Prospect: Liberal arts key
BY VERONICA DAEHN
A liberal arts education is the
most important thing a student
can obtain - that’s what the third
candidate for UNL’s dean of arts
and sciences Richard Hoffman
said.
Hoffman, current dean of arts
and sciences at the State
University of New York in Albany,
spoke to faculty members at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
on Thursday.
Hoffman, a biologist, has
been the arts and sciences dean in
New York since 1998. He said
enrollment in an arts and sci
ences college was the best way for
students to learn.
"I am the product of a liberal
education, and there are impor
tant things about it,” Hoffman
said. “A liberal education opens
windows on the world to stu
dents.”
UNL has a strong College of
Arts and Sciences, Hoffman said -
better than the one he governs
now.
Hoffman said he normally
threw away nominations asking
him to look into working at other
"A liberal-education opens windows on the
world to students."
Richard Hoffman
_arts and sciences dean candidate
universities.
But when he saw the letter
from UNL, he couldn’t get rid of it,
he said - UNL was noticeably
above the other institutions.
“The University of Nebraska is
much better known than the one
I'm at," he said. “It has a much
more complete College of Arts
and Sciences."
Hoffman, who worked at Iowa
State University in Ames for 18
years, said the location of UNL
was also appealing. Hoffman and
his wife would both like to move
back to the Midwest, he said.
George Wolf, associate
English professor, asked Hoffman
what he thought about the
amendment that, if passed in
November, would ban domestic
partnerships and civil unions in
Nebraska.
Hoffman was surprised that
was even an issue but said it
wouldn’t affect his decision to
come here.
“That’s a really hard prob
lem,” he said. “I think the univer
sity has to be welcoming and
open to that.”
University employees are.not
eligible to receive health-care
benefits for their domestic part
ners, despite efforts by faculty
. members to change that.
Hoffman said that was odd.
“I’m surprised a university in
this day and age doesn’t have
those kind of benefits,” he said.
Ted Pardy, a biological sci
ences professor, said it was diffi
cult to tell the difference between
the two out of the three candi
dates he had heard so far in the
past week at UNL.
The dean will need to be fair,
- honest and forthright, he said.
About 35 faculty members
showed up to hear Hoffman talk.
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