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December 11, 1985
RETENTION RATE OF UNL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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Dropout rate rose, official says
By Janis Lovitt
Staff Reporter
Many UNL officials think too many
students drop out of school, said Stan
ley Liberty, College of Engineering and
Technology dean.
Liberty said statistics show that
retention is a problem at UNL.
Alan Cerveny, acting director of ad
missions and advising, said statistics
show that 9 percent of the freshmen
who enrolled at UNL during the first
semester of 1984-85 did not return for
the second semester.
Cerveny said the statistics also indi
cate that the average percentage of
students returning each semester pro
gressively decreased from 1974 to 1984.
About 47.5 percent of these students in
that decade dropped out of school.
That average percentage isn't unus
ual, Cerveny said. In fact, he said, UNL
has a slightly higher average of stu
dents who graduate than most U.S.
universities.
Although the percentage of dropouts
isn't unusual, Cerveny said, UNL offi
cials are working to reduce those
numbers.
Liberty said that one of those ways
has been to offer a "well-rounded gen
eral education" to incoming students.
Freshmen need quality education to
set the tone for college, he said.
Ag college to require more liberal arts, but not
By Janis Lovitt
Staff Reporter
Although the UNL College of Agri
culture's core curriculum has been
revised, students in that college will
not be required to take more hours,
said T.E. Hartung, agriculture dean.
Hartung said the revision was final
ized Nov. 26 by a committee of repre
sentatives from each department in the
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SEMESTERS
"We don't do the right things," Lib
erty said. "We need to use the timing of
these first few weeks of school to help
students prepare for their intellectual
experience."
Many students will fbrm ideas about
college during their first few weeks of
school, he said. The experiences they
have will influence their opinions about
education, he said.
Steve Hilliard, associate dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences and Eng
lish professor, said he thinks many
things affect retention.
"There isn't any simple cosmetic
change that is going to solve the prob
lem," he said.
UNL chancellor Martin Massengale
has appointed a commission to review
the topic of a broader and better gen
eral education, Liberty said. Retention
is one of the major concerns for the .
Commission on General Education, he
said.
G.G. Meisels, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, is commission
chairman. Meisels said the commission
is to recommend any changes it feels
would benefit general education in the
colleges. The results of the commis
sion's research and recommendations
will be announced in late January, he
said.
Meisels said he doesn't expect any
drastic changes to result from the
college.
The committee decided to change
the curriculum for the college catalog
that will be published for fall 1987, he
said.
Students who enroll in the college
during that semester will have to follow
the new curriculum. Other students
can follow the list of core requirements
issued when they entered the college
or any other catalog that was published
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kurt EberhardtDaily Nebraskan
commission's reports. However, he
said, some colleges already have
started to examine their curricula.
In November, Gary Schwendiman,
dean of the College of Business Admin
istration, and T.E. Hartung, dean of the
College of Agriculture, announced
changes in their colleges' curricula.
Hartung said that although the
changes in the colleges' curricula re
flected the commission's ideas, the
agriculture college began reviewing its
curriculum before the commission was
appointed.
"We piggy-backed with the commis
sion's ideas," he said. "But the changes
weren't made because of their recom
mendations." Meisels said he expects othec col
leges to make some changes, but he
said he doesn't think they will take
effect until fall 1986.
Meisels said the commission's goal
is to establish consistency at UNL. He
said the commission is working on
ideas that will let colleges develop sim
ilar liberal arts requirements.
Sandy Heng, a junior broadcasting
major and member of the commission,
said a general education is important
because many people change their
careers after graduation.
"W7e want them to be more pre
pared," Heng said. "General education
is taking on a whole new look."
while they were attending the school.
Hartung said the new curriculum
was adopted because the faculty felt
students' general education needs to
be broadened. The faculty has been
working on the new curriculum since
June 1984, he said. UNL Chancellor
Martin Massengale's recent concern
with the amount of general courses
that all UNL students take has influ
enced the committee, Hartung said.
