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Thursday, March 10, 1983
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By Tish Mocklcr
The Teachers College is considering
setting up a hot line next fall for graduates
of the college. If a teacher in Scottsbluff
or Columbus needs some advice on a
problem, he will be assured of having
someone to discuss it with, said Ronald
Joekel, assistant dean of the Teachers
College.
Teachers could call the hot line as soon
as a problem arises and get advice from a
Teachers College faculty member or
administrator.
Joekel said first-year teachers frequently
feel threatened about talking to their
administrators about teaching problems
because they think they will be admitting
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a weakness. Teachers would not have to
feel threatened if they could talk to their
former administrators, he said.
The college is working on another
program to let new teachers "know we
haven't forgotten them," Joekel said.
Under this program UNL faculty
would be assigned to visit new teachers
across Nebraska on UNL in-service days.
The visit would allow new teachers the
chance to talk over their problems.
Currently, visits by teachers to former
students are done to a certain extent on
an informal basis, Joekel said.
One method the Teachers College has
for determining what the concerns of new
teachers are is a follow-up study it has
conducted annually since 1972. All the
new graduates and their employers are
asked to answer a questionnaire concerning
how the graduates are doing on the job,
what program revisions are needed, what
the teachers' strengths are and what areas
need support.
The college added a program about
mainst reaming handicapped children when
the follow-up study showed the need for it
it. In 1975, Public Law 84142 - a federal
regulation - was passed, mandating that
the handicapped be put in the "least
restrictive environment." After UNL's
mainst reaming program began,
improvements were reflected in the
follow-up study, said Marg Kluender.
coordinator of grants development in the
Teachers College.
The follow-up study also asked teachers
whether they believed UNL taught the
importance of relating to parents, teachers
and administrators.
Kluender said the dean's office, which
follows up on Teacher College graduates,
is considering starting a pilot study next
fall primarily for first-year teachers. The
study would provide detailed information
about what issues interest teachers at
different stages in their teaching.
If the department implements the pilot
study, it will begin to line up volunteers
this spring. The first-year teachers will be
given a tape on which to record each day's
higlilights, and they will send it back to
the university at the end of each week,
Kluender said.
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By Jann Nyffclcr
"We're making sure we don't forget
again," said Jane Hood, who gave a lecture
Tuesday on Nebraska suffragist Doris
Stevens in conjunction with Women's
History Week.
I lood, a senior program officer with
the Illinois Humanities Council, received
her doctorate from UNL in 1977.
Her lecture on Stevens, a Nebraska
women's rights advocate, international
feminist and co-founder of the National
Woman's Party, stressed Stevens'
achievements, which many Nebraskans
are not aware of.
Stevens was born in Nebraska in 1888
and graduated from Omaha (now Central)
High School. She then studied music at
Oberlin College in Ohio, where she was
first introduced to the women's suffrage
movement, Hood said.
Stevens, along with international
feminist Alice Paul, founded the National
Women's Party, which was opposed to
restrictions placed on both sexes. They
also stressed confrontational, non-violent
action to get governmental support.
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In 1917, members of the group picketed
in front of the White House as part of their
effort to free American women. They
were arrested for obstructing traffic.
l.ven at that time, Stevens saw the
Lqual Rights Amendment as
"economically essential for American
women," Hood said.
In the 1930s, Stevens and the NWP
advocated international women's rights
and warned women about fascism. Hood
said the NWP reached its greatest triumph
in Latin America, with the advent of the
Inter-American Commission of Women.
This commission supported two treaties:
an international equal rights treaty and a
national equality treaty. One of the major
provisions of the latter was that women
would not lose their citizenship if they
married a foreigner.
Stevens was active in tire women's
movement and the NWP until the mid-
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'40s. She broke away from the party
"because she was on the losing side of
an internal power struggle," Hood said.
Besides writing a number of articles,
published in various journals and a book,
"Jail for Freedom," Stevens also was a
composer.
'Tier songs illustrate her commitment
to equality and achievement," Hood said.
During the lecture. Hood reiterated the
purpose of Women's History Week:
"We (women) can't afford to lose our
history. It's so essential to understand and
preserve it. Without awareness, people's
assumptions tend to be effected by myths
- malign or benign myths."
The lecture was sponsored by UNL's
history department, the Nebraska State
Historical Society and Lincoln City Librar
ies and funded by the Nebraska Committee
for the Humanities. Hood spoke at Bennett
Martin Public Library.
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"The scholarship program has never
been funded " Cullan said. "This would
put meaningful revenues in the program."
The money for the program would be
taken out of the general fund for the
period of July 1, 1983, to June 30, 1984.
The funds would go to the Nebraska
Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education for distribution.
Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly tried
unsuccessfully to get the bill killed in
committee. Warner said LB126 does not
specifically commit funds to the program.
Warner introduced LB126A
appropriating $2,125 million to carry out
the provisions of LB1 26.
Cullan said he had "mixed feelings"
about LB126A.
"If Sen. Warner is serious about giving
it (LB1 26) support, then I would support
him," Cullan said. "But if the only purpose
of the A bill is to delay passage (of
LB 126), then I couldn't support it."
William Swanson, UNL vice president of
governmental relations, said the university
supports LB126.
Swanson said Warner Tuesday
introduced an amendment to LB126A that
reduced funding to Si ,000. The funds
would be used by the postsecondary
commission to write the rules and
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"In other words, there is no actual
funding for the work-study program this
year," Swanson said. "However, it may
be available in subsequent years."
"We are always concerned with
cutbacks in federal funding," he said.
"We support any additional funding. . .at
the state level."
Douglas Severs, assistant dhector of
scholarships and Financial Aids, said that
from his understanding of the bill, its
implementation would closely resemble
that of the federal college work-study
program.
"I think you'd see the same kind of
requirements," Severs said. "We'd have to
go out and generate more work-study
possibilities and slot students in them."
Severs said he believed his office would
make the program part of the general
application for financial aid with the
normal deadlines.
"It depends on if the program would
use the same need-analysis we use now,"
Severs said. "If so, then the program would
integrate right into our system. Otherwise,
we would have to re-tool our
applicaton. . .and awarding process."
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problem at all," Severs said.
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