Wednesday, cugust24, 1977
daily nebraskan
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Predictions made of 1 9 80 youth
By Rex Henderson
As the children of the post-World Var II baby boom
pass into adulthood, a new generation of youth is enter
ing the colleges and universities.
Dr. Robert Egbert, dean of the UNL Teacher's College,
is looking at the problems and changes this new group
of college students will present to society.
Egbert is completing a survey of literature on the pr
blems and attitudes of this generation and looking toward
further study of the subject.
Population studies show that college-age youths are
declining as a percentage of the population, according to
Mary Kluender, a graduate student assisting Egbert in the
study.
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Egbert's study is looking at "the possibility that as you
change the relationship of the number of youths to popu
lation they may view themselves and society differently "
Kluender said.
Youth culture
The post-war baby boom produced a dramatic rise in
the number of college age youths as a percentage of the
total U.S. population in the lu 6Qs and fueled what was
known as the "youth culture," she said.
That youth culture produced some sudden changes in
society's attitudes towards youth, ana youth attitudes
toward society, she said.
Forum gets
largest of
five grants
The Nebraska Forum on
Human Values, a project of
UNL's Division of Continu
ing Studies, has been award
ed the largest of five grants
by the Nebraska Committee
for the Humanities.
The $36,323 grant could
be increased $5,000 by the
National Endowment for
"the Humanities, according
to project director Orvid
Owens.
The forum, which pro
vides speakers to adult, non
profit organizations through
out the state, could receive
the additional $5,000 if the
state committee for the
humanities can match the
$5,000 with its own money.
The speakers provided
are all faculty members of
Nebraska colleges and uni
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philosophy, literature,
ethicss social sciences, eco
nomics and other fields of
the humanities and are paid
with the funds provided by
the Humanities Committee,
From September 1977 to
June " 1978, the Nebraska
Forum , which began in
1975 as the American Is
sues Forum, will offer 21
topics and 21 different pro
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Members of the Nebraska
Committee for the Human
ities, which provided the
funding for the forum from
UNL include Raymond
. Haagh and Elmer MSler.
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She noted the Viet Nam war protests, student rebel
lions on college campuses and changing regulations gov
erning student life as the result of the youth culture.
Kluender and Egbert are looking at the psychological
and sociological changes the declining number of college
students will produce.
"'s study hopes to predict what kinds of students will
be in universities during tho 1980s, according to Kluender.
Individualism predicted
The college students of the 1960's were very group
oriented, Kluender said. The students of the future may
be more individualistic because they grew up in smaller
families. - - 1
The study also is looking at the changes in the military,
businesses and schools necessary to deal with the new
generation of students.
"During the 1960's administrators had to look at
students differently than before but I don't see a new
.crisis emerging," she said.
The impetus for Egbert's study came from a report by
a national panel on major educational issues in 1973,
chaired by Dr. James Coleman, a University of Chicago
education professor, Kluender said. , '
Kluender said Egbert's literature s survey will be
complete in September,
The present study is being funded by a $9,944 grant
fmn the U.S. Office of Education.
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