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Glen Droghman, greenhouse manager, waters plants in the tropical room of the greenhouses located between Burnett and
Bessey halls.
Tuition hiked
Official says NU tuition rates still competitive
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
Despite tuition increases, the Uni
versity of Nebraska will re
main competitive with other
universities, an NU administrator said.
Executive Vice President and
Provost Lee Jones said increases at
the universities to which the NU
campuses compare themselves will
keep the university viable.
A 7 percent tuition increase at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln and
the University of Nebraska Medical
Center was close to the average 6.4
percent tuition increase at other A AU
land-grant institutions and 9.4 per
cent increase at other medical cen
ters, Jones said.
Increases at the University of
Nebraska at Omaha and University of
Nebraska at Kearney also are similar
to 7.6 and 7.5 percent tuition increases
at their peer institutions, he said.
The NU Board of Regents approved
tuition increases for the NU cam
puses at its Saturday meeting. The
increase at UNL will bring under
graduate resident tuition to $57.25
per semester credit hour. Nonresident
tuition will be SI55.75 per credit hour.
Tuition for graduate students also
was raised at Saturday’s meeting. At
UNL, resident graduate tuition will
be $75.75 per credit hour, with a
$187.25 rate for non-residents.
Jones said that in past years, tui
tion for graduate programs had been
more than 25 percent higher than
undergraduate tuition.
Although graduate tuition was
increased nearly 7 percent for next
year, it proportionately makes that
tuition less than 25 percent higher
than undergraduate tuition.
The NU Board of Regents has a
three-year plan to increase graduate
tuition to make it 25 percent higher.
William Nester, president of the
University of Nebraska at Kearney,
said the three-year plan is important,
but that something is missing.
“General fund support is not on a
three-year plan,” he said.
Regent Nancy Hoch of Nebraska
City agreed.
“The Legislature is not increasing
their obligation; students are,” she
said.
Tuition was increased to help pay
faculty salary increases the regents
had agreed to, but that the Legislature
did not finance.
Blank pushes
for residency
rule changes
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
iberal Nebraska residency re
quirements are forcing Ne
braska taxpayers to pay for
educating out-of-state students, the
regents chairman said.
NU Regent Don Blank of McCook
said out-of-state students can easily
fill the requirements required for resi
dency in Nebraska.
“It is a sham,” he said.
Blank said he thinks it is unfair
that out-of-state students can come to
Nebraska for their educations, leave
immediately after getting their de
grees and still be granted in-state tui
tion rales.
The purpose of in-stalc tuition, he
said, is to subsidize the education of
Nebraska students who are likely to
• stay in the state.
John Beacon, director of admis
sions at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, said about 8 percent of Uni
versity of Nebraska students are non
residents.
There arc eight categories under
which to apply for residency, he said,
with the requirements depending on
the individual’s circumstances.
Some of the requirements are a
current Nebraska drivers license, a
checking or savings account with a
Nebraska institution, employment in
the state or evidence of paying Ne
braska income lax, Beacon said.
He said the category most fresh
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Woman, minority chancellor
candidates please official
by bteve Pearson
Staff Reporter
Dhc inclusion of a woman and
a racial minority among the
five finalists for University
of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor has
drawn a good review from a fac
ulty leader.
George Tuck, president of the
Academic Senate, said he is pleased
with the search committee’s move.
“Some representation is an im
provement,” Tuck said. “Anytime
you’ve got a narrow pool like that,
the fact that we have these groups
represented is encouraging. We’re
really doing much belter than some
people would have expected."
The Academic Senate had urged
consideration of women and mi
norities for the position, and the
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska passed a
resolution pressing for serious
consideration of women and mi
norities.
The search committee narrowed
its list of candidates to five Mon
day and presented them to Univer
sity of Nebraska President Martin
Masscngalc.
Massengalc will select the new
chancellor, with approval required
by the NU Board of Regents.
Harvey Perlman, search com
mittee chairman and dean of the
College of Law, said committee
members narrowed their list from
11 candidates Monday and reached
“virtual unanimity” on the five
names they forwarded to Masscn
galc. The names were not made
public.
Perlman said the finalists are
“extraordinarily qualified, have a
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