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Tuesday, August 6, 1985
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol.84 No. 173
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Take a class 'on the tube '
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
Nebraska Educational Television has
proof that television can be educa
tional. All you have to do is watch
Channel 12 and you can see NETVs
alternative to the regular fare of a
classroom setting.
NETV is once again offering a number
of telecourses which will allow people
in other parts of the state or those with
class conflicts the chance to take a
course via the air waves.
However, to call it a telecourse, is
actually a misnomer, according to the
director of UNL Academic Telecommun
ications. "It is actually mixed media," said
Linda Degrand. "It's just that some of
the instruction is via the television."
The process to take such a course
may sound complicated, but it is not as
bad as it sounds, Degrand said. The
actual courses are broadcast at set
Women in
By Cynthia Hutchinson
Staff Reporter
Women in management face prob
lems in balancing career and family,
overcoming "office politics" and climb
ing the corporate ladder, according to
six women panelists who discussed
"Current Issues Pertinent to Women in
Management" at a conference last
week at the Nebraska Center for Con
tinuing Education, 33rd and Holdrege
streets.
The panel discussion, held Friday,
concluded the two-day Women in Man
agement Conference, Aug. 1-2, spon
sored by the UNL Department of Con
ferences and Institutes and Susan Scott
Associates, management training con
sultants. The conference was designed
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outside of Lincoln, and are led by peo
ple not affiliated with UNL.
After being shown on television, the
student can contact a UNL faculty
member who is in charge of giving
assignments and giving and grading
tests.
"He is actually a resource person,
because he works on a tutorial basis,"
Degrand said.
Daid Rapkin is one of these people.
He is responsible for the telecourse on
"War."
"There's not much- opportunity to
meet with the students," Rapkin said,
"so I like to give them an introductory
phone call before the class starts. So
students do have access to me. At the
same time, there are a lot of students
on campus who never ask questions or
talk to the teacher, so it may not be all
that different."
Rapkin wii-. acid office hours one
night a week when the students can
management balance career, family
to help women develop management
and advancement skills.
Panel member Linda Tuttle, vice
president of BLN Investment Corpora
tion, said the panel agreed that balanc
ing a career and family has to be a "very
personal decision." A woman has to
decide how to spend her time, she said,
but for a woman in a management posi
tion such a balance can be difficult.
"There are exchanges you make," she
said.
Some women find they have to lower
their "standards of perfection" in order
to get everything done, she said.
But she said she did not detect
among the other panel members, women
executives and administrators, that
standards were lower with respect to
raising children.
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reach him by calling an 800 number.
Degrand said 60 percent of those
people across the country who take
similar courses already have under
graduate hours to their credit and
they just want to get back into the
academic arena. Because they are being
broadcast, the course can be taken
from anywhere in the state, so it offers
an alternative to driving to a distant
campus.
It was mostly home-bound people
who used to register for the courses,
Degrand said, but now there are a
larger proportion of people getting
involved.
It may be a little tricky to take and
give exams, he said but they are taken
and given nonetheless. The student in
out-state Nebraska must report to an
apporved proctor in his general local
who has received the test in the mail.
After it is taken, the exam is sent back
to Lincoln to be graded by the instructor.
One of the advantages with the pro-
Marcia Phelps Glynn, director of the
Human Resources Division at Ameri
can Charter Federal Savings and Loan
Association, said, "what happens is
that you spend less time with your
children but the time you do spend
with them is 'quality time.' "
She said three key issues for a
woman balancing a career and family
are having a positive self-image, know
ing strengths and talents and effec
tively managing time and stress. She
called time-management the "overrid
ing factor" for a single, working parent.
Another current issue discussed by
the panel in the 45-minute talk cen
tered on "office politics" or the infor
mal power structure found in organiza
tions. This structure consists of informal
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Freshmen advised
to explore options
By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
UNL freshmen know what to expect
from college it's just in acting on
those expectations that some have
problems, UNL officials said.
Assistant Director of Admissions and
Advising, Alan Cerveny and the Director
of the UNL Counseling Center, Vernon
Williams, both said UNL freshmen were
realistic about college in contrast to a
recent survey of Pennsylvania State
University freshmen.
