Head-count going ‘absolutely wild’
Dean says business school size ‘hard to handle’
By MARTHA BLISS
Of the Emerald
Overall University enrollment figures
have finally stabilized during recent
years, but the College of Business
nevertheless is experiencing student in
flux too large to handle, reported Busi
ness Dean Richard West at a Eugene
Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday.
“The head-count is going absolutely
wild," West said, and the consequences
will affect “literally hundreds” of stu
dents if the University does not take ap
propriate action on the problem soon.
West acknowledged that University
Pres. William Boyd has proposed two
solutions to the college’s enrollment
problem, but he considers both of them
“inadequate."
Boyd's first proposal involves a
change in the college’s graduation re
quirements to incorporate more liberal
arts courses. Such added non-business
requirements would distribute the
college’s wave of students throughout
the University, thereby lightening its total
student credit-hour toad.
West countered this proposal by re
porting that approximately half of the
business students’ requirements are al
ready in the liberal arts. He added that
the college might "run the nsk of losing
accreditation," if it requires any more
non-business courses.
Boyd's second proposal suggests au
thorizing faculty members of other de
partments to teach some of the core bus
iness courses, thereby freeing business
professors to concentrate more on in
depth areas.
West opposes this proposal also, say
ing that graduate students already teach
most of the core business courses.
"Neither of these proposals will work,"
West told his audience. "We must have
either more resources or we must start
restricting student enrollment."
A former member of the Eugene Rot
ary Club, West acknowledged an offer
he received from the University ad
ministration to add four more faculty
members to his staff. However, he said
such a slight increase would offer little
improvement.
The college currently houses 52 fa
culty members, some of which are
graduate students. West estimates it will
need nearly 75 members for the
1977-78 academic year if it is to function
adequately under the continually ex
panding student enrollment.
"We have heard very much rhetoric
but not very much rationality," West re
marked concerning administrative ef
forts to solve the college s enrollment
problems.
West himself recommends cutting
into the liberal arts’ resources since it is
not experiencing an enrollment growth.
He said he realizes the importance of
liberal arts in the University curricula, but
does not think his proposed budget cut
tings would hinder any of the depart
“I realize that the University is more
than a college of business,” West said,
"but two-thirds of the total University en
rollment growth is in the business col
lege." Whereas the college composed
four per cent of the University's enroll
ment in 1971, it now holds eight per cent.
Despite their frustrations. West
stressed that these financial issues did
not influence him in his recent decision
to resign as dean and accept a job offer
from Dartmouth College in Hanover,
N.H., as dean of its Amos Tuck College
of Business. The job begins in Sep
tember.
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