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University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty, students hold town hall on proposed budget cuts
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Currently, more than 300 students are enrolled as students in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Come next year, should $27.5 million of proposed budget cuts for the school’s next fiscal year be approved, it is one of six departments that will no longer exist.
“We offer the only PHD in higher education in the state of Nebraska,” Corey Rumann, an Assistant Professor of Practice in the department, said. “Eliminating that would be a huge, huge void.”
Statistics, Community and Regional Planning, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Landscape Architecture and Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion design are the five other departments now facing potential elimination.
Professors and students from each of those departments, as well as other university departments, spoke out against the proposed cuts at a public town hall in Lincoln on Tuesday night.
“It’s important for people to be able to chart their own course,” Abigail Cochran, a professor in the Department of Community and Regional planning, said. “I don’t think we’re really going to be able to do that with the elimination of our program and these other vital programs.”
For many educators in these departments, their concerns are for the students, both current and future.
“I’m not worried about me,” Susan Vanderplas, a professor in the Department of Statistics at UNL, said. “I’m worried about what this says about the state and the opportunities we’re offering the children of this state.”
For some students, a portion of their futures in now on the chopping block.
“You’ve committed to this university,” Robert Szot, a graduate student studying meteorology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, said. “To have that pulled out from under you means you have to change the entire way of what you’re doing on a dimes notice.”
The university’s Board of Regents is set to vote on the proposed plan on Dec. 5.
The UNL chapter of the American Association of University Professors will be holding a “Stop The Cuts” rally and petition drive outside the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s union on Saturday, Oct. 25 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
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One person was taken into custody in Nebraska, and a woman is being interviewed in connection to an Amber Alert case out of Wisconsin.According to WISN, Wautoma police said an eight-year-old girl went missing on Friday.She was believed to be with Joseph Nicpon, 44, and Betty Lenz, 34, and had been last seen on Interstate 90 near Sparta.An Amber Alert was then issued, stating she may be in danger after she went missing from Wautoma.The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Milwaukee announced it was supporting law enforcement in response to the Amber Alert in an effort to find the girl. According to Nebraska State Patrol, troopers received information about the vehicle associated with the Amber Alert. Troopers located the vehicle on Interstate 80 west of Gretna. NSP said the vehicle exited at the Greenwood interchange before turning onto Highway 63.Troopers said they had found the girl safe, and Nicpon was taken into custody. Police also said Lenz was taken in for questioning. Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
One person was taken into custody in Nebraska, and a woman is being interviewed in connection to an Amber Alert case out of Wisconsin.
According to WISN, Wautoma police said an eight-year-old girl went missing on Friday.
She was believed to be with Joseph Nicpon, 44, and Betty Lenz, 34, and had been last seen on Interstate 90 near Sparta.
An Amber Alert was then issued, stating she may be in danger after she went missing from Wautoma.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Milwaukee announced it was supporting law enforcement in response to the Amber Alert in an effort to find the girl.
According to Nebraska State Patrol, troopers received information about the vehicle associated with the Amber Alert. Troopers located the vehicle on Interstate 80 west of Gretna.
NSP said the vehicle exited at the Greenwood interchange before turning onto Highway 63.
Troopers said they had found the girl safe, and Nicpon was taken into custody. Police also said Lenz was taken in for questioning.
Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.
NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
Nebraska basketball coach Fred Hoiberg has been rewarded – in a big way – after leading the Huskers to their best season in history.
Hoiberg on Friday was named The Associated Press National Coach of the Year.
Hoiberg led Nebraska to a 28-7 season that included a school record for both overall victories and conference victories, a record 24-game winning streak and the first two NCAA tournament wins in the school’s history.
He did all that with a team that among its seven regular players included two walk-ons, a redshirt freshman and a player who missed all of last year with a knee injury.
“It took us some time to get here, but it was all about getting the right players in here, especially the ones that the fans could get behind,” Hoiberg told The Associated Press.
That team was picked to finish 14th in the 18-team Big Ten this year. Instead, the Huskers finished tied for second.
Hoiberg summed up the team’s accomplishments in an interview with college basketball reporter Andy Katz.
“For all the things we accomplished this year — top five ranking, 20 straight wins, 15 wins in league — you know, a lot of doubters,” he said. “I think we accomplished a lot.”
Hoiberg becomes the first Husker men’s basketball coach to win the AP award in its 59-year history. He joins former Husker women’s basketball coach Connie Yori, who won the award in 2010.
The award comes after Hoiberg was named Big Ten coach of the year last month by the league’s coaches.
The coach who won only 24 games his first three seasons has won a school record 72 the past three seasons and this year became the first Husker men’s basketball coach in history to string together three consecutive 20-win seasons.
The university, recognizing his achievements, signed Hoiberg to a contract extension last month that raises his salary from $4.35 million a year to $5 million and extends his tenure through the 2031-2032 season.
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