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James McClure, a member of HOTS, the residence hall orientation team, gives Mike Anderson and
his grandfather, Leonard Anderson, a helping hand Tuesday by lugging luggage up the stairs of
Cather Residence Hall.
Halls filling up despite jump in fee
By Mike Lewis
Senior Editor
--
UNL’s residence halls may need
“No Vacancy” signs soon, even though
the cost of a room has increased by
$95 this year — a 3.1 percent jump.
Residence hall fees went up this
year because of a more than 4 percent
increase in university faculty and staff
salaries, said Doug Zalechka, direc
tor of housing.
Despite the increase, Zalechka said
he guessed the residence halls were
between 90 and 93 percent full, with
students still filling out residence hall
contracts.
“Things arc changing by the hour,”
he said.
Last year at this time, Zatechka
said, about the same number of stu
dents had signed up to live in the
residence halls. But more graduate
and non-traditional students arc plan
ning to live in the halls this year.
More students living in residence
halls will keep the housing office free
of budget worries, he said.
“We’re always glad to have more
people.”
Single rooms are filling up and
soon may be offered only to graduate,
non-traditional anddisablcd students,
Zatechka said.
A single room with a 20-meal plan
will cost $3,465, while a double room
with the same meal plan will cost
$2,915. With a 13-meal plan, a single
room will cost $3,410, and a double
room $2,860.
Because Sellcck and Fcdde resi
dence halls and Piper Hall, a section
of Neihardt Hall, slay open during
vacation periods, the cost of living in
those halls is $110 more than other
halls, Zalechka said.
Students living in residence halls I
will find better parking than at many
other schools, he said.
Parking convenience, however,
varies with different residence halls,
Zalechka said. For example, parking
is available near the Harper-Schramm
Smilh complex, but Sellcck has al
most no parking, he said.
Teachers College increases standards
IBy Ronda Vlasin
Staff Reporter
The UNL Teachers College is
upgrading its program to better pre
pare teachers for the real world, an
administrator said.
“Teachers arc facing a society that
is quickly changing,” said Margaret
Sicvers, director of the college’s Stu
dent Services Center. “We need to
prepare our students for these changes.”
For students to graduate prepared
to teach, she said, they need to know
more when they enter the university.
Sicvers said high school core
admission requirements to the col
lege, as well as changes in the general
requirements to graduate from the
college, would be raised.
Changes in high school core ad
mission requirements will be imple
mented fall semester 19%. These
changes include: four years of high
school English; four years of math,
algebra level or above; three years of
natural sciences and social sciences;
two years of the same foreign lan
guage and one year of fine or per
forming arts.
Sievers said high school guidance
counselors had been informed of the
changes so this year’s ninth graders
will be aware of additional classes
they may need to take.
‘I don’t think we are blocking
anybody with our increased standards,”
she said. “Students will enter college
more prepared and graduate with more
knowledge.
“If our country is ever going to be
competitive with the rest of the world,
it needs to start with the teachers and
with school.”
In addition to enforcing the high
school core admission requirements,
the Teachers College requires stu
dents to have a 20 on the ACT college
admission test or be in the upper half
of their graduating classes, Sievers
said.
Requirements also have been
changed to help Teachers College
graduates perform well in teaching
situations with minority students.
“Eighty percent of Nebraska school
districts have no racial ethnic minori
ties,” Sievers said. “This means a
high percentage of our students have
never been around minorities.”
The multicultural education course
and two other cultural diversity courses
will be required instead of one class
in this area.
The college also will require two
years of a high school foreign lan
guage or two college foreign lan
guage courses, Sievers said, because
30 lo 40 percent of students in the
United Slates do not speak English.
“Teachers will often walk into a
classroom where no one speaks Eng
lish," she said. “Our students need to
be prepared for this.”
English requirements will be in
creased from three hours of English
composition to six.
Students also will be required lo
have a higher level of computer liter
acy, Sievers said, because most schools
now have personal computers. Teach
ers must know how to use word proc
essing programs, construct data bases
and recognize the difference in pro
grams for personal computers.
‘Teachers need to know how they
can use them so they can leach stu
dents how to use them,” she said.
Two college-level math courses,
with statistics encouraged, will be the
new math requirement, Sievers said.
Three natural science courses with
one lab will be required instead of
one.
“The need for additional science
courses is a given in this highly tech
nological age,” she said.
Sievers said the Teachers College
did not allow students to enter tnc
college with high school deficien
cies. But students can enter the uni
versity, get rid of the deficiencies and
then enter the college.
This policy could change, how
ever, if a proposal to change overall
admission to the university is approved,
she said.
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admissions slandardsarcalmost iden
tical to the Teachers College’s new
admission requirements. The only
difference is that the fine or perform
ing arts requirement would be broader
under the overall admissions stan
dards proposal, she said.
Stan Liberty, vice chancellor for
academic affairs, said the faculty had
accepted the admissions proposals.
They will go before the NU Board of
Regents in October or November.
If the university’s overall admis
sions standards change. Liberty said,
the role of community colleges also
will shift.
“Since students will now have to
look there to get rid of high school
deficiencies, these schools will be
less vocational,” Liberty said of
community colleges. “More pressure
will also be put on secondary schools.”
Sievcrs said the Teachers College
would enforce its new admissions
requirements in 1996, even if UNL’s
overall admissions standards are
changed.
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