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Finalist visits UNL campus
George has ‘vision’ for future
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
Members of the university com
munity finally got a glimpse of the
man who has already given them a
glimpse into their future.
Thomas George, provost and aca
demic vice president at Washington
State University, is one of three chan
cellor candidates at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
George met with administrators,
faculty, students and staff during a
reception at the Sheldon Memorial
Art Gallery Tuesday. He has been
involved with a joint program between
WSU and Microsoft called “Virtual
WSU,” and was commended last week
for being wired into the university of
the future.
The project will integrate computer
technology and communication into
all aspects of the university and have
every student exposed to “Virtual
WSU” by 1999.
Joseph Leung, chairman of the com
puter science engineering department,
said he would like to see George’s
“Virtual WSU” at UNL.
“Virtual WSU” was started by a
professor who applied at UNL two
years ago, Leung said, but his depart
ment didn ’ t have the funds to hire him.
“We have faculty interested in
multimedia in our department,” Leung
said. “If George comes here, we’d
have a lot of interesting things in com
mon.”
In a nine-point outline, George
defined where he saw UNL in five to
10 years:
• involving faculty, staff and stu
dents in team projects
• using technology to enhance
tcachingand expanding distance, out
reach education
• emphasizing interuniversity co
operation
• using teaching portfolios to raise
consciousness of the importance of
instructors
• bringing in more external fund
ing to raise base funding
• using enrollment management to
determine what type of student body
the university wants
• having intercampus programs,
such as engineering, work together
instead of staging a “turf war”
• encouraging funds campaigns
• maintainingpre-eminence in ath
letics
Jim King, associate professor in
communications and information tech
nology, said he admired George’s vi
sion for UNL.
“He could carry us into 2020,” he
said. “Plus, he likes cats and music.”
George, and his wife Barbara
Harbach, both play the organ, co-own
a music publishing company that they
run out of their basement, and own
four cats.
The couple laughed andjoked with
guests and exchanged wishes for a
happy Thanksgiving.
“George is young, dynamic, ag
gressive and very bright,” said Tice
Miller, chairman ofthe Department of
Theater Arts and Dance.
Nancy Lindslcy-Griffin, director
of the Women Investigating Sciences
and Environments project, said she
appreciated George’s support for ra
cial and gender diversity.
She said George agreed that diver
sity meant putting more than one mi
nority employee in a department.
“You need a group,” she said, “not
just a lone voice crying by itself.”
The WSU provost was the last of
three candidates to visit UNL. George,
who said he met NU President Dennis
Smith at a Nebraska-Washington State
football game, said last week’s inter
view with Smith went “delightfully
well.”
Smith has said he would make his
recommendation to the NU Board of
Regents soon after the interviews.
Prospect focuses
on money issues
By Rebecca Pitmans
Staff Reporter
There was a time, shortly af
ter World War II, when the im
portance of higher education
wasn ’ t questioned, a UNL chan
cellor candidate said. >
But in recent years, its value
has come under increased scru
tiny, Thomas George said at a
Wednesday press conference.
That scrutiny is evident in the
decreasing percentage of state
funds higher educat ion receives.
In Nebraska, higher education
took home 27 percent ofthe state’s
budget 15 years ago, he said. Now,
it’s less than 20 percent.
George, provost and aca
demic vice president at Wash
ington State University, said
technology could help improve
the perception and funding of
higher education.
WSU discovered that while
spending $25 million in the last
three years on “Virtual WSU.”
The program is basically technol
ogy enhanced learning, he said.
Yearly costs for the project are
$4 million, he said. Money comes
from fund raising and allocations,
he said, but mostly from state
funds. All this came at a time
when WSU faced a 10 percent
budget cut over four years.
De spite thecuts,gcttingnioney
from the legislature for Virtual
WSU “has not been a difficult
sell,” George said—when fund
ing is asked for in terms of invest
ingmore in technology and explo
ration of new ways of education.
Both UN L and W SU are work
ing on the “third phase” of virtual
redesign,changingthe way people
think about education, he said.
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Moeser stresses excellence
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
A university must have ethics on the field
and academic excellence in the classrooms, a
I . | UNL chancellor candidate
said last week.
James Moeser, provost
and vice president for aca
demic affairs at the Univer
sity of South Carolina, said
the University of Nebraska
Lincoln could benefit from
its athletic program and
should have a hand in its
decisions.
Moeser I ne president and chan
cellor control of intercollegiateathleticsiscriti
cal,” Moeser said.
Moeser recommended a chancellor have
regular meetings with the athletic director and
direct control over hiring coaches.
“My concern for the program is always
founded on the basis of personal integrity,” he
said. “They must be of the highest personal
ethics and morals. We want these people to be
of personal values.”
Student athletes, or any student who repre
sents the university, should have high stan
dards, Moeser said, and they should be treated
equally.
“Athletes shouldn’t get favored treatment,”
he said, “and they shouldn’t be singled out for
harsher treatment.”
The candidate also called for high standards
in the classroom. Moeser complimented UNL’s
honors program and said, if chosen, he would
push for a separate honors college.
The college would accept the top 2 percent
of high school students and have its own dean,
he said, and would target students in and outside
Nebraska.
“It’s not a costly matter,” he said. “It may be
more cosmetic, and I might not have to go to the
regents.”
The university has a responsibility to attract
and retain high-quality students, he said, and should
also help students afford college in the face of
federal financial aid cuts.
“We need merit- and need-based scholar
ships,” he said. “The university will have to step
up to the plate to provide more than is currently
available.”
Along witn paying for college, he said, aca
demic pursuit also should not be limited in
regards to research.
Limiting research was a highly debated topic
with the NU Board of Regents earlier this fall.
“It’s a mistake to dictate research,” Moeser
said. “It’s a natural curiosity for students.”
The board voted against restricting research
to only support projects that benefit the state’s
economy.
“You can’t say to a student that it’s not
important for you to be interested in an area4
because it’s not profitable to theiocal economy,”
Moeser said.
“It’s human nature, human spirit to push the
envelope of knowledge,” he said. “The freedom
of inquiry is one of the cornerstones of Ameri
can democracy.
“It’s also the key to the future.”
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