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The Nashville University Center: Report of theExecutive Director, 1972-73.Nashville Univ. Center, Tenn.1 Sep 7343p.Nashville University Center, Box 890, FiskUniversity, Nashville, Tennessee ($1.00)

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This document presents the report of the ExecutiveDirector of the Nashville University Center (NUC) for the academicyear 1972-1973. Following an overview of the Nashville UniversityCenter in 1972-73, emphasis is placed on fine arts in the Center, thefine arts festival, library cooperation in the Center,cross-registration, departmental communication and cooperation,international programs and affairs, the State Department ConsortiumProgram, the calendar of the NUC, linguistics, interuniversitytransportation, students, the Fisk/Vanderbilt dual degree program inScience and Engineering, cable television, a women's studies program,the interuniversity psychology Consortium, joint purchasing andwarehousing, planning and management systems, and the financialstatement of the NUC and NUC committee membership. (MJM)

NASHVILLE UNIVERSITY CENTER COUNCIL1972-73 MEMBERSHIP

FISK UNIVERSITY James R. Lawson**Rutherford H. Adkins*Tandy Tollerson IIITheodore R. SykesMarvin WycheJeffrey Caffee

MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE Lloyd C. ElamRalph J. Cazort*Charles W. JohnsonSalil K. DasMahlon CannonJames Murphy

GEORGE PEABODY COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS John M. ClaunchC. B. Hunt, Jr.*William W. ForceCharles H. BallRobert P. ThomsonDorothy L. DurhamNorman Allard

SCARRITT COLLEGE FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS Gerald H. AndersonRalph W. Decker*James I. WarrenRandy Dillard

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

* Executive Committee Members** Chairman of Council 1972-73

*** Chairman of Council 1973-74

Alexander Heard***Nicholas Hobbs*Randolph BatsonJohn E. ChapmanF. Hamilton HazlehurstHoward L. HartmanForrestt A. MillerPaul Gazzerro, Jr.William R. RiddleTimothy K. MarianiKaren Stall

FISK MEHARRY PEABODY SCARRITT VANDERBILT

TO THE COUNCIL OF THE NASHVILLE UNIVERSITY CENTER:

I am pleased to present to you this Report of the ExecutiveDirector for the academic year 1972-73 in accordance with the pro-visions of the Constitution of the Nashville University Center.It has been a gratifying experience to be your executive officerduring this past year, and I look forward to another year ofchallenge and accomplishment. I hope you will call on me oftenindividually and as a Council when through cooperative effort wecan work together to fulfill our highest aspirations for ourselvesand our institutions.

The Nashville University Center depends heavily on the manygood people who chair and serve on its committees. Likewise thisreport owes much to these same people who were willing to put onpaper their thoughts on the work of their committees. I must,however, take full responsibility for what appears herein, sinceI have remolded their work to fit into the overall scheme of thereport.

Richard H. MorganExecutive Director

Office of the Executive DirectorBox 890, Fisk UniversityNashville, TennesseeSeptember 1, 1973

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: An Overview of the Nashville University Center in 1972-73 3

The Fine Arts in the University Center 5

Fine Arts Festival II 6

Library Cooperation in the University Certer 9

Cross-registration 11

Departmental Communication and Cooperation 13

International Programs and Affairs 15

The State Department Consortium Program: The International EducationalExchange Project 17

The Nearly Common Calendar of the NUC 19

Linguistics 20

Inter-university Transportation 21

Students and the NUC 23

The Fisk/Vanderbilt Dual Degree Program in Science and Engineering 25

Cable Television 27

A Women's Studies Program 29

The Inter-university Psychology Consortium 31

Joint Purchasing and Warehousing 33

Planning and Management Systems 33

An Ear to the Ground 35

Financial Statement of the Nashville University Center, Fiscal Year 1972-73 38

NUC Committee Memberships 39

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INTRODUCTION: An Overview ofthe Nashville University Center in1972-73

The 1972-73 academic year was thefourth year of the Nashville UniversityCenter as an organization. The organi-zation was begun to conduct a massivestudy -- directed by my predecessor Dr.Nelson Fuson, guided by a Council repre-senting the five NUC institutions, carriedout by a large set of committees, andfunded by the Ford Foundation -- to inves-tigate how the five member institutionscould cooperate to their mutual advantage.During the years which have followed thislarge study many of the original commit-tees have continued and they have proceed-ed to implement the recommendationswhich came out of the first year, andother recommendations made since, wherefeasible. This past year the NUC beganworking under a formal Constitution andwas also able to employ a full-time direc-tor, and these two circumstances have no-ticeably accelerated the pace with whichthe NUC could move forward.

One senses, in reflecting on the recentpast, that the overall trajectory of the NUChas been subject to two conflicting forces.First of all, there has been the impedingforce which arises with the wearing off ofinitial enthusiasms. More important,though, has been the force of a gradual, anda gradually accelerating, accumulation ofaccomplishments and progress which es-tablishes a solid base for optimism aboutthe future of the NUC as a vehicle for ex-panding the cooperation among these insti-

tutions. The initial expectations and enthu-siasms were important to the effort, buttheir inevitable collision with reality hadto be survived. We have done so and thefuture looks_ bright.

Each of the sections which follow thisone &stalls a substantial area of effort andaccomplishment in the work of the NashvilleUniversity Center. By way of summarizingthe accomplishments of the NUC to date,one can cite the following:

- In the fine arts, an annual fine artsfestival, a Christmas concert, a catalogueof fine arts offerings, a quarterly calendarof fine arts events, joint planning of futureresource development;

- A continuing and expanding programof cross-registration;

- A shuttle service among the cam -puses, the use of which this year was 32%greater than the previous year;

- The development of a very activeInter-university Psychology Consortiumwith a full-time coordinator;

The launching of a major study ofhow to bring about the optimal amount ofopen library access throughout the Univer-sity Center, funded by the Council onLibrary Resources;

Joint planning of the academic calen-dar and a nearly common calendar;

- An inter-institutional linguisticsmajor;

- A grant of $20, 000 from the StateDepartment during the coming year tofund various aspects of international ex-change;

- A common type of identificationcard across NUC institutions which iden-tifies a student as enrolled in an NUC in-stitution and the extension of these cardsto some groups of staff;

- A limited exchange of listings ofevents among the several campus ca-lendars;

- A program of shared purchasing andwarehousing, begun on a limited basis butlikely to expand rapidly;

- Two recent letters on NUC concerns,one related to cable television, the otherto inter-university transportation, to cityofficials jointly signed by the five NUCchief executives;

- A women's studies program startedat one institution with participation plannedfor the other NUC institutions;

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- Increased interaction among certaingroups of counterpart departments;

- The extension of the intra-muralsports programs of Fisk and Vanderbiltto include each other in the competition;

- Initiation of a dual degree programin science and engineering between Fiskand Vanderbilt.

The amount of direct involvement bythe NUC as an organization in the matterslisted above, and in all of the complexways in which these five institutions inter-relate; varies considerably. In any case,such accomplishments always depend onthe initiatives and commitment of individ-ual students, faculty members, and staffpeople. This suggests that the more fun-damental task of the NUC is to foster aclimate of communication and cooperationamong its five members. To put thisanother way, the NUC seeks to increasethe extent to which each part of the schol-arly and educational community represen-ted by these institutions perceives theresources of the rest of the community asavailable to him to aid him in his ownscholarly, educational, or personal growthand acts on that perception. The increaseof cross-registration and the developmentsin the Inter-university Psychology Consor-tium, cited above, are really more indica-tive of this general (and, I should say, verylong term) trend within the 'University Cen-ter than of any specific action of the NUC.It should be quickly added that the poten-tial for this kind of cooperation greatlyexceeds what is already occurring in theUniversity Center.

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THE FINE ARTS IN THE UNIVER-SITY CENTER

The fine arts continues to be theprogram area afforded the highest prior-ity by the NUC. This is an area wherethe potential payoff for cooperation appearsto be very great. For one thing, in almostevery one of the fine arts areas there is anobvious need for improved physical facili-ties for performance and exhibition; it isfelt that a joint attack on this problemwould be useful. There is also a recogni-tion of continued mutual inter-dependenciesbased on certain natural complementaritiesamong the institutions. Vanderbilt, forexample, could not begin to develop thequality already found in music at Peabodyand Fisk and therefore needs to find themost effective way or contributing to andutilizing the resources already there.Finally, in many fine arts areas it is easyand natural to :.pink in terms of joint pec-formatbles or exhibitions and much hasbeen done along these lines.

During the past year the fine arts de-partments of the University Center coop-erated in the presentation of a ChristmasConcert and Fine Arts Festival II. A re-port on this latter event appears in thesection which follows. Many of the pic-tures appearing in this report are fromthe Christmas Concert and Fine ArtsFestival II. The Fine Arts Committee hasagreed to there being a Fine Arts FestivalIII next spring and a coordinator, Mr.Fred Ford, has been taken on to put theFestival together. Finding the funds iocontinue holding these festivals will have

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to be a major priority of the NUC duringthe coming year. Hopefully, the ChristmasConcert will also continue.

Another aspect of the Work of the NUCFine Arts Committee is the fostering ofinformation about opportunitiestudyand participation in the arts n the Univer-sity Center. Two things w re done alongthis line during the past y Ir. First ofall, Vanderbilt University has continued toproduce a quarterly calm dar of art eventsin the University Center. We hope, ofcourse, that they will be yilling to continuethis. Secondly, the NUC Tice has updatedand reprinted the catalogue f fine artsprograms and courses cove lig 1973-75.

This past year has also been an impor-tant one for joint planning for the develop-ment of fine arts resources in the Universi-ty Center. Many efforts have been made todevelop and refine proposals for the supportof fine arts programs. It has seemed to beproductive to have meetings of the entirecommittee, representing all of the fine artsdisciplines, and meetings within the indi-vidual disciplines (art, music, and drama).These several meetings during the yearculminated in an extended meeting and

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overnight stay at Montgomery Bell StatePark in May. Following is the report ofProf. Gladys Forde on these planningefforts.

