Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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Registration line panic! Each semester the time comes when you hear countless sighs of frustation. Students gos- sip with other students of the same academic se- mester and final digit of the social security num- ber. Students stand in seemingly endless lines, waiting their turn. Restlessness. finally, it is your turn. With sweaty hands, you give your paper to the lady who sits behind a computer. You feel as though your heartbeat can be heard from one end of the hall to the oth- er. Then she says the four words you heard the night before in a night- mare. ‘This class is closed.” Registration panic! Many students can re- call those long waits to get into classes only to find out they were closed. One time I waited about 45 minutes,” ju- nior Mathan Mozingo said. ' The line was really long. I had to yellow-card into classes my first se- mester of school.” This painstaking ne- cessity is one every stu- dent had to experience, it began by setting up an appointment with your adviser and ended in the lengthy corrider. But not every student would ex- perience the long lines in the future. The University planned to use telephone regis- tration by the academic year 1990. The touch tone registration would allow students to avoid waiting in lines and still register for classes using the mainframe computer system. I think students will like the new' way of regis- tering because it's more flexible with time,” nan- cy Weber, Assistant to the Dean of Admissions and Records said. The new system had an estimated cost of $25,000. This amount in- cluded the computer, disk drive and software necessary to implement telephone registration. Weber said touch tone registration had worked well at both large and small colleges. She felt students would be able to easily adapt to the sys- tem. Our students are computer oriented and they won't be afraid of using telephone registra- tion,” Weber said. Students thought the new system sounded practical and would help cushion the previous stress of registration. “Standing in line is a waste of time,” freshman Dana Rehwinkel said. It s tiresome to keep go- ing through to get classes that end up closed. The new- system seems much more sensi- ble.” Senior Phil McIntosh would not be able to benefit from the new sys- tem, but he felt tele- phone registration would help future students and employees in the Regis- trar's Office. The best part about it is the registrar won't have to face angry and crabby students,” McIn- tosh said. however, McIntosh thought the new system could create new prob- lems if implemented. “I can t imagine there would be enough lines to accommodate every- body that needs to regis- ter,” he said. If the new system lives up to its planned poten- tial, students could be more comfortable with registration. Telephone registration would make long lines and registra- tion panic a frustration of the past. i Larry Rodgers A conflict of class times holds up David Gray, sr., as he attempts to register. A common experience includ- ed two or three different trips down registration tun- nel in search of the perfect schedule. Planning helps Dr. Panos Hoots, Academic Planning Services Counselor, coun- sel students. Panos advised freshmen undecided stu- dents.

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 Instructor of radio and TV, Phil Bur- dick. delivers a lecture on breathing- techniques to his radio class. Bur- dick taught radio and TV and ad- vised KP1EU the fall semester. Surviving the hiring line faculty offices in jani- tor's closets became commonplace as the University hired 54 new instructors for the 1988- 89 year. The University hired 28 assistant professors and 26 temporary instructors and temporary assistant professors. The largest number of these, 16, were now a part of the Language and Literature Division. Past publicity about the University attracted some instructors. I feel that I can contri- bute to any university, but I can make a greater contribution to a univer- sity like northeast that has a clear mission state- ment, Jeanne Lebow, assistant professor of English, said. Darrell Krueger, vice president of Academic Affairs, said the Universi- ty administrators look for broad-gauged thinkers. They look for people who can teach and will help save the ship, not sink it. Krueger said that slightly more of those hired for last school year were from liberal arts schools than those in other years. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Keith Doubt, said, You can see Presi- dent McClain and Dean Krueger want the Univer- sity to grow. Junior Jennifer Moo- gensen had mixed feel- ings about the new in- structors. I think they arc trying to find better instructors for the students, but I don't know if they're suc- ceeding, Hoogensen said. Confused class sched- ules and a lack of office space were the most ob- vious results of hiring 54 more faculty that stu- dents saw. Smaller class sizes and increased course offerings quietly announced the trend to- ward a broader educa- tion.! Anne McKern Brian Eskijan fr„ plans next se- mester's schedule with help from his adviser, Todd Planders, in- structor of Social Science. Teach- ing abilities and broad-gauged thinking skills were important qualifications necessary for new faculty to be hired. |

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n Advisers get student help According to the 1988 Graduating Student Question- naire, students have been more satisfied with their advis- ers every year for two years. But students continued to question the counseling ability of advisers. The advisers frankly just don't know what they're sup- posed to be doing to advise their students, junior Joy Lain said. The results of the question- naire revealed the best ratings came from the chemistry disci- pline within the science divi- sion. On a scale of one (low- est) to four (highest) the advis- ing program received a 2.20 rating in 1987. Until then the level of student satisfaction with the advising program had been steadily dropping since 1981. Darrell Krueger. Vice Presi- dent for Academic Affairs, and Dean of Instruction, believed the drop resulted from north- east becoming more rigorous and the students having high- er expectations. Krueger found encouragement in the rise in the mean. This is the first year, in years and years, that advising was up, Krueger said. We've turned the corner on advis- ing. The Student-Adviser Rela- tions Committee (SARC) be- gan in 1988 to combat advis- ing problems. Senior Leigh Klinginsmith, who helped form the committee, said the Uni- versity needed to take steps to help alleviate the advising situ- ation. Too many advisers were in- volved in too many things and could not adequately keep up with the changing programs, Klinginsmith said. A parallel perspective