Job competition
not noticed by
UNL director
By Kara Wells
Staff Reporter
Despite indications that the 1990
job market for college graduates is
more competitive, an assistant direc
tor of the UNL Career Planning and
Placement Center said she hasn’t
noticed the effect in Lincoln.
“I haven’t seen it, though statisti
cally it’s there,” Geri Cotter said.
An annual study by researchers at
Michigan Slate University reported
that 1990 has. the most competitive
job market for col lege graduates since
the early 1980s.
Despite this study, which appeared
in the June 13 issue of the Chronicle
of Higher Education, Cotter said she
hasn’t seen a decline in employers
wanting to interview at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln. She said
there actually has been an increase in
new employers interviewing.
Approximately 400 local and na
tional firms interview on campus, she
said.
Last year, reports showed that in
the 1990s, the business world was
supposed to “open up” in the job
market for graduates. Cotter said. But
she said she feels those reports are
misleading, and the impact should
not be felt until the middle of the
decade.
Sandra Knight, assistant director
at the Career Planning and Placement
Center, said the reports Cotter re
ferred to were issued by the College
of Placement Council. The reports
state that during the 1990s, there will
be an increase in jobs and a decrease
in graduates, creating a greater de
mand for graduates, she said.
NLJ requires
budget hike
From Staff Reports
The University of Nebraska
will need a $76.6 million in
crease in its 1991-93 biennium
budget to keep at its current
level of operation, according to
a preliminary budget presented
Friday to the NU Board of
Regents.
i ne preliminary ouagcicatis
for a 10 percent faculty salary
increase, an 11 percent increase
in staff salaries and a 20 percent
increase in health insurance costs
for the University of Nebraska
and Kearney State College.
Kearney State will merge with
the NU system in July, 1991.
The top priority listed by
UNL, UNO and Kearney State
in the budget request was addi
tional faculty members.
UNL asked for $30 million
for new faculty members dur
ing the budget period. Robert
Furgason, UNL vice chancellor
for academic affairs, said most
of the new teachers would be
for the College of Arts & Sci
ences.
In the last lew years, UNL
has increased the number of
classes offered, he said, but it
hasn’t increased the number of
faculty members.
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