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Benito Alvarez, left, teaches a Spanish class on Tuesday and Thursday nights as part of N.C.Central University’s Evening/Weekend Studies program, which is aimed mostly at non-traditional students. Ed Boyce/Echo Editor-in-Chief
Evening/weekend program revived
By Lisa Swenson Hutto
Echo Staff Writer
NCCU’s Evening/Weekend Studies Program is pulling out all the stops to accommodate potential students.
The program was restructured this fall and it has moved into the Old Senior Dorm, from the Financial Aid Office.
Kaye T. Rogers, academic adviser for the program, says they are getting the program ready to take off.
“It had kind of leveled off, so now, we are back, bringing the program to the forefront,” said Rogers, referring to a proposal to expand child care facilities for evening students and faculty. “We are offering more programs at night and, we also will eventually have a child care center.”
To get the word out about the program, Patrick R. Todd, EWSP coordinator, designed advertisements promoting the renovated program. These ran in the News and Observer and Durham Herald-Sun.
Today, EWSP offers students the choice of seven undergraduate degrees and 15 graduate degrees. And there are plans to add more degrees in accounting and computer information systems.
Last fall, for the first time, EWSP printed its very own program class schedule. This was done to take the headache out of sifting through the day course schedule. The program also provides a listing of local day care facilities that are rated.
“My main focus is to advise students and really do a lot of the leg work that they cannot do because students are at work during the day,” Rogers said.
But the scheduling of courses to the evenings does have its critics. SGA President Timothy J. Peterkin has written the administration to express his concern that too many day courses are being shifted to evenings order to meet the needs of this program, whole traditional students are being forced to take courses in the evening.
“We believe that there may be a need for a policy to insure that day students are not inadvertently forced to take classes during the evening,” Peterkin said.
EWSP coordinator Patrick Todd responded to Peterkins concern saying this: “The thing that I think students are going to have to realize is that more adult students are coming back to college and that the university may only be able to afford one class that semester.
“It would be great every semester, to have a course taught during the day and the same course taught in the evening; but because of the shortage of faculty, and because of the shortage of funds, the course may only be offered once in the semester, and that course may only be offered in the evening.”
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