Social work school's improved evaluation foreseen
By Rex Henderson
The NU School of Social Work apparently will get an
improved evaluation from the Council on Social Work
Education in December.
During a 1975 evaluation the school in Omaha was
warned that it needed improvement in nearly all areas of
evaluation, including faculty-student ratio, funding, ad
ministration, student involvement in the community and
access to a library, said Hoburt Burch, director of the
school.
Burch said this year's evaluation team indicated that
the school would get an "adequate but minimal' rating.
Financing for the school was minimal, according to
the evaluation team. They said it appeared this was true
for the entire university.
The evaluation team said the school is "being treated
better than average, but still not good enough," according
to Burch.
Increased finances
Financing for the school has increased from $254,000
to $313,000 annually since the 1975 evaluation. Anew
permanent faculty position also has been added during
the past two years.
Burch said one of the keys to the improved evaluation
was the closing of the School of Social Work on the
Lincoln campus.
In i975, the students and faculty were spread over
both Omaha and Lincoln campuses.
"I'm sorry we are not still operating in Lincoln, but
if we were we would have had the doors closed," Burch
said. - .
The evaluation team gave a "strong bill of health" to
the undergraduate program and said the graduate program
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exceeds standards in the amount of work required of
students, he said.
The 1975 evaluation criticized the school for failing to
involve students with Omaha social work agencies. There
has since been a "180 degree reversal" in. that area,
Burch said.
Criticisms corrected
Criticisms of poor administrative organization in 1975
and conflict between the School of Social Work admini
stration and NU administrators also have been corrected,
Burch said.
The evaluation team found the administrative relation
ships to be cumbersome but functional this year, he said.
The December evaluation probably will criticize the
school's library and office space since the school faculty
office space still is crowded.
Moving the school from Lincoln to Omaha caused the
library problems, Burch said. He said he is committed to
trying to move the social work books from Love Library
in Lincoln to Omaha.
Burch said enrollment at the School of Social Work is ,
at the maximum.
Enrollment at the school peaked in 1973 when the
school operated on both campuses, Enrollment then was
at 170 students. This year the school has 115 students.
Burch said the enrollment in schools of social work
have dropped nationwide, but that NU's drop was caused
by closing of the Lincoln school, not declining
applications.
Parking advisory group gives proposals go-ahead
By Rod Murphy
A new parking permit refund system, a pledge to apply
all parking fine money to lot maintenance and some re
shuffling of parking areas on east and city campuses were
among recommendations passed by the parking advisory
board Monday.
All recommendations will be sent to Chancellor Roy
Young, according to parking coordinator John Duve.
Duve said the chancellor probably will approve the
recommendations the board presented,
The new refund schedule would provide a prorated
system of refunds from the effective date of the permit.
For those with annual $35 permits, the refund rate
would be $30-if returned within the first 10 days $25
after 10 days, $20 after one month, $15 after two
months, $10 after three months and $5 after four months.
For semester $20 permits, a refund of $15 would be
allowed within the first 10 days, $10 after 10 days, $5
after one month.
Refunds granted
-For those buying $15 summer permits, a refund of
$10 will be granted within the first 10 days, and $5 after
10 days. ,
The board said no refunds would be allowed for
monthly, weekly or daily permits.
This policy differs from the old refund schedule which
allowed no refunds after the first 20 days.
A new policy was needed for those who leave the
university, Duve said,
In another motion, the board passed a recommenda
tion that all money collected from fines be applied only
to parking lot improvements.
Formerly, some money collected from fines was used
for other purposes, including maintenance supplies.
Visitor parking
The board also decided to allow Duve to transfer some'
parking spaces around the residence halls from area 19
(staff parking) designation to a one-hour loading area.
However, Duve said he was not sure how many spaces
would be transferred.
Duve said eventually using parking meters would be
best, but the money is not in the budget for them now,
Duve said these changes will not affect those parking
in the residence hall lots. The change will provide for
some visitor parking and loading areas where staff parking
is not needed.
"City campus hasn't had the luxury to meet visitor
parking needs, we have been more concerned with those
who live in the residence halls," Duve said.
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With some of the staff parking not being used in these
areas, some visitor and loading space could be provided,
he said.
The board also endorsed some shifts of parking areas
on East Campus.
They include moving "staff parking from the East
Campus loop area to lots 36, west of the Dental College.
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Staff parking lots
Visitor parking will be on the east campus mall where
staff members now, are parking. The staff parking will be
in the agriculture engineering lot 31 , Duve said.
,, The board's action may not take effect until Nov." 1st
or as late as the 15th, he said. Persons affected by the
changes will be notified prior to the change, he said.
Also, warning tickets will be issued to violators for a
period of time directly following the change, he said.
In other action Monday, the board chose a chairman, :
Terry Tallbn and a vice chairman, Cliff Hollestelle.
Duve asked the board to allow hint to hire a full-time
person to be in charge of customer affairs. He said he was
seeking the endorsement of the board on this matter
because better staff and customer relations were needed.
The matter will be on the agenda for next month's meet
ing. Duve blamed current customer relations problems
on staff limitations.
Bert Evans, associate economics professor, spoke to
the board during the open hearing section of the meeting,
lie expressed his dissatisfaction with parking service in
general and the staff in particular. ,
During the last three years, he said he has experienced
"shabby, short, unpolite treatment" from the counter
help at the campus security offices, he said.
Duve said these kinds of problems are caused by
work-study people helping in the office.
. ''Outside of four full-time people, the rest of the
staff is in and out, maybe working just two hours a day.
A customer relations staff member could help address
these problems,' Duve said.
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UNL parking and traffic coordinator John Duve
points out some of the proposed changes in parking
policy. The final say on the proposals rests with
Chancellor Roy Young.
Resident rate granted to Vietnamese,
program will affect 40 UNL students
UNL Vietnamese students will qualify for resident
tuition rates as a result of Congressional approval of a bill
to extend special programs to benefit Indo-Chinese
refugees.
The Senate-amended bill was approved by the House of
Representatives Tuesday and will be sent to President
Carter for his signature, according to a spokesman from
First District Congressman Charles Thone's office.
The bill will grant permanent residence to any Viet
namese, Laotian or Cambodian refugee who has lived in
the United States for two years. It also will provide
money for the establishment of special training programs
for the refugees, the spokesman said.
Deb Knight, of the UNL Financial Aids office, said the
bill will affect about 40 Vietnamese students at UNL.
Nearly all those students are paying non-resident tuition
because they do not have permanent United States resi
dence status, she said.
Most of the students now receive financial aid, Knight
said. However, UNL offers no special financial aid pro-
yam for Vietnamese students.
She said she knew of no Laotian or Cambodian
students attending the university.
Many Vietnamese students were promised permanent
residency.
During the largest influx of Vietnamese refugees in
1975, the government agreed to give the refugees per
manent United States residence status, Knight said.
However, the permanent residence status was granted
on a quota basis and Knight said she did not know of
any Vietnamese students in Nebraska that were included
in the quota.
Many of the Vietnamese students at UNL expected to
pay non-resident tuition for two years only and have
begun paying their third year at non-resident rates, said
Knight. "
Knight said she did not know whether the bill would
mean that students would be reimbursed for the extra
tuition they pai I this year or whether their resident tui
tion rates would begin next semester.
