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.
During Winter and Spring terms, the'
University willbe engaged in a self-study
exercise preliminary to its reaccreditation
by the Northwest Association of Schools
and Colleges. The University
Administration seeks interested students to
participate on the following self-study task
forces:
Undergraduate Education (2)
Graduate Education (2)
University Finance (1)
Physical Plant (1)
University Administration (1)
Libraries (2)
Student Affairs (2)
Outreach Programs and Special Collections (2)
If you are interested in helping with
this effort, please submit a short letter of
application to Ray Viellet, ASUO
University Affairs Coordinator, ASUO,
Suite 4 EMU; or Steering Committee,
President's Office, 110 Johnson Hall.
Appointments shall be made during
the third week of January.
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Students learn job skills
Nestled among towers of books, in a back
corner of the third floor of the University's
Main Library.two young people wearing white
protective masks huddle over their cart. A
vacuum sits on the cart’s bottom tier.
One worker takes a book from a library
shelf and hands it to the other, who places it
on the first shelf of the cart. After the entire
library shelf has been transferred, the two
vacuum the books and methodically return
them to the shelves in the exact order in which
they took them.
They look at the shelf, making sure all is
in order, then look at Cheryl Gravitt. their
vocational trainer. She smiles and they go on
to the next shelf.
The two participate in a Eugene 4J School
District program that provides work ex
perience for 16 to 21-year-old students who
have mild handicaps. David Abrarnowitz. The
Vocational Center's career development coor
dinator. prefers to say his students have
special needs, and that often it is the environ
ment that is handicapped, not the student.
Work stations at the University are part of
a process designed to help students make the
transition from a protected work environment
to one where they must interact with people..
Ten to 15 students work two hours a day. four
days a week and perform a variety of jobs on
campus. They can be found in the library
dusting books, in the admissions office filing
folders, in the EMU cafeteria serving Mexican
food and performing jobs for the Physical
Plant.
The students perform essential services
for the University and in exchange. they
receive work experience in a challenging en
vironment. The experience improves their
resumes and shows prospective employers
that special-needs students can be valuable
employees, Abramowitz says.
Abramowitz says the University "is a
supermarket of jobs and working en
vironments," He adds. "I really appreciate
University personnel who allow this to
happen."
Dusting library books will help preserve
the large collection, Dennis Emerson, the
library’s stacks manager, says.
'if these kids weren't doing this, it
wouldn’t get done,” he adds, "laist year, they
completed half of the third floor, Now they're
working on the second half. Hy the time
they're done, it will be time to do it again,” he
says.- . •
Emerson’s role in the program is to give
students a sense of authority.
"I make an appearance as a 'boss' and ask
them how it's going.” he says. "But there is
very little investment on our part.” He says the
library administration supports the program
and hopes to see it continue.
Uravitt has been working in this program
since-last.September and says that her job is to
work herself out of a job.
“I try to make them as Independent as
possible Theirability to .do a job without my , •
help is the. greatest thing we can teach.’' she’
says. "There is nothing greater you urn give
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vnwgara cleans an EMU cart as a participant in a, program that provides students who
have mild handicaps with on-the-job training.
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