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

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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

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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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Mark Hughes, Director - Office of Informafio My office publishes the Universityls academ- ic catalogs which I be- lieve have been written and assembled in a manner which allows nearly everyone to com- prehend our require- ments and offerings eas- ily. I edit and print bro- chures and newsletters which carry important information to each per- son on campus. people in the community and prospective students in the region. I am constantly in touch with members of the news media - newspapers. television and radio e answering their questions on our activities and placing ar- ticles in the public do- main on the accomplish- ments of our students and faculty. An open and aggres- sive information service cannot help but create an attitude of good will toward UNLV among the public. And only in such an atmosphere can a university prosper and develop the kinds of fac- ulty, programs and facili- ties worthy of a top-tlight institution of higher edu- cation. As is true every- where, things run smoothly as long as people understand one another. But when com- munication breaks down, frustration nor- mally follows, 46