Wednesday, October 12, 1977
daily nebraskan
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UMA trustees take $2.1 million grant,
five-year plan outlines 40 new courses
University of Mid-America flJMA"
crated a $2.1 mdtom grant from the National Institute
of Education (NIE). The grant is $900,000 more than last
year's, but $500,000 less than UMA requested.
A UMA five-year plan calls for the production of 40
new multi-media courses before 1982.
According to Milan Wall, UMA marketing and infor
mation director, a V..6 million grant was built into the
five-year plan.
NIE is the major source of support for UMA, a consor
tium of nine midwestern universities that produce multi
media courses for "open learning" projects.
UMA plans to complete four courses this year, and be
gin production of six more, Wall said. UMA has been pro
ducing an average of three, to four courses a year and
currently distributes seven courses, Wall said.
The UMA five-year plan calls for NIE grants of $2.6
million in 1978 and 1979, $1.6 million in 1980, $1.5
million in 1981 and $1 million in 1982.
The $500,000 difference might be made up by smaller
grants from other institutions, he said. Requests for grants
to other institutions are pending and are being prepared,
according to Wall.
With sufficient funding, UMA plans to produce six to
eight new courses annually for the next five years, Wall
said. The consortium hopes to have 47 courses available
by 1983 and have a nationwide enrollment in UMA-
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produced courses of 225 ,000, he said.
Courses being completed this year are: Great Plains
History, History of the American Revolution, Japan: The
Changing Tradition, and a course on the metric system.
UMA also will begin production of courses in small
business management, law and society, nutrition, personal
finance, literature and agriculture, Wall said.
The UMA Board of Trustees has decided to concen
trate future course development in five areas: professional
continuing education, the humanities, business, agricul
ture and environmental and energy studies.
Annual fund drive
begins tomorrow
UNL employees will be asked to give of their hearts
and pocketbooks this week when the annual United Way
fund drive begins.
The campaign begins Thursday and runs through Fri
day, Oct. 21.
United Way, which raises money for 24 Lincoln
agencies, hopes to raise $70,000 this year, with 60 percent
of the employees contributing. Last year it raised $65,000
with 36 percent participation, said Doug Higgins, United
Way executive director.
'This goal is based on the number of employees and
"what appears to be a reasonable gift," Higgins said. He
said United Way hopes employees earning less than
$10,000 a year will contribute six-tenths of one" per
cent of their gross income and that those earning more
will give one percent.
Some of the organizations supported by United Way
are the Open Door Health Center, Personal Crisis Service,
Malone Community Center, YMCA, YWCA, and the Red
Cross, Higgins said.
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