monday, September 19, 1977
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daily nebraskan
CBA classes limit students to keep accreditation
By Janet Uiteras
Foui hundred UNL students were
turned away from freshman accounting
classes this fall. And to maintain its accre
ditation the College of Business Adminis-'
tration may be forced to curtail enroll
ment further;
Art Kraft, CBA acting associate dean,
said the college is short of fulltime faculty
members. The shortage comes at a time
when CBA is involved in a study to reeva
luate its accreditation.
Every five years CBA must make a
self-study and submit its findings to the
American Assembly of Collegiate Schools
of Business (AACSB). AACSB is an accre
diting agency that maintains education
standards.
AACSB evalutes the curriculum, the
balance between research and time spent
teaching, and the ratio of fulltime qua
lified teachers and students.
"Accreditation is very important to us,"
Kraft said. It insures the student that he
or she will get moderate sized classes,
qualified teachers and guarantees transfer
of credits to other accredited business
colleges for graduate students.
Too few teachers
The demand for business courses
exceeds the supply of teachers, and the
college has suffered for it, Kraft said.
"Well be able to pass accreditation but
well just satisfy the standards," Kraft
said. Unfortunately, in order for CBA to
meet AACSB standards, it must turn away
students, he said.
"We're not going to grow unless we get
additional faculty support," he said. If
teachers cannot be hired, the only other
alternative is to curtail enrollment even
more.
x "We have got to have more faculty,"
Kraft said, but that costs money. In order
to meet the student demand for classes
CBA would need at least 15 more
teachers, he explained, which would re
quire $300,000 to $400,000.
"Where's the money going to come
from?" he aske.d. Even if there was a re
allocation of funds to expand the program,
Kraft said he was not sure the teachers
could be found.
Better conditions elsewhere
Many teachers are offered more money
and better working conditions elsewhere,
he said.
Kraft explained that business faculty
salaries are higher than other colleges on
the campus, but are lower when compared
nationwide.
Kraft said the shortage of faculty will
Towing of cars cut in half
About half as many cars were towed
Saturday during the Nebraska-Alabama
game as were towed during the Washington
State game, police reported,
. The Lincoln Police Dept. towed 31
cars and Campus Police six, Saturday,
This compares with 57 towed during the
first home game, according to Lt. John
Hewitt, Lincoln Police Dept.
The number of cars towed is "down a
little bit from last year at this time,"
Hewitt said, "If people keep cooperating
on game days we'll have fewer problems,"
Hewitt urged people to use the Fair
Grounds parking lots and ride the free
buses to the stadium to avoid a towing
chan
Owners of towed cars pay a $15 towing
fee plus a $1 parking ticket, he said.
The cars towed first are those inter
fering with traffic, Hewitt said. Cars parked
on city right of way are removed next,
he said.
All cars towed are taken to a lot on
17th and Y'St.
The police also use a helicopter to help
with theft, parking and traffic problems,
Hewitt said.
The police in the air watch for poten
tial auto theft in the various parking lots.
The helicopter also can spot parking
and traffic problems quickly and help
officers on the ground solve these,
problems, he said.
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make it more difficult to get into the CBA.
. , The college may have to refuse to
accept transfer students, and may even
be forced to raise the cumulative grade
minimum to 2.6 or 2.7. he said.
"The situation is going to get worse"
he said. Performance will rule who gets
into the college. What will eventually
happen is students will go elsewhere or
change majors, he said. (
Hands tied
' "Without additional resources our hands
' are tied. Education is getting better and
better, he said, "but the college won't '
be getting larger, we're getting smaller."
Five years ago AACSB "slapped us on
the wrist and warned us we were headed
for trouble, Kraft said. "They said there
were too many students and not enough
faculty.
4$ a result of that report, Kraft said,
the CBA "put a tremendous clamp on en
rollment.' CBA now requires each of its
students to maintain a 2.5 cumulative
index or face being dropped from the
college. Courses were dropped because too
many part time help and graduate students
were teaching.
An accreditation team consisting of two
deans, faculty members and one outside
business person will read the accreditation
study now being prepared under. Kraft's
direction. The team will come to look at
the college itself in the spring or 1979.
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