"The work of the Nashville UniversityCenter Arts Committee has, for the mostpart, been directed to in-depth explorationof ways and means of intensifying coopera-tion between the departments (Music, Art,Drama, and Dance) of the member schools.Although no concrete plans or designs haveresulted from these discussions, they havebeen open and productive. Among the manyideas discussed, the establishment of anArts Academy for children, and the devel-opment of a curriculum leading to theBachelor of Allied Arts degree were mostfavorably received by all members.

"It should be noted that this interchangeof information has made clear: that addi-tional 'Mention should be given to a clari-fication of the meaning and spirit of "coop-eration" in order that there be a uniformphilosophy to guide our efforts; that empha-sis should be placed on the humanistic andeducational rather than economic benefitsto be derived from cooperation and that whilewhile cooperation is feasible, practical,and desirable, each entity insists that itsautonomy and separate identity be main-tained.

"The need for adequate physical facili-ties for all the arts in all the schools is ofparamount concern. No solution to thisproblem has been discovered individuallyor collectively."

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Fine Arts Festival II

During the week of February 25 -March 3 there occurred in the UniversityCenter Fine Arts Festival II. During thatweek various aspects of the fine arts in theUniversity Center were displayed at theirbest. The Black Mass Choir of FiskUniversity sang at Benton Chapel at Van-derbilt; the combined choirs of Fisk,Peabody, and Vanderbilt sang at the FiskChapel; the Fisk Jazz Ensemble (The Or-chestrated Crowd) performed at the HillAuditorium at Peabody; and Peabody stu-dents gave two chamber music concerts,to mention some of the musical fare. Ina really fine demonstration of the possi-bilities of cooperation, the UniversityCenter Orchestra (with a membership re-presenting all of the NUC institutions)under the direction of Thor Johnson pre-sented a concert at the Fisk Chapel whichinvolved the Fisk University Choir and thePeabody-Vanderbilt Jazz Ensemble andwhich premiered a composition by the lateJohn W. Work III, a former Fisk facultymember. At the several art galleries atPeabody, Vanderbilt, and Fisk there werejoint exhibits of faculty, permanent collec-tion, and student art works. During theweek of the festival the internationallyknown dancer and teacher Richard Jonesgave the third in a series of dance work-shops for anyone who wanted to participate.Mr. Jones is an alumnus of Fisk Univer-sity.

One particularly gratifying aspect ofFine Arts Festival II was that it providedthe necessary support for the creation and

performance of a work by Don Evans andGil Trythall called "One Full Rotation ofthe Earth". The work was performed atFisk and involved dancing by Fisk student,under the direction of Mabel Love. Thisaspect of the Festival was important bothbecause by its nature it required so muchcooperation and because it allowed thefurther development of this avant-gardeform of art. To quote from a review ofthe evening by Clara Hieronymus in theNashville Tennessean, "Some viewers satin chairs at a slight remove from an in-flated geodesic dome made of white para-chute silk, while others crowded inside it.. . The shimmering dome became amother-of-pearl screen upon which filmeddancers moved, the stitched seams of thetriangles emerging against the figurescriss-crossed them in a Byzantine mosaicof ribbon bindings. Prisms of colorsplintered the dome and glinted like con-fett on the live dancers who encircled thestr tcture and alternately became silhou-ett3s to the audiences inside and outsidethe enclosure. . . One had the feelingthat he dreamed, not only in color but insound, and that what he dreamed hedreamed in common with a gymful ofpeople who were no longer strangers. .

. . The evening was as mysterious asearth, as incantatory as prayer, as fas-cinating as trying to fathom actuality,which 'One Full Rotation of the Earth'said is here for 'one brief moment, thendisappears'. Or did it?"

By way of evaluating Fine Arts Festi-val II, one can make the following obser-vations:

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1. The Festivals are becoming in-creasingly cooperative. In comparisonto the first year there were more perfor-mancec by groups on campuses other thantheir own f...nd there was more joint parti-cipation of groups from different institu-tions on the same program. Most impor-tantly, of course, some of the programsinvolved cooperative performances. Thisis important because it is a step towardsthe combining of resources which can makea whole greater than any of the parts orany mere adding together of the parts.

2. The novelty of presenting a coop-erative festival of this k.ort is wearing off,and thus future festivals will have to standon their own merits. One goal for thefuture might be to develop the Festival intoa major, late winter opportunity for thebest in performances and exhibits by thefine arts departments of the UniversityCenter.

3. To have good-sized audiences forthese kinds of events requires a lot of pub-licity and effort. The groups which per-formed performed away from their usualconstituencies and interest groups on theirown campuses. Thus, more than usual

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efforts must be taken to insure an adequateaudience.

4. More thought and work must gointo finding a way in which the drama de-partments of the University Center canparticipate in future festivals. The factthat they did not do so, in spite of the factthat they did individually almost all haveperformances around this time, was oneof the major disappointments of this pastF estival.

5. From the perspective of the NUCas an organization it is important that theseFestivals continue. These festivals do notonly serve as showcases for the fine artsdepartments themselves, they also serveas a showcase for the NUC as an organiza-tion. Most of what the NUC does, asdetailed in this report, is rather subtleand lacking in pizzazz. The fine arts

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festivals, in contrast, are an outward andvisible sign of the dynamic potential in-herent in the NUC concept. Thus we,and anyone interested in seeing coopera-tion prosper among these institutions, havea selfish reason for hoping that these fes-tivals continue.

6. As was stated above, continuingthese festivals beyond 1973-74 will involvefinding a fairly modest amount of fundseach year for that purpose and doing somust therefore be a high priority for NUCactivity during the coming year and years.This past year the festival cost about$7, 000.00; how much more or less thanthis is available for a festival in a givenyear will help determine the type of effortthat can be made. This is an area inwhich a little money well spent can accom-plish a great deal; it is also true that withno money nothing will occur.

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LIBRARY COOPERATION IN THEUNIVERSITY CENTER

Probably the single most importantactivity of the Nashville University Centerduring this past year has been its workwith the directors of the libraries of theUniversity Center towards the end oflaunching a major study of how these li-braries should be related to one ar.jther.Some time ago the presidents of Fisk andMeharry inquired of the governing boardof the Joint University Libraries (thelibraries of Peabody, Scarritt, and Van-derbilt) about the feasibility of their li-braries becoming a part of the JULsystem. The JUL Executive Committeesubsequently authorized the beginning ofdiscussions with Fisk and Meharry con-cerning this matter and related alterna-tives. The complexities inherent in thesethese questions quickly became obviousto all concerned and the need for an ob-jective study of the matter was identified.From the Fisk and Meharry point ofview, one asks the question, given limitedresources for library support, how muchof these resources can be invested in theJUL system vithout neglecting the devel-opment of collections in the fine new li-brary buildings on their own campuses?On the other hand, there are needed li-brary resources in the JUL system whichwould be very costly to duplicate, and itis an unacceptable situation that Fisk andMeharry students, faculty, and staff donot have free access to these resources.From the point of view of JUL there isthe question of how any of its resourcescould be diverted into servicing the needs

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of Fisk and Meharry without strainingbeyond the breaking point the JUL's abil-ity to serve its present members. Aquestion for both is how much it shouldcost to "buy into" collections which havebeen developing over so many decades.In spite of these difficult questions, theover-riding positive considerations remainthat everyone would gain by there beingfree access for everyone in this academiccommunity to all libraries, and further-more, an expanded system would itselfbe more visible and attractive to outsideresources. From the point of view of theNUC, it is obvious that dev;eloping coop-eration in this area is a majoi buildingbloeik in the overall structure of coopera-tion among these institutions.

In the face of this mixture of questionsand perceptions, a proposal went forwardto the Council on Library Resources, afoundation which uses its resources prin-cipally in the library area, requesting sup-port for a study of all of these questions.Following that request, a procedure wasworked out whereby the NUC, the Councilon Library ResourceS, and the management

firm-of-Boe'2, Allen & Hamilton/ would work together to develop a detailed

plan for such a study, and then the studywould be carried out when and if all of tileprincipals involved were satisfied. Booz,Allen & Hamilton were chosen because oftheir reputation for excellent work in thelibrary area and in studies similar to theone projected.

This process has proceeded to thepoint where the plan for the study has beenapproved by the participating institutions,a Steering Committee has been chosen for

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the study, and the study has gotten under-way. Guiding the study to a reasonableconclusion and implementing the out-come of the study are certain to bemajor concerns and activities of the NUCand its Executive Director during thecoming year. It should be noted that theCouncil on Library Resources' support ofthis study effectively amounts to a not in-considerable grant of as much as $25, 000to the NUC during the coming year.

CROSS-1i EG I STR ATION

Cross-registration is the veryimportant commodity which institutionsexchange in a manner rather analogousto the imports and exports of internationaltrade. And just as the volume of trade be-tween two countries is often a rather goodindex of the quality of tneir relationshipacross the board, so numbers of cross-

/registrations are an index of how well in-stitutions of higher education are relatingto one another. By this argument numbersof crohs-registrations become the bestindicators to the NUC of 'how well we'redoing". For this reason the followingchart is presented showing the totalnumber of cross-registrations among NUCinstitutions from 1968 to the present.

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Shown on the chart also are the numbersof cross-registrations between the north(F isk- Meharry) and south (Peabody-Scarrit-Vanderbilt) campuses, becausethese numbers are particularly relatedto NUC programs, particularly the ShuttleService. The chart shows that cross-registrations have generally increased,and increased a great deal, over thisperiod.

NUMBER OF INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COURSEREGISTRATIONS, NUC, 1969-73

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Cross-registrations are more thanjust an index of institutional interaction.They are related to the very essence ofwhy institutions cooperate in an arrange*-

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ment like the NUC, whether or not theformal organization itself exists. Cross-registrations are a sign that institutionsare, in one way or another, complemen -tary to one another, i. e. , that they havediffering strengths as perceived by theirstudents. The economic aspect comesinto the picture when one considers howexpensive it would be for each institutionto develop all of those strengths itself.Furthermore, institutions of higher edu-cation have a responsibility of being morethan the most complete possible "super-market"; they should consider as wellwhether they have an institutional missionand integrity which might limit what theytry to do and what they try to do well.This too suggests the value of adjacent,complementary institutions with easycross-registration among them. Such anarrangement allows for a tighter definitionof these institutions' thrusts and missions.

