans said the college has stiffer research requirem ents than
undergraduate institutions because it offers m aster’s degrees. Pitt said the
AACSB “ looks at esoteric research and practical research, and the amount
and quality of b o th .”
Walka said the college will submit data on the college’s budget and faculty
research in February. He said the AACSB may or may not visit NAL again
I n April, depending on how it evaluates the report
In April, the AACSB will make its announcement on whether the Col­lege
of Business Administration will be re-accredited. W alka said.
” 1 feel optimistic we will achieve re-accreditation.” he said. “ We’ve never
lost our accreditation before.”
Pitt said he believes the college will be re-accredited. “ President (Eugene)
Hughes has addressed the budgetary problems and we’ve addressed the
faculty problem s.” he said.
P itt said the college's accounting program was not accredited because
of insufficient faculty research and because its curriculum was not up to par
W alka attributed the insufficient research to a lack of accounting facul­ty
and said the hiring of four new faculty members should curb the pro­blem.
Pitt said the college is examining ways to improve its curriculum.
W hcther the college will again seek accreditation for its accounting pro­gram.
however, depends on the faculty's decision “ a couple of years dow n
the ro ad ,” W alka said.
W alka and Pitt said the lack of accreditation for the accounting p ro ­gram
will have little or no effect on students.-
“ There are very good program s that are unaccredited. We believe we
have a very good program , and our student placement shows that. Our
students are competitive when they graduate.” ,said Walka.
Arizona State University’s accounting program is accredited, but tne
U n iv e rsity of A riz o n a ’s is n o t.
SAC Hall
renamed
Alfred Flores
news reporter
Now that most people are used to
referring to W om en’s High Rise as
Reilly Hall, it’s time for a new twist.
SAC Hall will have its nam e
•changed to McConnell Hall. The
dedication ceremony will take place
Oct. 24, said Michael Jackson,
president o f the Association o f
University Residence Halts.
The residence hall is having its
name changed in honor of form er
state legislator Sam McConnell. Ho
played a m ajor role in obtaining ap
propriations for NAU while in the
House o f Representatives.
Many of the buildings on south
cam pus were built with funds
M cConnell helped o btain, said
Eileen Coughlin, assistant vice presi­dent
o f student services.
“ Sam McConnell improved the
q u a lity o f life in N o rth e rn
A rizona,” Coughlin said. “ He was
a great supporter of N A U .”
A letter will be going out to
residents of SAC Hall, Coughlin
said, to inform them o f the name
change.
ASNAU p a /s
Two attend festival A lfred Flores
news reporter
Although ASNAU has approved
-the expenditure o f S531 to send two
o f its members to a spirit festiv al in
C alifornia, the council was not in
complete agreement on the issue.
Two delegates from ASNAU will
a tte n d L um berjack D ays th is
weekend in A reata, C alif. Lum ber­jack
Days is an annual event which
celebrates the spirit of lumberjack-ing
with contests and exhibitions
related to that theme.
ASNAU Vice President for Ad­m
inistration and Finance Larry
L’Heureux and Liaison Councilper-son
Marco Scalise will attend the
event in hopes to bring back infor­m
ation so that a similar event can
be held at NAU sometime next
semester.
“ It could be something to relate
the students to o u r m asco t,”
L’Heureux said.
Although the event at Hum boldt
State is a weekend-long festival.
L ’Heureux said that it would p ro ­bably
be a one-day event at NAU,
until enough student support existed
to make it longer.
“ By attending, we’d be in the
thick of th in g s,” L ’Heureux said.
“ When we’re there, we can see how
they run things. W e’ll also see what
differences w'ould have to take place
to have one here (in FlagstafO .”
Although the ASNAU executive
council voted to allocate $531 to
send L‘Heureux and Scalise to the
event at its Oct. 1 meeting, certain
members of the council feel this is
an unnecessary expense.
Vice President of Student Affairs
John Nanni and Sophom ore Coun-cilperson
Karen Strobel said they
believe th is a llo c atio n is u n ­necessary,
because an event like this
would not go over well at NAU.
“ People d o n ’t associate NAU
with the symbol of the lumberjack
that m uch,” Strobel said. “ Enough
inform ation can be gathered over
the phone or by letters to see if we
could have an event like that here.”
“ We are for school spirit,” Nan­ni
said. “ Be we d o n ’t think we
should spend 1531 of the students’
money on something that won’t
happen.”
Nanni and Strobel said they feel
an event like this would not receive
the student support necessary to
keep it going, and also would be
overly expensive due to liability
General catalog recalled,
governor’s degreeswrong
M att C lifford
news reporter
C ontrary to what students may have read in the new
edition o f the NAU general catalog. Gov. Evan
Mecham does not have a B.S., an M .S.. a J.D ., a
D .L itt, or any other college degree.
The university has recalled almost 2,000 catalogs
which erroneously list these degrees after M echam’s
name on page 354, said David H orton, associate vice
president of academic affairs.
The degrees actually belong to ex-governor Bruce
Babbitt, he said.
“ What happened was that in previous years Bat Hitt’s
name had been listed, along with his degrees,*’ H or­ton
said. “ When the new catalog went to the word pro­cessor,
the name was changed, but the word process
mg person failed to delete the degrees.”
Most of the catalogs that had already been distributed
when the error was discovered were given to depart­ments
around the university and can be recalled easily,
he said. The university will not try to retrieve the few
copies that were sent to individuals, he said.
The recalled copies, along with 52,000 others that
were not given out, will be shipped back to the
publishing com pany to be corrected. H orton said. The
company will make a special plate that will create a per­manent
overlay on the page that contains the mistake,
he said.
“ The new cages will be blank where the degrees are
listed now, since the governor has no degrees,” he said
Horton said it would cost less than S I,000 to make
the new plates, and an unknown am ount to collect the
catalogs and ship them back to the printer.
The revised catalogs should be available in tw o to
three weeks, he said.
Though editions o f the catalog usually contain
numerous minor errors, Horton said this is the first time
one has been recalled and corrected.
It is not clear who first noticed the error. Horton said
university officials became aware of it last week when
a reporter from the Afew Times, a weekly Phoenix
newspaper, called to point it out.
A New Times editor said he did not know whether
the mistake w*as found by the paper’s staff. The reporter
was not available for comment.
M arketing m ajor David Sm alt enjoys Monday \ warm f rom / insle*, pia\ > for an independent m iram urjf sot -
lea th er in the \ilen-Tinsle\ quad. SmaJe. a sophomore <er team and was out ttmchinu up on hi* 'kill*
(