University of Nevada Las Vegas - Epilogue Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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44 Dallas Norton, Director of Admission The office of admissions is in a position of evaluating records that a student has developed either through his high school experience or by work in a college perhaps a junior college or a four year institution before transferring to UNLV. The function ot the Admissions Office is to determine whether that student i qualified for regular admission or must by necessity be admitted for some kind of probationary status or perhaps a qualifying status to make up any back ground, improve any study skills, undertake growth that is needed in order to go forward with his academic work. The office is very much involved with the in terests and the measurement of the intellectual and the human growth of the student as it has developed prior to his entry into this Institution. Our evaluation i in terms of available records and test scores and we provide advisors assigned to the student with information of this kind, in order to properly assist the stu dent in reaching the goals that he has set for himself. This area permits a measurement of human growth that is ordinarily not available to an office of admis sions, but is of a real importance to the students involved.

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Dr. Don Baepler, VP For Academic Affairs I think my chief function is to try to provide an atmosphere where faculty can work together with tudents in developing innovative curriculum. I think that the curricular changes that we have'now progress are some of the most exciting things that this University has attempted. We have chieved an environment at UNLV where students have direct input into major policy decisions at epartmental levels as well as at the University level. Increasingly, students have input on personnel ems such as hiring of faculty and administrators. Students have been invited by the Regents, and re even funded by the Regents, to conduct a student evaluation of the faculty, and I think that this a very productive project and that it indicates that we have an academic community where stu- ents, faculty and administration are represented at various levels, particularly at the University enate where many facets of the University are discussed. 43

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ack McCauinn, Dean of Students - Students know what they need and what they want; our job is to get it for them or to help them to get it. I believe that this direction quires a staff which is flexible and non-judgmental in helping diversified students - with disparate needs. We accept other human ings without their sharing all of our value judgments, our behavior patterns. or our life styles, and we hope students will learn to are this acceptance, too many student personnel administrators, acting as over-protective parents, made decisions for students. ow we are concerned with stimulating students to make their own decisions so that they can become selfndirected, seif-actualizing man beings. We are all products of our experiences, real or imaginary. If we can create the environment for students to have rich uman relationships in which they can experience interest, fascination. acceptance and even love for other people, then their own es are more free and more full. 45