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A bicyclist is viewed through the 10th Street bridge fence as he makes his way to class Tuesday.
Deans say
residency
rules lax
By Bill Stratbucker
Staff Reporter-•
The* University of Ncbraska-Lin
coln’s residency policy should be
stricter, and such a change would not
hamper enrollment, two college deans
said.
Will Norton, dean of the College
of Journalism, said he doesn't think
making it more difficult for out-of
state students to achieve residency
would greatly impact his enrollment.
“It's the in-slate students— that is
our bread-and-butter folk,” he said.
Regents arc considering a stricter
residency policy that would make it
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sily students to achieve in-state tui
tion rates. r
Currently, most out-of-state stu
dents must live in Nebraska for only
six months before achieving residency.
Morris Schneider, acting dean of
the College of Engineering and Tech
nology, said he also doubts if a stricter
policy would affect recruiting of
engineering students.
“The students that come from out
of state would come anyway,” he
said.
He said most out-of-state engi
neering students come to UNL be
cause of a family tic or arc foreign
students.
In order to pay in-slalc tuition rates,
he said, ‘‘Maybe it shouldn’t be as
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Official: Legal problem plagues UNL faculty retirement plan
Regents put off discussing program
By Steve Pearson
Staff Reporter
he much criticized and delayed
proposed faculty retirement in
centive program was kept off
the Board of Regents’ agenda again
by a legal problem, NU Vice Presi
dent and General Counsel Richard
Wood said.
Wood said a provision of the pro
posed program would violate the
Federal Older Workers Benefit Pro
tection Act.
The nlan as orieinallv worded would
have given faculty members between
the ages of 55 and 66 the option to cut
their workloads to no more than 50
percent. Seven years after voluntarily
entering the program, faculty mem
bers would be forced to retire.
. “The legal problem is putting an
upper age limit on ihc program,” Wood
said. The program was taken off the
regents’ agenda in April, May and
June.
Wood is exploring a way to make
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I do think the university
is making a good faith
effort to come up with
a good plan.
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Academic Senate president
the program comply w
should be ready for consideration at
the regents’ September meeting, he
said.
“One alternative under considera
tion.” Wood said, ‘‘is to place a lime
limil on ihc program itself rather than
enforcing an upper age limil, keeping
the program open for one year, for
example.”
The program came under sharp
criticism by some faculty members
last spring. Former Academic Senate
President James McShanc said at the
time that the “program is deeply troub
ling to the faculty.”
Current Academic Senate Presi
dent George Tuck said he docs not
think the Board of Regents is stalling
consideration of the program due to
the criticism.
“I think they are trying to be very
careful about it,” Tuck said. "I do
think the university is making a good
faith effort to come up with a good
plan. I don’t think they arc trying to
stall.”
The change in the relircmcni pol
icy was proposed because NU policy
calls for tenured factilty members to
retire at age 70, which may be illegal
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An exemption to the Age Discrimi
nation in Employment Act ol 1967
allows mandatory retirement ages for
tenured faculty members, but the
provision will expire at the end of
1993.
Tuck supported elimination of the
mandatory retirement age.
“I think they (professors) ought to
be around as long as they arc good
productive members of the univer
sity,” he said.
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Review team to tell regents
ag college support needed
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The Nebraska College of Tech
nical Agriculture is a “sound
investment” for the statcand
should continue to be administered
by UNL, a review team will report
to the regents Saturday.
The review team will tell the
NU Board of Regents at its meet
ing Saturday in Kearney that im
provements have been made at the
Curtis campus since the school’s
closure ana resurrection in
“The slate of Nebraska should
continue to support the Nebraska
College of Technical Agriculture
as a sound investment for the eco
nomic development of the state
and service lo the people,” the
team report states.
The Curtis campus, which is
under the authority of Irv Omtvcdt,
vice chancellor for the Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Lincoln, closed down in 1988, only
to be revived by the Nebraska
Legislature the same year.
The review team said admini
stration through UNL’s ag insti
tute is “the important key to the
success and recovery of NCTA.”
At their meeting, the regents
also will be asked to approve a
major in environmental studies at
UNL. The major would be offered
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Sciences and Natural Resources
and the College of Arts and Sci
ences, with students choosing a
Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor
of Arts degree.
The major’s goal would be to
educate students in the fundamen
tals of environmental science and
social sciences and make them
familiar with opportunities for
environmental solutions, accord
ing to the regents’ agenda item.