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braska, said the agreements were
hurting UNL.
Rising tuition costs are pushing
more students to choose commu
nity colleges, where they can save
more than $30 per credit hour,
Loudon said.
Students often transfer to the
university after their two-year pro
grams are finished, he said. But
UNL loses out on those first two
years of tuition.
Griesen said the number of
transfer students on campus had
remained constant while UNL’s
enrollment had declined in the past
10 years.
Some of that decline is the re
sult of a decrease in the number of
high school seniors, he said.
Griesen said 17 percent of all
Nebraska high school seniors came
to UNL. The number of seniors has
declined during past years, he said,
but it may be increasing soon.
mat numoer snouia oe at an
all-time high in 1997, he said, at
the same time UNL’s new admis
sion standards go into effect.
The new, tougher standards
could cause a drop of 200 students
per semester, he said. But that drop
could be offset by the larger pool
of applicants.
Students who don’t meet UNL
admissions requirements when
they graduate would go to commu
nity colleges first. Transfer agree
ments then would help those stu
dents switch to the university, he
said. .
Although Griesen may view
community colleges as a comple
ment to UNL, the chancellor of the
University of Nebraska at Kearney
said community colleges were the
competition.
Gladys Styles Johnston, UNK
chancellor, addressed the issue at
a University of Nebraska Board of
Regents meeting earlier this fall.
Johnston said UNK officials
were fighting area community col
leges for students. And more stu
dents with high grade point aver
ages are choosing community col
leges over UNK, she said.
Griesen, however, said UNL’s
attributes had helped it avoid such
competition.
“There are more differences be
tween UNL and a community col
lege than there are between
Kearney and a community col
lege,” he said. “It’s not that theirs
is bad. It's just that ours is a little
more unique.
“We are uniquely a large, com
prehensive research institution,”
he said. “We are clearly the only
national university in Nebraska.
We draw students from all over the
world ... from all 50 states. We
have a national reputation.”
But Loudon said many students
cared more about cost than what
universities offered. UNL may
have more to offer students in the
areas of architecture, engineering
and liberal arts, he said, but stu
dents are looking for a way to avoid
increasing educational costs.
Those costs could get worse
soon, Loudon said. He said he
feared that the Legislature would
not give NU enough funding next
session, that tuition might increase
up to 10 percent and that student
fees might increase.
“I do not want to sec a mass exo
dus to community colleges,”
Loudon said. “I don’t want to see
us ... send people automatically to
a community college if we think
they are deficient.
“This is not the Stanford of the
Midwest. We have to be careful.”
Community colleges can boast
more than just cheap tuition, ac
cording to a report by the Ameri
can Association of Community
Colleges.
The report says the schools put
students in the fastest-growing,
highest-paying jobs of the future.
Community college curricu
lums, which focus on technical
skills, arc attracting growing num
bers of students as well as prospec
tive employers, according to the
study.
Jerry Gruber, dean of student
services at Southeast Community
College, said technical skills were
becoming more important, because
a bachelor’s degree didn’t offer the
same advancement opportunities
anymore.
“It’s true that nearly every good
job of the future is going to require
some sort of technical training
skill,” Gruber said.
Education is evolving, Griesen
said, and universities will have to
work more with community col
leges.
Staff reporter Brian Jensen contrib
uted to this report
Knippling
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ing she received in India to the type
of instruction she does now.
“Schooling in India was very tra
ditional,” she said. “We didn’t even
do American lit in English.”
“We also had no choice about
classes; we look every single class
that everyone else did.
“The literature program started
with Homer and went through
Chaucer and Shakespeare and up to
the present in Brit lit,” she said.
Knippling said the traditional
teaching methods to which she was
subjected affected the ways she taught
today.
“The classes were all lecture,” she
said. “We couldn’t ask the teacher any
questions.
“That’s why I rebelled so much
against that system. I offer discussion
to students because I was denied that
opportunity,” she said.
“Students learn just as much from
eacn outer as uiey uo irom me.
Knippling said she also tried to
inject multicultural literature into her
other classes.
“I teach 20th-century fiction, and
we’ve been doing immigrant litera
ture.
“We all seem to forget that except
for Native Americans, we’re all im
migrants too,” she said. “Even as
Americans, originally they came
from the outside.”
Bringing new classes to the cur
riculum hasn’t been easy, Knippling
said.
“It’s been a challenge introducing
multicultural literature into a Ne
braska classroom,” she said.
“There is more risk involved in
going against the grain,” she said.
“Some students are better able to take
that risk than others.
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Channel 6 News reported.
Special Prosecutor Robert Bartle
is scheduled to announce the indict
ments at a press conference today.
It was unknown if \feskraa is one
of the officers reportedly being in
dicted. She did not return messages
left on her home telephone answer
ing machine seeking comment
Thursday night.
University Police Chief Ken
Cauble told the Daily Nebraskan
Thursday night that he was unaware
of any indictment against \feskma.
Cauble said he assumed he would
have been notified of any indictments
made by the grand jury.
“I don’t know what was found,”
he said. “1 have tried to let the grand
jury do what they are there to' do.”
An indictment is a written state
ment that charges a party with
commiting an offense. Following an
indictment, a trial can be held.
Lincoln police officers Luke
Wilke, Stephen Schellpeper, Greg
Sims, Brian Jackson and Michael
Schaaf all responded to the scene east
of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
City Campus.
Vcskma was the first officer to
approach Renteria. She mistook him
for a man wanted for violating a pro
tection order.
A university committee, called to
gether by chancellor Graham
Spanier, investigated the incident.
The committee’s report discussed
Nfeskrna’s actions ami recommended
Cauble go over the department’s use
of-force policy with her.
\feskma, a 2 VS-year-veteran of the
force, was on administrative leave for
two months. She returned to her nor
mal police duties Thursday, Cauble
said, and is scheduled to work today.
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