The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 162

14-L THE MIAMI HERALD Sun Aug 17 1969 INTERNATIONAL Institution Without a Faculty or Textbooks want to build a university that is involved in the community We want faculty members who want to get involved who can give our students a feel for the complexities and opportunities' of urban -Charles Perry University President Here Is Site of University and to some extent at M-DJC where students gripe about a of The establishment of as well as the structuring of a school day now scheduled to run from 7 am to about 11 pm will enormous task a staggering responsibility and an exciting (i And for the university president who says accepting and condolences with equal that challenge will begin Sept 2 consume a good deal of the time So also will the actual structuring of curricula the designing of buildings and the translation of community into something more than rhetoric says Perry junior colleges and Florida Atlantic University has cut into that upper division enrollment will not happen at he promises PLANNING must be flexible that is the Perry warns and the history of FAU would seem to prove him correct Florida Atlantic began with a lengthy planning document envisioning a highly innovative strong liberal arts university with an enrollment of 10000 by 1970 Today the university shows less than half that number and the innovations have largely given way to more standar-ized teaching in applied programs FIU Perry says have no He foresees a no-n curriculum stressing technical and applied courses leading for the most part directly to employment upon graduation It will be strictly a school with no student housing and little of the ivy-covered hoopla at such established state schools as the University of Florida and Florida State THOUGH Perry promises fraternities a student government and student publications this transient atmosphere has proved less than attractive to students at FAU BIS MOVE! In particular the way must be smoothed to break down what Perry terms between the institutions course requirements and academic differences which in some cases make transferring a frustrating experience for some students Perry acknowledges that a lack of close cooperation and between the MAKE THE BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL LONS FALL 7-oz $4388 HUMAN HAIR then the new university will somehow have to acquire: MONEY About $18 million for buildings and another $9 million for operating funds About $16 million of this must be by the 1970 Legislature if the necessary buildings are to be built and a 278-man faculty hired in time Otherwise says Perry possibly meet our The 1969 Legislature failed to appropriate any construction money for higher education and leaders on both sides are not optimistic about 1970 A total of 667 persons including key administrators library and research personnel must be hired with deans and department heads secured by the end of 1970 Perry will begin immediately to recruit young men who have yet to make their but everything he does is dependent on the funds allocated by the Legislature If TIL's concept is to work coordina-t on between the university and M-DJC and Broward Junior College is essential stop with an degree to complete a four-year program Similarly the board of planners also envision a university closely tailored to" the needs of SQuthFlonda with programs Uaa1 in such areas as hotel management urban studies and social welfare AND PERRY himself who has risen from the admissions director at Bowling Green University in Ohio at 23 to the young-e t-ever state university president in Florida is emphatic about the need for an university want to build a university that is involved in the he said in a recent interview want faculty members who want to get involved who can give our students a feel for the complexities and opportunities of urban life And we want to be a service to the community to use the community as an asset and to have the community use us By 1972 according to projections some 4252 students about 1500 junior college transfers and another 2500 who have been out of school several years will arrive to sample aca-demic wares But between now and MINI CASCADE FALL PRE-STYLED READY to wear By ROBERT SHAW JR Hcrild Stiff Writw On Sept 2 as some 240-000 Dade children go back to school a nev state university will fling open temporary doors at a 350-acre site at Tamiami Park Sporting the ambitious name of Florida International University it will be an institution without a staff without a textbook and without enough money even to build its first building Its newly named president 32-year-old Charles Perry will start work housed in either a trailer or a former airport control tower armed only with a 23-page planning document and slightly more than $17 million barely enough for initial site planning design and utility -work IP the SECOND site of his ij proposed multi-campus uni-versity a 400-acre tract at £lnterama will undoubtedly still be frozen in a political Jsand financial hassle which to Jdate has involved the state onvernment Metro and the government City of Miami And whether Perry even £gets enough money to put his new school together be known until the 1970 legist tLve session Nonetheless even this preliminary state committment to FIU marks the ful-? fillment of a decades-old pledge to establish a low-l cost state-financed institution for higher education in Dade County And what Perry and the -state do with FIU between -Sept 2 1969 and its scheduled opening day in September 1972 will have more impact on the educational future of youth than 'anything since the opening of f-Miami-Dade Junior College in 1960 THE COMPARISON between FIU and M-DJC is an apt one since the former is being designed expressly to build on the latter Florida International will be an university offering only the junior and senior years of college plus selected graduate work in such applied fields as teaching and business administration As such it will be the logical transfer point for the more than 4000 projected college-bound graduates of Miami-Dade and Broward Junior College more than 1-200 of whom are projected to enroll in 1972 At the same time according to Perry FIU will be keyed especially to such specialized junior college offerings as health technology police science and computer systems enabling students who now FREE: INFORMATION ON CAMPS COILECIS TUTORING PRIVATE SCHOOLS OAROING SCHOOLS CompUt information tpocific rocommondotiont with catalog to kolp moot your child individual noodt LIT US HELP YOU F1NO THE PROPER SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD NO CHARGE AT ANY TIME VI VT TtUONOM worn JARVIS SCHOOL BUREAU OF FLORIDA 1140 NE 163rd St North Miami kocfc 33167 Suite 26 949 am 949 8112 IMF'WWUWtfl SUJWW nt-ahaa 5000 PAIRS $3188 $181 ALL 100 3 5 COMPLETE 1 Two Locations 263 NE 79th St 110 US 1 Palm Beach Wig Cases $133 Wiglet Cases $128 SERVICE OF WIGS STARTING HIS COLLEGE FUND Be sure your future is secure Start his college fund now Save just a few dollars regularly and watch your savings grow with big interest Lcmw fHXxAJtatitoM ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF The George Muller Christian School Christ Centered HAIR PIECES DAILY 6 WALK SNORTS wmi 89 559 Elementary grades 1-8 Kindergarten 4 5 years Registration NOW OPEN miW r-iwir i Tii i Providing a program of elementary eaucation up holding a standard of scholastic excellence in a thoroughly positive Christian atmosphere Experienced qualified dedicated Christian teachers with your child's total needs at heart Kindergarten S20 Mo uir b( Calling Elementary $30 Mo 754-9511 (Transportation Available) First Baptist Church 151 60 St Miami Fla FI OPEN 10 wfi Men's Boys SPORT COATS While They Last! 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