thursday, October 23, 1975
page 6 ,
daily nebraskan
G
ommunitv education aims at citizen well-being
By Dick Kovorka
' " A process concerning itself with the
well-being of all citizens at all life stages
within a given community. That is what
Community Education is.
The initial idea behind Community Edu
cation, started in the mid 1930s, was to
"provide training skills which were not
available than," said Loren R. Bonneau,
coordinator for Community Education in
Nebraska.
"It gave people a chance for education,
recreation, and enrichment he said. "It
is designed to meet the desires and needs of
any community."
Community Education first started hi
Nebraska in 1973. York and Alliance have
started programs.
40 classes
In Alliance, about 40 classes have been
set up. These classes range from book
keeping, to psychology, cake decorating,
home maintenance, photography, cooking
for the single man, coping with children,
oil painting and hunter safety, the number
of sessions range from three or four to 15.'
In York, the "traditional class is about
one-fourth of our program, the rest is ser
vice oriented" said Community Education
director Robin Anderson. "People are
more informed about the business world, it
should help with community interaction."
Anderson said the number of classes of
fered has peaked and will remain there. Ke
said between 25-30 classes are offered at
one time.
Social services
Some of the social services being set up
include parents without partners, intra
murals after school, safety patrol, little
league basketball, p re-school education,
and alternative high school, Anderson said.
"As our programs are incorporated into
the school system or other community or
ganizations, we can start new programs,"
Bonneau said. "People call in and offer
new ideas.
"The reaction from the community has
been very good. The local businessmen
have been very cooperative," he added.
To begin. the programs, Bonneiai said
the superintendent of a school district is
contacted and then the community is. If it
is accepted, a citizens advisory council is
organized to survey the people's needs.
Run by community
"The programs are run by the commun
ity and not the directors," Bonneau said.
"My job as coordinator is to inform'
schools and communities about Commun
ity Education, help develop the programs,
and provide trained instructors."
While other education programs, such as
Communiversity and adult education
classes, are organized, programmed, and
taught by university or high school faculty,
Community Education is organized and
First for sororities
programmed by the community and their
citizens advisory board, Bonneau said
Instructors come from the business world"
teachers, students, and any one else who
has a specialty and knows enough to help
others, he said. .
Initial funding of the project came from
tne uiaries a. mou rounaanonu
Mott set up the foundation in 1926.
Since then the foundation has been a prime
force in the finance of the program nation
wide, Bonneau said. .
Nebraska's Community Education has
a $76,000 budget with $15,000 from the
Mott Foundation and the rest from the
university budget. Bonneau is included
on the university payroll.
After this year, the program will be
financed through the Legislature, he said.
Grad assistant functions
puzzling to many Greeks
M
'ode I house seeks unity
By Paul Damke
In talking with various fraternity and
sorority members in the last few weeks,
Panhellenic and Interfraternity Council
(IFC) graduate assistants have found that
there is a lack of knowledge as to what
function graduate assistants serve.
Pat McTee, one of three graduate as
sistants, said they are employed by the uni
versity on part-time basis to plan and
implement Greek programs and services
with Panhellenic and IFC coordinator Jane
Anderson.
McTee said a goal of the assistants this
year is to increase the Greek system's
awareness of services offered by the staff,
the IFC and Panhellenic.
To accomplish this, McTee and the two
other graduate assistants, toy Olson and
Pete Whitted, are contacting two houses,
one fraternity and one sorority, each week.
These contacts include speaking to
pledge classes, meeting with house and
executive boards, and eating lunch or
dinner with the chapter, he said.
Each graduate assistant has a great deal
of experience in working with fraternities
and sororities, McTee said. Together with
Panhellenic and IFC office files, assistants
can provide chapter members with new
ideas for rush and pledge programs and
fraternity education, he said.
The assistants already have worked with
several fraternities and sororities in
developing rush, pledge education and
scholarship programs. He said the graduate
assistants want to work on these programs
with more houses before the end of the
year.
Graduate assistants are open to sug
gestions or questions anyone has concern
ing the Greek system, he said.
This year, graduate assistants for Pan
hellenic and Interfraternity Council are
each handling a specific area of the Model
House Program, according to Jayne Ander
son, coordinator for Panhellenic and IFC.
The model house program, designed to
create unity within the Greek system, now
is used in six trial houses. Anderson said
this is the first year that sororities are being
used as trial houses. Before, only fraterni
ties were used.
One area in the model house program is
the Faculty Involvement Program. It is
designed to aid Greek chapter members in
ideals of sound learning, increase contacts
with faculty members and administrators
and promote public relations, said Loy
Olson, graduate assistant in charge of the
program.
Olson said with what he called the
continuous pressure of improving and up
grading the scholastic averages of Greek
chapters, hosting faculty members and
administrators as guest speakers could help
increase the awareness of sound learning.
Also, since jobs are harder to find, a
Greek student acquainted with faculty and
administrators probably can receive a
worthwhile recommendation, Olson said.
Pete Whitted, graduate assistant, is in
charge of another model house area, the
Career Development and Planning Pro
gram. He said his area's purpose is to
modify existing house programs and aid
in the development of new ones.
Career possibilities
Whitted said investigating career possi
bilities is a prime college concern, but has
been ignored by UNL fraternities. He said
the goals of his area are to inform members
of career opportunities, aid them in map
ping a schedule to effectively pursue their
career and assist fraternal members in
making contacts that can help them fulfill
career ambitions.
The Alumni Relations Program, another
area, is designed to assist chapters in estab
lishing an effective basis for chapter opera-'
tions, said Pat McTee, graduate assistant
in charge of this program, The alumni are
concerned with a wide variety or activities,
ranging from house ownership to making
rush recommendations necessary for the
continued existence of the chapter, he said.
CSL agenda
The Council on Student
life (CSL) will meet tonight
at 7 in the Nebraska Union
Pewter Room. The first 30
minutes of the meeting will
be available for students or
faculty to present items of
concern to CSL. The busi
ness meeting will begin at
7:30 pjn., or earlier if no
special items are presented.
1, Approval of mfnutw of Oct.
9. 1378
2, Diicufslon on th Athietie
Dept.
3, Procedure for sppU
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