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<^V3 NebraiskaN New requirement to affect students’ teaching assignments ny i nnstine 1'illard Staff Reporter Anew requirement implemented last year for the UNL Teach ers College will affect student teaching assignments in the fall, ac cording to Alvah Kilgore, associate dean of the college. The change requires students to have substantial teaching experiences in schools with at least a 10 percent minority enrollment. All Omaha Public Schools meet this requirement, Kilgore said, but only 15 schools in Lincoln do. There are schools in other parts of the state that meet the percentage, he said. The requirement is part of the Teachers College Multicultural En richment Plan, Kilgore said. It is designed to prepare students for the future, and the future is cultural di versity, he said. “Every one of our graduates should be able to teach anywhere in the United States,” he said. Students have two opportunities to meet the field experience in cultural diversity, Kilgore said. It can be completed when students instruct for their “teaching methods” class 01 during the semester-long student teach ing assignment. Students who complete the require ment during the methods portion of their program may student teach in a school not meeting the minority per centage, Kilgore said. Students who already have completed their meth ods class, however, must student teach in schools meeting the minority per centage, he said. Most students who had to change their preferences for student leaching assignments did so graciously, Kilgore said, but there were a few who were not satisfied. Students are not the only ones who are alfecled by the change. Schools that are accustomed to student teach ers may see fewer of them this year. Kilgore said officials from schools not meeting the percentage such as Millard Public Schools, P'apillion/ LaVista Public Schools and certain schools in Lincoln understand the goal of multicultural diversity experiences for student teachers, but are sorry they will not be receiving as many students from UNL. This will be a transitional year, Kilgore said, and the college still has some things to work out in imple menting the new requirement. UJNL director resigns post By Jennifer Dods Staff Reporter om Krepel, director of university rela tions and assistant to the chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has resigned his post to take a position in Minne sota effective Sept. 4. Krepel will become an associate professor at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., in the Center for Educational Admini stration and Leadership. Krepel, who has been at UNL for four years, said his experiences at UNL will provide a background for his teaching position at St. Cloud. Before accepting the UNL position, Krepel was an assistant professor at the Uni ver sity of New Orleans for three years. He said the most e> citing thing about his job was its variety. His responsibilities ranged from coordinating a visit from President Bush to working with Farm Aid II. Krepel said he thought he had three major accomplishments at UNL. One was an increase in employee and fac ulty salaries, which he said he worked on for four years. Higher salaries make UNL more competitive with other universities, he said. Another accomplishment, he said, is the improved relationship between UNL and the technical and community colleges in the state. Krepel said he worked on allowing easier credit transfers and establishing joint projects, such as learning centers. Krcpcl said the third highlight of his job was working to create the Davis Scholarship Fund, which uses money from public and private resources for minority student undergraduate scholarships at UNL. “There’s no other way to describe my four years here than a heck of a lot of l un,” he said. Krcpcl won’t be involved as much with administrative policies at St. Cloud, but he said he is looking forward to getting back to teach ing. At his new post, he will teach classes such as education policy and research methods, he said. “I’ve missed the grad students, my research and teaching,” he said. But Krcpcl also said he will miss Nebraska, his friendships and the teamwork at UNL. The native Nebraskan received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from UNL. “There arc some really great people at this institution. UNL has a very solid future,” he said. Though the decision to leave was hard to make, Krcpcl said he thought the lime was right. “There’s always a time to move on. It’s a rare opportunity to go back to something I enjoy immensely,” he said. St. Cloud State University has 17,0(X) stu dents and is a member of the Minnesota Stale University System. The Center for Educational Administration and Leadership is a graduate program within St. Cloud's College of Educa tion. Divestment compromise offered By Jana Pedersen Editor NL Academic Senate President James MeShane on Saturday offered the NU Board of Regents a ‘ ‘reasonable kind ol compromise” to faculty members’ concerns over the NU Foundation’s South African in vestments. The foundation could follow the example set by the Merrill Lynch investment company, MeShane said. He said Merrill Lynch keeps a list of compa nies that do business in South Africa and will not invest in those companies unless a client makes a specific request for such an invest ment. If the foundation were truly worried about South African investments, it could employ a similar system of selective investment, he said. ‘‘(If the foundation) were willing to say. ‘Well, we’re insufficiently unsure about this, but for people who ... would like to invest in this particular area, we might be willing to accept it, although under ordinary circumstances we don’t invest our money here,’ it seems to me that would be a reasonable kind of compro mise,” McShanc said. Many University of Ncbraska-Lincoln fac ulty members feel “very strongly about this issue,” McShanc told the regents. Members of the UNL Academic Senate passed a resolution last spring encouraging the foundation to divest, he said. McShanc said he wanted to deliver the reso lution’s message to the regents even though the foundation is a private organization not di rectly lied to NU. “I do understand that this body is not in absolute control of the foundation," he said. “I See REGENTS on 2 Mtchalle Paulman Daily Nebraskan Missed a spot! Scott Trombley, a 23-year-o.d employee of Roy’s Window Service, stretches precariously to clean the top windows of the Wick Alumni Center.
