Faculty Members

Faculty members at Bowie State University have voted no confidence in their president, Nathanael Pollard Jr., after a contentious meeting in which he was accused of running roughshod over professors and administrators in his efforts to reform the school.The vote Wednesday was merely advisory, because the University of Maryland System chancellor and board of regents are Dr. Pollard's bosses.Such a move generally signals a breakdown in the ability of an academic leader to guide his or her campus.

The Board of Education has agreed to investigate whether Northeast Principal Joseph Carducci Jr. instituted an abortion policy that violates board policy and possibly federal law.Newly appointed board member Maureen York announced the decision during a Monday night meeting of 40 Northeast High School boosters calling for Carducci's removal. Previously, School Superintendent Larry L. Lorton had describedthe controversy as a "dead issue."Four faculty members, including former guidance counselor Leonard Sokoloff, have told the Anne Arundel County Sun that Carducci set a verbal policy at his first staff meeting last February requiring faculty members to inform him about any pregnant student considering an abortion so he could counsel them against it."

Donald R. Jansiewicz works alongside the teaching staff at Carroll Community College.Yet the coordinator of curriculum enjoys a status his colleagues do not: He has tenure."

A group of students and faculty members from St. Mary's College was back in Guatemala yesterday, preparing to give accounts to authorities there of the day in January when they were attacked by bandits.The 10 anthropology students and three faculty members -- part of a group robbed and raped by highway gunmen while on a study tour -- were expected to speak today to a judge who will decide whether to charge suspects in the crime. Later this week they're expected to view a police lineup.They are traveling in Guatemala under the protection of its national police, according to police sources there.

DURHAM, N.C. - Like most other college students, Eric Rogers knows that submitting a term paper taken off the Internet is outright plagiarism, cause for suspension or a failing grade. What about using a paragraph? "Just a paragraph?" he said. Beneath a Duke cap worn backward, he pondered. "A big paragraph or a small paragraph?" "Taking a paragraph and changing words, I've done that before; it wasn't a big deal," he decided finally. "As long as I can manipulate it to be my words, change a few, it's not cheating."

Parents and faculty members at Essex Elementary School yesterday were all but assured that money for a study to determine what to do with the deteriorating 67-year-old building will come through.The $50,000 for the study is part of Baltimore County Executive Roger B. Hayden's proposed budget for fiscal 1993.But Essex parents and faculty members were concerned that tight fiscal times might prod the County Council to cut the money.But at a meeting at the school yesterday, Council Chairman William A. Howard IV, R-6th, confirmed his support, adding that with the already-pledged support of Councilman Vincent Gardina, a 5th District Democrat, the money for the Essex project "has a pretty good chance of passing."

Parents and faculty members at Essex Elementary School have been all but assured that money for a study to determine what to do with the deteriorating 67-year-old building will come through.The $50,000 for the study is part of Baltimore County Executive Roger B. Hayden's proposed budget for fiscal 1993.But Essex parents and faculty members were concerned that tight fiscal times might prod the County Council to cut the money.But at a meeting at the school yesterday, Council Chairman William A. Howard IV, R-6th, confirmed his support, adding that with the already-pledged support of Councilman Vincent Gardina, a 5th District Democrat, the money for the Essex project "has a pretty good chance of passing."

Tai Sophia Institute holds open house Tai Sophia Institute, 7750 Montpelier Road, North Laurel, will hold an open house tomorrow for those interested in its graduate programs in acupuncture, herbal medicine and applied healing arts. Starting at 9:30 a.m., visitors will have an opportunity to meet faculty members, students and graduates of the three master's programs. A panel of students, graduates and faculty members will discuss each program and take questions. Members of the institute's admissions staff will answer questions.

Towson University's teacher education program, which lost its national accreditation nearly a decade ago, has won it back after a review. The Washington-based National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education said Towson, the largest trainer of teachers in Maryland, met all of its standards during a site visit last fall and an examination of school records. An NCATE review in late 1991 faulted Towson for its large number of part-time faculty members and the excessive course loads of some professors.

4 AACC faculty members are honored by studentsFour Anne Arundel Community College faculty members received teaching excellence and adviser-of-the-year awards from students at the school's recent honor and awards ceremony.The full-time faculty teaching excellence award went to psychology professor Ajaipal S. Gill of Millersville. "I find when I demand more of students, they don't get turned off -- they're more interested in learning," Gill said. "I tell them I'm learning dTC from them as well."