NOVA continues despite problems
by Steve Strasser
Despite a financing problem and a
"serious personal disagreement" with new
federal guidelines, the director of a UNL.
student community service program said
recently the program will likely continue in
the same form next semester.
In fact, program director Gene Harding
said he's negotiating with several UNL
colleges to try to make the Nebraska
Opportunity for Volunteers in Action
(NOVA) program more convenient for its
students next semester.
The NOVA, a pilot project of ACTION,
the federal volunteer service agency, started
its second semester Monday when 11 new
participants joined 29 other students already
on the job in Lincoln and outstate Nebraska.
To simplify registration for next year's
volunteers, Harding said he is trying to
identify University departments which offer
course work outside the classroom.
NOVA students working in courses
designed for field work wouldn't be
"exceptions wherever they go," Harding
explained. Now NOVA students usually have
to make special arrangements to earn credit
in classroom courses.
NOVA students spend a whole year in the
field, earning as many as 30 credit hours
doing community service projects such as
probation counseling and alcoholic
rehabilitation in communities which request
their service.
But it won't be that simple next semester,
Harding said, thanks to new rules from
Washington.
For example, eight is to be the smallest
number of students sent to a community
from now on, Harding said. And the NOVA
volunteers may only work on projects which
will demonstrate"measurable impact" on the
community.
Evidence of progress in each project must
be sent quarterly to ACTION.
The tighter rules are designed to help
persuade Congress to refinance the NOVA
"program, Harding said. "ACTION has to
show the kinds of statistics legislators will
respond to," he explained.
But "three or four students coming into a
small Nebraska town are very visible,"
Harding continued. "I don't know how eight
would be received."
And he said some projects he is "very
impressed" with, such as work being done
with the mentally retarded, can't be sized up
statistically.
"How do you measure what goes on in
the mind of a mentally retarded client?" he
asked. "I don't know."
Continued financing of NOVA is pending,
Harding said. The measure to refinance the
project was included in the controversial
Day Care Center Bill vetoed last year by
President Richard M, Nixon.
Mick Zangari, UNL's NOVA field
supervisor, said he is satisfied with
- several student projects operating under the
old guidelines.
Harding said one measure of the
program's success is that only three students
have resigned since it started in September.
Two resigned to go professional as probation
and alcoholism counselors. One decided to
return to campus study.
One NOVA student changed his major
from political science to biology after his
on-the-job experience, Harding said, because
biology doesn't have "all that hassle"
involved.
But Harding said NOVA volunteers more
typically change their courses to social
sciences from other disciplines.
NOVA students, most of them juniors,
are paid $190 per month while on the job.
They are in day-to-day contact with
community supervisors, and meet weekly or
bi-weekly with faculty members involved in
the program. There are eight part-time
faculty members at UNL.
Besides the UNL volunteers, there are
over 40 NOVA students from UNO and the
NU Medicai Center.
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