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October 6,1989 ___University of Nebraska-Lincoln ~ Voi. 89 No 29
Officials say committee
will comply with law
By Victoria Ayottc
Imfnr Editor
and Jerry Guenther
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NU Regent Don Blank of
McCook Mid Thursday the NU
Board of Regenu’ presidential
search committee will not violate
Nebraska's open meetings law if it
withholds the names of some appli
cants far the NU presidency,
Biink raid NUVice President and
General Counsel Richard Wood said
the search committee must comply
with Nebraska’s open meetings law.
But the committee can go into closed
session to discuss individual candi
dates, since that is a personnel matter,
he said.
Assistant Nebraska Attorney Gen
eral Dale Comer said the open meet
ings law specifies that meetings may
be closed if a public body is discuss
ing medical records or pest job per
formance of an applicant
All paperwork of such a commit
tee should be public, except things
such as medical records or past job
evaluations. Regular directory-type
assistance information, such as
names and addresses, should be
avaikMa, he aid.
Comer, while not giving an offi
cial attorney general's opinion, said,
I ra not sure hear dee* can keep
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mg in good faith."
Blank said the issue reflects two
attorney s' opinions, but to him it is mi
issue of confidentiality and what is in
the best interests of the state and the
university.
Some of the best candidates may
be secure in their jobs and not want it
known that they are talking with
another university, he said.
“You may have to go out and Woo
•omeone," Blank said. “They'll talk
to you only if you assure them of
confidentiality.
The University of Minnesota had
this problem, Blank skid. Their open
meetings law mandated that they re
lease the names cf any candidate they
talked with, and they lost some
In the initial stage of applications
for a replacement of ousted NU Presi
dent Ronald Roskens, there will be
about 200 candidates, Blank said.
“There's a lot to be lost and noth
ing to be gained by releasing all the
names," he said.
The meetings will be open when
the committee is discussing job
specifications and number of appli
cants, Blank said. 1
“The public has a right to know
where the search committee is at,” he
said.
When the 12-member search
committee presents the narrowed list
of four to eight candidates to the
Board of Regents, Blank said, those
names likely will be released.
Joe Rowson, NU director of public
affairs, said he doesn't think most,
universities release the initial list of
f$pNcants. Onlv “bona fide" final
ism are released. „
“There's a little bit of room for
arguments as to wheavjraH names
legally must be released, Rowson
aid. “Hie basic thing is that the
committee will comply with the open
meetings law."
Wood said he has advised the
board that it must comply with the
open meetings law, but did not make
additional comments.
Report shows enrollment decline
By Diane Bray ton
Suff Reporteri
Enrollment at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln has
declined slightly this fall
although overall enrollment in the
NU system increased by 1.5 per
cent, according to the official fall
enrollment report
The number of UNL students
dropped by 0.3 percent, despite the
increase of new students enrolled.
The biggest decline in enroll
ment was experienced in the Divi
sion of Continuing Studies’ eve
ning program. Deanna Eversoll,
director of the evening program,
attributed the 13.5 percent drop to
the facilities fees added to night
classes in late July.
Eversoll said the (nogram,
which had been experiencing a
gradual increase in enrollment,
had cancellations because of the
increased cost
Previously, those attending
only evening classes were not re
quired to pay facilities fees.
Eversoll said other colleges
don’t break down fees the same
way UNL does, so students are not
always aware of what they are
paying fen1.
“Other institutions in the state
don’t have a breakdown. The Uni
versity of Nebraska is probably the
most honest in making fees pay
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sity facilities and may object to the
fees, she said.
An enrollment drop of 4.6 per
cent in the College of Engineering
and Technology was a result of
Overall Changes
NU System + 1.5
• UNL -0.3
Selected Changes
UNL Continuing Studies
(Evening Program) -13.5
UNL Coll, of Eng. & Tech. -4.6
UNL Teacher's Coll. -4.5
UNL Graduate Studies -2.8
^ figures m %_ Source: U\L J
student attrition, rather than a lack
of admitted freshmen, according
to Dean Stan Liberty.
