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campus in the university, state col
lege and community college systems.
Within the NU system, the report
recommends that UNL, the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha and the
University of Nebraska at Kearney
raise admissions standards. It also
calls for the campuses to eliminate
remedial education programs; those
programs, it says, should be handled
at the state and community colleges.
The report called the University of
Nebraska Medical Center “a leader in
health-related research” and said that
no program changes were needed.
Gosch said the report’s goals for
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
are reasonable.
“I think our major institutions’
approach of taking anybody and eve
rybody” is obsolete, he said. “Maybe
we’re at a point where that should be
reconsidered.”
Blank said the regents have been
working on raising admissions stan
dards. A continual problem has been
to become more selective while not
blocking Nebraska students from
Nebraska colleges, he said.
Admissions standards should not
be set so high that students are forced
to leave the state, Blank said, espe
cially in areas like architecture and
dentistry, which are offered only at
UNL.
Gosch expressed concern that the
Widmayer consultants were giving
UNO too much latitude.
While he agreed that some pro
grams at UNO can support doctoral
degrees, he said the report gives “more
of a blank check” than a controlled
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Regent Margaret Robinson of Norfolk confers with Regent John Payne of Kearney at the re
gents' meeting Tuesday night in Varner Hall.
Student regents differ on vote I
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
University of Nebraska student
regents had varying opinions on the
NU Board of Regents’ vote for Mar
tin Massengale as NU president, but
agreed that the university should look
to the future.
'Die regents Tuesday voted 5-3 to
allow regents Chairman Don Blank
of McCook to begin contract negotia
tions with University of Ncbraska
Lincoln Chancellor and NU Interim
President Massengale.
Mark Meyer, University of Ne
braska Medical Center student re
gent, said he voted against Massen
gale because he felt he was not more
Qualified than the four external can
idates selected by the search com
mittee.
Meyer said he thinks Massengale
is a good person, but does not have as
strong of an educational background
as the other candidates. Also, he said
he thinks Massengale does not have
the leadership skills or assertive,
positive outlook for the university
that is needed for the job.
With any internal candidate who
has worked for one campus, potential
exists for bias against the other cam
puses, Meyer said.
“As much as I think Martin Mas
sengale as a person would do every
thing in his power” not to be biased,
this would be less likely with an ex
ternal candidate, Meyer said.
He said Massengale will do a good
job as president and all will do their
best to work with him. But “the ground
work is laid for it not to be the easiest
transition” into the presidency, Meyer
said.
Kelli Sears, University of Nebraska
at Omaha student regent, said the
decision has been made and the uni
versity will have to live with it.
“It’s most important to focus on
the future . . she said. This is
because some faculty and adminis
trators at UNMC, UNO and Kearney
State College are not in favor of
Massengale as president, she said.
Sears, who voted against Massen
gale, said this will not help Masscn
gale’s presidency because presidents
usually are hired with the majority of
faculty members and administrators
in support.
“They rarely go in with the major
ity of faculty and administrator against
them, and succeed,” she said.
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will weigh in his decision, he said.
“I’m looking at the future of the
university,” Massengale said. ‘‘If
everyone works together, the univer
sity has a great future.”
The decision to offer Massengale
the NU presidential position followed
an 11-day period of turmoil.
On Nov. 9, the Presidential Search
Committee forwarded a list of four
external candidates with the provi
sion that the board could consider any
internal candidates.
During board interviews with the
external candidates in Kansas City,
Mo., Nov. 11-12, Massengale was
considered by the board and inter
viewed.
Less than one week later, the four
external candidates withdrew their
names from consideration, and Mas
sengale was the sole presidential
candidate.
In a 5-3 vote Tuesday, the board
decided to offer a contract to Massen
gale with terms to be discussed be
tween Blank and Massengale. The
contract then would be presented to
the board for approval.
Blank said that “by midweek, we
should have something put together
we have agreed on and will be ready
to present something to the regents.
“It may be a little later than that,
but I suspect we will act on this before
the next board meeting,” he said.
Blank said that he, Massengale
and Regent John Payne of Kearney
discussed some contract details while
attending the Nebraska-Oklahoma
football game in Norman, Okla., this
weekend. Blank declined tocomment
on the details discussed.
Blank said that if he and Masscn
gale have worked out the details of
the contract by midweek, the board
will consider its approval at a special
teleconference board meeting. Oth
erwise, consideration of the contract
will be delayed until the board’sregu
larly scheduled December meeting,
he said.
Contract details under discussion
include salary and such benefits as
the house provided by the University
of Nebraska Foundation for the NU
president. Blank said.__
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time the board ousted Ronald Roskcns
as president.
Three senators said that the public
has misunderstood and been confused
by the search process.
Warner said what he has heard
from citizens is “bewilderment at how
a group of elected officials could act
as they have for the last couple of
years,” from the time the board fired
Roskens in the summer of 1989.
Sen. Merton Dierks of Ewing said
the public is asking, “Why go through
the process? Tliey spent all this money
on the search and all of a sudden, all
the ones (candidates) chosen tacked
out.”
Wehrbein said the public has some
misconceptions and misunderstand
ings about the search process — the
way it was conducted, what the em
phasis was and the way the facts about
it were brought out.
Warner said that the search proc
ess “seemed very1 reasonable and the
other individuals I heard about were
credible. I have no criticism about
that. But what the board did after that
was another story.”
He said the Nebraska public is
directing criticism against the board
rather than the university.
But people outside the state, par
ticularly in the academic community,
are not making that distinction, Warner
said.
“The actions of the regents in the
last two years could adversely affect
the university,” he said.
The relationship between the
Legislature and the university also
has been damaged, Warner said.
“I never anticipate any sort of vin
dictiveness or retaliatory type of ac
tion,” he said. “But enthusiasm for
support of the university will be less.”
The regents’ actions possibly could
have an adverse effect on any extra
funding. But that may be a “moot
point,” Warner said, “because it’s
going to be a tight budget in any
event.”
Another effect of the regents’
handling of the search, Warner said,
is that “the regents strengthened sig
nificantly in the minds of the legisla
tors the need for an effective, strong
coordinating commission (for higher
education).’”
Sen. Ron Withem of Papillion,
however, said that requests from the
university will get “closer scrutiny
because there won’t be the trust level
(between the Legislature and univer
sity) that ideally should be there."
Warner said there is “kind of a dis
illusionment” with the management
of the university at the regent level.
“Maybe that’s part of the prob
lcm,” he said. “The regents were try ing
to be managers rather than poli
cymakers.” f
Sen. Scott Moore of Seward said If
that if the university can “put it all
together” before the budget process I
begins next spring, the Legislature’s I
treatment of NU will be the same.
“There’s not going to be any rctri- r
bution because of Massengale’s hir- I
ing,” Moore said. “I believe we’re
above that.
“But if the university is not united
in what it’s saying and in its priorities
... the whole deck of cards will come
tumbling down,” he said, referring to
each campus competing for “each
piece of the pie.”
The senators said the board’s best
course of action now is to “quit bick
ering and move on,” in the words of
Wehrbein.
Dierks said that what the board
needs to do now is “take the reins and
run. Back the man (Massengale) 400
percent and never look back. They
need to be completely open with the I
public and the Legislature with what I
they are doing.” *-'«
Moore said the board needs to “hire I
Massengale, let him do the job, don t I
second guess him and stay out of the I
headlines.”
“I hope it’s over,” he said. “The ft
time has come to stop bleeding and I
move ahead.”