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.Case for merging1d,el)tal cQllege
and Medical Cen\er n~t proved
In the decade since the State of Ne-, merger suinmarily were balanced against
b:r;-a$a agreed to bring Omaha's financiallythe disaqyantages. The advantages won.
distressed municipal university into the
Several of the supposed disadvantages
Urnversity of Nebraska system, laI1dmark
were downgraded to rebuttable - and imll'\tr~-institutional changes have t~en place.
mediately rebutted - "concerns."
But
~ · Some of them were patently sensible, so
·"detail" and hard data supporting the commuch so that critics strained in objecting.
mittee's conclusion backing the takeover of
··" 1t made sense to move the Graduate
the · dental college did not accompany the
School of Social Work from · Lincoln to
report"
Omaha. Social work students are benefitted
·•Read between the lines, however, are
1ftltey gain valuable experiences in a genuimplicit requirements for increased tax exirte 'metropolitan environment, where ecopenctltiires to pay for "new instructional
nomic divisions and social and racial tenprograpis," mainly in Omaha.
; :The dental college faculty is divided on
~lo~ are,a bigger part of the everyday fabrt~ than they are in smaller communities.. 1
.the question; our understanding, unofficially,, ,is, that t~e split is something like 30
\ · As long as the transfer involved everyihing· and everybody, it also made deII1oI1.- a,gainst, 23 or 24.for. Four of the ten commitstrated sense to move the School of Phar- · ee'• members backing the merger are den- ·
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mac'y, again from the Lincoln campus, fo •t~! collegeJeachers. On the other hand, both
tne Medical Center in Omaha.
·
·,dental college representatives on the UNL
. . ., .
··'•fa~ulty senate are reported opposed.
But now we come to a different anirnai ·· I ?There is some belief that since the
a,pl'Pposed shift of administrative cqntrol of \M~clica.l Center faculty has had markedly
the ~
~ollege .of -1:)entistry from l1~9;th4 ;ffhi_ghet,salatie;,in-the past, the merger repMedical Center ?1 Omaha. Howeve~ the col• J·· r~~ents a _hance for dental college profs to
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}!:~e' itself, ,phys1cally, would remann~'h!r~· ,,,, better th~mselves. That might be so. unit 1s, on the U~~. East Campus. Existing . questionably within the entire university
'1ucational activities, faculty and students
budget, theMedical Center would become a
~uld stay there, too.
,. 'i,proportionately larger entity and UNL
·.; In 1976, an American Dental Associasmaller, a fact with interesting potential
rami,fications.
tion Commission on Accreditation toured
the dental college. It voiced concern "there
Even in a long-winded editoriaL which
~ not better liaison and interdisciplinary , . this is, maI1y of the related elements and nutapport with medicine and other .health reances can't be examined. That omission
~ated professions." Improved "cooperative . ·:risks distortion.
~!forts" between the college and the Medi'Nevertheless, that which is on the avail~al Center were urged.
· al,)le record is nowhere near persuasive
~! Using that as a springboard, the univer- enough to allow agreement with the prosfty's top executives directed creation of a
posed administrative incorporation of the
1,:eview committee. Interestingly, the comdental college into the Medical Center.
tnittee's charge was not that it investigate
• If better cooperation is needed to impetter avenues of cooperation, as the.·. acprove the educational experiences of dental
c ew;tation team had recommended; _
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Rath~
students, such efforts ought to be plotted
and · well tested. The university should
er, its assignment was "to explore in some
~etail the advantages and disadvantages of
travel that logical route before it is dis· ·
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·missed.,out1€if;hand.
,adnurustrar 1 mcorporating , the ·co ·
1ve y · ·
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of Dentistry into the Medical Center.'' ··
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Not until cooperative ventures are
At that point, sµ~picfons ' naturally
.graded failures, not until speculative gains
arose. Was this deal already cut'?
inr
educational offerings for dental students
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Last November .th,~ cam:rµitt,~~ ,pro-,. iµr,e bettt;l' demonstrated and not until all
.vided an un,1:1sually brief - for the prolix
reasonably expeclable extra tax costs of
academic ·'world - ·31/2-page , double-spaced
merger are laid on the table should the inxeport. The advantages of 'administrative
corporation venture be carried any further.
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Case For Merging Dental College and Medical Center Not Proved
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Newspaper editorial about the college of dentistry. Editorial covers the proposal to move administrative control of COD to UNMC.
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2/4/1979
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