During the past year and no doubt ex-tending well into the future, the NUC hasbeen examining the following questions con-cerned with the process of cross-registra-tion and its role ins the member institutions:

1. What kind of information should bemade available to students about cross-registration possibilities? Are cataloguesand recitation schedules available in ade-quate supply?

2. What are the formal agreementsamong the schools regarding cross-

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registration and are these adequate andappropriate?

3. What kind of regulations shouldbe established concerning the cross-registration of faculty members, childrenand spouses of faculty members, and staffpersonnel? What about the cross-registra-tion of special or irregular students?

4. What does each institution expectto gain from cross-registration, what ad-vantages does each see in it?

5. What are the implications of cross-registration for departmental planning?What are the unique offerings of the vari-ous schools relative to the other schools?What kind of mechanisms of communicationshould there be on the departmental levelto insure maximum advantage is taken ofthe possibilities inherent in cross-registra-tion?

6. What objectives and what organiza-tion to meet those objectives should be es-tablished to take advantage of Title IIIfunding possibilities in the cross-registra-tion area?

7. What kind of continuing groups arenecessary to monitor the cross-registra-tion process and handle problems with theprocess as they arise?

A heartening development of symbolicand substantive importance which occurredduring the past year was an agreementbetween Fisk and Vanderbilt to suspendcharging one another the $35 (per credithour) cross-registration fee which nowprevails. This establishes "freer trade"between the two institutions by taking theeconomic implications out of a decision tocross-register.

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DEPARTMENTALCOMMUNICATION ANDCOOPERATION

For better or worse, academia is or-ganized along departmental lines. Itfollows therefore that an important modeof interaction, among the member institu-tions of the NUC may be communicationand cooperation among groups of existingdepartments pursuing the same discipline,i. e. , counterpart departments. From thebeginning the NUC has encouraged some ofthis, particularly through the MathematicsCommittee, the Fine Arts Committee, andthe Inter-university Psychology Consortium(which grew out of discussion of the psycho-logy department chairmen). No systema-tic attempt was made to expand this initialgroup of interacting departments until thispast year when the NUC Council encourageda departmental cooperation pilot project.

The purpose of the departmental coop-eration pilot project was to identify asmall additional gro'..1p of interested de-partments and to encourage communica-tion among these departments in order tosee the most effective way of pursuinginteraction among departments. TheExecutive Director spoke individually tothe chairmen of the Physics, History,English, Political Science, and SociologyDepartments at Fisk, Peabody, and Van-derbilt about their interest in sitting downwith their counterparts to discuss ways ofincreasing communication, leading perhapsto increased cooperation, among their de-partments. In no case was the responsenegative. In two cases (physics and socio-

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logy) the communication was already good,thus there did not seem to be a need topursue the matter further at that time,though raising the question did seem to leadto increased activity. In two other in-stances (history and English), meetingswere held with the chairmen and this hasled to increased contact and communica-tion among their faculties. In the courseof these discussions, the modes of com-munication listed below were identified.It should be emphasized that these arecommunication devices prior to substan-tive cooperation.

1. Meetings of chairmen;

2. Social gatherings involving wholedepartments;

3. Joint seminars;

4. Visits of departmental represen-tatives to faculty meetings in other depart-ments;

5. Exchanges of written information,such as,

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projects and interests;

6. Newsletter within a given disci-pline; and

7. Feedback to departments aboutcross-registration of their students inother departments.

The purpose of these devices is toestablish those mechanisms of communica-tion so that various kinds of cooperationcan occur when appropriate and feasible.Cooperation such as faculty exchange, jointprograms and courses, complementarycourse and program development, and re-ferring students from one department tcanother can develop out of this kind of com-munication. Of course, infinite are theways that faculty members can invent tointeract and cooperiate among themselveswhen they get to know one another. Suchcommunication and cooperation would seemto lead to an effective expansion and enrich-ment of the academic community with whicheach faculty member interacts in the Univer-sity Center.

In view of this year's experience thefollowing observations seem appropriate:

1. Working on developing this kind ofinteraction is a difficult but essential aspectof the work of the Nashville University Cen-ter. The difficulties stem from the natural .

tendency of all of us to think in terms of ourown institutions. Nevertheless, it is essen-tial and beneficial for the reasons alreadycited and because departmental interactionappears to be the most effective way of de-veloping a broad base of faculty support

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for interaction among the five NUC institu-tions, a goal for which there is general ap-proval. The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate,through one of its committees examinedthe Nashville University Center this pastyear and finally made the one formal recom-mendation that this kind of interactionamong counterpart departments should bestrongly encouraged. This relationshipwith departments and their faculties willalso serve as a stimulus for stirring upfaculty initiated suggestions for NUC pro-grams which would hopefully at times notstay within departmental boundaries.

2. We must make a renewed effortat involving the undergraduate deansat the same time that we are encouraging.departmental interaction. This must bedone for the obvious reasons that (a) thereare things which pome up which have to becoordinated at that level and (b) theirsupport of the effort is important to itssuccess.

3. There is in next year's budget$1, 500 set aside to be used to support thiseffort. Bringing faculty groups of any sizetogether and duplicating materials for thosefaculty members are matters involvingsome expense; not to be inhibited by inade-quate funds in this will be very helpful.

Departmental communication and coop-eration should be a very high priority ofthe NUC during the coming year. Thiswill mean pressing forward with the de-partments where we have made a start --the fine arts, mathematics, history,English, psychology, political science, so-ciology, physics -- as well as others whereprogress appears possible.

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMSAND AFFAIRS

It has sometimes seemed that the fore-most contribution which the Nashville Uni-versity Center as an organization mightmake, when at is said and done, is that ofmaking its member institutions, individuallyand together, self - consciously aware ofthemselves as a center for international ex-change and study. The enthusiasm whichthe International Programs Committee hasfor working together and the accomplish-ments which they have fostered make thispossibility very real. A large goal like thisthis, however, can only be accomplishedby working on several fronts and by foster-ing a number of smaller developments.Prof. Delores Shockley, Chairman of theInternational Programs Committee, makesthis report on some aspects of the work ofthe committee:

"The committee has served as a meansof communication for information. dealingwith international activities on the membercampuses and for exchange of informationon international matters at the local andnational levels. Committee members havereported information from national meet-ings which might have some significanceto NUC institutions. Members also attendedworkshops on several of the campuses whichdealt with areas international in scope, forexample, Foreign Students, ImmigrationLaws, etc.

'Committee members have served inadvisory capacities for the InternationalEducation Project funded by the Bureau of

Cultural Affairs, Department of State. (A

full report of this project can be foundelsewhere in this report.)

"The International Education ProjectGrant for 1973-74 was written by Jake Millerand Richard Morgan and has been approvedby the Department of State for funding. Aprovision is made in this grant for a part-time Administrator of Internal InternationalPrograms, and Dr. Barbara Fraser, agraduate of the International Studies Pro-gram at Peabody College, has accepted thisposition. The administrator will facilitatethe implementation of many plans and pro-jects and expand the activities of thecommittee. In addition to assisting withthe programs of the International EducationProject (especially the Visiting ProfessorProject and the Institute on DevelopingCountries), it is anticipated that the ad-ministrator will collate information forand edit an International Programs News-letter to be distributed quarterly to approx-imately 1,500 interested people within andoutside of the NUC institutions. As a meansof support for this endeavor, an approachwill be made to procure funds from certain

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business and banking establishments in thecommunity which have a known interest ininternational programs.

"Future plans include an in-depth ques-tionnaire to foreign students at NUC memberinstitutions exploring their experience, bothpleasant and unpleasant, in the Nashvillecommunity in an effort to gain informationrelevant to improving intercultural rela-tionships.

"Marshall Powers, Director of theSoutheastern Region, Institute of Interna-tional Education, visited with some mem-bers of the committee on April 18 to explaina plan for Dominican Republic students tostudy at American universities. Any loansto the students by the universities will beguaranteed by the Dominican Foundation.Vanderbilt University is considering thepossibility of serving as a model for theother institutions in this plan.

"In June, Vivian Morter, ScarrittCollege, was named to replace OmarHartz ler as committee member.

"The committee is planning increaseddimensions of international awareness andactivity at the NUC institutions for 1973-74P

The International Programs Committeehas served as a forum for exchange of in-formation about international programs onthe member campuses, some of which coulddevelop as cooperative programs. An ex-ample of this during the past year was thework of the committee in aiding Prof.Riordan Roett in his 'energetic efforts tohave the U. S. Office of Education fund theCenter for Latin American Studies at Van-

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derbilt. Prof. Roett's efforts, though notsuccessful this year because of a change infederal funding for such programs, wereaided by his being put in touch with those atother NUC institutions who could add impor-tant components to his program, such as aCaribbean program at Fisk and a curricu-lum development capacity. at Peabody. Theexistence of an interacting set of institutionssuch as in the NUC, each with a part to playin the Center, was an important element inProf. Roett's argument that the Centershould be here rather than in some otheruniversity.

Early in the past year a small sum ofmoney under the category of "program de-velopment" from the NUC permitted Mr.Insik Kim, a student at Vanderbilt DivinitySchool, to go to the NAFSA conference inTampa, Florida. As a result of going tothat conference, Mr. Kim conceived of andcarried through with NAFSA support, aconference of his own here in Nashville inApril. This conference addressed itself di-rectly to the question of how Nashville as acommunity and the University Center as aset of higher educational institutions, re-lates itself to people of other countries whoare here for various purposes. We have al-ready mentioned NUC's interest in doing abetter job vis-a-vis the adjustment of inter-national students to this environment. An-other matter of some imp( stance addressedin this conference is the large number ofshort-term international visitors who comethrough Nashville, many with U. S. StateDepartment support. The national organi-zation COSERV is a network of voluntarygroups who help introduce internationalvisitors to their communities. Nashvillehas no centralized pool of interested people

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or information to do this job effectively.Whether the NUC institutions take a moreactive role in this has been and will continu,to be a matter under consideration.

