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Exxon Foundation gives money
to encouraqe abstract thought
The Exxon Educational Foundation has
granted UNL $97,200 for a project to help
freshmen adjust to the abstract thinking methods
of college work, according to Melvin C.
Thornton, professor of mathematics and project
staff memoers.
ADAPT (Accent on Development of Abstract
Processes of Thought) is based on Swiss
psychologist Jean Piaget's theory of mental
development, according to Thornton. He said
Piaget maintains that the fourth stage of mental
development is the ability to think abstractly.
In a recent study, it was discovered that 50
per cent of the college students at age 18 or 19
have not developed this mental ability. This
presents a problem because college courses use
abstract thinking processes, Thornton said.
If the average freshman has not developed this
ability it does not mean he is stupid, just that he
hasn't been trained properly, he said. Eighty
students will be recruited for the freshman
program-40 to take part in the project, and 40
to serve as a control group, Thornton said.
Staff members will teach the classes,she said.
At the end of the freshman year, freshmen can
have up to 30 hours of their group requirements
fulfilled by the program, Thornton said.
An advantage in this program is that only 40
students are in each class and all the instructors
will know one another, he said.
An example of abstract thinking, Thornton
said, is a billiard table problem. Given the
dimensions of the table, the student would try to
predict the ball's path when shot at a 45 degree
angle from one corner, consider variables that
would affect the path and thereby exercise
abstract thinking, Thornton said.
Total cost of the project will be more than
$170,000, which will be used mainly for salaries,
he said. The program will begin in the fail 1975,
he said.
The staff includes the project director Robert
G Fuller, physics dept., Melvin C. Thornton,
mathematics dept.; Leslie C. Duly, history dept.;
Robert D. Narveson, English dept.; Martm Q.
Peterson, anthropology dept.; Jerry L. Petr,
economics dept.; Carol A. Thornton, department
of educational psychology and measurements;
and Vernon G. Williams, Counseling Center and
department of educational psychology and
measurements.
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Melvin C. Thornton, professor of
mathematics, is a staff member of a new
project to develop abstract thought.
UNL receives $65,000 grant
By Lisa Brown
Between $65,000 and $70,000 has been
granted to UNL by the federal government to be
used in a program to prepare leaders in graduate
level vocational and technical education.
The Department of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW) is financing the program under a
part of the Education Professions Development
Act (EPDA) for the first time for the fiscal year
1975.
Eight Fellows have been granted stipends
through the program to be full-time graduate
students, working on either their masters or
doctorate degrees, said Hazel Crain, UNL
vocation education coordinator and director of
the EPDA program.
The grant is made directly to the college
where it is kept in two separate business
accounts. About $28,000 is paid directly to UNL
to establish the program, purchase resources and
pay each of the Fellows' tuition and fees, Crain
said.
From a separate account, each of the Fellows
receives $4,200 for himself and an extra $500 for
each of his dependents, she said. A specific
amount is not granted by HEW to the institution
because the total depends on several variants
including the number of credit hours they
complete, she said.
Students assisted
"Students are encouraged and assisted in
designing unique individual programs taking into
account their backgrounds, competencies and
career goals," Crain said. -
Individual research and an internship are part
of the program. She said the three-month
internships offer the student an opportunity to
determine his area of specialization. Several of
the Fellows, Crain said, are interning under the
State Department of Education.
EPDA Fellows constitute about one-half of
the doctoral students in vocational education and
about one-fourth of the masters students.
The funds given to UNL for the program are
used to provide resource materials and seminars
reporting constitutional changes in vocational
education. The money also pays for bringing
speakers to UNL and sending EPDA students to
hear speakers and talk with faculty members and
students of other schools.
Others may attend
Graduate students not funded by EPDA, but
interested in the subject, may also attend the
seminars, use the resource materials and hear the
speakers brought to UNL. Crain said in this way
the department may broaden and develop its
program for the benefit of other graduate
students.
Funding for the program will end following
the 1975 summer session. Several of the students
should be finished by then, she said, and those
that haven't will complete the program on their
own. v
Students participating in the EPDA program
and working toward their doctorate degrees are:
Larry D. Bonner, C. LeRoy Michaelis, Jack C.
Reed of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Nick E. Teig.
Those working for their masters degrees are
Richard G. Campbell of Seward; Richard K.
Lake, John J. Vickery, and James W. White.
Reed, Teig and Lake applied for the funds
through the state of Iowa's proposal and attend
UNL because it has been approved for the
program by HEW.
HEW chooses which applicants will receive
money on the basis of their applications on
which they explain their personal vocational
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UNL is one of 28 institutions chosen to
receive federal funds. Other midwestern
institutions to receive money are the University
of Minnesota, the University of Missouri,
Oklahoma State University and Colorado State
University.
'The
Thursday
7:30 a.m.-Chancellor Zumberge-Nebraska Union 203
10:30 a.m.-Union Program Council-Professor McNallv
lacucs oi lerror -union Auditorium
12:30 p.m.-Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship-Union 337
5 p.m. -Council on Student Life Housing Policy
Committee-Union 203
5:15 p.m.-Fees Allocation Board-Union 216
5:30 p.m.-Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia-Union Harvest Room C
5:30 p.m.-Council of American Indian Students-Union 232
6 p.m.-Nebraska Union Board-Union 243
6 P.M.-Fees Allocation Board-Minority Concerns-Union 216
6 p.m.-Fees Allocation Board-Services-Union 225 P
6 p.m.-Fees Allocation Board-Sports and Recreation-Union
225 Q
6 p.m.-Fees Allocation Boaid-Miscellaneous-Union 225 R
7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.-"Thc Fire Within"-Sheldon Art Gallery
8 p.m.-Young Republicans "Regent SchwartzkopP-Union
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daily nebraskan
thursday, January 30, 1975