thursday, January 29, 1976
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fer Distinguished Teaching Awards may be offered
at UNL this year because of a sponsor's request to con
sider faculty members from all three NU campuses, said
Gene Harding, director of the Teaching and Learning
Center and chairman of the UNL Teaching Council.
Teaching Council is a student-faculty member commit
tee responsible for encouragement of teaching innovations
at UNL. The council, with Adam Breckenridge, interim
chancellor and vice-chancellor for academic affairs, makes
final nominations for recipients of Distinguished Teaching
Awards, Harding said.
Three of tha five-to-six awards, originated in 1954 to
recognize excellence in teaching, are sponsored by the
Amoco Foundation. The foundation requested that
instructors from all three campuses be considered for the
award. Until this year, their grant has financed recogni
tion only at UNL.
The awards, which include a medallion and $1,000, are
presented at the spring Honors Convocation.
Although the number of Distinguished Teaching
Awards is as yet undecided, Harding said, two or three
probably will be presented.
Edward Hirsch, NU Foundation vice-president, said
two awards, financed by the foundation and the Annis
Chaikin Sorensen Awards, definitely will be given.
The Sorensen Award, recognizing excellence in human
ities teaching, was started in 1968 by the Sorensen family
to recognize Sorensen's 80th birthday, Hirsch said.
In 1966 the Amoco Foundation, than called the
Standard Oil Foundation, Inc., donated $5,000 to the uni
versity foundation, he said. Three thousand dollars was to
go toward Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Hirsch said NU will decide to which campuses the three
awards will go.
Procedures for nominating distinguished teachers vary
by college, Harding said.
"In each college, a committee screens the candidates
and sends nominees forward to the vice-chancellor of aca
demic affairs, he said. Each college has a quota of two
candidates but the Arts and Sciences College can nomi
nate four.
Colleges set up their own nominating criteria, he said.
Supporting letters from faculty members, alumni and stu
dents, and student evaluation forms are the basis for their
decisions, he said.
After each college nominates a teacher, the nomination
Police halt student summer job hiring;
campus officials' reactions are mixed
By Joe Hudson
UNL athletic and criminal justice dept. officials say
they are not bothered by Lincoln Police Chief George
Hansen's decision to stop offering summer jobs to select
athletes and law students.
But Donald Shaneyfelt, Law College assistant dean,
said students will be losing an "excellent experience" be
cause of Hansen's decision.
Since 1947, certain UNL athletes have worked along
side patrolmen during tho summer, and law students have
worked with police dept. detectives since 1969. Both
groups of students carried guns, which was one cause of
concern for Hansen, who said he did not want untrained
people on the street. The students underwent a one-day
training program, compared with the minimum seven
week course required of full-time officers by Nebraska
law.
Robert F. Holbert, vice-chairman of the criminal jus
tice dept., said his department had nothing to do with
the program, and that students received no academic
credit from the department for their work.
Some athletes who participated were criminal justice
majors, Holbert said, but only by coincidence. Two of last
summer's six participants, John Lee and Ron Pruitt, were
criminal justice students.
The criminal justice dept. offers no internships because
of under staffing, Holbert said.
"Internships need to be well-planned and thought out,
and supervised by someone from the department," Hol
bert said. Close supervision is difficult because the depart
ment has only four instructors compared with 450 crim
inal justice majors, he said .
Athletic Director Bob Devaney supported Hansen's
reasoning, and said there are "plenty of other jobs around
town" that football players can get.
Shaneyfelt said the program provided insights for -the
three or four law students participating as well as
those who did not work in the program.
"They were able to pin insights into the problems
of the police department and the practical side of crim
inal law," Shaneyfelt said. "It not only benefits them, but
also their classmates to whom they could relate their
experiences."
No similar jobs or internships are offered by the Law
College, Shaneyfelt said. ,
is forwarded to the Teaching Council. The council makes
recommendations to the vice-chancellor for academic
affairs, who then decides the award winners.
Recommendations for the 1976 Distinguished Teach
ing Awards now are being accepted. Anyone wishing to
nominate an instructor may send the nomination and
reasons for nomination to the dean of the instructor's
college.
Award winners
approve of prize
A sampling of past Distinguished Teaching Award win
ners indicated they favor continuing the awards because
of the personal boost and demonstration of what they
called UNL's concern about good teaching.
Lowell Moser, a professor of Agronomy who received
a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1974, said that since
he has received the award, he has been working harder to
keep the quality of his teaching high.
"I never expected to get it, but after I got it it has
challenged me to do the best I can," he said.
He added that he thinks the award helps improve in
struction at UNL.
"It is a tremendous moral booster because it shows
UNL is concerned about' good teaching," Moser said.
Bernice Slote, an English professor who won the Soren
sen award in 1975, said that winning the award has not
changed her teaching but has made teaching more of a
joy.
"There are many good teachers and all can't be recog
nized," she said. "It Is a boost to the teachers that get
them, and the teachers who see that people are recog
nized are happy to see that this kind of award is made."
She added that recognizing good teaching helps the
university.
"Other colleges across the country measure a univer
sity on whether it recognizes good teaching," she said.
"It also raises the university in the eyes of the teaching
profession."
Jerry Petr, an economics professor who received a Dis
tinguished Teaching Award last year, said receiving the
award has affected his teaching.
"It has caused me to want to give students a product in
the classroom showing the kind of teaching worthy of re
ceiving the award," he said.
"Distinguished Teaching Awards say something about
the university caring about the quality of teaching on
campus," he said.
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