Basketball team to play
in Illinois tournament
Sports, page 7
student found guilty
in gambling roundup;
2 more arrests made
By Jen Deselms
Staff Reporter
Two more UNL students were ar
rested Tuesday in connection with a
gambling raid conducted by the tech
nical investigative unit of the Lincoln
Police Department, the organized
Crime-Intelligence Unit from the
Omaha Police Department, and UNL
police, said UNL Lt. Joe Wehner.
Seven other students were arrested
Monday.
Terrance Alexander, a UNL student
arrested Monday night, was arraigned
Tuesday in Lancaster County Court for
one count of second degree promotion
of gambling. Alexander pleaded no
contest to the charge and was found
guilty. He was fined $250 plus court
costs.
The police report said that on Dec. 2,
two officers placed bets on the Chicago
Bears-Miami Dolphins game over the
. phone with Alexander. Alexander was
driven to Omaha after the arraignment
to face similar charges in Douglas
County Court.
Names of the other eight people
arrested in connection with the raid
haven't been released.
Lt. Timothy Dunning of the Omaha
Organized Crime Unit said Alexander
will be arraigned today on one count of
first-degree promotion of gambling and
NU Board of Regents
to approve budget cut
From Staff Reports
The NU Board of Regents on Satur
day is expected to approve the alloca
tion of the $3.3 million budget cut
mandated by the Legislature.
The proposed allocation would take
$1.79 million from the UNL budget,
including $1.1 million from UNL as a
whole except for the Institute of Agri
culture and Natural Resources. Also,
$576,975 would be cut from the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Re
sources and $37,993 from veterinary
medicine student contracts.
The UNMC is expected to receive a
$944,000 budget cut, and UNO's budget
would be reduced by $455,000.
The UNL, UNO and UNMC budgets
would be cut by 2 percent each. Also,
the NU central administration budget
would be cut by $27,803, also a 2 per
cent reduction.
In other business, board members
More flexibility
Hartung is a member of the Chancel
lor's Commis'.' n on General Educa
tion a group of deans, faculty
members and students appointed to
review the possibility of broader liberal
arts requirements. Although the
commission hasn't officially announced
its report, Hartung said, the Commis
sion's ideas have influenced input
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two counts of second-degree promotion
of gambling. First-degree promotion of
gambling is when a person accepts one
or more bets that total $1,000 or more.
Second-degree is when a person ac
cepts one or more bets that total less
than $1,000.
Wehner said the students were not
tied to any one group, but the students
who were arrested combined with the
two still being sought, handled about
$52,000 in gambling each week.
Wehner said the arrests were the
result of an eight-month investigation
started after UNL police received in
formation about gambling from UNL
students. Wehner said the bettors wer
en't confined to students because the
undercover officers didn't portray them
selves as students. He said the gam
bling was primarily sports betting.
Ann Gradwohl, assistant to the Dean
of Students, said she will receive a
report from the UNL police. She said
. she will evaluate the report to see if the
University Student Code of Conduct
was violated. If she finds evidence
showing violations of the code of con
duct, Gradwohl said, disciplinary
action will be taken. The students
could appear before the University
Judicial Board, she said. The violations
do not have to have to occur on campus
to break the code of conduct, Gradwohl
said.
are expected to:
Approve the establishment of
the International Center for Franchise
Studies in the UNL College of Business
Administration.
Authorize UNL administrators to
develop a proposed agreement with
Kansas State University for veterinary
medical education.
O Approve the purchase of a com
puter system, which is not to exceed a
total cost of $1.25 million.
Approve awarding a contract to
the low responsive bid for the compu
ter system for the Academic Comput
ing Resource Center.
Approve buying the houses and
lots at 1961 U St. and 1946 T St.
Approve the low responsive bid
for demolition of buildings on the site
of the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
The regents meeting begins at 8 a.m.
Saturday in the Varner Hall board
room.
more hours
about the school's changes.
Hartung said the faculty's changes
will give students more flexibility in
the science and mathematics depart
ments. They also will strengthen the
liberal arts education for the humani
ties and social sciences, he said. Stu
dents still will need 1 28 credit hours to
graduate.
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