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TOM OSBORNE FIELD UNVEILEDMembers of Coach Tom Osborne's family help dedicate the field at Memorial Stadium as Tom Osborne Field Friday night during the national championship/Memorial Stadium rededication ceremony. Osborne retired earlier this year after 25 years as head coach. (Photo: Richard Voges) |
Scarlet Summer Schedule Announced
The final weekly Scarlet of this academic term will be published May 8. The summer publishing schedule is June 19, July 17 and Aug. 14. Weekly Scarlets resume Aug. 21. Deadlines remain 5 p.m. the Friday before publication. For information, contact Kim Hachiya at 472-8844 or Diane Taurins at 472-8518 or email the Scarlet at scarlet@unlinfo.unl.edu.
A $25 "Campus Card" being marketed to high school seniors and their parents is not affiliated with the University of Nebraska and is not needed for student identification, university officials said.
"We are concerned students may feel this card is required by the university," said James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs. "Parents and students should not be fooled into thinking the card is needed for any campus activities."
A New Jersey company, National College Registration Board, is marketing the "Campus Card" as an ID that can be used as a debit card linked to discounts on products and services. A letter sent to students and parents may imply that the card is a university requirement. The company has been in the national spotlight after a recent Associated Press article that called into question the company's marketing practices.
"We want parents and students to know this company has no connection to UNL," Griesen said. The University of Nebraska and hundreds of other colleges and universities are listed in the "Campus Card" marketing materials.
The university provides a UNL ID to students when they arrive on campus. The UNL ID serves as an multiservice identification used for a variety of services such as checking out library books, purchasing athletic tickets or dining in a residence hall. The "Campus Card" being marketed by National College Registration Board is not linked, electronically or otherwise, to any UNL services or events.
-Dave Fitzgibbon, Public Relations
SHEPARD CELEBRATES 50 YEARSBill Shepard, grounds director for the athletic department, is the university's first 50-year year employee. He was honored at the annual Employee Service Awards activities April 28 at the Lied Center, where after receiving a table saw in recognition of his work, he donned his trademark polka dot cap. Shepard joined the university staff in 1948 at a worker at the dairy barn, where he was responsible for the care of a herd of 36 bulls that were used in the College of Agriculture's artificial insemination program. He served three years in the U.S. Marines from 1951 to 1954 and saw action in the Korean War. Following his discharge, he returned to the university and worked in the stores department for six years until he took charge of athletic fields in 1960. |
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Kriss Retirement Reception May 7
A reception for Judith Kriss, assistant director Gender Related Issues/Women's Center, will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. May 7 in the Women's Center, 340 Nebraska Union.
Kriss was a counselor at the UNL Counseling Center for six years and has spent six years as the director of the Women's Center in the Office of Student Involvement.
A retirement reception for Delores Schneider, supply control clerk I, shipping and receiving, Department of Distance Education will be from 2-4 p.m. May 6 in 310 Nebraska Hall with presentations at 2:15 p.m. Scheider has been with the Divison of Continuing Studies for 25 years.
Summer office hours at UNL will begin on May 11 (Monday following second semester commencement) and will end on Aug. 14 (one week prior to the beginning of 1998-99 first semester classes). During this period, regular business hours on the UNL campus will begin at 7:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. The 4:30 p.m. closing may be extended to 5 p.m. with approval by the cognizant vice chancellor.
In May and June the Land Grant Training Alliance will deliver a new electronic class - a set of six lessons on WordPerfect 8.0 for Windows 95 program.
The lessons will be posted on the web starting the week of May 11. One lesson will be posted each week for six weeks. The focus will be basic document creation in the word processor, including new features in WordPerfect 8.0 and such things as basics in saving and printing, selecting/moving/copying text, basic document formatting such as margins, line spacing, pagination, tabs, using selected toolbars, find and replace, using templates, headers and footers, numbered and bulleted lists, and using special characters. Graphics, tables, macros, and doing form letters will not be covered in this introductory class.
For this workshop to be useful, a user should have Windows 95 and WordPerfect 8.0 installed on his/her computer.
The workshop is free. To register, send an e-mail message by May 8 to: LISTSERV@UNL.EDU. In the body of the message, type only the command: SUBSCRIBE WP8INTRO. The items above are case insensitive. Do not include your signature or any additional text.
More workshops are under way, including Word97 and WordPerfect Tables.
- Pamela K. Peters, education coordinator, IANR CIT
Employees may renew 1998-1999 Parking Permits now through NUPARK, a telephone ordering process.
You must have a current UNL parking permit in order to use this option. Call 472-0866 and follow the instructions provided on the recording.
If you have changed license plate numbers within the last year and have not notified the Parking and Transit Services' Office, those plates need to be registered by calling 472-1800 before using our telephone registration system.
