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University clearinghouse receives grant
Thanks to the receipt of a five
year federal contract, the Univer
sity Educational Resources In
formation Center (ERIC) Clearing
house on Educational Manage
ment will continue operation.
The clearinghouse competed
with other institutions around
the country to receive the contract
from the National Institute of Edu
cation, part of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
It submitted a proposal explain
ing how it would carry out specific
goals and how much money it
would need to operate.
Although the ERIC Clearing
house receives a small amount of
money from the University, it
could not have continued opera
tion without federal support, ac
cording to Stuart Smith, assistant
director and editor of the clearing
house.
We had high hopes we d re
ceive the contract,” Smith says.
Three years ago we had very se
vere competition and it wasn’t
easy getting the contract. We won
this year because of the strength
of our technical proposal which
explains the scope of our work.’’
The ERIC Clearinghouse on
Educational Management is one of
16 clearinghouses in the country
funded by the federal govern
ment. Each clearinghouse collects
information on publications in one
particular field of education such
as curriculum or teaching
methods.
The information — indexing and
abstracting of articles — is sent
weekly to Bethesda, Md. where it
is collected and printed into two
monthly catalogs. The catalogs
are disseminated to educational
institutions all over the nation.
The University Clearinghouse
office is located in the front hall of
the main library. However, the of
fice does not serve walk-in re
quests but the ERIC index and
abstracts are on file in microfiche
readers in the Education Psychol
ogy library.
Midwestern
architect is
guest here
A prominent architectural
theorist will deliver a guest talk
Wednesday at the University.
Hanno Weber, associate pro
fessor of architecture at Washing
ton (Mo.) University and the direc
tor of the St. Louis, Mo., Commun
ity Design Center, will speak on
“Community Development and
User Participation” at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 177, Lawrence Hall.
His talk, sponsored by the Uni
versity Department of Architec
ture, will be open free to the public.
The program is one in a series
dealing with contemporary ar
chitectural practices.
Weber is a noted design
methods theoretician. Winner of
the 1974 Design Methods Group
Prize, he is currently writing a
book on the techniques of user
involvement in design.
Class guide
gets facelift
for spring
The ASUO Course Guide is
turning “professional,” says direc
tor Rich Riegel, which means that
they have a printing contract and a
deadline to meet for course
evaluations.
That deadline this term is Feb
ruary 17 say Riegel, but there is an
advantage to the early deadline.
Students will be able to get the
Guide by the middle of dead week,
about March 8.
“By now all professors sup
posedly have received Course
Guide information forms,” Riegel
says. He says it's simple to fill out
and return them and even easier
this term due to a "streamlined"
form that allows professors to
merely add or delete information
from previous evaluations.
“If there's only a change or two
from last term, just a notate those
changes to tell us what’s oc
cured," says Riegel.
This term’s Guide will include
“almost every University pro
gram,” Riegel says. For the first
time they’re "going to include de
scriptions of all the PE service
classes."
Reigel extends his “thanks to all
professors who contributed
evaluations last term” and wants
“to encourage them to respond
again.” He says the Guide’s effec
tiveness is at the “mercy of the
professors.”
‘Response has been really
good" so far, he says. He con
tinues that most professors now
take the publication seriously, "it’s
not the high school rag it once
was.”
Riegel thinks the Guide now
has a “more valid, more profes
sional form," and with the early
arrival date it will be something
students can plan around, it will be
something they can count on.”
The Guide, Riegel hopes, is
“becoming more of a newspaper,
becoming more timely.” Eventu
ally, he hopes to encompass an
ASUO calender and a list of spe
cial events.
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• TUESDAY
ARABIAN NIGHT!
• WEDNESDAY
PERSIAN NIGHT!
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BAKERY ON FRANKLIN
Foreign flags fly on campus
Photo by Erich Bocketwid*
The University is celebrating
the New Zealand holiday of
Waitangi Day by flying the New
Zealand flag below the U.S.
flag on the flagpole in front of
the campus post office.
The flag is part of a program
to honor special holidays in
countries represented by stu
dents at the University, accord
ing to Pat Olsen of the EMU.
The New Zealand flag, one
of 14 received by the University
from consulates of the home
countries of foreign students
enrolled here, will be replaced
by another flag later this week.
Waitangi Day marks the date
in 1840 when Great Britain
gained all territorial rights and
sovereignty in New Zealand.
Sixty-six foreign countries
are represented by students
enrolled at the University this
year.
EMU Cultural
Free Lectures
EMU Room 167
February 7 & 10
8:00 p.m.
Forum & Craft Center
SKIP JOHNSON
woodworker, furniture
designer, and wood sculptor. . .
Workshops
Feb. 8 & 9
Beginning & advanced
instruction
Pre-registration
is required at
the EMU Craft Center
Fees:
$5 U of 0 students,
faculty, & staff
I.D. required at
of registration
$10 General public
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