One should mention briefly that theNashville Area Chamber of Commerce,through their International Affairs Commit-tee, has many areas of mutual interest withthe NUC in seeing that Nashville relates it-self effectively to the international commu-nity.' This is a relationship which the Inter-national Programs Committee sees as im-portant to cultivate to the mutual benefit ofboth organizations. Dean Robin Fuller,Vanderbilt's representative to the NUCInternational Programs Committee, is aconsultant to the Chamber committee andkeeps us abreast of developments in thic3area.

The State Department ConsortiumProgram: The International Educa-tional Exchange Project

During the past year, the NUC Inter-national Programs Committee through FiskUniversity has had a $13, 500 grant from theU. S. Department of State to support vari-ous aspects of international educational ex-change. For the coming year this granthas been renewed in the amount of $20, 000.During this past year the main burden ofadministering this grant has been on Prof.Jake Miller of Fisk University, and the

NUC does indeed owe Prof. Miller a greatdebt of gratitude for carrying this respon-sibility along with a full teaching load. Itshould also be pointed out that Prof. Millerhad a lot to do with the State Department'soriginal conceptualizing of the consortiumprogram. During the corning year Prof.Miller will maintain a relationship with theprogram but the NUC Office and the Inter-national Programs Administrator, paidfrom the grant, will also be involved inadministering the program.

The International Educational Ex-change Project has a number of parts,most of which will continue from lastyear to the coming year. In the sectionswhich follow, therefore, both what was doneunder a given heading during the past yearand what is projected for next year will bedescribed. The parts of the project areas follows:

1. Student Study Abroad. The NUCinstitutions have a number of programswhich permit students to study abroad fora semester or year for credit. There aresuch programs as Vanderbilt-in-Spain,-France, -Germany, and -England and

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Peabody-in-Denmark. Participation tothis point by minority students in theseprograms has been limited. One way ofincreasing that participation is to encour-age Fisk University and Tennessee StateUniversity students to apply to these pro-grams and to provide financial aid whereneeded. This part of the project providesmodest funds for this purpose, and duringthis past year three participants from Fiskand TSU were found for this program.About the same amount is available nextyear and hopefully further participantswill be found. This is, in any case, anexcellent model of inter-institutionalcooperation since it opens to other insti-tutions a valuable resource found in oneinstitution.

2. Foreign Lecturer Series. Thepurpose of this program is to bring to theUniversity Center as short-term lecturersforeign scholars who are already in thiscountry on Fulbright-Hays grants at otheruniversities. Under this program duringthis past year three scholars -- fromJapan, Jamaica, and India -- were broughtto the University Center and given the max-imum amount of exposure possible overtwo- to four-day periods through classroomlectures, public lectures, and mass mediainterviews. A similar attempt will bemade to bring in four or five such scholarsnext year.

3. Foreign Student Seminar. Underthis generic heading, there was held an"Institute on Developing Countries" inNovember to which thirty-three interna-tional students representing twenty-sixcountries were invited. Mrs. RosalineEkeleme -- a faculty member at Fisk and

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a graduate student at Peabody -- energeti-cally and conscientiously pursued the plan-ning of this Institute with an inter-institu-tional planning committee and the resultwas a stunning success. The theme of theInstitute was: "The Role of the Foreign-Trained Graduate in His Home Country"and was explored by a series of lecturesand lively small group discussions.

4. Faculty Study and ResearchAbroad. The purpose of this program isto aid professors in going to a foreigncountry when it is established that theywill pursue there a course of study orresearch which will help them and theirhome institutions. It is hoped that bydoing this professors from the University.Center will establish greater competencein various fields related to internationalstudy, including no doubt languages. Thisprogram was not a part of last year'sproject; it is intended that there be consi-derable competition for grants for thispurpose among faculty members.

5. Visiting Foreign Scholar. Thenatural counterpart to sending local facul-ty members abroad is bringing scholarsfrom other countries to the UniversityCenter to teach and to be available in otherways as a resource. With State Depart-ment help we hope to bring an African tothe Political Science Department at Fiskthis coming year to offer courses and tobe available in other ways to the rest ofthe University Center. The fact that nosuch arrangement worked out for this pastyear is an indication of how difficult sucharrangements are to make and not an in-dication of our not having tried.

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THE NEARLY COMMONCALENDAR OF THE NUC

The closing meetings of the NUC Counciland Executive Committee of last year andthe early meetings this past year wererather well-consumed with finding a solu-tion to what came to be known as the "calen-dar problem". Kceping a common calendaramong the five NUC institutions meant car-rying on a discussion among and within thefive institutions with respect to the meritsand viability of a variety of alternatives.The result of this complex and lengthy dis-cussion was a "nearly common calendar".All five institutions have almost exactly i-dentical first semesters. They all startaround Labor Day, or slightly before, andend before Christmas. At the end of thefirst semester, Fisk and Vanderbilt haveslightly longish vacations (about threeweeks) and begin their second semestersabout the middle of January. This calendaris rather common among universitiesaround the country which have had to accom-odate a medical school within a common ca-lendar. Peabody and Scarritt will begintheir second semesters during the precedingweek, i.e. , they will have a slightly shorterChristmas vacation. The difference betweenthe two sets of calendars will thus be aboutfive days during the second semester. Inboth cases, the academic year will end muchearlier in May than in the past. This willpermit some academic programs during Mayand early June of the type previously devel-oped for the January Interim. Insofar asthis difference of a few days between theFisk-Vanderbilt and Peabody-Scarritt calen-Jars turns out to create difficult practical

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problems, one can suppose that there will bea narrowing of this gap between the two ca-lendars.

Meharry Medical College has to livewithin a very different set of constraints anddoes not have the basic two-semester struc-ture of the other institutions. They have aneed for a much more flexible schedule with-within a somewhat longer framework. Theresult is that their second semester willbegin after Christmas and extend until lateMay. It is supposed that Meharry willmake arrangements to schedule cooperativeacademic programs within the time-framesof the other institutions as required.

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LINGUISTICS

Linguisitcs presents an excellent ex-ample of the possibilities inherent in inter-institutional cooperation in the UniversityCenter. Among the five NUC institutionsthere is no linguistics department but thereare a number of people spread through anumber of different departments andschools with an interest in this very lively(and I should say controversial) discipline.By working together this group of peopleforms a kind of quasi-department which cancarry out many of the functions of a depart-ment and which can nurture the study ofthis area in these institutions. PeabodyCollege has already approved an under-graduate linguistics major using coursestaught in four of the NUC institutions. Ap-proval of a major in linguistics is underconsideration at Vanderbilt and much of theNUC Linguistics Committee effort duringthe past year was devoted to working withthe committee at Vanderbilt charged withconsidering that matter. The LinguisticsCommittee has also been attempting to getan Intensive Summer English Programunderway.

A hopeful development for this commit-tee is the vastly increased funding whichthe National Endowment for the Humanitiesnow has and the inclusion of support forlinguistics in its program. It might bethat NEH would be willing to give generalsupport for the further development of thisarea of interest, particularly given theinter-institutional nature of the programand given the particular twist that a pro-gram in this context might have.

Following are some comments by Prof.Vivian Morter on the work of the Linguis-20

tics Committee during the past year:

The Linguistics Committee met se -veral times during 1972-73 and the majortopics of discussion were the following:

"Undergraduate Major in Linguistics:In considering the major, certain questionswere raised by the Vanderbilt Committeeon the Educational Program, chaired by Mr.Charles Vance. The Linguistics Committeespent one meeting formulating answers tothese questions. It is hoped that action onthe inclusion of the major in the Vanderbiltwill be taken in the fall. Peabody has al-ready accepted the proposal, and Scarritthas agreed to cooperate.

"Intensive Summer English Program:Application was made through Vanderbilt toone or two foundations for the initial fund-ing for the Summer English Program. Atthis time, this program cannot be imple-mented for lack of funds.

"Increase in Number of LinguisticsCourses Taught: Vanderbilt and Peabodyplan to offer an increased number and var-iety of linguistics courses next year in orderto help provide support for the undergrad-uate linguistics major. These courses havebeen listed in the catalogues, but have notbeen taught recently.

"The committee hopes that the linguis-tics program will not only be good in its ownright40 will also be of service to the en-tire college community. Several of the lin-guistics courses at Vanderbilt will be cross-listed in other places there, such as in theDepartment Of Psychology, the School ofNursing, and the Bill Wilkerson Speech andHearing Center."

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INTER-UNIVERSITYTRANSPORTATION

The five NUC institutions are physicallylocated in two groups -- the Fisk-Meharrycomplex and the Peabody- Scarritt- Vander-bilt complex. One can walk between any twopoints within either complex with reasonableease, but the distance between the two com-plexes cannot be considered a reasonablewalk. In this regard, it is interesting tonote that the straight-line distance betweenthe closest points of the two complexes isabout 5, 000 feet (less than a mile), thoughusing a reasonable street route betweenmore or less central points of the two com-plexes increases this distance to about onemile and a half. In either case, the distanceis less than is generally supposed and thetrip would be a trivial one in an automobileor bus were the traffic flow, for variousreasons, not so very slow.

The importance of this discussion of thedistance and travelling ease between Fisk-Meharry and Peabody-Scarritt-Vanderbiltis obvious in the context of this report, towit, developing joint and cooperative pro-grams often requires that people move fromone of these groups of campuses to theother. Cross-registration is only the mostcentral and obvious example of this need;there are many others. It is towards thisend of forging a strong transportation linkbetween the two sets of campuses that theNUC Inter-university Transportation Com-mittee works. Doing this, however, alsogetS that committee involved in the trans-portation and street problems of the city,as a whole; the parking and transportation

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problems of the separate institutions, andthe inter-relationships among programsand transportation. Many of these concernsare reflected in the following report of Mr.Dan Shilstat, Associate Director of CampusPlanning at Vanderbilt and-Rairman of theNUC Inter-university Transportation Com-mittee:

"The present transportation linkbetween Fisk-Meharry and Peabody-Scar-ritt-Vanderbilt,provided by the NUC, isthe NUC Shuttle Service which is operatedby Vanderbilt University. The service con-sists of one trip each hour on a specifiedroute and schedule Monday through Friday,except during certain holidays when the in-stitutions are out of session. During thepast academic year, ridership averaged118 passenger trips per day which is an in-crease of 32% over last year's average of89 passenger trips per day. At peak timesthere were often 15 or more passengersseeking to board the vehicle which was a9-passenger Volkswagen bus, and the com-mittee limited ridership to 9 passengersper trip for safety purposes. This causedsome inconvenience; however, the Volks-wagen has been replaced by a 20-passengerbus.

