University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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CONTINUING EDUCATION Graduate Students Continue Quest for Knowledge Dean Thomas Hatfield Dean Claud Glenn Sparks With the Reagan administration ' s cuts, the Title II-B grants under the Higher Education Act which supported students who would work with ethnic minorities through libraries may be discontinued in the near future, according to Dean Claud Glenn Sparks. The primary function of the grants was to enable ethnic minorities, who were unable to independently finance their educa- tions, to enter the library and information science field. Sparks, who became Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Infor- mation Science in 1972, remarked that most of the people in the Title II-B program have been ethnic minorities. If the grants dry up, then many things that have been funded in this manner will go undone, and a real reduction of minority students in our Graduate School will result, Sparks said. Sparks received his bachelor ' s in business from East Texas State University, a master ' s in library science from UT, a master ' s in English from TCU, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dean Thomas Hatfield Updating education for the profes- sionals, was the aim of the Division of Con- tinuing Education, said Dean Thomas Hat- field. Continuing education programs sup- plemented the population ' s education in areas from law to nursing to art. The pro- grams offered ranged from beginning pot- tery to advanced technological aspects of engineering. The program was developed because it met a need people wanted to expand their knowledge, change careers and exchange information. Hatfield spent many of his childhood days on his grandparents ' ranch in South Texas and was exposed to adult education programs through the Agriculture Extension services. He later realized the importance of updating information in people ' s lives and pursued the career of educating adults. Hatfield came to the University in 1977 as Dean of the Division of Continuing Educa- tion. The continuing education programs are striving for greater understanding of the arts liberal and fine arts, he said. Dean Claud Glenn Sparks LIBRARY SCIENCES 1}0 Continuing Education, Library Sciences

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I SOCIAL WORK inc Dean Martha Williams Students in the school of Social Work received more than just classroom instruc- tion in the course of earning a degree. Ac- cording to Dean Martha Williams, dean of the School of Social Work, candidates for the bachelor ' s and master ' s degrees were re- quired to spend part of their time working on field assignments, an important part of their curriculum. Some of the school ' s field outlets in the Austin area included the Austin Center for Battered Women, Seton Medical Center and the Children ' s Psychiatric Unit of the Austin State Hospital. Students might work at the legislative budget ,, , , i t ffJ If din g employment. It We have lost a lot of federal fun- . , . , board, Williams said, was om y tnose wnc or they might work ding but have been able tO COpe absolutely insisted on with that because the University of sta y in g in Austin that . . . , , found limited oppor- Texas has been very helpful to us tunkies . Wimarns con - Basically, it affected our field program, the dean continued. The federal money that we had was mainly for field instruction. But things had a way of working out We have been able to get the field teaching covered by agency social workers, Williams said. Also we have been able to get master ' s program students in the field to supervise our students rather than having our faculty supervise them, she added. As for placing students once they graduated from the School of Social Work, Williams said that surprisingly enough, the graduates seldom had any difficulty in fin- in that transition. ' at a child and family service agency, hospital or correc- tional facility in a number of different social services. Duties ranged from administrative paper- work to counseling patients. Williams was optimistic about her school ' s continuing programs, even though President Reagan ' s federal budget cuts caus- ed reverberations. We have lost a lot of federal funding, but we have been able to cope with that because the University of Texas has been very helpful to us in that transition, Williams said. eluded by praising the School of Social Work. We have a lot of job requests for our students mainly because we ' ve got good, high quality students, she said, adding that education doesn ' t seem to hurt anybody in the job market as far as our field is concerned. A native of Houston who received all three of her degrees from UT, Williams said that social work is challenging and important in the sense that it is applying knowledge to the solution of human problems. Students Receive Experience Through Austinite Counseling Programs Turning out people who wanted to help others was the main objective of the School of Social Work. One of these helpers was Susan Noffke, a graduate student and intern with Junior Helping Hands. At that agency, Noffke counseled children ages 4-12. Nof- fke was assigned several cases in which she would first interview the child and the parents, and pinpoint the problems. Usually the children she counseled were abused or came from backgrounds plagued by finan- cial, legal or marital trouble. After the inter- view, Noffke and her supervisor met with the children individually to begin therapy sessions. Depending on the child ' s problems, the therapy used took different approaches, including recreation, relaxation and psychoanalysis to help arrive at a solution. The student interns tried to make a positive impact on the children ' s lives, accor- ding to Noffke. She was particularly in- terested in the administrative and planning aspect of the intern program, especially when it helped other people. She summed the program up saying that being involved with people is what social work is all about. Pat Vires Social Work 129

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REGENTS Regents Pursue Excellence for UT System - ::.;; .: ' . ' ' : -::. FWM I L ; rfdb itti ( MWMO (topis : ' :-.( I The Board of Regents at the University of Texas System was dedicated to the pursuit of excellence through the promotion of outstanding teaching, research and service. The Board of Regents, appointed by the governor and approved by the state legislature, oversaw the 14 schools in the UT system. For the 1981-82 year, the regents established goals and major planning pro- grams. Two of the goals planned included improving the performance of ad- ministrators, facilities, staff and students within each UT school, and to encourage each institution to utilize the opportunities, challenges and resources available in each community surrounding the schools. The main functions of the regents were handling monies, making appointments and formulating policy decisions. The regents approved a $344,835,737 budget for the UT system, with the total UT Austin budget total of $193,341,141. The most visible out- come of the funds was the construction of new buildings. The Pharmacy building, located behind the Experimental Science building, was the newest on the Austin cam- pus. The new engineering building on 26th Street was under construction. The Robert E. Lee building, formerly housing TA of- fices, was demolished to accommodate a classroom facility to handle the overflow of business students from the Business- Economics Building. Monies received from private citizens and corporations were used to create scholarship funds and endowed professorships. The regents approved the ap- pointments to these endowed professor- ships. The allocation of funds consumed most of the regents ' time. The most recent policy decision, and the one having the most impact on UT Austin- bound students, was the altering of the ad- mission standards. The changes were made to increase the academic quality of the stu- dent body and to stabilize enrollment of students on the UT Austin campus. The regents amended its Rules and Regulations to create two new offices of ex- ecutive vice chairmanship. Dr. Bryce Jordan of Dallas was elected vice chancellor of Academic Affairs and Dr. Charles Mullins to vice chancellor for Health Affairs. The regents took a special interest on the impending teacher shortage and declining quality in public education. These condi- tions in the public schools affected teacher recruitment and retention. The Board of Regents requested the UT System ' s Office of Academic Affairs to make a thorough study of the requirements for education degrees in the UT system. They also wanted increased encouragement of capable people to enter teaching as a midlife second career. To do this, they considered reorganizing teacher training programs within the UT System. FIRST ROW: Janey Briscoe, Sterling H. Fly Jr., James L. Powell, Beryl Buckley Milburn.Jane Weinert Blumberg. SECOND ROW: Howard N. Richards, Tom B. Rhodes, Jess Hayjon P. Newton. Regents 1}1