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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013 volume 113, issue 052

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Perlman adds time to enrollment goal UNL needs more time to improve its campus services, facilities to meet goal of 30,000 students

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman is extending the deadline of his 30,000 enrollment goal from 2017 to 2020, he wrote in a message to campus on Thursday. “It may not be wise to drive toward 30,000 in the time period I originally stated,” Perlman wrote. “We will be better served by a more gradual and sustainable path.” Perlman announced the goal at his State of the University address in 2011, when the university had an enrollment of 24,593. Since then, total enrollment has actually decreased by 148 students. In his message, Perlman touted the 12.3 percent increase in the size of this year ’s freshman class as a sign that the university is “clearly succeeding” in recruitment, but he said UNL lacks the infrastructure necessary to support 30,000 students. “We might not be able to build teaching and academic success facilities and capacity quickly enough by 2017,” he wrote in an email interview. “Our ideas about what is required are evolving in

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exciting ways – the Love Learning Commons for example – but this all takes time.” Perlman said he has “continually evaluated” his enrollment goal. At his university address in September, he said he had underestimated the infrastructure necessary to accompany the projected enrollment increase — things like expanded faculty, student services, housing, parking and recreational and educational facilities. He also cited increasing online enrollment and increasing tenure track faculty

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TOP ORIGIN COUNTRIES OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

CHINA: 639 SOUTH KOREA: 46

VIETNAM: 75 MEXICO: 45

MALAYSIA: 148

OMAN:58 SAUDI ARABIA: 15

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as two central methods of increasing enrollment. When he originally proposed the enrollment goal in 2011, Perlman projected average annual growth of 2.25 percent. “Scale is not an insignificant factor in our ability to compete with our colleagues in the Big Ten or in this region,” he said in 2011. “I am convinced that our opportunities will grow exponentially with a growth in enrollment.” Had the university seen 2.25 percent annual growth, enrollment

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or the second year in a row, undergraduate international students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln outnumber graduate and professional international students, reversing a previous trend. That reversal is part of an ongoing university effort to boost undergraduate enrollment of international students, a number that has continually increased since 2006. “We always had more international graduate students than we had international undergraduate students,” Dave Wilson, senior international officer of UNL, said in an email. Ten years ago, UNL became committed to increasing the number of undergraduate international students, Wilson said. Today at UNL, undergraduate international students make up 7.2 percent of the student population while graduate and professional international students make up 2.3 percent. Since 2006, undergraduate international students have increased by about 900. “Admissions began traveling to places like China, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, India and Brazil to inform potential students in those countries of the opportunities that exist for them at UNL,” Wilson said. Compared with other universities, UNL lags behind schools like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in number of international students. Illinois had 14 percent international students during the 2012-2013 school year, according to its website. Last year was the first time UNL saw more undergraduate international students than graduate or professional: There were 82 more undergraduate than graduate or professional.

would currently sit at 25,712. It is currently 24,445. But in his message on Thursday, Perlman didn’t express any doubt that UNL is capable of fulfilling his enrollment goal. “We are not in any way backing away from our ambition to reach 30,000,” he wrote. “In fact, I do not regard that number as a necessary cap on what we might ultimately seek to achieve.” “Early faculty response to the

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This year there are 330 more undergraduate international students than graduate or professional international students. For the 2013-2014 school year, there are 74 undergraduate students from Africa, 1,197 students from Asia, 63 students from Europe, 48 students from North America, 49 students from South America, seven from Australia and one from New Zealand. Historically, top 10 countries that international students come from are China, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, Republic of Korea, Islamic Republic of Iran, Korea, Mexico, Oman, Brazil and Colombia, Wilson said. International students around campus said they had a variety of reasons for making the trip to Nebraska. Aizuddin Md Arshad, a sophomore economics major from Malaysia, said he came to UNL because one of his instructors at the International Education College in Malaysia studied at Creighton University in Omaha. “I’m not the type to live in the city,” Md Arshad said. “Nebraska is kind of like a village.” Yuhei Minami, a junior economics major from Japan, is the president of Global Friends of Japan, which helps him meet American students who are interested in the Japanese culture. He spends most of his time with other international students and said he wishes there were more Japanese students to interact with. “I don’t think UNL needs more international students,” Minami said. “I believe there are already quite a number of them. I hope there will be more opportunities in which American and international students can interact.” There are more than 20 in-

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UNL allots funds for New 3-D printer brings climate change study class projects to life GRADUATE / PROFESSIONAL

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University to release 1000 study alongside state legislature’s; study to incorporate all possible causes 2009 staff report dn The University of NebraskaLincoln will fund a $20,000 climate change study to be released alongside a Nebraska Legislature study that is criticized for its omission of human causes. Ron Yoder, associate vice chancellor of UNL’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said Thursday that the study will begin “right away” and should be done in a matter of months, although the official deadline is September 2014. The

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study, which will look at the effects of climate change on Nebraska, will incorporate all possible causes, including human ones. The legislature commissioned its own $44,000 study with a bill passed in its 2013 session, but senators constricted the 2011 findings 2010 caused by “cyclical” to those change. Sen. Beau McCoy who is from Omaha and denies human involvement in climate change, added the word “cyclical” to the bill. Nebraska’s Department of Agriculture defined “cyclical change” as “a change in the state of climate due to natural internal processes and only natural external forcings such as volcanic eruptions and solar variations.” Lincoln Sen. Ken Haar, the sponsor of the bill, told the Omaha World-Herald he wanted to include all aspects of climate change in the study. He said if the study were to exclude human involvement and reject science, the state would “look stupid.”

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BY THE NUMBERS The Nebraska Legislature will spend as much as

$44,000 on its climate change study, which won’t take human causes into account.

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A machine about the size of a microwave whirs in the corner of a cubicle at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s printing services office. In 14 minutes exactly, the whirring slows and stops. The nozzle head of the machine lifts up and four interlocked plastic chain links sit on the metal plate. Dave Hadenfeldt, director of Print, Copy, Mail and Distribution Services at the UNL, reaches into the 3-D printing machine and takes out the chain, dangling it so the interlocking pieces move individually. Printing services purchased the machine – a MakerBot Replicator 2 – in August for $2,500. It takes designs made in 3-D imaging programs and produces them using a corn-based PLA plastic, which is heated and melted at 446 degrees Fahrenheit. Because of the unique material and size restrictions, the printer will be used mostly for pro-

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources allocated

$20,000 for its study. Both will be completed by September

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totypes and models for students and faculty. “When you look at this thing, it’s the size of a microwave – it’s

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The MakerBot Replicator 2 prints small-scale, lightweight objects on corn-based plastic. Staffers described it as a “hot glue gun engineered to move and produce” along an axis.

basically a hot glue gun engineered to move and produce along

3-d printing: see page 3


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