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By Greg Wees
NU will pay special attention to
agriculture, the life sciences, environ
mental and resource management, the
performing arts and Love Library
throughout the 1970's.
These are the goals of the updated
five-year "Toward Excellence" plan
released Thursday by Steven B. Sample,
NU executive vice president for aca
demic affairs. The NU Board of Regents
will accept or reject the report at its Dec.
14 meeting.
If, as expected, the regents approve
the plan, these "Areas of Excellence"
will continue to receive special financing
over and above the normal University
operating budget approved by the
Legislature last session.
The report, which did not list
programs according to priority, includes
these recommendations:
It calls for strengthening the tradi
tional agricultural functions of teaching,
research and extension by sharply
increasing faculty salaries. In the last
ten years, UNL dropped from the 25th to
the 41st lowest payer of salaries to its
professors among 50 nationwide agricul
tural experimentation centers.
Sixth in nation
Nebraska ranks sixth in the United
States in agricultural production and
sales. But, according to the report,
Nebraska can move up to the fourth spot
if salaries are increased, if more faculty
members are hired in critical subject
areas, if the Curtis Technical School at
Curtis, Neb., is upgraded, if the
Agricultural Engineering Building is
remodeled and if more funds are
secured to offset inflation and pay added
technicians.
The report urges a renewal of interest
in life sciences, which has not been
given proper monetary support for the
last twenty years even though instruc
tion in the life sciences has been
essential to agriculture.
Veterinary science should be expand
ed, according to the report. However,
there are no plans to build a college of
veterinary science.
Another suggestion is the "relatively
modest infusion of resources" at UNL to
improve the engineering program and
the related fields of mathematics and
computer science. "This emphasis is a
qualitative rather than a quantitative
one," the report says.
Natural resources and environmental
programs too will be target areas. The
first step in achieving excellence is the
Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resources, the report states.
Most critical area
Love Library "is a most critical area of
concern," it says. Within five years the
library "must grow" from one million
volumes to over 1.5 million a 50 per
cent increase to begin to appraoch
academic excellence, according to the
report.
Acquisitions during the next five
years will represent half the total of the
last 104 years, the report states, if
improvement is made.
The report also proposed that the
performing arts, particularly opera and
musical theater, be invigorated "since
both opera and musical theater incor
porate music, drama, art, literature,
architecture, and dance as integral
ingredients of a complete, humanistic
approach."
The College of Law "needs a
substantial infusion of new resources if
it is to meet the challenge of providing
quality education." The report recom
mends the current ratio of 18 professors
to 500 students be decreased so
students will be able to receive more
individual attention.
Priorities include on-the-job training
for law students, law-related under
graduate programs, interdisciplinary
programs such as the law-psychology
Ph.D. offering, continuing education for
practicing attorneys and extension
courses for Nebraskans not versed in
law.
Dentistry program
Upgrading of the restorative dentistry
program also is called for. "This field
needs an infusion of new resources in
order to deliver increased quality
education to students who in turn will
render better services to patients," the
report says.
The UNL College of Architecture will
receive "additional resources" because
the "increasing recognition of society's
needs in this decade has resulted in
dramatic changes in the traditional roles
of architect and planner."
Buildings to be remodeled include the
Coliseum, Bessey Hall, the original
Love Library, the Agricultural Engineer
ing Building and Lyman Hall. . ,
The report also recommends the ,
construction of a Plant Science Building
and an alternative to the Temple
Building, which is now a serious fire
hazard. Witn compietion of badly
needed laboratory facilities and the
Barkley Foundation bequest for building
a new speech, hearing and special
education .anter, UNL will have "what
is potentially one of the great national
centrrs in the field of communications
disorders," the report says.
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