Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 9, 1995 TAG: 9503090069
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: ALLISON BLAKE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: RADFORD LENGTH: Short
Two subcommittees of the board met and tried to decide if they should submit changes now that the New College of Global Studies has been abandoned. The college had been integral to Radford's previous restructuring plan. The joint committee vote is just a recommendation.
University officials had discussed submitting a plan update to the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia by April 1. A final plan is due Oct. 1.
But, as board member Carson Quarles put it, Radford "is caught in the limbo of going from one administration to the other."
Incoming President Douglas Covington, who arrives in June, has proposed that Radford establish a College of General and Extended Education, which could add global and multicultural perspectives to the general education program, or teach outside the campus by way of distance learning and continuing education. Meantime, university officials have backed a plan to infuse international learning into the school's business curriculum.
"At this point, the only thing we can do to eliminate the possibility of making a long-term mistake is [to] ask for more time," Quarles said.
The two subcommittees that met were academic affairs and personnel policy. It was not a formal meeting of the full board.
by CNB