You must be paid through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln payroll system and have a touch-tone telephone, a UNL I.D. number and a Visa or MasterCard number if you opt to charge the permit.
Your campus and residence addresses will be obtained from the Data Entry Office.
Your permit will be mailed to your campus address the week of Aug. 17.
12-Month Non-Reserved Parking $132 Perimeter/Night Parking $48 Reserved Parking $372 |
9-Month Non-Reserved Parking $99 Perimeter/Night Parking $36 Reserved Parking $279 |
Semester Non-Reserved Parking $49.50 Perimeter/Night Parking $18 Reserved Parking $139.50 |
A packet has been sent to current parking permit holders at campus addresses as registered with Parking Services.
If you wish to order a parking permit through the mail, please wait to receive your packet. If you want to order a permit for next year and do not have a current parking permit, call 472-1800 and ask to have a packet sent to you.
The deadline dates for the Summer Sessions reserve lists are: Presession, May 7; first five week, May 21, and second five week, June 25.
As in the past all reserve lists submitted by this date will be available the first day of classes. Those lists returned after the deadline will be processed in the order in which they are received. After classes begin, preference will be given to lists accompanied by books to be placed on reserve.
The Libraries are not responsible for personal copies placed on reserve.
A reserve list may take from one day to one week for processing. Please allow for processing time when making assignments.
Please remind your students that a UNL photo ID is required to check out reserve items. Also, since reserves items are filed by title, the exact title, as well as the class and course number, are necessary when requesting an item from circulation staff.
For photocopied articles placed on reserve please make sure the following information is on the form for each item:
The Libraries will mail or fax a copy of the reserve request form. Call Chanty at 472-2556, or email at chanteha@unllib.unl.edu to request a form.
The UNL libraries highly recommends the option of placing reserve items in an electronic format via the internet. UNL faculty and teaching assistants may place non-copyrighted items, such as class notes, quizzes, and syllabi on electronic reserve. This service is accessible to UNL students, staff, and faculty.
For submission of materials to be placed on electronic reserve, forward the following to Gayleen Hill gayleenh@unllib.unl.edu or Steve Sall steves@unllib.unl.edu:
Material in plain text (ASCII) or plain text with HTML tags on an IBM formatted 3.5" disk with class name, instructor, and phone number.
We can also link a personal web page to our E-Reserve system. E-mail the url, with the class name, instructor, and phone number to Gayleen Hill or Steve Sall.
The Electronic Reserve section on IRIS is located at: http://www.unl.edu/lovcirc/ho me.html.
If there are any questions contact Chanty at 472-2556, or Gayleen Hill at 472-4401.
- Chanty Stovall, Reserves Coordinator, Love Library
A farewell reception for Jean Colligan will be from 2 to 4 p.m. May 5 in the Harper-Schramm-Smith Food Service Building. Colligan, the Smith Hall Residence Director, leaves the University after nine years of service. For more information, contact Velma Peter at 472-1066.
About two weeks ago, you should have received a needs assessment survey from the Teaching and Learning Center, requesting your input to help the Center with its program planning for next year. Many thanks if you completed and returned it. However, if you put it in your stack of things to do, would you take about 15 minutes to fill it out and return it? If you didn't receive the survey but would like to share your ideas about how the TLC can help you with your teaching (or if your stack of things to do ate it), please call 472-3079.
U.S. Small Business Administration has opened an Online Women's Business Center web site at http://www.onlinewbc.org. The site offers free information on management, marketing, a data resource guide, interactive mentoring and individual counseling.
Purchasing Card training has been scheduled for 1:30 p.m. May 21 and June 4 at the Business Services Complex, 1700 Y St. Contact Darla Huff, 472-5050, to register for one of these sessions. Space is limited.
Fiscal year-end is rapidly approaching. The Purchasing Department reminds everyone of the time frames involved in large-dollar equipment purchases. These guidelines provide help to determine estimated time frames when departments are planning major equipment purchases. Departments are encouraged to contact a procurement professional for specific information. The guidelines can be found at http://www.unl.edu/purchas e/yearend.htm.
Alumni associations of three University of Nebraska colleges will host receptions for graduating seniors and their parents May 8 and 9. University commencement exercises are May 9.
Graduation receptions May 8 include:
College of Architecture Alumni Association reception, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Architecture Hall Link, City Campus; and College of Dentistry Alumni Association reception, banquet and dance, 5:30 to 11 p.m., Cornhusker Hotel Ballroom, 333 S. 13th St.
On May 9, the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Alumni Association will host a graduation breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Beef Barbecue Pit at the State Fairgrounds.
Peer review is a way for faculty to assess their students' learning, an advocate of the process told the Academic Senate April 28.
