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Joan Leitzel is UNL’s new senior vice chancellor for academic affairs. Leitzel will be the highest
ranking administrator at UNL under Chancellor Graham Spanier.
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Vice chancellor focuses on academic programs
By Lori Stones
Staff Reporter
Joan Leitzel accepted a permanent
position at the National Science Foun
dation last March and she intended to
keep it.
But when the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln offered her a position
this summer as the highest-ranking
administrator under the chancellor,
the opportunity was loo good to pass
up.
Leitzel packed her bags and this
week settled into her position as UNL’s
new senior vice chancellor for aca
demic affairs.
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will receive an annual salary of
SI 28,(XX) for overseeing all academic
programs except those in the Institute
of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
In addition, she will oversee the gradu
ate studies program and the Interna
tional Affairs office.
“I’m very honored to be selected
for this position,” Leitzel said. “It
wasn’t in my plans, but when I vis
ited, I concluded that it was an un
usual opportunity.”
Leitzel said the job would provide
her with the chance to test new aca
demic programs.
She already has achieved one of ,
her plans with the announcement of
the UNL Guarantee, which assures
employers that UNL graduates pos
sess the basic skills needed to per- i
form a job in their degree. UNL is the
first university to implement such a j
plan, Leitzel said.
Leitzel has many other ideas to
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I’m very honored to
be selected for this
position. It wasn’t in
my plans, but when I
visited, I concluded
that it was an unusual
opportunity.
Joan Leitzel, new senior
vice chancellor for academic
affairs
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enhance education at UNL, she said,
but she will take them one at a time.
Her list includes implementing a
general education program and a
program focusing on the freshman
experience both in and out of the
classroom.
“Retention at the freshman level is
af high concern,” Leilzel said. “It’s
Lhc biggest loss.”
Another focus will be on women
ind minorities.
“I want to make sure that all areas
ire inviting to all people,” she said.
‘Women and minorities should have
ihe same choices and options to enter
ireas.”
Leilzel said she wasn’t fully in
formed about the status of women at
UNL, because she had only been here
i few days.
But she is particularly aware of the
problems women face nationwide in
nathcmalics and the sciences, where
women are underrepresented.
Before coming to UNL, Leitzel
was a division director of materials
development, research and informal
science education for the National
Science Foundation in Washington,
D.C. Prior to that, she was a mathe
matics professor, beginning in 1970,
at Ohio State University, and she served
as associate provost from 1985 to
1990. Before that, Leitzel was an
instructor at Obcrlin College.
While she was the associate pro
vost at Ohio State University, Leitzel
i was in charge of instruction and cur
riculum, academic program assess
ment and academic space assignments.
Her biggest achievement is her
distinguished teaching award at Ohio
State University, she said.
Her most challenging jod, Lenzei
said, was at the National Science
Foundation, where she worked to
improve the education of the entire
country. The job was hard, she said,
because education is decentralized,
making it difficult to know where a
difference can be made.
Lcitzefs education includes a
doctoral degree from Indiana State
University in 1965, a master’s degree
from Brown University in 1961 and a
bachelor’s degree from Hanover
College in 1958. All her degrees are
in mathematics.
In addition to her work, Leitzel
participates in several national sci
ence and mathematics programs. She
is a member of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Sci
ence, the National Council of Teach
ers of Mathematics and Sigma Xi.
Baldwin returns to court
to determine treatment
From Staff Reports
Prosecutors will try to prove
Monday that UNL student-athlete Scott
Baldwin is mentally ill, a danger to
himself and others, and will likely
remain a danger in the future.
Baldwin was charged with attack
ing Gina Simanck Mountain on Jan.
18 outside her apartment near 25th
and T streets. At a June trial, the
Lancaster County District Court found
Baldwin not responsible for the beat
ing because of insanity.
Baldwin is free on bond and has
been living with Nebraska football
coach Tom Osborne. He will not re
turn to the Nebraska football team
this fall.
Baldwin was diagnosed in March
by Dr. Bruce Gutnik, an Omaha psy
chiatrist, as having major depression
or a bipolar disorder. Both arc mood
disorders.
On July 7, a Lancaster County
District Court found probable cause
to believe that Baldwin is a danger to
himself and others under Nebraska
law.
The probable-cause finding by
Judge Paul Merritt was not a definite
ruling that Baldwin is mentally ill and
dangerous. It was a statement that
some evidence exists that could lead
to such a finding at Monday’s hear
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If the court determines Baldwin is
mentally ill and dangerous, it will
consider a treatment plan prepared by
St. Joseph’s Center for Mental Health
in Omaha and order any needed
changes. Baldwin would slay under
the jurisdiction of the court and be
subject to periodic progress reviews.
If the court docs not find Baldwin
to be mentally ill and potentially
dangerous, it still may order him to
continue treatment.
The Nebraska Athletic Department
would continue to pay for Baldwin’s
treatment. (
Mountain has returned to work full
time as a graphic artist at the Lincoln
Journal-Star.
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