Wednesday, december 9, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 9
Faculty Senate accepts officer selection changes
A draft proposing certain changes in the
UNL by-laws concerning selection of senior
administrative officers was accepted with
reservations by the UNL Faculty Senate
Tuesday afternoon.
The changes faculty senate president
James O'Hanlon and Executive Vice Pre
sident for Academic Affairs Steven Sam
ple propose in the draft deal with faculty
involvement in interviewing candidates,
and the search committee's ability to sub
mit a list of recommended candidates for
senior officer positions.
Objections to the draft were raised by
faculty senator Robert Narveson because
of wording in the draft. Narveson said re
ferring to the committee as an advisory
committee rather than a search committee
depreciates the role of the committee it
self. "To single out a committee function
that the faculty regards as more crucial
than nearly any other, and explicity to
label that committee function as advisory,
appears to many faculty as gratuitously th
reatening and insulting," Narveson said.
The draft is also unclear as to what role
the committee's list of recommendations
will play in the selection of officers, Narve
son said.
"The document is completely silent
concerning the use that the selecting offi
cer is to make of this list. Presumably if he
or she so chooses, the selecting officer may
light a fire with it. And as I understand it,
the chancellor at the medical school wants
that option, insists on it, and is being acc
ommodated," Narveson said.
The Board of Regents will vote on the
draft and a proposed investigation into
differences in the Health Insurance pay
ments between UNL and UNO.
Reports on the measures taken to meet
the 3 percent budget reductions were given
by John Strong, vice chancellor for Acad
emic Affairs and Howard Ottoson, Interim
Vice Chancellor of Agriculture and Natural
Resources.
The University was faced with the task
of reducing SI.6 million from the
budget, Strong said. When first faced with
the cuts, Strong said, the office was hope
ful that the various colleges would not be
cut.
The problem with that strategy, he said,
is that certain programs such as library aqu
isitions and the Research Council would be
hard hit. Chancellor Massengale decided
that those areas had suffered enough from
past cuts, Strong said, and they should not
be cut again.
Strong said the chancellors from the var
ious colleges pieced together the additional
tuition revenue, generated this semester,
and investment income. The total from
these resources came to $780,000, which
paid for half of the $1.6 million budget cut,
Strong said.
The largest budget cut was taken by the
Academic Affairs office, which has
reduced it's budget by $550,000, Strong
said. Other cuts Strong mentioned were
the office of Student Affairs, which cut it's
budget by $35,000, and the Research and
Graduate Studies offices, which took a
$15,000 cut.
"Quite frankly not all units were equal
ly able to take the 3 percent cut." Strong
said.
Overall, Strong said, everybody at the
University has played a part in the cuts.
There has been no one facet of the Univer
sity that has been excluded from the cuts,
he said.
Strong said estimates for next semes
ter's tuition revenue have been conserv
ative. Should there be more tuition reve
nue generated than expected there may be
a reassessment on budget cuts for those
colleges especially hard hit, Strong said.
The office of Agriculture and Natural
Resources is in a worse position than other
UNL offices, vice chancellor Ottoson said.
The main reason the office is having more
difficulty meeting the cuts is the office
does not benefit from additional tuition
revenue, he said.
In order to meet budget cuts, the office
has had to put a freeze on hiring and has
cut extension personnel travel, Ottoson
said.
With careful management, Ottoson
said, the office hopes to balance the books
by July 1.
The unit facing the most cuts is the Un
iversity's Cooperative Extension Service,
Ottoson said. Because of the cuts the off
ice has had to close down some county
extension jobs, he said.
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