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"The committee raised but has notanswered some of the followng questions:1) What mechanism. should be created to in-sure that transportation implications ofother NUC activities are weighed? 2) Shouldthe shuttle service remain Vanderbiltbased? and 3) What are long term optionsfor financing the service; student fee, riderfees, general budget, other?

"In addition some longer range issueswere discussed such as: 1) relating theoverall character of the transportation mar-kets generated by NUC to the Metro trans-portation system as it is being planned; and2) seeking improvements of the road systembetween Fisk-Meharry and Vanderbilt-Peabody-Scarritt areas.

"These actions were taken in the trans-portation area during the year: 1) A re-placement shuttlebus was purchased; 2) The'philosophy' that Vanderbilt is the agencyproviding shuttle service to NUC for a feebased on certain specifications was adopted;3) Members interested in transportationplanning were added to the committee; and4) Suggestions were made for a letter to the

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Mayor concerning improving transportationbetween the NUC institutions. Such a letter,jointly signed by the five chief executives,was sent in the spring and a dialogue withthe Metro Government continues concerningways of resolving the problems raised.

"Finally, thr committee wishes toacMlowledge the appointment of Dr. GeorgeKaludis, Vice Chancellor of Vanderbilt, tothe Metropolitan tq'ansit Study Committee.The committee hopes to encourage Univer..ty efforts into the study of transitproblems."

The exact dimensions of the shuttlebusservice have not yet been set for the comingyear. Of course, the service will be atleast as great as last year with the improve-ment that there is a new and better bus witha much larger capacity. Beyond this,however, there is every possibility that anadditional bus may be added during the dayto further increase the capacity of4he ser-vice, to reduce waiting times at each endof the route, and perhaps to extend someevening and weekend service.

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sTuDENTs AND TUE NEC

Although virtually everything that theNUC does relates eventually in some wayto students, it has been recognized sincethe beginning of the NUC that some part ofthe attention of the NUC should be devotedspecifically to student concerns in theareas of co-curricular life, disciplinarypolicies, special events, housing, counsel-ing, athletics, etc. Concern with theseareas has been embodied in the earlierStudent Activities Committee and morerecently in the Student Affairs AdvisoryCommittee. Dean Margaret Cuninggim,Chairman of the latter committee, reportson the activities of that committee duringthe past year:

"The Student Affairs Advisory Commit-tee had two meetings during the past aca-demic year., both meetings being held at theUniversity Club, on November 10, 1972,and on February 8, 1973. Peabody Collegewas not represented at either meeting butthe other four member institutions werepresent.

"A December 8 meeting was scheduledand later cancelled in view of the inabilityof student members to be present becauseof examinations. In place of this meetinga request was mailed to each institution forinformation regarding 1) policies for part-.cipation in organizations and activities bya student in an NUC institution other thanthe one in which he/she is registered; 2)a listing of activities and organizations onthat campus; and 3) disciplinary actionstatement pertaining to cross-registered

students. A follow-up to receive full in-formation from each institution is still inprocess.

"Discussion of other problems andpossible activities included: Intra-NUCsports and recreation; semesters in resi-dence on a campus other than the one inwhich he/she is registered; joint sponsorship of concerts, festivals and other studentactivities; and ways and means by whichcross-registered students can be made tofeel more at home on a campus other thantheir own.

"All of the matters referred to abovewill continue as matters to be consideredfurther by this committee and plans willbe made for some kind of social activityfor cross-registered students early in theFall. In addition, consideration will begiven to a more systematic means of pub-licizing events on the various campuseswhich will be of interest to members of thetotal university community.

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committee and consideration will be givento ways in which resources can be sharedbetween the institutions thereby providingmore extensive opportunities for assistanceto students in personal problem solving."

In addition to the things reported on byDean Cuninggim, one should mention that,because of the interest of members of theFisk an Vanderbilt student governments,there developed a Student Caucus consistingof the student members of the Student Affairs Advisory Committee and the studentmembers of the NUC Council. This groupmet three times and discussed a number ofareas of mutual student concern. Thisbody mainly served as a mechanism forcommunicating among the participating in-stitutions about opportunities for studentparticipation in activities across institu-tional lines. One such area was develop-ment of joint participation in the planningand carrying out of the Model UnitedNations. It was also becarse of the sug-gestion of this group that the visit of AngelaDavis to Fisk was widely publicized andtransportation was provided to Fisk fromthe Peabody, Scarritt, and Vanderbilt area.Furthermore, it is through this group (orany group of aware students with which onetalks) that one is reminded that access tolibraries is too limited, the distribution ofinformation about crossregistrationis insufficient, procedures for cross-registration are cumbersome, the shuttleservice is too limited and sometimes over-crowded, and a student sometimes feelsless than "at home" on a campus other thanhis own. In other words, students are

quick to point out that the promise of freeand easy participation across institutionallines is still unfulfilled.

As a result of conversations with andamong the directors of the intra-muralprograms at Fisk, Peabody, and Vanderbiltduring this past year, there will be startingnext year some competition among the in-tramural sports teams of the three institu-tions. Fisk and Vanderbilt having the twolargest programs, will particularly inter-act along these lines.

It is not a minor task for each of theNUC institutions to put together weeklycalendars of events on their own campuses.For these same people to get involved inrunning down events on other campuses ismore than can be expected of them. Wehave, however, been able to work out asystem where the people in charge of thesecalendars choose and exchange a verylimited number of events for the comingweek in time for everyone else's deadline.The events so chosen then appear in every-one's calendar. This system started inApril and is expected to continue next year.

During this past spring the NUC Officehad the able but very part-time assistanceof Miss Joy Smith, a senior at Fisk, whosetask it was to explore ways of increasingand improving relations among the studentbodies of the NUC institutions. This is aworthwhile thing to attempt (I refer to themeans and the end) and, budget permitting,we will attempt it again next year.

THE FISK/VANDERBILT DUAL.DEGREE PROGRAM IN SCIENCEAND ENGINEERING

The Dual Degree Program in Scienceand Engineering is a cooperative undergrad-uate effort within the Nashville UniversityCenter, involving three science departmentsat Fisk University and nine engineering pro-grams at Vanderbilt University. Studentsfollow an integrated curriculum which leadsin approximately five years to two degrees,an A.B. from Fisk and a B.S. or B.E. fromVanderbilt (an M.S. is an alternative forexceptional students).

The program has appeal to studentsbecause of the employment advantagesafforded by the combination of science andengineering degrees. To Fisk, the pro-gram is attractive because it offers an-other professional curriculum option atno additional educational cost. To Vander-bilt, theie is the advantage of being ableto attract more qualified minority students.

The Dual Degree Program, organizedin 1972, is not the "first" of its kind.Georgia Tech and the Atlanta UniversityCenter have had a large successful programsince 1968. However, the Fisk/Vanderbiltundertaking is the only "unified" dual degreeprogram -- meaning that the student followsa carefully meshed, double-major curricu-lum on two campuses concurrently. Whilestill a freshman at Fisk, he (or she) isencouraged to take an introductory engineer-ing course at Vanderbilt. Gradually, thecross enrollment increases until, by thethird year, he is taking an equal number of

courses on both campuses. In his final(fifth) year, he is probably taking all ofhis work at Vanderbilt. Many courses,particularly in the humanities and physicalsciences, satisfy requirements for bothdegrees. Further, the student is counseledto make wise use of his electives so thathe enhances his "duality".

To a large extent, the program owes itsexistence and success to the NashvilleUniversity Center. Without free cross regi-stration, full interchange of courses, thecommon calendar, and free shuttle bus ser-vice, the Dual Degree Program could notoperate -- at least, not in its "unified"form. By the same token, the Dual DegreeProgram may be the NUC's best exampleof a full-fledged, cooperative, educationalprogram.

The program is not without its diffi-culties. During 1972-73, only a pilot effortwas conducted. Three students enteredthe program (in their second or third year),all experienced adjustment problems, andonly two survived the year. Faculty advis-ing and counseling has been spotty. Theshuttle bus left students stranded on someoccasions. Course articulation needs

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clarification.

A bright spot has been financing. Forthe first year, the two institutions absorbedall administrative and advising costs. Student aid was provided through an initialindustry grant of $7, 500, enough to launchthe program. The program now appears tohave ample student aid financing, and somefaculty-administrator-staff time can now becovered fromrestricted funds. To date, atotal of $45, 000 has been subscribed fromindustry, and additional support is forth-coming. Grants have been given by Alcoa,du Pont, and General Electric.

The program is directed by Dr. GeorgeNeely, chairman of the Department ofPhysics at Fisk. The assistant directoris Dr. William Smith, assistant professor

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of urban planning at Vanderbilt. A specialfaculty advisor is provided by each par-ticipating department or program on thetwo campuses. Dr. Neely and DeanHartman are responsible for fund raising.

Plans for the Dual Degree Program areambitious. Enrollment should reach twenty-five next year, distributed over the firstfour years of the program. The masterplan for the program calls for an eventualenrollment of twenty-five students per year,for a total of 125. Five more years will berequired to reach that goal. By 1979, twentyto twenty-five students per year should begraduating with two degrees. Budget es-timates call for restricted funds of $100, 000to $200, 000 per year to maintain 125 studentsand reimburse faculty time (approximatelytwo to four F.T.E. positions) by 1978-79.

