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Spanier says gender equity a high priority
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By Roger Price *
_ Senior Editor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s
new chancellor, Graham Spanier,
outlined steps Saturday that he is taking
to achieve gender-equity goals estab
lished by the NU Board of Regents in
September.
At a regents meeting, Spanier said
, gender equity was “an area that is tc
have a very high priority with me in
- the coming months.”
To achieve the board’s goals,
Spanier said he had completed a re
view of the affirmative action office
and was making changes in its struc
ture, leadership and staffing.
Spanier said he
had begun a na
tional search fora
new assistant to
the chancellor and
director of af
firmative action and diversity. Brad
Munn, UNL’s affirmative action/equal
opportunity compliance officer, was
reassigned as a journalism college
professor last week.
Until a permanent replacement is
found, Spanier said, Carmen Maurer,
NLj assistant general counsel, would
fill the position.
By making the affirmative action
officer an assistant to the chancellor,
and by making gender equity and
multicultural diversity a personal
priority, Spanier said he hoped to
give the office a “fresh look — more
streamlined and responsive.”
Spanier said he wanted the affirma
tive action office to review all faculty
appointments before they were ap
proved.
As the role of the affirmative ac
tion office expands, Spanier said he
foresaw the role of the university’s
ombudsman in multicultural and
gender issues decreasing.
Spanier said he also was develop
ing a training program on gender equity
and multicultural diversity for fac
ulty and staff members. The program
would be presented to all new faculty
and staff members beginning next
fall.
The program also would be pre
sented to existing faculty and staff
members on a voluntary basis, he
said.
Spanier said he wanted to revise
the university’s policy on fonily leave,
maternity leave and day care.
“Our system is not as generous as
it might be,” he said.
Spanier said he also was hiring an
administrative intern for minority
women and faculty, establishing a
system for surveying faculty and staff
who are leaving and creating a cam
pus-based board of visitors for mul
ticultural diversity.
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• Reducing stale funding support
for the Research Council, $38,000.
~ • Reducing state funding support
for the University Press, $12,466.
• Eliminating unallocated funds
for the proposed College of Fine and
Performing Arts, $150,000.
• Eliminating Drafting Design En
gineering Technology Program,
$138,700.
• Eliminating Fire Protection
Technology Program budget, $8,400.
• Reducing Teachers College Ad
ministrative Office Management
Program budget, $9,900.
• Eliminating Recreation and
Leisure Studies budget, $69,600.
• Reducing Administrative Sup
port Savings in HPER', $8,500.
• Eliminating Hospitality Man
agement Program budget, $90,000.
advances during the December
closedown, SI,200.
• Combining communications and
computing services for administra
tive consolidations/rcductions,
$151,100.
• Reducing three personnel to 10
month contracts in public relations
and the length of the Scarlet and press
releases to Nebraska weekly newspa
pers, SI9,000.
• Reducing support for director oi
Nebraska Human Resources Institute
salary, SI,080.
• Reducing Institute of Agricul
ture and Natural Resources admini
stration, $170,700.
• Combining Water Center and
Environmental Programs, $98,600.
• Combining departments of Ag
ricultural Education and Agricultural
Communication and the Center for
Leadership Development, $94,400.
• Restructuring IANR Research
and Extension Administration in the
College of Home Economics, $33,600.
• Eliminating five faculty posi
tions in Crop Production, $263,900.
• Eliminating Poultry Nutrition
faculty position, managerial profes
sional position and support staff,
$225,800.
• Eliminating six county exten
sion positions, $178,000.
• Eliminating two faculty posi
tions and shifting two full-year ap
pointments to academic-year appoint
ments in the College of Agricultural
Sciences and Natural Resources,
S 146,500.
• Eliminating ROTC Tri-Service
Budget, S2,748.
• Eliminating Counseling Center
office supervisor position, $22,226.
This elimination was not supported
by the BRRC.
• Reducing Counseling Center
operating budget support, $5,726. This
elimination was not supported by the
BRRC.
• Phasing out funding for the Center
for Technology Management and
Decision Sciences, S208.593.
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This treatment could not be ap
plied at UNL because no one at the
uniyersiLy is qualified to apply it, he
said.
“You have to be an expert to apply
the treatment,” he said. “It’s not like
slapping on Sears Wcathcrbeatcr.”
After the board voted not to dis
cuss the trade, Cleaver expressed his
disappointment.
“This is a display of bureaucracy
at its best with absolutely nothing
being accomplished,” he said.
In other business:
• The board approved the S4.88
million bid from Builders, Inc. of
Lincoln for the construction of the
45,000 square-foot addition to the
College of Business Administration.
Construction is scheduled to begin
early next year and be completed by
June 1993.
• A revised budget of S31,3 mil
lion was approved for construction of
the George W. Beadle Center for
Genetics and Biomatcrials Research
at 19th and Vine streets. The original
budget for the project was cut by S1.7
million to accommodate shortfalls in
funding. The board also approved
acquiring the remaining seven lots
required for construction of the proj
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• The reassignment of Brad Munn
from the affirmative action/cqual
opportunity compliance office to
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Journalism news-editorial department
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