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Money is very scarce in an urban area and universities in urban areas are usually new universities. The trend a few years ago was still towards comprehensive universities, like VPI and UVa. They seem to get a lot of money, as we know. The newer universities are not as well established. Also, you have a large commuter problem with an urban university. Wayne State University Just did a very comprehensive study on the commuter problem; 1 think Old Dominion will probably have to do one on this also . . . You also have an inner city problem. A lot of times universities are located in the inner city area. As the university expands, it often creates the conditions that it’s trying to solve. You have to watch out for that. Also you have less room to expand because there's a scarcity of land in urban areas. It’s not as bad in Norfolk as in some places, like VCU, which has a terrific expansion problem . . .Also you have to make sure the university is not going to add to the environmental pollution in the area . . . Another problem would be admissions. Once you’ve made the choice and you’ve made the curriculum changes, you have to get away from a very traditional structure in admission, where you Just depend on, say, your SATs and your standing in your class. You are going to have to draw people whose overall standing was not that excellent, but that in a specialized area were excellent students. It’s going to be several years from now until we make the change. We shouldn’t change the admissions structure until we’ve made the choice and made the other changes. But I think we might m the future. It’s not dropping the standards, really. I’m against that. I’m against Louis Mayhew’s suggestion that we have open admissions. But sometimes a very outstanding student in one area is not outstanding at all in another area. So I’m saying we don’t necessarily have to look for somebody that’s outstanding in all the areas. I don’tthinkanopenadmisslonspolicy is going to help matters at all. There’s quite a few people in college who shouldn’t be there in the first place. They are there because they’ve been forced to. We’ve got to put more emphasis in high school on vocational training and the University can help in this also. With parking, we’re making progress, however slow it is. The money problem ties in with this. It costs so much to develop parking lots in the first place. Now the way it happened here is a good way to show interaction between the community and the university. Norfolk usually holds the land for us. They buy it from whoever owns it and hold it for us until we’re able to buy it. But the state is not providing the money to buy these lands. We have to do it by bond issues. Take the parking lot behind the Student Center: It’s costing well over seven hundred thousand dollars to develop that parkinglot. Parking, Ithink, will improve this year significantly. It’s not going to be the big problem at the end of this year that it was at the beginning of the year, especially when that new parking lot is through. But I can’t say, I don’t think anybody can say realistically, that we're going to solve completely the parking problem, in the next five years. The university’s going to grow southward and what we’re really going to need to do is to come up with a master plan. . . we can’t expand anymore, no new buildings and new parking lots, until we come out with a new master plan. So that’s what they’re doing now, and I think it's going to have to include parking. We’ve never done that in the past. Parkmgdevelop-ment has been very helter-skelter. As the President said, lt’stime we stopped building the buildings around parking lots, and build the parking lots a round the buildings... . There’s got to be a lot of interaction between the community and the university. It’s not Just a one-way street; the university can’t provide all the services. I think that the community is going to have to step into areas where the university cannot function. A lot of universities and communities tie in services. They have, for example, a computer center which is used by the community and the university. Now I can’t say whether that would work here, but it is the type of thing I mean. A lot of things are getting very expensive nowadays, so it would be advantageous to have one center which provides information or provides a service for both the university and the community. It’s a Joint effort. For Old Dominion University the community can provide support. They have to help provide the money. Now the city itself won’t do this, but they have to push in the state legislature, where the money comes from. In community action projects, the city has to work along with the university . . . Take for example, one of the major problems we have is parking. The community helps us a great deal with parking. It’s shared resources, that’s the key word here.
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Student Caucus sident Bruce BisTop''We still h iv n’t made the choice. An urban university first has to be centered in some kind of metropolitan area. Actually it»s a very distinctive university; it’s very specialized. It’s not a comprehensive university in the sense that it offers programs in a very wide field; it's all concentrated in the field of urban studies . . .It's a university that has a great deal of innovation and experimentation, especially in its courses. It also provides the trained leadership to help solve the urban problems that are homogeneous to urban areas across the nation. We've Just never developed the type of research that is needed to try to solve these problems. And that's what an urban university is trying to do. It has to hit it from a lot of different angles. Throughout the university you have to get away from a traditional university structure, and this includes your curriculum. In education you have to do a lot more with inner city education and specialized education for a metropolitan area. It is different. You have to go into mass transit systems. You have to look at the governmental systems in metropolitan areas. A lot of research has to be done in regional government: which type of government can best solve the problems? Then, you have to look at ecology: water pollution, noise pollution, air pollution . . . What I'd like to see is an urban university, yes, but not so distinctive that it is useful only to this area. But a lot of the problems that are faced in an urban area like Tidewater are going to be faced by a lot of other urban areas all across the eastern seaboard, all across the nation ... So if we can provide the trained leadership to help solve the problems that are homogeneous will all these areas here we're doing quite a bit. In solving theproblems of the Tidewater area, you're going to help solve the problems of these other areas. So you could say it's a distinctive regional university also. We're Just getting into this area now. We still haven't made the choice, I don’t think. We still have a very traditional curriculum, the structure in traditional. But I think we're moving in the right direction. 1 think the move will be made in the next couple of years. It’s going to depend a lot on the faculty whether they want to make the move too. I think that we'll make the choice, but I don’t think that it's been translated into action yet. Probably it has been made: that we’ll go into urban areas. But I know Louis Mayhew wasn’t exactly too pleased with the new mission of the university, it’s too general. It’s not distinctively urban in nature, really. The university provides leadership to help solve the urban problems. It provides service in many facets. In the field of research, it’s got to provide research in trying to solve the urban problems. They can’t Just train the leadership and then let the leadership go out and try to solve them, it has to provide the research also tohelpwiththis.. . It has to provide an evening college program which is very strong. I think ours has been strong; it’s been upgraded considerably m the last couple of years. They also have to provide a great number of extension programs . . We have a police academy here and I think that’s important for most any urban institution. . . A lot of schools call it volunteerlsm. Whatever you call it, you’re going to have to do basic education programs in personal hygiene, nutrition, psychological counseling. Of course we need this on campus, really; I think we do you’re going to have to do it in the surrounding community also . . .You have to work for better off-campus housing for students especially in an urban area where it’s very critical. We might establish an urban life center in which there would be an internship program in various governmental structures in the community . . . Drug information and a rescue program: we’ve never tried anything like this. An urban university ought to provide this basic information because it’s such a problem in urban areas. Draft information, police relations, day-care centers are going to be increasingly important. . . Accounting aid: Business majors could go out in the community and give aid to low-income familleson income tax, how to keep a budget, and consumer protection. You can have community food programs, counseling for Juvenile probation court, sending students out as counselors... You can work with the elderly and with the blind. Community recreation programsneed a lot of help. It would be good to have a Job referral program also. Mental health: we’ve never entered this field yet . . . Secretarial aid is needed for a 11 these service agencies in the community. Now this could all be tied into academic credit. A lot of schools have done this. I think Old Dominion is going to have to get into this area if it’s going to become an urban institution.
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