CARLE TELEVISION

A potentially important and excitingarea in which the NUC has been involvedover the past couple of years has beenCable Television. Prof. Royal G. Albridgeof Vanderbilt University, Chairman of theNUC Cable Television Committee, makesthis report of the activities of the commit-tee to date and recommendations for thefuture:

"On March 20, 1973, the MetropolitanCouncil passed Ordinance No. 71-63, whichprovides for the establishment and grantingof franchises for cable television systemsin Metropolitan Nashville. At the presenttime (August 2, 1973) the Mayor has not yetappointed the CATV Special Committee, asrequired by the ordinance; thus no bids forfranchises have been submitted. Some ofthe companies who are showing interest, orwho have shown interest in the past, areCox, Mid-America, Telepromter, UA-Columbia, and Viacom. (There may beothers. At present I am aware of onlythese.)

"Once the CATV's Special Committee isformed and bids are received, the Councilwill probably award the franchise to onecompany. If this award is made in 1973, itis not impossible for CATV service to beprovided to some subscribers in 1974. Theordinance calls for complete service withinthree years of the awarding of the contract.

"Up to the present time the NUC-CATVCommittee has concerned itself with issuesrelated to the passing of the ordinance, and,

in particular, with those provisions in theordinance which relate to educational chan-nels. An FCC regulation requires that oneeducational channel be provided by the sta-tion, free-of-charge. Before the ordinancewas passed by Council, the NUC-CATVCommittee drafted a letter which was signedby the heads of the NUC institutions and sentto the Metropolitan Council. The letterexpressed our desire that educational chan-nels be established and our interest in utili-zing such channels once they are establish-ed.

"In its latest meeting this Committeehas decided that it must now turn its atten-tion to locating people in the NUC communi-ty who are interested in CATV, to estab-lishing contact and cooperation among thesepeople, and to assisting in appropriate waysthose people who want to become involvedin some way with CATV educational pro-gramming. Because of the shift in empha-sis of the Committee, we invited to ourmeeting people who are in some way know-ledgeable of, and interested in, media ap-proaches to education: Frank Perry, JohnFrase, Jim McCorkle, and Jim Coole.We recommend to NUC that the CATV Com-mittee be reconsituted in a way that takes

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into account this new direction.

"The utilization of CATV channels byNUC institutions includes broadcasting pro-grams for the general public, but not ex-clusively so. Classes held at one institutecan be 'attended' by all of the NUC com-munity by means of the cable. Courses forcredit could be taken, and paid for, byCATV subscribers. CATV provides moreflexibility than does standard educationalTV, because the abundance of channelsmakes possible programming for relative-ly small special-interest groups.

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"Since effective classroom teachingrequires a teacher to 'keep on his toes' bytrying new ideas and avoiding 'getting in arut', persons who become involved with ed-ucational tv, and, hence, with the generalsubject of media-in-teaching will most like-ly improve their overall effectiveness asteachers. The NUC schools have beenshowing an ever-increasing interest in goodteaching. This general interest, the con-struction of the new Learning ResourceCenter at Meharry, and the arrival of CATVin Nashville are coincidental circumstanceswhich can be interrelated and utilized byNUC."

A WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM

Women's studies, as an inter-disciplin-ary field of study, has developed on the na-tional scene in the context of a concern forthe changing roles of women and men inthis culture and others. There has beensome response locally to the national trendtowards the creation of courses and pro-grams for and about women, but it would befair to say that this response has been lim-ited thus far. The local response to thisnational interest of potentially greatest im-portance was the announcement by ScarrittCollege during this past year that theyplanned to establish a Center for Women'sStudies as one of their major institutionalthrusts during the corning years. Concur-rently with this development there has beencreated a course in the College of Arts andScience at Vanderbilt, Women's Studies 150,and a faculty study committee on women'sstudies made a report in connection withthat course. Also at Vanderbilt, the Grad-uate School of Management, the DivinitySchool and the Law School have all devel-oped courses or programs in this area. Tocomplete this hasty picture, a course or twoand some interested people at Fisk andPeabody have been identified as resourcesin the women's studies area.

As a result of Scarritt's announced in-tention to develop in this area, Scarrittbrought to Nashville this past year Ms.Thelma Stevens to teach a course in wo-men's studies and to develop a recommen-dation for the Scarritt Board of Trusteesconcerning Scarritt's relation to women'sstudies in the future. During this past

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year Ms. Stevens met with various peoplefrom the University Center and elsewhereto establish what the existing resources areand what additional resources are needed.The interest and activities described aboveare the existing core upon which an academ-ic program would be based. Hopefully theexistence of a women's studies center --at Scarritt but related to the whole Univer-sity Center -- would give these existing re-sources a firm organizational focus, allow-ing for the continuation of existing coursesand starting new courses and programswhere needed.

A possible form of organization of thisprogram on an NUC wide basis would be aFaculty of Women's Studies. Each memberof such a faculty would have a regular aca-demic appointment at one or more of theNUC member institutions. Many on thisfaculty would have joint appointments be-tween Scarritt, on the on hand, and anotherNUC institution, on the other hand, the otherappointment being in whichever school ordepartment made most sense from the pointof view of the faculty member's scholarlyinterests. Administratively the facultywould be a federation of faculty members,with each institution managing its own facul-

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ty resources, and the federation would meetvoluntarily to guide the program and to de-cide how the overall goals of the programcould best be met. The advantage of thisarrangement would be that the symbiotic re-lationships among the representatives ofthe different institutions would lead to amuch better and more visible program thanwould be the case if each institution triedto go on its own.

A point of opportunity and challenge tothe above conception is that, given the diver-sity of the institutions involved in the NUC,it would necessarily be the case that thisprogram would look quite different from thepoint of view of Scarritt , or Vanderbilt, orFisk, or Peabody, or the NUC, as a whole ,

emphasizing different things, serving dif-ferent clienteles, though providing the re-sources that each institution needs to carryout the role necessary for such a programfrom their point of view.

Hopefully the corning year will be oneof much effort towards the development ofa fuller program of women's studies in theUniversity Center, perhaps with major foun-dation support. Towards the end of devel-oping its own program, Scarritt College hasproceeded to engage a small staff to workon the many facets of this overall conceptionas finally developed by Ms. Stevens. Thisis an exciting and heartening developmentfor the entire University Center.

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THE INTER-UNIVERSITYPSYCHOLOGY CONSORTIUM

The Nashville Inter-university Consor-tium in Psychology is tied historically butnot organizationally to the Nashville Univer-sity Center. It is, in any case, the bestexample of intense departmental interactionand cooperation in the University Center.For this latter reason, a progress reporton the activities of the Consortium, writtenby its Coordinator Dr. Leslie Phillips,follows. A more complete report may beobtained from Dr. Phillips at Box 512,Peabody College.

"An analysis of its ongoing programsindicates that the Consortium in Psychologyserves five main purposes for its cooperat-ing schools. These include: 1) To increasecommunication and interaction among fa-culty, students, and departments, 2) Tooffer new learning opportunities forstudents, 3) To foster university-communityrelationships, 4) To aid in the internal de-velopment of departments, and 5) To serveas a vehicle for seeking new funding oppor-tunities.

"Three developments of significance forthe future of the Consortium took placeduring the 1972-7 3 year. These were 1) De-velopment of a formal organizational struc-ture within the Consortium, 2) Funding bythe National Institute of Mental Health ofthe position of Consortium Coordinator, and3) An agreement reached with the Psycho-logy Department of Tennessee State Univer-sity to share in Consortium practicum facil-ities and workshops.

"The Consortium has a Steering Com-mittee whose primary function is to monitorthe activities of the Consortium and to in-sure its overall effectiveness. Its member-ship consist of the five chairmen of the co-operating departments plus the Coordinator.This committee meets on a weekly basisduring the academic year, and on an irregu-lar basis during the summer months.

"The office of the Coordinator is on thePeabody campus. The year 1972-73 was thefirst year in which a specific budget wasestablished for the Consortium. Two majoritems are included: 1) for workshops and2) for a half-time secretary.. These fundswere provided from departmental funds bythe cooperating schools. Also for the firsttime, graduate assistants were assigned byeach of the schools to work with the Coordi-nator in the office of the Consortium.

"For 1973-74 the following committeesare to be maintained or to be established:The Steering Committee, the ProfessionalPrograms Committee (including the Work-shop Committee), a Colloquium Committee(to be established), a Course EquivalencyTask Force (to be established in the Fall of1973). The Steering Committee is alsoanxious to see that the various committees

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report to the Steering Committee on somerotational basis, perhaps once a month.The Steering Committee agreed to exchangelists of faculty and their interests. Spacelimitations preclude reporting on the workof each of the existing committees. TheSteering Committee again formally endorsedmaintenance during 1973-74 of the collabora-tive relationship between the Consortium andthe Tennessee State University PsychologyDepartment as this relationship has existedduring the academic year 1972-73.

"A site visit was made by representa-tives of the National Institute of MentalHealth on April 24, 1973, in order to evalu-ate the clinical training program at Vander-bilt. Included in their report is a paragraphthat reads, 'The previous site visitors ob-served that the department's claim that itstraining program included extensive practi-cum work in local clinics and communityagencies was an exaggeration. On the basisof current observations, the statement bythe department seems entirely valid. Thischange has been accomplished chieflythrough the development of the NashvilleInteruniversity Psychology Consortium . .

. The development of the Consortiumseems to have met some of the needs forproviding more adequate psychological ser-vices.'

"For the past two years the Consortiumhas offered a series of two-day workshopson new developments in the broad areas oftherapy and intervention. These haveusually been led by professionals broughtfrom outside of Nashville, In the academicyear 1972-73, six workshops were held.These included a group process workshop,a hypnotherapy workshop, and encounter

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communication workshop, a Gestalt work-shop, a behavior modification workshop,and finally a workshop on movement anddance therapy.

"Negotiations have also been underwayfor a number of years within the PsychologyConsortium to arrive at a policy regardingthe admission of Fisk and Tennessee Statemasters' level students into the doctoralprograms of the Departments of Psychologyat Peabody and Vanderbilt. During thepast academic year arrangements weremade to facilitate the admission of northcampus students into these doctoralprograms upon the recommendation oftheir own chairman. Students have nowbeen admitted into the south campusesschools under this arrangement.

