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Industry is not hiring all of these
people, so the university has opportunities
lo hire them, Treves said.
In the speech communication
department, course demand has increased
15 percent from five years ago, but
"deadly mid-year budget cuts" have caused
interim chairman James Klunipp 1o
estimate that 700 students will have to he
turned away from classes next fall.
Projected figures show that by general
registration time, all sections will be closed
and students will be able to get into a
class onJy if someone drops it.
The department has never had such a
dramatic cut in the number of sections
offered, KJumpp said. Tlurteen sections
will be cut altogether, and classes will
be expanded where possible.
"I worry that people won't believe me
when i show them the cold hard numbers,"
he said.
A growing number of employers are
placing more value on communication
skills and course demand is up. The real
problem, KJumpp said, is that any time
students are turned away, the total number
of students needing classes the next
semester increases proportionately.
"We're one of those departments that
was in trouble before any of this year's
budget cuts came in; we're still reeling
from the last ones," Klumpp said.
Many speech classes can not be taught
to a large number of students and still
be effective, he said. So, in order to
preserve the quality of the courses, the
number of students admitted had to be cut
when sections were eliminated.
h)vv salaries also result from budget
cuts. In the past two years, three "key"
faculty members from the department
have gone to other universities, where
they were offered S3 ,000 to $8000
more than they were paid by UNL,
KJumpp said. Faculty "raiding" between
universities is becoming common, he
said.
The anthropology department always
has taught large introductory classes, but
budget cuts have made the task
increasingly difficult, chairman Peter
Bleed said.
The cuts affect teaching assistants'
salaries, equipment funds and the type
of collections the department can fund,
he said.
Although more students can be put
into lecture sections when other sections
3re cut, it is hard to communicate
with large numbers of students, Bleed
said. This is especially true because the
number of teaching assistants in the
department lias fallen from eight to two
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in the last six years, and recitation sections
have been eliminated, Jie said.
There are cycles in education funding.
Bleed said. Now, funding for liberal arts
is in a "down cycle."
"The piesence of these cuts creates
a negative feeling on campus, and the
uncertainty of next year's budget also
contributes to negative feeling," Bleed
said.
The department has tried some
innovative, streamlining programs to save
money, he said. Using visual aids for
teaching large classes and combining
classes lias been successful. The
university is still good and a lot of basic
optimism is still around, Bleed said.
The chairperson of the political science
department, Susan Welch, said Nebraska
has a relatively small state budget and a
large part of that budget goes to NU.
Welch said the university "presents an
attractive target" for legislative budget
cuts simply because of its size.
Recent studies show that many
Nebraskans do value the university, but
"it is difficult to translate those general
attitudes into public policy," she said.
"There is no question that in
Nebraska, the public is fiscally conservative
and the Legislature is just not willing to
take any sort of leadership," she said.
In particular, Welch said , the
university's College of Arts and Sciences
budget is vulnerable to cuts because it
does not have as strong a polical strength
as the agriculture, business or engineering
colleges do. However, she said probably
no part of the university is adequately
funded.
The College of Arts and Sciences is
not affiliated with national accreditation
agencies, such as the business or law
colleges are. Because it is not, Arts and
Sciences cannot use the threat of losing
accreditation to avoid budget cuts, Welch
said.
Determining the state budget is a
"top-down process" that results in the
university's essentially having to take
what it gets, she said. Once a budget is
decided, any mid-year cuts usually can
come out only of teaching assistant
salaries or the operating budgets, Welch
said.
The last cuts forced the political
science department to set a $50 per year
limit on photocopying and phone bills
for faculty members and to reduce the
graduate teaching assistant budget, which
created a problem of increased workload,
she said.
"We require students to write quite a
bit in our classes, and it's difficult to .
grade all the assignments," Welch said.
"We're doing our best to accommodate
the class demands, but it can't go on
indefinitely."
Individualized classes, taught using
computer terminals, are used for
introductory courses, and larger sections
are being planned for other courses, Welch
said. Her department will try to hold the
line at 70 students in the intioductory
classes although it faced a 29 percent
increase in registration for the )00-level
course this spring.
Students should contact members
of -he legislature who voted for the
budget cuts and provide them with
concrete examples of how cuts have
affected them, Welch said. Being turned
away from courses or any other examples
would help illustrate the need for better
funding, she said.
"The only way it (the budget situation)
is going to change is if students and their
parents contact legislators," Welch said.
Quality simply costs money, music
department chairman Raymond Haggji
said. The problem with state-funded
universities is that political concerns
don't consider quality.
"I don't believe you can do anything
well with all the funding cuts; it's like
trying to do with candles when everybody
else is using electric lights," I laggh said.
In music, many courses must be taught
one-on-one, Haggh said. The method is
expensive, but it is the only way to teach
music effectively, he said. Music schools
everywhere have individual lessons because
they are "innate to the discipline," he said.
In view of the contribution music
faculty members make to the city and to
the university as a whole, they are "grossly
underpaid," Haggh said.
The cuts to the music department
budget have been notably bad only in
the last two years, he said. The department
probably is better off than many across
the country, but the cuts have forced
reductions in buying music for performing
ensembles and materials used for teaching,
Haggh said.
"Music is tightly bound to equipment;
we can't do without instruments, recitals
and recordings, and they are expensive,"
he said.
Budget cuts really don't stimulate
innovation - they just put departments
on a survival course, Haggh said. The
effort that needs to be put into teaching
is often directed to fighting budget cuts.
Students and their families have a
vested interest in the operation of the
university and should be concerned with
funding reductions, Haggh said.
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Carla Dvorak, a senior art administration major, concetrates on her sheet music
during a violin rehearsal Monday in Westbrook Music Building.
