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Improved education is
goal of SCORE program
By Merry Hayes
Staff Reporter
Members of UNL's Teachers Col
lege are using their resources and
expertise to meet the in-service
needs of Nebraska's school districts
through Short Courses on Renewing
Educators.
"SCORE will keep the lines of
communication open between the
university and the schools," said
Ron Joekel, associate dean of the
college. "It will improve teaching
and education for students in Ne
braska." More than 60 topics, which are
designed to improve education, are
presented by UNL faculty members
who specialize in those areas. The
presentations include topics such
as student motivation, classroom
management and teen-age suicide.
"It's a way of bringing people up
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to date that's not lengthy, costly or
consuming," Joekel said.
SCORE, offered for the first time
last fall, has made its two-hour
presentation at five school districts
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Anthony plans to fight design transfer
By Todd von Kampen
Senior Reporter
College of Home Economics officials
are more worried about the loss of a
major program to the College of Archi
tecture than about the college's pro
posed budget cuts, said Hazel Anthony,
home economics dean.
The architecture college's plan to
create a department of interior design
from architecture and home economics
programs wouldn't bring the savings
and benefits supporters claim, Anthony
said. The proposal, which UNL officials
estimate would save $80,000, could
cost the program its accreditation, she
said.
"We've got two things going against
us: one, that architecture could pro
pose to take over our largest option
without consulting us," she said. "The
other is the list we agreed to with the
vice chancellor (Robert Furgason)."
UNL officials also proposed elimi
nating two faculty positions in the col
lege, ending stipend payments for intern
dieticians and dropping UNLrs com
munity service program. The cuts would
save UNL $62,000 if adopted without
changes, officials said.
The Daily Nebraskan reported Tues
day that architecture officials favored
consolidation of programs in interior
design and construction management
over budget cuts totaling $150,000.
Dean Cecil Steward said in a statement
last week that creation of a single inte
rior design department would improve
students' education and job opportuni
ties by enhancing the program's "pro
fessional and academic breadth."
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But accreditation teams frown on
programs that don't have a home eco
nomics base, Anthony said. The col
legewide accreditation team that visited
UNL two weeks ago, specifically op
posed transfer of the interior design
program to the architecture college,
she said. The interior design program is
accredited by the Foundation of Inte
rior Design Education and Research.
"To advance up the professional
ladder in this field, accreditation sta
tus is terribly important (for gradu
ates)," Anthony said.
UNL is unlikely to save $80,000 by
consolidating interior design offerings,
Anthony said. The two colleges' philos
ophies differ enough that consolida
tion would change the nature of the
courses offered.
"We still would have to have a basic
design course for the other majors and
a beginning interior design course
because it's required," she said.
Transfer of the interior design pro
gram also would cost home economics
one of its fastest-growing programs,
Anthony said. About 200 students have
interior design majors, while half of the
college's new freshmen enter the pro
gram each year, she said.
Students are divided on the consoli
dation plan, said Mary Beth Prusa,
chairman of the college' student advi
sor)' board. Although a few students
think interior design courses in the
architecture college would be more
related to their future, others are wor
ried about the possible loss of accredi
tation, she said.
Many students don't realize the ef
fects of losing accreditation, and many
Vice Chancellor Yost
defends NU research
By Kent Endacott
Senior Reporter
Vice Chancellor John Yost said NU is
among the finest research institutions
in the country and, as such, received its
highest level of funding in 1985.
Yost was responding to a National
Science Foundation report that places
NU 120th among U.S. universities in
federal financing for research and
development.
"The National Science Foundation
report is somewhat misleading because
it considers only a subset of total
research funding," Yost said. "If out
side funding is considered as well, then
NU is in the top 45."
Yost also noted that NU did not
include the research funds received by
the UNMC in Omaha in the information
for the report.
"If our research funding for the med
ical center was included, then we
would rank much higher," he said.
Six other Big Eight or Midwestern
universities ranked above NU in research
funding. Colorado is the highest in the
group at 21st overall, with $62.7 million
in research funds. Nebraska received
$23.2 million in 1984, the latest year in
which comparison figures are available.
CFA hopes fund increase
will bring better speakers
By Diana Johnson
Senior Reporter
Big-name speakers would be more
likely to visit UNL if a recommended
increase in the University Program
Council Talks and Topics program is
approved, said members of the Com
mittee for Fees Allocation.
A proposed budget increase from
$19,815 to $20,950 for the Talks and
Topics program was approved by CFA
Tuesday in an 18-2 vote.
The proposal now must be approved
by ASUN and Chancellor Martin
Massengale.
CFA member Jerry Romer said that
although the budget increase would
Friday, February 21, 1986
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others come here just because the pro
gram is accredited, said Prusa, a senior
consumer and home economics educa
tion major from Howells.
Anthony said elimination of dieti
cian stipends would discourage many
interns from coming to UNL. Interns
need the stipends because they are not
allowed to make any money during the
internship, she said. The stipends
average about $2,000 a year for each
student.
Julie Farnsworth-Ritz, an intern last
year, said many in her class of 10 had to
borrow money for the internship even
with the stipend. Although her hus
band works, single interns needed the
stipend to pay for necessities, she said.
"If the stipend wasn't there we
would have gone elsewhere," she said.
Elimination of the community ser
vice program should have a minimum
effects on students, Anthony said. The
program, offered jointly with UNO's
School of Social Work, trained student s
to help social workers in such areas as
nutrition and child care.
Although the UNL portion of the
program will be dropped, Ant hony said,
students can get the same training by
taking electives in a different manner.
The budget savings would come from
eliminating a part-time instructor who
supervised the program's practicums,
she said.
Anthony said the college "would
survive" if only the proposed budget
cuts were enacted. But, she said, the
college plans to appeal the transfer of
the interior design program because it
would be unfair to the college.
"I'll fight them to the end," she said.
Federal funding for research at NU
has continued to increase despite a
vacancy at the position of vice chancel
lor for four years. The position has been
unfilled since 1982, when Robert Rut
ford quit to become president of the
University of Texas-Dallas. But the
exact increase in funding is not known
because of accounting complications,
Yost said.
"It's not the vice chancellor of
research that gets the grants, it's the
faculty proposals that get the grants,"
Yost said.
In September, Yost was appointed
interim vice chancellor for research
and graduate studies.
Faculty Senate President Desmond
Wheeler said a decrease in federal
funding would hurt the entire univer
sity. He said the university depends on
the overhead funding accompanying
research grants for the maintenance of
the library and other programs.
Yost said he hoped legislators will
consider the benefits offered by research
at NU when considering the universi
ty's budget this spring.
"I am confident the legislators and
citizens will realize the advantages
university research provides towards
the economic development of the state."
not meet the standards of most univer
sities' speaker programs, it would help
to attract more well-known speakers to
UNL.
In other matters, CFA decreased
UPC's support of UNL's Homecoming
Committee in a majority vote.
John Bacon, CFA chairman, said the
budget decrease of $400 will lower UPC
support to $1,500. This, he said, "will
encourage (the committee) to seek
more corporate sponsorship."
ASUN President Gerard Keating also
presented the 1986-87 ASUN budget
request, which totals $98,484.
ASUN's budget.and Nebraska State
Student Association's budget will be
discussed during a hearing Feb. 27.