UNL names new community relations assistant
By Jessica Flanagain
Staff Reporter
Michelle Waite of Hickman has
been named assistant to the chancel
lor for community relations at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Waite will fill a position formerly
held by long-time university employ
ee Kim Todd. Todd began assisting
the chancellor with comprehensive
campus planning in 1996, and her job
description went on to include a com
munity relations program in which
she served as a liaison between city
and state government and university
interests beginning in 1997.
Todd left claiming she had a
desire to focus on working with
plants, and is now with Finke Garden
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Center here in Lincoln.
Todd determined how the needs
of the University could best be met,
and Waite’s position will now focus
solely on community relations. Waite
began working in government in the
‘70s as a page for the legislature, and
went on to seek a position as support
staff for a state senator. She eventual
ly took a position as a legislative aide,
and has worked in the legislature for
14 years.
“My focus is to be a true liaison
between the legislature and the uni
versity,” Waite commented. “I have a
lot of strong political instincts, and 1
know the players and understand
political etiquette. I really think I have
the sensitivity to enlist die right sup
port for the university.”
Waite went on to state that her
previous work in Sen. Withem’s
office, then Speaker of the
Legislature, gives her a unique under
standing of how issues are dealt with.
Wake currently works for Senator
Ron Raikes of Lincoln.
The assistant to the chancellor for
community relations is the principal
assistant to Chancellor James Moeser
in relation* between the university
and its external constituencies.
“I am delighted that Michelle
Waite had accepted the position of
assistant to the chancellor for com
munity relations,” Moeser said.
“With her experience as staff to two
key members of the Nebraska
Legislature, in sensitive negotiations
and in arranging special events; I
believe that she will be an ideal per
son to represent this office and to
advise me on the many areas related
to off-campus issues ”
Waite will begin her duties
August 1.
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UNL receives $32 million
gift from Denver couple
By Lindsey Wright
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska
Foundation received its largest gill ever
—$32 million.
And the lucky winner is Steve
Dunbar, professor and vice-chairman of
mathematics and statistics at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He
was appointed founding director of the
university’s J.D. Edwards Honors
Progam in computer science and man
agement
Dunbar said he was honored to be
offered the responsibility.
“I was thrilled... die responsibility
is pretty overwhelming,” he said.
He said he had high hopes for the
“focused honors program” and would
begin his two-year appointment imme
diately.
The $32 million gift from C.
Edward and Carole L. McVaney of
Denver to UNL will also establish a res
idential academic center to house the
new program. The building will be
named the Kauffman Residential
Academic Center, in honor of
McVaney’s mother, Esther Kauffman,
of Omaha.
Edward McVaney established the
Denver-based J.D. Edwards in 1977. He
serves as chairman, president and chief
executive officer of the computer soft
ware firm.
“My personal interest in computer
science and information sciences was
originally triggered in UNL’s class
rooms,” Edward McVaney said in a
press release. “And now I want to create
the atmosphere for the best computer
science program in the world.”
Both Edward and Carole McVaney
are Omaha natives and graduated from
UNL. Carole earned her bachelor’s
ft
I want to create
the atmosphere for
the best computer
science program in
the world.”
Edward McVaney
Chairman, president and chief
executive officer, J.D. Edwards
degree in 1963 in education, and
Edward earned a bachelor’s degree in
mechanical engineering in 1964.
In addition to the $32 million, the
gift includes the potential for an ongo
ing pledge, based on the continued suc
cess of the program, to provide $4.6
million annually after the fifth year of
the project
The center would house 120 to 150
students. Two locations are available for
tbs building - a parking lot north of the
Nebraska Union, and south of Bancroft
Hall, or a parking lbt on 17* and Vine
streets, north of Cather Hall, Dunbar
said.
The first masters-level students will
be admitted for die fall 1999 semester.
Undergraduate students will begin
classes in the fall of2000, and the resi
dential academic center is scheduled for
occupancy in the fall of2001.
Dunbar said he had a clear idea of
the aim of die program.
“Our goal is to be die best at prepar
ing students with an understanding of
technology and information sciences
for business and society.”
Americans buying
more new homes
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Americans are becoming a nation of
homebodies.
About 16 percent of the popu
lation moved to new homes in the 12
months before March 1997, the
Census Bureau reports. That’s simi
lar to the rates of the previous two
years and well below the peak rates
of past decades, when more than 20
percent relocated in some years.
Of the approximately 42 mil
lion people who moved, almost 28
million shifted to a new home in the
same county, 8 million in a different
county in the same state.
Even though the share of
Americans moving remained
steady, the 42 million movers was
the most since 45 million relocated
in 1984-85. Then, that represented
nearly one in five Americans, or
19.6 percent
Other findings of the report,
"Geographical Mobility: March
1996 to March 1997 (Update),”
included:
■ While only 8 percent of
homeowners moved during the
year, nearly one-third of renters, or
32.9 percent, relocated.
■ The central cities lost 3 mil
lion people due to moving, while the
suburbs gained about 2.8 million.
■The only region with a signif
icant change in population due to
movers, was the South, which
gained 391,000 people from the
other three regions.
■ The likelihood of moving
declined with age: 32 percent of the
people 20- to 29-years old moved,
while only 5 percent of those 65 and
overdid.
■ More than 1 million people
moved to the United States from
abroad, and 92 percent of them set
tled in metropolitan areas.