"At the last Steering Committee meetingof the academic year 1972-73, a set of prior-ities for Consortium activities during thecoming academic year were endorsed. Itwas agreed that some Consortium-wide formof Orientation Program, analogous to thatundertaken in the Fall 1972, would be at-tempted in the Fall 1973. Also endorsed wasthe development of an interuniversity coursein community psychology. Third, course-sharing at the graduate level was greetedwith considerable approval. It was alsoagreed that a course-equivalency task forcewould be formed in the Fall. Finally, theSteering Committee agreed to help developa doctoral program on the North campusesand recognized a need to endorse a Consor-tium-wide effort toward the developmentof a community psychology doctoral pro -gram, which may be given expression bythis move toward a North campusdoctorate."

JOINT PURCHASING ANDWAREHOUSING

Early in July of this year the ExecutiveDirector attended a meeting at Fisk Univer-sity of all budget center directors, depart-ment heads and the like. Amidst the otherbusiness that transpired at that meeting,Vice President Rutherford Adkins announcedthat all purchases at Fisk of common itemsstarting immediately would be through ashared purchasing and warehousing systemwith Vanderbilt University. This announce-ment made public the development of thelong-awaited joint purchasing and warehous-ing program which every prior NUC annualreport had heralded as a good idea and areal possibility. Those who find this mattertoo abstract can go to 2507 Charlotte Avenuewhere they can look at and touch the ware-house-storeroom which is being leased forthis purpose. It is likely that other NUC in-stitutions will use this joint system to alesser extent during the coming year, even-tually leading to full participation by someor all of the remaining institutions. Devel-oping this increased participation will beone of the tasks of the NUC during this year.

A development related and similar tothis one is the use by Peabody College ofa joint typewriter maintenance service withVanderbilt. It turns out that both institu-tions can save themselves a great deal ofmoney, given the total number of typewri-ters between them, by having their owntypewriter repair and maintenance shoprather than individual service contracts foreach typewriter with the companies whichhave supplied those machines.

The NUC Joint Purchasing and Ware-housing Committee under Bruce Hawleyand the administrations of Fisk, Peabody,and Vanderbilt are greatly to be congratu-lated for their perserverance in bringingabout these money-saving developments!

PLANNING AND MANAGEMENTSYSTEMS

Mr. George Braun, Director of theComputer Center at Meharry, makes thisreport on the work of the Planning and Man-agement Systems Committee of which he ischairman:

"The Computer based Management In-formation Systems under current develop-ment by a number of the member institu-tions of the Nashville University Center hasbeen the main area to which this committeehas devoted its attention during this year'smeetings. A number of specialists whohave direct technical responsibilities forthe development and implementation of thesecomplex systems within the member insti-

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tutions have been brought in to act as con-sultants to this committee. As a result ofthese meetings several points have beenbrought out:

"1. At least three of the member insti-tutions of the Nashville University Centerare now actively but independently engagedin implementing computer based manage-ment information systems of considerablecomplexity. As at this time there is noagreement among the member institutionscalling for these systems to be developedusing a common set of standards, descrip-tors, definitions or elements, these systemswill not be able to directly transfer datafrom one to another or allow ready compar-isons to be made of sets or groups of suchdata. As a result, transactions involvinginter-college orders or payments will stillhave to revert to a manual system betweencolleges even when the computer based sys-tem s are fully implemented.

"2. It is our opinion that one set of fun-damental definitions should be used by allmembers of the Nashville University Centerin the development of their computer basedmanagement and information systems, sincethis would offer a number of direct advan-tages in the utilization of these systems,both for routine processing of data and forcomparative or statistical studies. Wewould request the Executive Council tostrongly recommend to the Presidents of

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the member institutions that they supportthis proposal by taking the appropriate ad-ministrative action.

'n. As these management systems arebeing evolved a significant increase in theflexibility of these systems would likely re-sult from a regular exchange of informationbetween the various groups engaged in thedefinition and implementation of these sys-tems; to this end it is suggested theNashville University Center sponsor a work-ing committee to provide a forum for thisexchange.

"Other subjects which have been underconsideration by this committee during thispast year include the joint purchasing andwarehousing project in which this commit-tee's members have been taking action onthe various campuses to promote the useof this joint faciltiy to a greater extent. In-formation relating to an inventory locationand availability system now in use at theKennedy Center has been discussed and con-sidered for general use.

"A subject which is rapidly becoming ofimportance to the members of the NashvilleUniversity Center is Computer Assisted In-struction and Computer Managed Instruction.At our request an NUC Committee on C. A.I.was named and will soon begin work."

AN EAR TO THE GROUND

Each of the sections preceding this onehas told a part of a continuing story, a storywhich has begun but which is not yet com-pleted. The purpose of this section of theExecutive Director's Report is to mention afew stories which have not, in any signifi-cant sense, even begun. They are ideas,projects, or funding possibilities aboutwhich one hears an occasional rumble if onehas an ear to the ground but which have notvet arrived on the scene. Readers are in-vited to contribute their own ideas formajor and minor areas of pursuit by theNashville University Center. Among theareas of possible increased NUC activityarc the following:

Title Three nd Other Federal FundingPossibil es

The Higher Education Act of 1965 andthe Educational Amendments of 1972 bothcontain provisions for the aiding of devel-oping institutions through cooperative ar-rangements. Fisk qualifies under their de-finition of a developing institution and Fiskand the rest of the University Center forman almost archetypal setting where coopera-tive arrangements and exchanges could workto everyone's mutual advantage. It is there-fore regretful that more advantage has notbeen taken of these federal monies to en-hance the efforts of the Nashville UniversityCenter in building bridges among these in-stitutions. This is a situation which is beingworked on and the recent increase in thefunds available under this program bodeswell for our being able to obtain support by

this route.

Another hopeful development at thelevel of the federal government is the cre-ation of the Fund for the Improvement ofPost-Secondary Education. Both becausethe Nashville University Center can be avehicle for creating innovative educationalprograms and because the Nashville Uni-versity Center can work to effect economiesin the operation of its member institutions,the Fund is a natural source to which wemight turn for support.

An Experimental College

Sometimes the best way to bring aboutmajor changes in educational practice orto introduce important new elements in theeducational process is to attempt those ideason a smaller scale outside of the regularinstructional program. There is nothingintrinsically inter-institutional about suchan effort. Nevertheless it has been sug-gested that the Nashville University Centerattempt to sponsor an experimental collegeof some sort or another. Indeed, it wouldseem that the NUC, like any other educa-tional body, is not performing one of itsvital functions if it does not at least have

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under consideration the fundamental ques-tions of what education is all about and howits practice might be improved. Such dis-cussions are preliminary to startijig an ex-perimental college, and it might be worththe effort for the NUC to foster their occur-rence.

Continuing Education

The subject of continuing education isnot new to the Nashville University Center.Not only is there an existing committee inthe area which made recommendations inthe first NUC report (the report of theNUCC Cooperative Study), but there arealso many continuing education programsin NUC member institutions. The profes-sional schools provide continuing educationto those in their professions, and ScarrittCollege has a booming program of short-term studies in a multitude of areas.Nevertheless, one still has the sense thatthe University Center does not offer itselfas an effective educational resource locally,regionally, or nationally (except to itsregular students, of course) for life-longlearning. Continuing education is mention-ed here simply as a reminder that this isan area where some fruitful action wouldbe timely.

Semesters in the Field

If it is a function of the NUC to consi-der ways of increasing the educational op-tions open to students, then areas whichshould be explored are the various on-sitesemester-long or year-long programswhich have been or could be created. Itis already the case that a student can take

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a semester to study in France, Spain, Ger-Germany, England, or Denmark, and Fiskhas an expanding program of cooperativeeducation. The student-teaching semestersthat education majors take at Peabody andFisk are really long-existing examples ofthis sort of learning-by-doing at an off -campus site (though usually the student re-mains in town for the experience). Theprinciple behind such programs is that theytotally immerse a student in a coherent andwell-structured situation or experience fora substantial period of time. It would be agood thing were there to be more optionsfor this kind of experience in the UniversityCenter. For example, one possibilitymight be an urban semester in conjunctionwith the Urban Affairs Institute at Fiskutilizing Nashville generally and NorthNashville particularly as a kind of "labor-atory" for the study of urban problems.Similarly, an intense study of the statelegislative process could be pursued anyspring semester in Nashville. Of course,out-of-town possibilities of this sort arealmost infinite. One could have semestersat Oak Ridge; domestic or foreign archae-ological sites; additional semesters abroad,perhaps at least one on each continent; aWashington semester, related to the execu-tive, judicial, or legislative branches ofgovernment; an oceanographic semester;and numerous other possibilities. Many ofthese programs are already in existence atother institutions; if there were an interestin doing so, many of these possibilitiescould be created for UniverLity Centerstudents with very little effort.

The NUC and Nashville

How the NUC member institutionsrelate themselves to their immediate envi-

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rons is a matter of some sensitivity and,occasionally, controversy. It is perhapsunfortunate that the NUC does not have ameans of monitoring developments in thisarea and acting in relation to them whensuch action would be appropriate, feasible,and useful. If, in the broadest sense, the"campus" of the NUC is that part of the cityof Nashville bordered by and including theNUC member institutions, then this is acampus with many problems, The futureof this turf should be our concern and amatter for our systematic attention.

A University Service Corporation

A rubric under which one could system-atically consider, deal with, and then adoptor reject the matter of the consolidation ofmany of the routine administrative andservice functions which each of the NUC in-stitutions must provide for itself is that ofthe university service corporation. Onecould even consider whether such a corpor-ation should be a non-profit or a profit-making corporation, in the latter circum-stance returning its .)rofits to the memberinstitutions. One of the ;,:rimary questionsthat needs to be asked about such an enter-prise is could one build into it the necessaryfinancial incentives which would make itworthwhile for institutional participationand also maintain an acceptable level ofservice: It remains a very big and valid

question whether such a development wouldbe a good thing. It is, however, completelycertain that the matter should and will begiven adequate consideration in the immedi-ate future.

