13 Juna 1977
Pci Thrca
Summer students
much dilicient
isr academic sevens at UNL is tr.s percent? cl .
222te studtnts, according to Alia Seagren, director of .
The most noticabla difference between tha Simmer
Session student population and students attending the
' Records from the 1976 Summer Session show that 37
per cent of tha students atisr.dlrg XLZL were craduiia
students. Ordy 11 per csr.t of the stud sat body wera
graduate students during the 1976-77 academic year.
Most of tha 'graduate incrcasa is accounted for in the
Teachers College, Setgrea said, as professional teachers
and administrators take advantage of summer vacation
; to attend diss at UNI . ; ' ', 1
: Ztzyta predicted that the total enrollment for tha
1977 Sassier Session would be about the same as last
.year's. ; ' .
. The record year- for summer enrollment at UNL was '
' 1975, whea 14,472 students attended summer classes, la
1976 the cnrcJliint total drop psd to 14,037.. ;
'Apart from the increased percentage of graduate ,
students, the student population during Summer Session,
is sitrflar to that of tfea regular academic year. .Ia fact,-.,
most of the undergraduate students attending summer
- school haw just finished the Spring, 1977 semester. .
"Of the undergraduate "students attending summer
session, 83 per cent have been enrolled as regular
students during the second session, of the previous
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academic year," Seamen said.
Many of these students are trying to complete
Cystica recrements, Sesgrsn ssil Other reasons for
enrcBlf ia summer sessiers are to tcce'erata p:o::s
and to be able to take clssssi outside the students'
professional studies.
"There are a few students that are remedial," :trta
add that are mshhg up foiled courses. Then is also a
Hash cf fisihrra students that are tshirg summer
course ii:t after paduatica fccra Mi school.
. Cut basically the same students and instructors are ca
cirrus curing 'tr;a rammer u;ai are r.sre curing ma
rtriir school year, according to Scagrea.
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: -ru3 area nstioa people, just as separate and different
.as the- Eurcen nations" -he insisted. T,'e don't trace .
cur roots throui the fsmily for identity. Indians have
security of knowing they are a part of a tribe.-
"Non-Indians don't have.-a grasp ' of ' a .people
numbering into .the thousands that view themselves as a '
nation. That nation exists for thousands of, years
without a formal constitution."
Robbfes. attributes his own. success to his background"
.in such an'-' autonomous, self-governing Indian
community.." ." -
He was raised in Tahlequaha, Okla., the former
capital of the Cherokee nation in the Oklahoma Indian
Territory.
Tahlequaha was relatively prosperous by Indian
standards, Robbins said, and ur.like the reservations
further north, was free of the degrading BIA influence. v
"My environment was all Indian so I had a sense of
security," he said. "A lot of successful people came from
that environment." v
. 'I must have had some fairly unique teachers. I never
felt put down or not encouraged to continue. Ceing the
recipient of knowledge was something I enjoyed."
After graduating from Northeastern State College, an
Indian college in Tahlequaha, Robbins left to see the
world. From 1966 until he moved to Nebraska in 1968
Robbins worked for the McDonnell Douglas Corp. in the
Los Angeles area in human relations.'
Robbins explained that this was the middle of the
Lyndon Johnson adrninistration and his Great Society
life mvoi
Smith is senior fellow ..
Carbara Ul$i Smith, XML a::cc!x.t3 pressor cf
pdltlcd .sd:nce, his b::a tppchtsd S:icr Felloe cf
fee Centeimisl Education Prciaa. ,
Mrs. r.:th hai beea servif.g u a Fv-w ia the
prcfcrsm.' Ft!loi are teachers from other de;stser.U
IthLi fee Uriverty ho work Ith t.i t--d:r.ta btha
CentenniiJ prcrsm for two-ytir pedsdi. C:rdcr Fe'dow
is the cquifdent f chairman cfihe pics.
Mrs.- Sssith succeeds Dr. Cesa IIardir, fizz to
' return to full-tima teaching at tha UiL Sciool of
ed to teaching
program. McDonnell Douas hired 'large numbers f
low-mcome and minority people, and Robbins worked
as a liaison between the company and those employees.
It was also the aftermath, of the Watts riots in Los
Angeles and Robbins volunteered to work ia tha East
Los Angeles Mexicaa community and the black
community in Watts as a teacher to help stabilize tha
community.' '
His experience ia those communities hooked Robbins
on teaching. . .
"I reflected on .the conditions I had seen and tha
situation the kids were, in," he said. "When I started
seeing what a tremendous challenge teaching was, I had
to doit."
Robbins said he now expects to be a teacher the rest
of his life, but not in Nebraska.
"Nebraska isn't home. Neither was California," he
said. Robbins' future plans are indefinite, but he expects
eventually to return to Tahlequaha.
Special Issue
This Special Issue of the Summer Nebraskan is being
published on Monday so it can be read on the first day
of classes of the First Summer Session.
Subsequent issues will be published on Thursdays, tha
next being June 23.
The Summer Nebraskan will be published for a total
of eight weeks, the last issue on Thursday, August 4.
