Regents discuss minorities, KSC
Science center planned j
By Mark Georgeff
Staff Reporter
Ground-breaking for the Nebraska
Center for Science and Technology
has been scheduled for November,
1991, John Goebel, UNL vice chan
cellor for business and finance, told
the NU Board of Regents at their
meeting Saturday.
The center will be built on the east
edge of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln City Campus, on Vine Street
between 19th and 20th streets.
Goebel said construction on the
$23.7 million, federally funded proj
ect should be completed no later than
the summer of 1994.
The new facility will house the
department of Chemical Engineer
ing, the Center for Biological Chem
istry and the Center for Biotechnol
ogy, he said, including space for
undergraduate, graduate and research
programs and laboratories.
“One of the things that’s been
important in pulling this program
together has been to work toward
flexibility. Laboratory needs, research
needs change with time, and one of
the things we have tried very hard to
do is to provide an overall facility that
can change as the limes change,”
Goebel said.
Regent Kcrmit Hansen of Elkhom
said he thinks the biotechnology and
agricultural experts from areas such
as North Platte, Clay Center, Con
cord and Mead may not feel part of
the Lincoln-based facility.
“My plea is that somewhere in the
building there be cither space or simply
designation that this is for our greater
Nebraska cohorts. They do not feel
that they arc part of this center,”
Hansen said.
‘ ‘ I strongly recommend that you at
least accord them some identity,” he
said.
Goebel agreed with Hansen’s views,
saying, “One of the reasons this fa
cility is important is to make Ne
braska-and I do not mean simply
Lincoln-the center for biotechnol
ogy. And it will be important to pull
In those people, and we arc working
on it.”
Also at the regents’ meeting, UNL
Student Regent Phil Gosch called for
continued improvement in the recruit
ment of minority faculty members at
UNL.
“We need to develop an atmos
phere of understanding and apprecia
tion,” Gosch said.
It’s important to students to be
educated in a culturally rich environ
ment, he said, emphasizing that UNL
still has a long way to go.
Gosch said Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs James Gricscn has
done valuable work for the programs.
“His work has made an incredible
difference in the past two years,”
Gosch said.
UNL Chancellor Martin Masscn
galc called minority recruitment a
“long term goal we're trying to
achieve.”
“We are working on il consis- |
tently,” he said.
Regent Rosemary Skrupa of Omaha ■
emphasized giving key consideration |
to hiring American Indian faculty k
members. 3
UNL Academic Senate President
James McShane said Kearney State
College has hired a “sizeable” num
ber of minority faculty members, but
difficulties exist in competition for
such members when salaries arc low.
He said hiring is an important
matter, because the future will con
sist of half the entry-level work force
being women and minorities and stu
dents will need access to varied cul
tures.
In other business, Masscngalc called
the Kearney Stale College integra
tion into the NU system “a mile
stone.”
He said the July, 1991, integration
will help deliver quality education
statewide.
“We generate more energy by
having all the parts together,” Mas
sengalc said, addipg that the stale will
be served better through this integra
tion.
Board of Regents Chairman Donald
Blank of McCook said the NU ad
ministration is working “diligently ”
to bring Kearney into the system in
“spirit as well as body.”
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