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Ifaiough interest is generated by i random sampling
of UNL students, a program could be instituted at UNL
to help students while in college and increase their
chances of getting a job.
The survey, conducted by John Baler, UNL's Acting
Dean of Student Development and Robert Drown, UNL
psychology professor, has been sent to. 1,400 randomly
selected students. The survey's intention is to find out
students' pinions on a Personal Development Record to
be attached to their grade transcript upon graduation.
The development record would include such things as
evidence of personal growth, interpersonal skills, leader
ship skills and cultural awareness.
"Very few people know just what employers ask for in
references. "What they ask for is basically what we will be
giving them in a transcript such as this," Baier said.
"If we are able to provide information such as this it
might, in the long run, bias employers to University of
Nebraska graduates, and it may even force a trend that
will force other institutions to follow a similar program."
he said.
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Besides the transcript, the questionnaire also asks if
students would be interested in a persons! development
advising program where students would have individual
contact with a student affairs administrator, staff member
or other interested university faculty members.
The survey tries to find out if students would be in
favor cf such a program and then attempts to establish a
popular form by suggesting possibilities.
"My own personal bias for the form of the program to
take, if there is enough interest, would be for each stu
dent to be randomly matched with a member of the staff
and be required to meet with h? a at least once. After the
first meeting, it would be up to the two people involved
to decide on further meetings, if any were desired," Baier
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Generally, he said there would be one meeting per
semester plus any other meetings individual students
desired.
- "This would be a chance for students to hive someone
on campus that would care for him and be available to
talk to him,"-he said.
. "This system would be very flexible, as we would
emphasize different things to different students. We don't
want a person to major in activities, but we think- that
there is more to the college experience than whether
someone receives an A in Chemistry," he said.
If the survey reaction is positive, the program would be
instituted this fall on a trial basis.
"Since the program would be totally volunteer, it
would add no extra cost and the time involved for the
individual staffer would be no greater than three to four
hours per week." .
"Of course it would have to be institutionalized into
the system so that staffers would give the time needed to
it and that is the purpose of trial and error, to see if it will
work," he said.
'The important thing is that we get the highest per
centage of surveys back, because of the small sample
size," he said.
The system should' not be instituted if it is not wanted,
so he said he hopes both those who favor the program and
those who do not favor the program reply.
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By Dawn Baxter . .
Flans to initiate an active Student
Advisory Panel to the Teaching and Learn
ing Center have been dropped in favor of
letting the newly elected ASUN work for
undergraduate education improvement.
UNL senior Don Wesely, one of those
who started the idea of such a panel, said
he thinks last year's ASUN didn't "give a
damn about the quality of education at
UNL"
He said he tried to make last yearV
ASUN aware of the problems with under
graduate education, but got nowhere.
"Since ASUN didn't care, a group of
students and myself decided to form a
panel outside of student government first
semester. We talked to Gene Harding,
director of the Teaching and Learning Cen
ter, and we set up a panel," Wesely said.
However, Wesely said, when the stu
dents came back to school .after Christmas
break, it was difficult to pick up on ideas.
"I decided that I'd spent my time work
ing for better education in the long run. I
thought ASUN president Greg Johnson and
the SUN party would work for improve
ment of education and I supported them,"
Wesely said.
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Harding said students talked to him
about forming - a panel and he said he
thought it was a good idea.
"There's never been any special hold-up
in getting it active. I guess the students
were just too busy for it," Harding said.
Ken Havclka, another student on the
panel, said it was started to give students
' input on educational topics and ways that
education could be improved.
"We were an advisory group, rather
than an action group. ASUN should have
been doing the action," Havelka said.
He added that after talking to Harding,
he did not think there was a lot the panel
could do.
Too busy
"The intentions were good, but we were
all very active in other things and didn't
have enough time, Havelka said.
Because of his desire for improved -education,
Havelka said, he supported Johnson
in his campaign for the ASUN presidency.
Johnson said he has several plans for
improving the educational quality at UNL.
There are plans for a university-wide
evaluation of teachers done completely by
students, -
Presently, the only teacher evaluations
given to students are those distributed by
the individual departments.
According to Johnson, constructive
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with representatives from each advisory
board every other week to get ASUN
coordinated with each department.
He said he wants to lend support to
unconventional educational programs such
as ADAPT, Centennial and University
Studies.
The university must realize that it
could provide educational alternatives to
the regular class schedule," Johnson said.
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