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According to Hartung, only about 18 percent of the college’s graduates return to farming or ranching. He said about 39 percent of the graduates go on to jobs in business and industry, while 13 percent take government positions. About 15 percent go on to graduate school. “The growth of placement has been tremendous,” Hartung said. “We had 40 percent more agencies and companies coming to interview for this spring. i ne ag industry is experiencing a very major shortage of trained people. We have job listings that we cannot fill with qualified people.” Hartung said the college is doing everything it can to prepare its stu dents for the future. He said the Chronicle of Higher Education has ranked UNL’s College of Agriculture 11th in the nation. Hartung said the College of Agri culture and die College of Business Administration have a joint program offering a degree in agribusiness. This program is one of very few of its kind offered nationally and is the college’s fastest growing major, he said. “There are over200 majors in this program now,” Hartung said. “We starred with zero five years ago, so it is really growing fast. ’ ’ The college had an enrollment of 1,137 undergraduates and 400 gradu ate students for the 1988-89 school year. The college consists of 14 depart ments and oners 14 majors. Hartung said the college uses about 20 buildings fen- teaching pur poses. Some of those facilities are shared with research and extension services. Hartung said the recently com pleted animal science building is one of the most current facilities nation wide for the study of livestock and meats. Hartung said the college is in the late stages of completing a food in dustry complex, which should be available for use in the fall. Hartung said college officials want to upgrade instructional equip ment to reflect rapid changes in tech nology. Officials also want to gradu ate more students to fill the shortage of expertise agriculture is experienc ing. Journalism : I. By Emily Rosenbaum Staff Reporter The College of Journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is one of the top ten journalism pro grams in the country, said Neale Copple, dean of the college. “We have one of the best faculties in the country,” Copple said, “but our students are just as good." The college has shown a steady increase in student enrollment since 1960, he said. To be enrolled in the college, stu dents must maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.5. Students cannot take journalism courses until they achieve a 2.5 GPA. Students who fall below the mini mum are urged to see their adviser and retake courses in which they re ceived a low grade, Copple said. The minimum GPA is in effect for all students admitted to the college after May of 1987. Copple said that increasing enroll ment is the major problem the college has faced. There are not enough pro fessors to handle the large number of journalism students at UNL, he said. The admissions office at UNL recorded 1,000 students registered in the journalism college for the spring of 1989. Despite the size, students can benefit from many programs within this college. One of the best is the internship program, Copple said. “The internship program, espe cially in news-editorial, is as impres sive as any in the country,” Copple said. The broadcast and advertising internship programs are newer than the news-editorial program, but are also doing well, he said. There are three majors within the journalism college: advertising, broadcast and news-editorial. No student can minor in journalism. Journalism students receive no credit for internships or work as teaching assistants. But they usually get paid for internships. In 1917 journalism became a de partment at UNL. It has been a free standing college since 1979. Engineering ^F By Sara Bander Staff Reporter University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who enroll in the College of Engineering and Technology don’t have to worry about getting jobs after graduation. A great shortage of engineers and trained technicians has made jobs readily available for engineering stu dents, said Alfred Witte, assistant dean of the College of Engineering and Technology. More of the same is expected in the future, he said. Graduates this year were consis tently offered jobs with starting sala ries around $30,000, Witte said. Some graduates were given opportu nities with companies like Hon eywell, Texas Instruments and the U.S. government, he said. “I don’t think there was a student who graduated and wanted a job this year that didn’t get at least one of fer,” Witte said. Although the college has experi enced declining enrollment in the last four to five years, the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering depart ments at UNL are full, he said. The civil, industrial, agricultural and chemical engineering departments still have room for more students, Witte said. i ne uepartment oi fciecincai Engineering has to limit the number of students it takes to keep from over crowding classrooms. Witte said the department selects freshmen accord ing to test scores and class rank. Witte said that nearly one-third of all engineering degrees granted na tionwide are in electrical engineer ing. To be admitted to the College of Engineering and Technology, stu dents must have a score of 23 or above on the ACT. They must have completed two years of algebra, one year of geometry, one-half year of trigonometry, one year each of chem istry and physics and three years of En " admitted, students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.4. A student who is in another college at UNL and wants to transfer to the College of Engineering and Technology must have a GPA of at least 2.5. Degrees offered at UNL are agri cultural, chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, and computer science engineering, along with a degree in construction management Degrees offered at the Omaha campus are civil engineering, indus trial technology, construction engi neering technology, drafting and design technology, electrical engi neering technology and manufactur ing engineering technology. Students also can take the first two years of their electrical, mechanical, chemi cal or industrial engineering degrees at the Omaha campus and then com plete their study at UNL. The college had a combined en rollment of 1,631 undergraduate stu dents on its two campuses during the 1988-89 school year. It also had 386 graduate students enrolled. Witte said the college is actively trying to recruit more women and minorities. There are special scholar ships available to minorities, and the college has made recruiting trips to high schcvls. Women in the college currently number about eight or nine percent of the total enrollment, Witte said. Home|§ Economics By Pattie Greene Suff Reporter__ Students in the college of Home Economics learn more than how to change diapers and cook. According to Marybeth Prusa, assistant to the dean, students are given a basic background in classes that enables them to “understand people and work with them to meet their needs.” There are 1,015 students in the college, which includes students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha program. Each student must take one class in each of four departments, Prusa said. The four departments are Con sumer Science and Education; Hu man Nutrition and Food Service Management; Human Development and the Family; and Textiles, Cloth ing and Design. Students go into fields as diverse as retail, finance, marketing, reha bilitation, social services, interior design and fashion, Prusa said. Some students can teach home economics in junior high schools, she said. “It’s not limited to taking care of babies,” she said. The college offers graduate stud ies with special emphasis in one de partment, Prusa said. A doctorate program is also offered, she said. Prusa said the 58 faculty mem bers, on both the UNO and UNL campuses, “want to serve (the stu dents) well.” Nursing 6 T By Sara Bauder Staff Reporter__ With an undergraduate enroll ment of about 600 students, the Uni versity of Nebraska’s College of Nursing is the 13th largest state-ap proved nursing school in the country, according to Healthweek magazine. Established in 1917, the School of Nursing offered a three-year diploma program for nurses until 1950. In 1950, the Board of Regents author ized a baccalaureate program for the school. The school changed its status to the college level in 1972. Accredited by the National League for Nursing, the College of Nursing has three divisions in the University of Nebraska system. A nursing student can earn a bachelor’s degree on the Omaha, Lincoln, or West Nebraska campus, which is in Scottsbluff. Cindy Costanzo, nurse recruit ment coordinator for all three cam puses, said that the curriculum on the three campuses is exactly the same. “The only difference is that you have different faculty teaching the classes," she said. Costanzo said that a couple of classes are offered on closed circuit See PROFILES on 15
