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Are You Late? • Free Pregnancy testing • Options counseling • Abortion procedures to 14 weeks • Saturday appointments available • Student discounts • Visa, Mastercard Women's Medical Center of Nebraska 4930 "L" Street Omaha, NE 68117 (402) 734-7500 Toll free (800) 877-6337 take Kaplan and get a higher score... More students take Kaplan’s courses every year than any other test prep company’s. Call us today to find out why. 1-800-KAP-TEST KAPLAN Tho answer to the test question UNL colleges find new leadership By Ann Stack Staff Reporter_ There will be some new faces of leadership at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln this fall. New officials have been named to three colleges on campus. Brian Foster, current dean of grad uate studies at Arizona State Univer sity, has been named the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Foster is replacing Interim Dean Stephen Hilliard, the current chair man of the English department. David Cronrath, an associate pro fessor of architecture at Temple Uni versity, has been appointed the new chairman of the architecture depart mcnt. The chairman’s responsibilities include maintaining the budget, fac ulty improvement, encouraging re search and catering to students’ needs. Cronrath said he hoped he would be able to meet those requirements and improve not only the College of Architecture, but UNL as a whole. “I have aspirations for making UNL one of the top five schools in the country,” Conrath said. “I want to provide leadership on campus.” Cronrath will be replacing current Chairman Homer Pudcrbaugh, who will continue to maintain an office in the architecture college as professor emeritus. Larry Walklin, chairman of the broadcasting department, has been named an acting associate dean of the Collcgcof Journalism and Mass Com munications. Walklin said his primary focus was on the master’s degree program which would be offered via satellite this fall as a part of the distance education program. “I was asked by the dean to work with the distance education program; to use my experience and background to help it along,” Walklin said. “It will be offered in seven different locations across the state,” Walklin said. “People can participate in a class taught by a professor in Lincoln. “It’s a two-way communication system — two-way audio and two way visual. That’s why they need a broadcasting professor,” he said. BUY IT. SELL IT. Nebraskan CLASSIFIED 472-2588 NelSraskan Editor Features Editor Copy Desk Editor Photo Chief Cartoonist Graphics Artist General Manager Deborah D. McAdams Production Manager 472-1766 Advertising Manager Matt Woody Assl. 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COtT CUTTIES* ( FAMILY HAIR CARE ) We’re your style; J Tenure Continued from Page 1 some criticize it transfers the decision to grant tenure outside the university. Another issue that becomes appar ent when looking at a breakdown of tenured faculty at UNL is the disparity between who is tenured and who is not. Eric Jolly, afTirmati vc action direc tor, said that while the university was changing its hiring practices to to recruit more women and minorities, it was going to take time to change the proportions. “The tenure system isone that gives the historic profile of the university,” Jolly said. “And hopefully, it’s not the whole profile of where we’re going.” Of the 811 tenured faculty at UNL, 657 are white males. There are only two non-white female faculty who arc tenured. “This isn’t the profile that we want to have for a major university,” Jolly said. “It is however an all too common profile based on the university’s sys tem of hiring, or any university’s sys tem of hiring.” Kilgore said that while the number of female faculty was increasing, it’s harder with minorities because of the competition nationwide. UNL seems to be in line with its peer group, Kilgore said, but that may not be saying much. we rc au seeking to recrun anu retain women and minorities,” Kilgore said. “And we’re all having about the sameamountof success—orfailure.” And then there’s the problem that comes with granting lifetime employ ment. “There are people who sort of relax and do the bare minimum,” Sartori said. “As a practical matter... I Jcnow of very few people whose tenure was terminated because they basicall y were not shaping up.” After six years of intensive review, Kilgore characterized this problem as burnout, not laziness. There are many strategies in place to try to motivate tenured professors. Kilgore said. While no formal proposals have been made to change the system, there are rumors, Sartori said. One proposal is to review tenured faculty every five years, thus remov ing the ideaofa lifetime appointment. The other, would be to abolish the tenure system. That, Sartori said, would be a mis take. IfUNLeliminatcd tenure while the schools it was competing against in recruiting faculty did not, the univer sity would be severely hurt, Sartori said.