Medical School Relations

Nashville and the University Center areblessed with two medical schools, the Medi-cal School of Meharry Medical College andVanderbilt Medical School. These twoschools have a long and complex history ofrelating to one another in various ways;they continue to be related in ways too nu-merous to list here. It can be said furtherthat these two schools have rather differentemphases and strengths and are therebycomplementary to one another in manyways. The two schools are also related toone another through programs of a generalinstitutional nature of the NUC and this kindof thing is likely to increase soon, particu-larly in the purchasing and warehousingarea. Nevertheless, in spite of all of thesevery positive factors, one still does notsense that there is any mechanism es-tablished or even planned for systematicallyexploiting the potentialities of this situation;the NUC has not to this point acted to dothis, nor is it likely to under present andforeseeable circumstances unless explicitconsideration is given to the matter duringthe coming year.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE NASHVILLE UNIVERSITY CENTER,FISCAL YEAR 1972-73

Balance cn hand, July 1, 1972 $27,559

lIncome, July 1, 1972 - June 30, 1973 31,4502Expenditures, July 1, 1972 - June 30, 1973 44,595

Balance on hand, July 1, 1973 14,414

1The sources and amounts of income were as follows:

Fisk University $ 6,20n

Meharry Medical College 5,000

Peabody College 4,800

Scarritt College 85n

Vanderbilt University 14,650

2The expenditures were in the following categories and amounts:

Salaries $20,745

Student help 155

Supplies A 410

Equipment 521 cr

Telephone and postage 1,029

Travel 651

Equipment maintenance 83

Program development 1,563

Printing and duplicating 1,580

Rent 1,000

Special projects:

Shuttle Service $1o,onn

Fine Arts Festival, including Christmas concert 7,955

All figures rounded to nearest dollar amount. These figures are subject to minor

changes pending receipt of further data from our fiscal agent, Fisk University.

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STAFF

Richard H. Morgan, Executive DirectorSusan G. Moore, Administrative AssistantFred Ford, Coordinator for Fine Arts Eve. 'sBarbara J. Fraser, Administrator for Inter-

national Programs

ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Stanley H. Smith, FiskEdwin Sanders, FiskMarion E. Zealey, MeharryMitchem E. Warren, PeabodyDavid White, ScarrittL. Ensign Johnson

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Cecil Butler, FiskCharles M. Walker, MeharryRobert P. Thomson, PeabodyLeonard T. Wolcott, ScarrittParker L. Coddington, Vanderbilt

RESOURCES AND FACILITIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Rutherford H. Adkins, FiskLouis Stevenson, MeharryWilliam W. Force, PeabodyH. H. Turpen, ScarrittGeorge Kaludis, Vanderbilt

STUDENT AFFAIRS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Ronald F. Myles, FiskKaren Ballard, FiskCarolyn F. Smith, FiskN. Horace Mann Jr., MeharryThomas W. Johnson, MeharryAnita Herndon, PeabodyDorothy L. Durham, PaabodyLucia Drier, PeabodyLaurel Ambrose, ScarrittMarilyn Crosby, ScarrittNathan Williams, ScarrittMargaret L. Cunincigim, VanderbiltRobin B. Fuller, VanderbiltBetsy Schapiro, Vanderbilt

AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES COMMITTEE

Gerald McWhorter, FiskWilliam Hayes, MeharryJack Willers, PeabodyOmar L. Hartzler, ScarrittAkbar Muhammad, Vanderbilt

FINE ARTS COMMITTEE

Earl J. Hooks, FiskGladys I. Forea, FiskOscar M. Henry, FiskC. B. Hunt Jr., PeabodyCharles H. Ball, PeabodyWalter Rutkowski, PeabodyWillard C. Booth, PeabodyJames H. Warren, ScarrittF. Hamilton Hazlehurst, VanderbiltCecil D. Jones, VanderbiltRobert McGaw, VanderbiltSusan G. Moore, Ex Officio

CALENDAR COMMITTEE

Stanley H. Smith, FiskTandy Tollerson III, FiskJames U. Lowe II, MeharryArthur H. Cook, PeabodyRobert L. Weaver, PeabodyRalph W. Decker, ScarrittLawrence C. Hay, ScarrittNicholas Hobbs, VanderbiltRichard L. Blanton, Vanderbilt

NUC COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP

CONTINUING EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Nebraska Mays, FiskFrank Perry, MeharryMarion E. Zealey, MeharryR. Eugene Pletcher, PeabodyKenneth S. Cooper, PeabodyRichard L. Cookson, ScarrittMargaret L. Cuninggim, VanderbiltEwing P. Shahan, Vanderbilt

REGISTRARS COMMITTEE

Sylvester Dunn, FiskOttic L. West, MeharryArthur H. Cook, PeabodyKathryn Newcomb, ScarrittWilliam 0. Batts Jr., Vanderbilt

PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS COMMITTEE

Webster C. Cash, FiskClinton E. Jones, FiskGeorge Braun, MeharryWilliam W. Force, PeabodyR. Wilburn Clouse, PeabodyRalph W. Decker, ScarrittCharles L. Bradshaw, VanderbiltJames Scholes, VanderbiltGeorge Kaludis, VanderbiltMichael Zavelle, ConsultantP. Lawrence Hester, ConsultantJames U. Redmon, ConsultantRex Butler, TSU Observer

MATHEMATICS COMMITTEE

Theodore R. Sykes, FiskOtto Bassler, PeabodyBilly F. Bryant, VanderbiltHorace E. Williams, Vanderbilt

PSYCHOLOGY COMMITTEE

S. O. RobertsHenry Tomes, MeharryPhil Schoggen, PeabodyLeslie Phillips, PeabodyMartin Katahn, VanderbiltPearl Dansby, TSU Observer

TEACHER EDUCATION COMMITTEE

Nebraska Mays, FiskW. D. McClurkinDavid White, ScarrittLyman B. Burbank, Vanderbilt

LINGUISTICS COMMITTEE

James A. Hamlett, FiskWilliam J. Griffin, PeabodyTeresa A. McAllister, PeabodyVivian C. Morter, ScarrittRupert E. Palmer, VanderbiltWalburga von Raffler Engel, Vanderbilt

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS COMMITTEE

Jake C. Miller, FiskDelores C. Shockley, MeharryStewart E. Fraser, PeabodyVivian C. Morter, ScarrittRobin B. Fuller, Vanderbilt

INTER-UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE

E. J. Junior Jr., FiskWebster C. Cash, FiskR. C. Crutchfield, MeharryLouis Stevenson, MeharryJack White, PeabodyH. H. Turpen, ScarrittDan Shilstat, VanderbiltDaniel M. Brown, Vanderbilt

LIBRARY RESOURCES COMMITTEE

Jessie C. Smith, FiskBlondell Strong, MeharryFrances Cheney, PeabodyMary Joan Finger, ScarrittFrank P. Grisham, Vanderbilt

PERSONNEL RESOURCES COMMITTEE

Shirley Carpenter, FiskDorothy Webster, MeharryW. D. McClurkin, PeabodyRalph W. Decker, ScarrittWilliam R. Cook, Vanderbilt

PRINTING RESOURCES COMMITTEE

Jean Morton, MeharryCarl M. Hill, PeabodyEarle H. MacLeod, ScarrittRobert McGaw, Vanderbilt

PURCHASING AND WAREHOUSING COMMITTEE

E. J. Junior Jr., FiskGeorge Braun, MeharryWilliam H. Vanstone, MeharryCarl M. Hill, PeabodyH. H. Turpen, ScarrittBruce S. Hawley, Vanderbilt

SECURITY SYSTEMS COMMITTEE

Vander E. Harris, FiskJames H. Leslie, FiskJoe Hudnall, MeharryChester T. Mayers Jr., MeharryHarold Skelton, PeabodyH. H. Turpen, ScarrittRobert R. Blankenship, Vanderbilt

PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE

Earl S. Clanton III, FiskKenneth Woods, FiskJean Morton, MeharryEugene Dietz, PeabodyF. Martin Sheets, PeabodyEarle H. MacLeod, ScarrittJan Belcher, VanderbiltDan Prince, VanderbiltNeil Skene, VanderbiltSteve Womack, Vanderbilt

TRUSTEES COMMITTEE,

J. Albert Werthan, FiskCecilia D. Adkins, FiskVictor Johnson, MeharryFrederic Tremaine Billings, MeharryGeorge Cate Jr., ScarrittGus G. Halliburton, ScarrittSam M. Fleming, VanderbiltWilliam Vaughn, Vanderbilt

EDUCATIONAL CABLE TELEVISION COMMITTEE

Robert L. Holmes Jr., FiskAlbert G. Berry, MeharryWilliam W. .Force, PeabodyJohn M. Frase, PeabodyJames H. Warren, ScarrittR^..1 G.'Albridge, Vanderbilt

PHOTOS: Cover, Kresge Learning Resources Center, Meharry, Verna Fausey; page 3, Fisk Choir at Christmas Concert,Fisk News Bureau; page 5, University Center Orchestra, Fisk News Bureau; page 7, Richard Jones and class, FiskNews Bureau; page 9, Decker, Palmer, Miller, Grisham, Claunch, by Verna Fausey; page 11, Jubilee Singers, EdwinSchmidt; page 13, Black Mass Choir Concert, Edwin Schmidt; page 15, Robin Fuller and Jean Dungee, by Verna Fausey;page 17, "One Full Rotation of the Earth", Fisk News Bureau; page 19, University Center Orchestra Concert, FiskNews Bureau; page 21, by Verna Fausey; page 23, Stall, Das, and Hartman at Council meeting, Verna Fausey; page 25,Richard Jones, Fisk News Bureau; page 27, Heard and Morgan at Council meeting, by Verna Fausey; page 29, Fisk'sOrchestrated Crowd, Edwin Schmidt; page 31, Christmas Concert, Fisk News Bureau; page 33, Vanderbilt ChamberSingers, Edwin Schmidt; page 35, Fisk's Orchestrated Crowd, Edwin Schmidt.