Grant to help raise
math awareness
By Trish Spencer
Staff Reporter
A $4.47 million federal grant
awarded to the University of Nebraska
will help build mathematics aware
ness and enable more advanced learn
ing in the state, an organizer said.
Donald Miller, a professor of
mathematics and statistics at UNL
and director of the Nebraska Mathe
matics Coalition, said the money will
go toward public awareness programs,
distance learning projects, elemen
tary school projects and the recruit
ment of women and minorities into
math and science-related fields.
The University of Nebraska will
receive the state systemic initiatives
award from the National Science
Foundation over the next five years to
promote math and science programs
in kindergarten through college.
The awards, which range from $5
to $10 million, were awarded to 10
stales on the basis of proposals sub
mitted by state governors, Miller said.
Nebraska’s proposal was submit
ted to the NSF by former Gov. Kay
Orr last October, Miller said. Ne
braska did not request more than $5
million in order to increase its chance
of being chosen, he said.
Thirteen states were selected for
personal visits on the basis of the
proposals, Miller said, and NSF sent a
team to Nebraska to check out UNL
and the mcmbfcrs of the mathematics
coalition, who include Gov. Ben
Nelson and Miller.
NSF was impressed by the coali
tion members, UNLand the proposal,
Miller said. NSF was especially inter
ested in the distance learning project,
he said.
The goal of the distance learning
project is to bring quality science and
math courses to small schools, Miller
said.
This will be accomplished by de
signing special courses for elemen
tary teachers, initiating staff develop
ment programs and transmitting math
and science courses to small schools
by satellite, Miller said.
Another goal of the coalition, he
said, is to decrease the amount of
repetition students experience in math
classes in kindergarten through sixth
grade. This would enable students to
start advanced classes like algebra a
year sooner, Miller said.
Additional experience in math and
science is increasingly important, he
said.
Stricter teacher requirements and
the devotion of more time to math
and science are other strategies planned
to promote advanced subjects, Miller
said.
The National Science Foundation
award will come to the state through
the UNL Department of Mathematics
and Statistics, but will be distributed
by the Nebraska Mathematics Coali
tion to schools in the state, Miller
said. The state of Nebraska is to match
the NSF award with its own funding,
he said, which will be accomplished
with state tax dollars.
Regent: Council satisfied with new role
From Staff Reports
The Council for Public Higher
Education allayed concerns about
its role in a restructured higher
education system in a meeting with
Gov. Ben Nelson, Regent Nancy
O’Brien said Wednesday.
The voluntary council met with
Nelson Tuesday and exchanged
ideas on the strengthened Nebraska
Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education, which had
been only an advisory body.
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The council had been concerned
about being phased out of exis
tence by the commission when it
becomes stronger Monday.
O’Brien, who heads the coun
cil, said its members were given
Nelson’s view of their role in the
new system.
The governor said the council
would be “an efficient vehicle for
the commission to use to stay in
contact with the sectors of higher
education,” O’Brien said, which
council members were satisfied
with.
“It was a very positive meet
ing,” she said, with the governor
and council members exchanging
ideas on the commission.
Council members had feared that
the governor saw the new commis
sion members as agents to best
serve the state, not as political
appointees, O’Brien said, but these
fears were laid to rest.
The governor has until Monday
to name the 11 commission mem
bers.
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