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The NU Board of Regents will consider how to
spend $408,730 to renovate UNL laboratories and
classrooms at its Saturday meeting.
UNL officials are recommending that the work be
done in two parts large lecture halls and indivi
dual classrooms. First, large lecture halls that hold
more than 100 students would be modernised for
better lighting, acoustics and seating in 1984-85. In
1985-8G, classrooms and teaching laboratories are
scheduled to be modernised.
The regents also will talk about how to spend
$225,000, which is left ever from .the. $1.6 million
reallocation and reserve fund for the university
eystem. The money was set aside in June for "high
priority needs and unforeseen circumstances." .
NU administrators are recommending that
$115,000 of the money be divided between the UNL
Darkley Center for speech and hearing disorders
and the pre-engineering program at UNO.
The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources would get $32,000 for an automated '
weather data network; $42,000 would be spent for -academic
computing at the NU Medical Center in
Omaha; and $38,000 would be used to pay part-time
faculty for the computer science, business ad
ministration and criminal justice department
As part of the third phase of remodeling at the
Nebraska Psychiatric Institute in Omaha, the
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regents will consider how to spend $1 million
allocated for renovation of inpatient areas.
The board will be asked to approve a Need
Statement for a university-wide administrative com
puting system.
The Need Statement would support a $1 million
request to buy new equipment to replace the IBM
370153 computer and disk subsystem currently
used in the UNL main date center.
The regents also will discuss proposed revisions in
the university's five-year plan, which was originally
adopted in 1030 and is revised annually.
The regents have scheduled committee meetings,
beginning Saturday at 8 a.m. at Regents Hall, 3335
HoldregeSt
Retention study examines
why students leave school
By JcdiNygren
The importance of personal contact between
advisers, faculty, student assistants or residence
directors and UNL students planning to quit college
is the focal point of the Student Retention Project
staff members' recommendations submitted to the
chancellor's oface Nov. 21.
The recommendations are designed to encourage
students to talk with advisers or Instructors before
making a final decision about withdrawing from
school, said Robert Patterson, director of the
project.
"If a student gets down about classes or living
"conditions," he said, "personal contact v;ith
someone can sometimes change his perspective and
outlook."
According to the report, the project grew out of
the Chancellor's Task Force's recommendations tat
improving student retention. UNL Chancellor
Martin Massengale started the project in September
to conduct studies relating to student satisfaction
at UNL and to make recommendations for Im
proving student and academic support services.
Patterson said the staffs studies attempt to
discover why students leave UNL - and how
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advising:.-and' Health .-Center services ; .can; .
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ty Improving support cysterrA the stdf to .
improve the . retention : of first-time '. entering
freshman from 73 percent to 73 percent during th3
' nest three years, the report said.
The staff recommended having inrormation arsii-
at the admissions oEce guiding students to
iLng-- centers,- advisers ana otner. suppers
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quit school after 'talking with someone, Patterson-.
ssid the staff recommends the student ml out an
exit interview explaining why he is leaving.
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