Liberty said a decline in fresh
men enrollment since 1984 ap
pears to have ‘‘bottomed out.” He
said a decrease in college enroll
ment is a result of students failing
to meet the 2.5 grade point average
requirement
* The bulk of attrition occurred
between last year’s freshmen and
this year’s sophomores,” Liberty
studying the cause of w many not
making the required grade point
average, he said.
The Teachers College experi
enced a 4.5 percent decline in en
rollment James O’Hanlon, dean
of the college, said the drop was a
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result of adding a requirement to
enter the college.
Students wishing to enter the
Teachers College must satisfy two
of UNL’s three entrance require
ments, rather than just one needed
for admission.
O'Hanlon said the require
ments were changed to make sure
students were adequately prepared
to handle course material.
"Unless students were at that
level, they couldn’t meet our stan
dards later on,” Ue said.
ment John Yost, dean of graduate
studies, said the decrease was seen
in the number of undeclared stu
dents. He attributed this to a new
law that taxes the financial assis
tance the students receive.
Teacher s colleges receive upgraded guidelines
By Jana Pedersen
Rtyrnlnr
N ew accreditation guidelines for
teachers colleges may create
some problems for faculty
members at the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln, according to one
university official
James O’Hanlon, dean of UNL's
Teachers College, feud that under dm
new guidelines, teachers college fac
ulty members collectively will spend
about $500,000 worth of staff time
preparing for re-accreditation.
An accreditation team from the
National Council for Accreditation
of Teacher Education will evaluate
UNL’s teachers college in 1991,
O’Hanlon said.
But before the team arrives, he
said, the college must submit about
4,000 pages of reports. The college
will submit the first report next
spring, he said.
OHankxi said the reports are part
of higher standards adopted by
NCATE about two years ago.
Previously colleges only had to
submit one 400-page report, he said.
But. he said, “the feeling was that
too many colleges and universities
were being accredited. The old stan
dards weren’t tough enough.”
The new requirements were de
veloped to raise the quality of pro
grams, O’Hanlon said, “but in the
meantime it made the process almost
unwieldy.”
Under the new standards, he said,
each institution is required to submit
separate reports from most sub-fields
in the college.
Sub-fields that will have to file
separate reports include physical
education, English education and
special education, he said.
He said the special education re
port alone will be about 800 pages.
Preparing several lengthy, in
depth reports will take a combined
total of at least a month’s worth of
staff time from faculty members in
each sub-field. O’Hanlon said
The new standards also require
colleges to demonstrate how each
course is consistent with the most
recent research in teaching, he said,
which requires extensive document*
lion.
Graduate follow-up procedures
also will be held up to stricter stan
dards, he said.
O'Hanlon said that means UNL
will have to provide better follow-up
services for graduates, which may be
difficult to do as graduates move to
other areas.
Colleges also will have to evaluate
how their graduates are performing to
determine how well they were pre
pared by their college training, he
said.
One change that has affected stu
dents is a requirement for more stu
dent teaching experience, he said.
In the past, O'Hanlon said, some
UNL students spent four hours a day
student teaching. But the new stan
dards require six hours a day, he said.
Animal Science professor Keith GMstor estimates tl* fat thickness of a Hampshire market lamb during a livestock
•valuation lab at the Animal Science Complex Thursday morning. G lister, the UNL livestock judging coach, pieced
the class .
Research reveals
caffeine could hurt
more than it helps
By Diane Brayton
Staff Reporter
Students in search of an energy boost may
want to think twice before turning to soft
drinks or caf feine pills, according to a
study by Oklahoma University’s Health Sci
ences Center.
The frequent use of caffeine by students
could hurt them more 5han it helps, according
to biological psychologist Gwendolyn Pin
comb, pan of an OU team that has been re
searching caffeine for seven years.
This research has shown that caffeine in
creases high blood pressure and demands on
the heart, Pincomb said.
Although this is not a problem for many
people, caffeine can accelerate hypertension
with those who already have it or who are in a
high-risk group, she said.
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