The survey said that freshmen had
highly unrealistic expectations about
their grades, choice of major, study
skills and study hours.
In grade expectations, UNLstudents
indicate how they think they will do on
their admissions application. Using
that indicator, UNL freshmen seem to
be right on target in assessing their
academic performance, Cerveny said.
The record shows the first semester
is the roughest, Cerveny said. But the
students usually adjust and fulfill their
expectations throughout the rest of
their undergraduate career, he said.
Williams said grade performance
wasn't always a matter of ability, but a
matter of translating what to do on an
everyday basis to fulfill the expecta
tions. For example, students may not be
used to studying daily for a few hours,
Williams said. Or changes in their per
sonal lives could disrupt their aca
demic performance. Also, some stu
dents are distracted from their studies
by their social life, he said.
But while most students may not be
gram over regular classes is that stu
dents can take the test whenever they
are ready. This way they can move at
their own pace.
"Congress: We the People" offers an
inside view of the U.S. Congress. It will
be a three credit hour course and will
be taught by William Avery, associate
professor of political science.
"Businesss of Management," taught
by Kenneth Anderson for three credit
hours, will emphasize essential skills
of management.
In "The Mechanical Universe" an
understanding of classical mechanics
will be covered through computer ani
mation and other techniques. It will be
taught by Edward G. Schmidt and will
be for four credit hours.
decisions made by men when they go
out for a drink or go bowling after work,
Tuttle said, and it's difficult f )r
women managers to break into this
"network."
But she said that women should not
become "embroiled" in office politics
in a way that affects their main goal,
"to do the best job they possibly can,"
she said.
The panel discussed ways to over
come the men's network, Tuttle
said. The solutions focused on females
working together, going out with the
guys if it feels "natural and approp
riate" or going one-on-one with male
managers.
Phelps said she never really had
as efficient as they could, they still get
the job done, Williams said.
The Pennsylvania State University
survey reported that only 13 percent of
the freshmen knew a great deal about
their major and only 14 percent had
participated in a number of related
activities.
This result is not surprising because
students sometimes feel they have to
declare a major, even when they are
undecided, when they enter college,
Williams said. Society attaches a stigma
to being undeclared, he said. For
example, one of the first questions a
freshman is asked is their choice of
major, he said.
Both Cerveny and Williams said stu
dents shouldn't have to decide a major
early in their college career.
Cerveny said the university is "a
great place to explore" options.
Sometimes it's better to go unde
clared and take electives that apply to
general requirements and then declare
a major, Cerveny said. Most studies
show that about half of incoming col
lege students are undecided as to their
major, he said. And it's not uncommon
for students to change majors three to
five times duringtheir academic careers,
he said.
Williams said the average person
changes careers at least three and
sometimes up to ten times in a life
time. So it is unrealistic for a student
to stick with one major throughout the
entire college career, he said.
The worst situation is when an
undecided student declares a major
and doesn't explore other areas, Willi
ams said.
An institutional analysis of war as a
mechanism to settle disputes among
nations will be studied in "War", Rap
kin's three credit hour course.
Two credit hours can be earned in
"The New Literacy," a class taught by
David Davies. The course is an intro
duction to computers and computer
applications. The course is similar to
the old course called "Making It Count,"
the two courses are the same except a
section on microprocessors.
The courses are $46.60 per credit
hour, and the materials are extra. For
those who choose to take a course for
no credit, it is $20 per credit hour.
For more information, call the UNL
Division of Continuing Studies at
472-3587.
a problem with breaking into the in
formal power structure of her organiza
tation. She finds common grounds with
men in her work environment and from
there builds a personal relationship.
Panel members also discussed ad
vancement or "moving up the ladder."
The discussion indicated that many of
the women in the audience and on the
panel had not expected to advance as
far as they had.
Phelps said the financial indus
try where she works is "conservative"
and "there's a very clear level where
there are no women." She said such a
level was not "calculated" it's just that
women do not have the experience yet
to fill those positions.
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