Dan Bernstein, a professor of psychology, told the senate that peer review not the "dreaded visit from the chair" but involves a mutually agreed upon team who help each other assess learning outcomes and help faculty grow as teachers.
Bernstein said the process, which involves 30 UNL faculty from 14 departments and nine colleges, is modeled after an American Council on Education program.
"It focuses on student learning, not just the performance art of the faculty," he said.
Faculty assess their own stated goals and their peers look to see how well those goals were accomplished.
Studies show that a faculty member's teaching is about 30 percent of what affects learning. Student motivation, intelligence, time, interest and preparation make up the bulk of a student's chances of success or failure.
He noted that surveys of about 2,000 students at the university reveal some disheartening statistics.
Most students have jobs, with the average student working eight to 20 hours a week. Some work more than 40. This factor limits the time students devote to outside of class preparation.
Only 30 percent of students make an attempt to do all the homework that is assigned, he said. Far less than half study three hours per week for class. Very few review their notes even weekly and the majority prepare less than 6 hours for any test.
"To generate high-quality student learning, the data suggest we are not creating an environment conducive to learning," he said. And if professors are relying on students to do copious amounts of learning outside the classroom, the data show that is not the case.
Bernstein is participating in an ACE-sponsored national peer review project.
-Kim Hachiya, Public Relations
The second horticulture lecture in a special series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum will begin at 7 p.m. May 7 at the Clifford Hardin Nebraska Center for Continuing Education, 33rd and Holdrege. Admission is free for Arboretum members and is $5 per person for the general public. Parking is free at the Nebraska Center.
Harlan Hamernik, co-owner of Bluebird Nursery in Clarkson, Neb., will present, "If They'll Grow in Nebraska." The illustrated lecture will feature Hamernik's favorite plants, his plant collecting adventures, and his thoughts on gardening and landscape trends.
Begun as a "mom and pop" operation by Hamernik and his wife Shirley in 1958, Bluebird has grown into one of the largest perennial nurseries in the nation. Known for their wide selection of hardy plants, the nursery's slogan is "If they'll grow in Nebraska, they'll grow anywhere."
An inveterate plant collector and experimenter, Hamernik is constantly adding new plants to the offerings of the nursery. Bluebird's reputation as a leader in the nursery industry brings visitors from around the world to Clarkson, a town of 817 people in northeast Nebraska. Bluebird Nursery celebrates its 40th anniversary in 1998.
Through its network of arboreta, parks, historical properties and other public landscapes, and through grant programs and educational outreach efforts, the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum works in communities across the state to "enrich lives through the beauty and wonder of plants."
The NSA is a partnership between the network of sites, the University of Nebraska's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and NSA, Inc., a private, nonprofit membership organization.
Members of NSA receive the Arboretum newsletter and horticultural magazine, discounts on gardening and natural history books, offerings of unique plants, and free admission to more than 100 botanical gardens and arboreta across the country.
For more information about the lecture series or NSA, call 472-2971 or write NSA, P.O. Box 830715, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 68583-0715.
University of Nebraska Technology Park leadership announced April 24 that an agreement has been reached with Ayars & Ayars, Inc. to build a 46,000-sq. ft. multi-tenant building in the Technology Park located in the Highlands area of northwest Lincoln. This will be the second building erected to house technology-based businesses in the Technology Park. The building will be privately owned by MultiTech Building I L.L.C. (Limited Liability Corporation) and exclusively leased and managed by FMA Realty.
The announcement was made at an open house celebration for the Technology Development Center a new 23,000 square foot building owned by the Technology Park. The TDC houses l l technology-based start-up companies in two wings that include full laboratory, production and office facilities. The TDC program provides support and training to start-up companies in an environment focused on interaction between other technology entrepreneurs and University of Nebraska resources.
"Experience has demonstrated that technology parks are successful to the extent that they represent a true partnership involving the key participants in technology transfer and economic development," said L. Dennis Smith, University of Nebraska president. "This partnership includes the university and private business, but it also needs the active participation of the community and the state if it is to be truly successful."
University Technology Park L.L.C. Co-chairmen Frank Hilsabeck, president and CEO of Aliant Communications; and Tim Thietje, NU Foundation senior vice president, announced the new multi-tenant building and discussed plans for a third building in the Tech Park, the new Nebraska Center for Excellence in Electronics. The Nebraska State Legislature passed a bill March 31 that was signed by Gov. Ben Nelson to provide partial funding for this electronics training and testing center which will be located in the Technology Park.
Charles Dilks, Philadelphia, Pa., first vice president of the Association of University Related Research Parks, discussed the successful launch of the NU Technology Park and his experience with similar facilities across the country.
The University of Nebraska Technology Park is a statewide project of
the University of Nebraska, the public/private sector and the University
of Nebraska Foundation.
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