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The weekly summer edition
www.ntdaily.com
Thursday • June 3, 2004
Column:
I am a
Virgin Chick
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Web-based
registration
changes to
EIS
Page 3
New tool
library
Page 8
Construction
resumes at
Delta Lodge
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Dodgeball'
drops the
ball
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Tennis duo
makes top 10
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Student Newspaper at the University of North Tones J —
rovost sets academic goals
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DEBORAH TURNER/ NT DAILY
Dr. Howard Johnson, the new provost, hopes to make NT one of the top 165 universities in the nation
Christine Stanley
Assistant Managing Fxli Lor
Dr. Howard Johnson is
determined to remedy NT's
growing pains.
The new provost,
appointed last semester, said
he is close to formalizing NT's
academic plan for fall 2004
and beyond, a move Johnson
hopes will propel NT into
the upper echelon of public
universities across the nation.
"The cost of not doing
this is greater than doing it,"
Johnson said. "We owe this to
our students."
ITis optimism remains
intact despite having to work
with a "bare bones" budget
to achieve his goals - NT's
enrollment increased 11.5
percent from fall 2001 to fall
2003 but General Revenue
funding for the university
only increased by 1.6 percent.
There are several initiatives
in the academic plan that
Johnson said he hopes will
guide NT to greatness.
His first goal is
breathing new life into the
undergraduate curriculum by
strengthening ties between
NT's liberal arts schools and
its professional schools, such
as the College of Engineering.
Johnson said that although it
is important for students to
be grounded in the liberal
arts, professional schools
around campus have taken a
low profile for too long and
students' opportunities for
interdisciplinary study have
suffered.
"The college of arts and
sciences sort-of sits at the
focal point of the university
and our professional schools
are like satellites that revolve
around it," Johnson said. "We
need to ensure that we have
a strong liberal arts tradition
here, and that will add to the
visibility and strength of our
professional schools."
He also said he plans
to build upon the current
strength of NT's professional
schools by recruiting more
funding for research.
He said his ultimate goal
is to transform NT into a
Tier I research facility that
could potentially pull in $100
million annually in external
funding for various research
projects across departments.
Johnson says that there are
about 165 universities nation-
wide that receive anywhere
from 85 percent to 90 percent
of all grant funding for
research.
"What we're saying here
at NT is that we would like to
be considered amongst those
top 165 universities," Johnson
said. "We've got some way to
go-"
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