Donor wanted money split
UNL dean didn’t
know intentions
of Walter Scott
From Staff Reports
and The Associated Press
A requirement that Walter Scott
engineering scholarships should be
evenly divided between Omaha
and Lincoln students was news to
UNL’s engineering dean.
Last week,
Walter Scott,
chairman and
chiefexecutive
officer of Peter
Kiewit Sons
inc., an
ENGINEERING nounced he
______ would suspend
U Ed ATE the scholarship
program at the University of Ne
braska in 1995-96. Scott said
through a spokesman on Monday
that the program hadn’t been ad
ministered as he had intended.
The scholarship program was
named after Scott’s father.
Stan Liberty, dean of the Col
lege of Engineering and Technol
ogy at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, said he wasn’t aware Scott
wanted the $75,000 in scholar
ships each year split evenly be
tween the campuses.
“He himself has approved the
awarding of each scholarship,”
Liberty said. Only 13 percent of
the scholarships went to Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha stu
dents in the 1992-1993 school year.
Scott made recommendations
for recipients after a committee —
made up of Liberty and assistant
engineering deans — chose schol
ars based on class standing, apti
tude test scores, extracurricular and
cocurricular activities and other
factors.
University of Nebraska Regent
Robert Allen of Hastings has said
he thought Scott stopped the schol
arship program to pressure the
university to create a second engi
neering college at UNO. UNL cur
rently has NU’s only engineering
college.
In a letter Liberty wrote last
March to Terry Fairfield, presi
dent of the University Foundation,
he said Scott had not indicated that
he wanted to change the number of
scholarships given to UNO stu
dents.
Liberty said in the letter that
Scott was the only member of the
advisory committee for the schol
arship program. Liberty met with
Scott annually to review all as
pects of the program, including the
selection of scholarship recipients.
“Consequently, Walter has
maximum control over the pro
gram and can direct any changes
that he wants to within the bounds
of the original agreement,” Lib
erty said. “And, in fact, he has
done this.”
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But Liberty said that, in the last
few years, Scott indicated he was
not interested in participating in
the selection of scholars. The last
time Liberty and Scott met was in
October 1993.
Liberty said in the letter that
dividing the award equally between
campuses would be a challenge.
The Omaha campus lacks
bachelor’s degree programs other
than civil engineering. Also, few
competitive scholarship applicants
apply for admission to Omaha en
gineering programs, Liberty said.
For example, he said, of 67
scholarship applicants this year,
none indicated he or she wanted to
enroll in Omaha’s programs.
Liberty also said in the letter
that he and Scott recently changed
the scholarship program.
Students already enrolled in
engineering technology or civil
engineering at UNO could be
awarded partial scholarships based
on outstanding academic perfor
mance after at least two years of
study, he said.
“This has assured a continuous
population of Scott scholars on the
Omaha campus, albeit smaller than
in Lincoln,” Liberty said. “Walter
has had annual reports on this dis
tribution and, so far, has not indi
cated that he would like to see the
number of partial scholarships
change.”
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