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Special Edition: New Student Enrollment
Despite tuition increases, UNL
remains affordable in Big Eight
By Sam S. Kepfield
Staff Reporter
Despite a 7.5 percent increase in tuition
rates, UNL remains one of the most
affordable schools in the Big Eight, one
administrator said.
The office of Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs James Griesen recently conducted a
survey that ranked the University of Nebraska
Lincoln fifth in overall total costs in the Big
Eight
In 1991-1992, a resident undergraduate at
UNL enrolled in 30 hours of courses in the
College of Arts and Sciences paid an average of
$4,713.50 in tuition, mandatory fees and room
and board.
UNL ranked fourth in tuition costs, at
$1,717.50 per year, eighth in mandatory fees
totalling $176 and finished sixth in room and
board at $2,820.
The 7.42 percent jump in tuition was larger
than anticipated, Gricsen said. Initially, he
said, UNL contemplated only a 5 percent rise in
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University makes effort to
bridge student racial gap
By Steffenie Fries
Staff Report* ~
While one University of Ne
braska-Lincoln student re
mains doubtful about the
campus racial environment, adminis
trators are hopeful of improvement.
Angela Green, a junior political
science major, said she thought the
current climate for minorities at UNL
was lacking, but James Griesen, vice
chancellor for studentaffairs, said the
administration has been formulating
goals for a more comfortable racial
environment in the future.
One goal, Griesen said, is to double
the enrollment of minorities at UNL
from 3 to 6 percent by the year 2000.
Griesen also listed a number of
programs and organizations which
had been instituted to promote a
healthy racial climate on campus.
Besides joining individual ethnic
groups, he said, the Culture Center
provides a home base for all minority
students.
The Racial Pluralism Action Team
is another advocate for cultural har
mony on campus, Griesen said. The
team, composed of seven faculty and
staff members and nine students, un
dertakes activities, such as a yearly
Cultural Diversity Retreat, to develop
an action plan for productive change
in the upcoming year.
Griesen said that the recently
formed “First Step” Mcntonng Pro
gram had been a constructive measure
in this effort. The program pairs a
faculty or staff member with a first
year racial minority student, and the
relationship seeks to ease the student s
transition into academic life at the
university.
According to Carmen K. Maurer,
interim director of affirmative action,
a new program based on unity and
confrontation of fearful issues is to be
im lented in the near future.
j current program, she said, is
aimed at faculty and staff. However.
Maurer said, it will take some time to
reach all 6000 employees.
New minority students with prob
lems or questions may find answers at
the Multi-Cultural Affairs Office, di
rector Jimmi Smith said.
“The first thing wc do is sit dow n
and listen to them,” Smith said.
He said he encouraged all students
to get involved in their own commu
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Freshmen not only ones changing when college starts
By Mindy Wilson
Staff Reporter
Letting go. It’s hard for parents to do.
They’ve watched thcirchildren go from
being a tiny infant to becoming a young
adult. And when it’s lime for their children to
leave for college, most parents have a difficult
time dealing with the gap that’s left behind, a
university official said.
Vernon Williams, director of the Counsel
ing Center at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, said the number one fear of parents is that
they will be completely cut off from their chil
dren when their kids go away to college.
Where the child was before, there is now an
empty space, he said. The parents aren’t as
involved with their children as they were before,
Williams said, and sometimes parents have
problems admitting that their children are be
coining adults who can manage their own af
fairs.
Williams said that New Student Enrollment
and other encounters a parent has with the
university can help to lessen concerns. Parents
can also benefit from talking to other parents
who have had children in college.
“Parents have to remind themselves that this
is a time to let go even if they don’t want to,’’
Williams said.
Whether the child going tocollegc is the first
or last does make a difference in parental con
cerns, Williams said.
Parents whose first child is starting college
have more concerns than parents who already
have had a child in college, he said.
With the last child, Williams said, parents
are almost casual about the situation, especially
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