Enrollment
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rials and information about the cam
pus, city and state, he said.
And, Lawson said, in the past two
years he has traveled to other cam
puses on recruitment tours.
“I went to Colorado State last week,”
he said. “I spoke to over 120 prospec
tive students.”
He said UNL will continue to in
tensify its recruiting efforts, adding
that he plans to visit colleges in Iowa,
North Dakota and Oklahoma this year.
The Nebraska Research Initiative,
developed in the state Legislature,
also is responsible for the increased
enrollment, Lawson said.
The funding received through the
initiative over the past three years —
about $8 million—has allowed UNL
to increase the number of associateships
it finances, he said.
Additional funding for fellowships
and assistantships will attract high
quality applicants to graduate pro
grams, he said.
Although Lawson said a downturn
in the economy and a lack of jobs
might be part of the reason for the
increase in enrollment in graduate
studies, he stressed that it was not the
deciding factor.
“I am finding that the number of
applications is increasing primarily
in the number of students seeking a
degree in a particular discipline,” he
said.
A graduating senior who was un
able to get a job probably would en
roll in an unspecified discipline, he
said.
“I don’t really consider that the
economy is the entire answer” to the
increase, he said.
UNL undergraduate enrollment
dropped 1 percent from fall 1990 to
fall 1991, according to fall enroll
ment reports.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, attributed the decrease
to the drop in the number of graduat
ing high school seniors in Nebraska.
In 1991, Griesen said, 7.7 percent
fewer seniors graduated from Nebraska
high schools than in 1990. In 1990, he
said, 5.4 percent fewer seniors gradu
ated from Nebraska high schools than
in 1989.
“The decline we see in high schools
are almost exactly the same as the
drop in enrollment,” Griesen said.
Griesen said enrollment declines
in individual departments, such as
business administration and engineer
ing, were not significant.
“We see shifts all the time,” he
said. “Certain departments are cycli
cal in nature.”
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developers and works on agree
ments and compensation payments,
he said.
These payments range from
grants for livestock and agriculture
to small loans to set up businesses,
he said.
Hitchcock also has worked with
bushmen in Swaziland and Ethio
pian refugees in Somalia. Lately he
has focused on women’s problems
in Africa, he said. The poorest
families arc headed by females, he
said, and laws need to be changed
to accommodate these families.
Hitchcock said he has been
“moderately successful” in helping
Africans.
“Some of the groups are better
off than before, but I certainly
haven’t ended poverty in Africa,”
he said.
His anthropology background
has been valuable, Hitchcock said.
He knows several native African
languages, which helps him put the
groups he is working with at case,
he said.
Hitchcock said he tries to bring
his successes to both his under
graduate and graduate classes.
Experiences from the summer
remained fresh in his mind because
he didn’t return to Nebraska until
the day before fall classes started,
he said.
Anthropology is more than
studying other cultures, Hitchcock
said. He said he wants to leach his
students to do more than observe
problems.
“Anthropologists have been
unpopular as a group because
people resented them coming and
watching without leaving anything
behind,” he said, adding that he
hopes his students will leave
something behind.
University of Nebraska President
Martin Masscngalc’s suggestion to
strengthen tics between black South
African students, black South
African colleges’and UNL is an en
couraging sign, Hitchcock said,
adding that he hoped UNL could
help South Africans with medicine
and agricultural technology.
The eagerness of his students to
help solve the world’s problems,
especially ecological problems, is
also impressive, Hitchcock said.
It as a “healthy sign” that non
anthropology majors, such as
agriculture and economics students,
are taking his classes, he said.
“Economists run the world. It’s
good to give them an ecological
slant,” he said.
And, he said, students must learn
about the human-rights side of
anthropology because that’s where
most jobs are.
“Anthropology has become a
monetary issue because more is
done through international donors
than pure research,” he said.
Hitchcock’s work doesn’t end in
the classroom.
He brought his community
services back to Nebraska, he said,
by working with the Center for
Rural Affairs to push for bills to
protect family farms.
He also wants to work with the
Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, he said.
Next week, Hitchcock said he
will leave again for Africa for a
two-week investigation of a grass
roots program in the newly inde
pendent Namibia.
UNO
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“The professors here aren’t pro
fessors who couldn’t make it in Lin
coln,” he said.
Vanevenhoven said he introduced
the resolution in an attempt to create
equality between NU’s campuses.
He said he thought one problem is
that UNL gets preferential treatment
from the NU Board of Regents.
“The regents run on the basis that
UNL gives them free football tickets
rather than on the basis that they can
make the University of Nebraska
system run as well as it can,” he said.
Vanevenhoven said he recognized
that UNO’s student senate would have
some difficulty in enforcing their
resolution.
Andy Massey, president of the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, said he thought
the issue was insignificant.
“Why arc we spending time with
this?” he asked. “I think there has to
be something more important to be
dealing with than what you call your
self.”
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