Legislature adds financing
for tuition assistance to bill
By Roger Price
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska Legislature voted Tuesday
afternoon to add $>250,000 to the deficit appro
priations bill for additional financing of the
tuition assistance program for low-income
students.
Sen. Frank Korshoj of Herman said he intro
duced the amendment to provide the additional
money because of cuts in federal financial aid
and his concern about the availability of higher
education to low-income students.
“It’s not very much money, and its very,
very important to those who need it,” Korshoj
said.
Sen. Scott Moore of Seward reminded sena
tors that “Nebraska ranks very low in provid
ing tuition assistance.
‘ ‘This is giving money to students who truly
need tuition assistance.”
Sen. Jacklyn Smith of Hastings said that
without the additional money, the program
would have to reduce the number of awards to
low-income students.
Smith said the shift in federal tuition assis
tance from grants to loans has hurt poor stu
dents because large debts from student loans
are intimidating to low-income families.
Tuition grants help low-income students
attend four-year colleges and universities in
stead of opting for cheaper two-year programs,
she said.
Sen. Bernice Labedz of Omaha said tuition
assistance also benefits the entire state because
it raises the earning potential of the entire
population.
“The state is a winner whenever Nebras
kans choose to attend Nebraska schools,” Labedz
said.
The deficit appropriations bill makes up for
shortfalls in the Legislature’s two-year budget.
Co-author says faculty vitality
important to quality of education
By Thomas Clouse
Staff Reporter
Career consulting for professors is a re
cent development that is important in inte
grating professors into university systems,
said a UNL professor who co-authored a
book on the subjec t.
Daniel Wheeler, associate professor in
the Institute of Agriculture and Natural
Resource’s Cooperative Extension Service,
is co-author of the book, “Enhancing Fac
ulty Careers: Strategies for Development
and Renewal,” published last February.
Wheeler, coordinator of the Institute’s
Office of Professional and Organizational
Development, said faculty vitality is impor
tant to the quality of education.
“More options for professors translate
into their performance and their attitudes,”
Wheeler said.
He said programs for new professors arc
essential for development and establishing
tenure.
“We need to provide the support that
new faculty need to get established in the
institution,” Wheeler said.
Wheeler said the split in the age structure
of professors -- many reaching retirement
age as many others arc entering the system
— creates a need for development and sup
port programs.
Robert Furgason, vice chancellor for
academic affairs, said many University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln faculty members arc
getting close to retirement.
Furgason said a tenure buyout program
was initiated three years ago at UNL to
provide incentives for tenured faculty
members to retire. That program, he said,
will help avoid a possible faculty shortage
by giving the university an early start at
recruiting new professors to fill the empty
positions.
Any 62-ycar-old faculty member can
choose the buyout program, and be paid one
year’s salary over three years.
And UNL officials arc using salary in
creases to attract more quality faculty
members, Furgason said.
“At UNL, as well as nationally, we arc
all concerned with getting good quality faculty
for the 1990s,” Furgason said.
Wheeler said that attracting faculty
members to UNL also depends on a respon
sive attitude toward their needs and support
programs to establish them in the system.
Wheeler said IANR has individual orien
tations and pretenurc support groups for
new faculty members.
“These programs help attract people to
come and in keeping them here,” Wheeler
said.
Members of pretenure support groups
get together to exchange information and
look at tenure Files, Wheeler said.
Also, a program called NUPROF was
formed to give midcarecr faculty members
chances to look at their positions and help
them change Fields of study, Wheeler said.
IANR faculty are invited to apply to
participate in NUPROF — a “program for
the professional renewal of faculty.”
Delivee Wright, director of the Teaching
and Learning Center, said her office helps
professors and graduate teaching assistants
reach their instructional goals.
“Our office is concerned with the quality
of teaching,” Wright said.
She said the center helps support faculty
by offering workshops, discussion groups,
study groups and individual consultations
aimed at gaining knowledge in special ar
eas.
Wright said UNL also has received a
grant from the U.S. Office of Education for
about S200,(XX) over three years to pay for
improvements in post-secondary education
and to develop programs that reward good
teaching.
She said her office is working with dif
ferent departments at UNL over the three
years to help develop ways to rccogm/c
good leaching and to reward it.
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course which that could be available by next
spring.
She said racism can’t be eliminated, but
TODAY can ‘ ‘ take a strong positive first step’ ’
while in office.
Barb Walker, STAND first vice presidential
candidate, said there must be more funding for
programs that focus on gay/lcsbian education.
The recent negative student reaction to
funding the Committee Offering Lesbian and
Gay Events is “discriminatory,” she said.
Opinions on the financing of COLAGE are
based on the perception that homosexuals are
“different,” which isn’t fair, she said.
Gosch said that although voting is para
mount. voters should also consider which party
would best represent them.
“VISION represents the future.” Gosch
said. * ‘Our platform relics on the future, not on
what ASUN is now.”
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Beginning midnight Monday, March 12.
I 12:31 a.m. - Car reported egged, Area 3
parking lot, Harper Residence Hall.
1:13 a.m. - Bomb threat called in by tele
ic operator, Abel Residence Hall, no
b found.
10:25 a.m. - Two-vehicle, non-injury acci
dent, metered lot, west of Memorial Sta
j dium,$630.
1:27 p.m. — Attempted theft of car accesso
ries reported, air vent damaged. Area 1
parking lot, 17th and R streets, $20.
2r56 p.m. - Two-vehicle, non-injury acci
dent, Area 2 parking lot, Sandoz Residence
Hall, $150.
3:34 p.m. - UNL police assisted Lincoln
police on accident, Area 25 parking lot, 14th
and W streets.
5:13 p.m. - Rear window louver and head
lamp covers reported stolen, Area 1 parking
lot, 19th and T streets, $215 loss, $240
damage.
6:36 p.m. *• Purse reported stolen, Pound
Residence Hall, S50.
7:14 p.m. - Purse and contents recovered,
less $2, Pound Residence Hall.
7:45 p.m. - Speakers reported stolen from
car, Area 1 parking lot, i8ih and R streets,
$225 damage to car, $160 loss.
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