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April 15, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 139
Men still dominate
university positions
By Eric Paulak
Staff Reporter
Male faculty and administrators at
UNL outnumber the females nearly 4-to-1
and are paid an average of $8,178
more, according to statistics from the
UNL Affirmative ActionEqual Employ
ment Opportunity Office.
This may be the result of "personal
politics" and prejudices, said a Women's
Resource Center volunteer. It may be
that the idea of women in a university's
upper crust has not been accepted long
enough, said a university employment
specialist said.
Connie Neal, a WRC volunteer, said
some women applying for faculty posi
tions or seeking tenure have been
denied because of prejudices in UNL
departments.
During 1985-86, there were 126 male
administrators, including chancellors
and deans; and 1,136 male faculty
members, 75 percent of whom had
tenure.
During the same year, there were 19
female administrators and 126 faculty
members, 51 percent of whom had
tenure.
Colleen Daniels, a UNL Affirmative
ActionEqual Employment Opportun
ity specialist, said fewer females have
tenure partly because the idea that
women can be university professors
and administrators has not been ac
cepted very long. Therefore, many women
have not accumulated enough years on
the staff to get tenure, she said.
Good News
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By Jen Deselms
Senior Reporter
Editor's note: As Christians
celebrate Holy Week and Jews
begin their Passover season, the
Daily Nebraskan takes time to
explore religion on campus, which
many say has grown at a sur
prising rate. Today's article
focuses on a campus Christian
newsletter. Other articles will
examine Moslem and Buddhist
groups, professional religious
clubs and a Christian cooper
ative. When Pat Wensel, freshman biol
ogy major, came to UNL last fall
he feared that college would be
an ungodly experience. But after about
three months he discovered the good
news that other students shared Chris
tian beliefs similar to his.
It was then that he was introduced
to UNL Good News by a girl he knew
who worked on the monthly conserva
tive Christian newsletter.
Soon Wensel volunteered to help
distribute the paper campuswide. He
now writes articles and is listed on the
masthead as managing editor. But he
still describes himself as pretty much a
paperboy.
Before his involvement with Good
News, Wensel thought UNL had a meek
Christian environment.
Clmsta
Neal and WRC Coordinator Kathe
rine Araujo said they were told by one
female faculty member that she had a
larger workload than some of her col
leagues, but she was paid the same
salary.
Neal said another possibly discrimi
natory case was against a woman in the
English department who was denied
full professorship even though she held
a doctorate.
The names of the faculty members
were withheld.
There are more men than women in
all UNL employment classifications ex
cept secretarial, where women .out
numbered men 752 to 81 in 1985-86.
During 1985-86, males outnumbered
females 508 to 309 in managerial posi
tions; 269 to 152 in technical positions,
including nurses and engineers; 221 to
45 in skilled craft labor, including
plumbers and electricians; and 225 to
174 in service maintenance.
The average male faculty member
earned $37,034 in 1985, while the aver
age female salary was $28,856.
Neal and Daniels said the situation
is typical of most U.S. colleges and
universities.
Daniels said the ratio of men to
women is becoming more even, but very
slowly.
Neal said she hopes for a significant
turnabout in the 1990s when most of
the male professors who were educated
right after World War II. will retire,.
Until then, she said,' women will make
slow progress in moving up the ranks.
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"I hadn't run into people who were
willing to stand up and say, 'Jesus is my
Lord,' " Wensel said.
Publisher and faculty adviser Nels
W. Forde said the goals of the news
paper are to present a Christian view
point that was lacking on campus and
to unite campus Christian organizations.
Forde, UNL professor of history,
said the idea for the paper came
in a vision from God. Forde then
began spreading the idea around var
ious religious groups on campus, and
last April.the first issue was printed.
The "famous" or "infamous" first
issue, as Forde described it, was "down
right belligerent, and the paper has
backed off considerably." Forde said it
is now just as insistent about present
ing conservative Christian points of
view, but far less strident. In the
first issue the newspaper pledged to
provide an alternative "to the appal
ling filth and disgusting radical liber
alism" in the Daily Nebraskan. The
paper gave its support to President
Ronald Reagan, saying he was placed in
power by God and therefore criticizing
him was treasonous and sacrilegious.
Forde said he and staff members
decided they could be more effective
by being more loving while still insist
ing on Christian ideals.
Good News now relates current
issues to biblical scriptures,
prints testimonials from people
whose lives have been changed by God,
reviews Christian music and covers
events of campus Christian groups.
The paper has survived despite not
having a permanent source of funding.
Various religious and business groups
in Lincoln donate to provide the about
$230 needed to print 1,500 copies,
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Grads with the right majors face easier hunt, officials say
By Lynne Bomberger
Staff Reporter
Computer technlogy, engineering, bus
iness and the food-service industry are
among the most optimistic job markets
for May graduates, said Coby Simerly,
interim director of UNL's Career Plan
ning and Placement Center.
The most recent issue of the Career
Resource Digest says mechanical engi
neers, lawyers, podiatrists, public-relations
officers, computer programmers,
elementary-school teachers and social
workers also will be in demand.
A check with placement officials in
several of the more optimistic fields
showed that many May graduates already
have jobs lined up.
About 75 percent of UNL's teaching
graduates will have jobs soon after gra
duation, said Jim Schiefelbein, assist
ant director of teacher placement for
the Career Planning and Placement
Center.
Even though teacher contracts for
many schools are not yet being offered,
about 5 percent of the graduating
seniors already have jobs, Schiefelbein
said.
The number of teaching positions in
Nebraska is at a good level but about
one-third of Teachers College gradu
ates get jobs outside the state, Schie
felbein said. He said the surplus of
positions and teachers depends on the
area of the country and grade level.
Texas, because of a population boom,
and California are two states in which
many UNL teaching graduates find
jobs, Schiefelbein said.
The outlook for administrative jobs
within schools and for college profes
sors is not so optimistic, Schiefelbein
said.
The job market is good for law grad
uates, but changing, said Bonnie Kim
ble, assistant Dean of career services
for the College of Law.
In the past, most graduates opened
private practices, but in the changing
market, many law graduates are enter
ing business in corporate legal depart
ments, Kimble said.
"But a law degree is still a valuable
asset," she said.
About 60 percent of May law gradu
ates already have jobs, and 90 percent
will be employed six months after gra
duation, Kimble said.
May nursing graduates also will be
in great demand, said Beverly Cun
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ningham, student affairs adviser for the
UNMC College of Nursing.
"The job outlook is very good, and for
the next several years it looks even
better," Cunningham said.
Higher salaries show a higher demand
for nurses in some areas of the country
than in others. For example, Lincoln
nurses get paid an average of $8 an
hour; nurses in Washington, D.C., are
paid an average of $15 an hour.
But most of UNL's 24 graduating
nurses already have jobs in local hospi
tals, so most will not leave the state,
Cunningham said.
Jobs might not always arise in the
cities where graduates want to go, but
there are opportunities, Simerly said.
In general, according to the Febru
ary issue of Business Week Careers and
the Manpower Incorporated Employ
ment Outlook Survey, opportunities
will be best found in the Northeast.
Jobs will not be so plentiful in the
West.
Students graduating with chemistry
degrees or those wanting to be college
professors, air traffic controllers and
school principals will be in less de
mand, the Career Resource Digest said.
