Proposal aims to keep tuition affordable
Students could predict education costs
By MARY BETH BOWEN
Of the Emerald
SALEM — While the tuition
freeze for resident under
graduates seems to have grabbed
the most headlines this session,
the Legislature is considering
another tuition-related policy de
cision of far greater importance.
That issue is whether to limit tui
tion increases to cost-of-living in
creases, as reflected by the Port
land Consumer Price Index
(PCPI).
The Oregon Student Lobby
(OSL), which strongly supports
the PCPI proposal, says it would
keep tuition costs at an affordable
level and would allow students to
more accurately predict the size of
annual tuition increases.
Although the OSL supports link
ing all students' tuition to the
PCPI, it has had more success in
obtaining it for resident under
graduates.
“There’s a lot more support
among legislators for helping the
resident undergraduates," says
Kirby Garrett, OSL coordinator.
“And it really helped when Gov.
Bob Straub put the money for the
freeze ($3 million) in his budget.
But there’s still time, and we re
pushing for a freeze and the CPI
limit for non-resident under
graduates and all graduate stu
dents."
The bill that would implement
the resident undergraduate tuition
freeze and the PCPI porposal, HB
2414, will probably be considered
by the Joint Ways and Means
Education Subcommittee during
the next two weeks.
Vying with the PCPI proposal is
Gov. Straub’s recommendation to
establish tuition as a fixed percen
tage of instructional costs for each
student category.
At the suggestion of the Oregon
Educational Coordinating Com
mission (OECC), Straub has re
commended lowering the resident
undergraduate’s share from 25 to
23 per cent (the equivalent of a
freeze), and increasing the non
resident undergraduate’s share
from 97 to 100 per cent, the resi
dent graduate’s share from 30 to
33 per cent, and the non
resident’s graduate’s share
from 30 to 50 per cent. The
graduate increases would be im
plemented over the next bien
nium.
Senate says no to gas storage
SALEM — The Senate voted unanimously Monday to pass a bill
which would prohibit the storage and disposal of nerve gas and biologi
cal warfare agents in Oregon.
Proposed by Sen. Ted Hallock. D-Portland, the bill will apply to
chemicals developed by the military to cause “death, disability or dam
age to man, domestic animals or crops.”
The bill had been on the Senate floor once before, but ran into
opposition from some senators who believed the bill could be inter
preted to apply to herbicides and pesticides. An example cited was the
herbicide 2,4,5-T, which was developed by the military for use as a
defoliant in Vietnam and is now commonly used by the forest industry in
Oregon.
The bill was rereferred to the Environment and Energy Committee,
where it was amended to exclude herbicides and pesticides approvea
by the Environmental Protection Agency or the Department of Agricul
ture.
As the bill now stands, biological agents and nerve gas will not be
allowed to be stored or discarded on non-federal land within the state.
Federal land comprises about 50 per cent of the state's land.
The bill will now go to the House for consideration.
The Legislature’s third alterna
tive would be to allow the board to
continue to set tuition levels, with
no legislative directives, as has
been done in the past.
Arguing for the PCPI proposal,
Garrett contends the Joint Ways
and Means Education Subcom
mittee, whose recommendation
carries great weight with the full
committee and the Legislature,
has not always given careful con
sideration to tuition increase deci
sions.
Instead of the size of the in
creases being a reasoned,
thought-out decision, says Gar
rett, it is determined by the expen
diture limit the Legislature sets for
the board, and the amount of tax
dollars the board is appropriated
by the Legislature.
“For too long, students have
made up the difference between
those two figures,’’ said Garrett at
a tuition policy meeting earlier this
montn. i union is a user lee ior
higher education and there should
be some restraint on the amount it
can increase."
Garrett pointed out that many
students who attend state col
leges and universities as fresh
men find themselves “priced out
of the market” by the time they are
juniors or seniors. A freshman at
tending a state university, for ex
ample, paid $408 in 1973-74, as
opposed to $537 as a senior in
1976-77.
He added that since 1967-68,
tuition at Oregon’s state colleges
and universities has increased at
a rate 37 per cent higher than the
PCPI. (See graph). Under the
PCPI proposal, tuition would in
crease by no more than the dotted
line (which represents the PCPI).
But the PCPI proposal has been
strongly opposed by Straub's of
fice and the OECC, which contend
it will excuse students from paying
certain costs that make up the
total instructional cost, if those
costs increase at a higher rate
than the PCPI.
Percentage Increase in Tuition Fees for Oregon's
State Colleges and Universities Compared to Portland Consumer
Price Index 1967-68 to 1976-77
99.1
T.K. Olsen, executive director
of the OECC, says faculty salaries
have increased at a higher rate
than the PCPI during the past few
years, and increases in energy
costs, such as fuel and electricity,
are predicted to exceed the cost
of living increases in the future.
He supports the fixed percen
tage policy, saying it will expose
the link between tuition fees and
instruction costs, and conse
quently students will put pressure
on the schools to keep instruc
tional costs down.
“The Legislature is interested in
having less financial demands
made upon it, and so are stu
dents," says Olsen. “It is approp
riate for the student troops to be
on the other side of the issue when
people are trying to increase in
structional costs,"he said.
Olsen adds that the PCPI pro
posal would allow students to be
nefit from costly new programs
without bearing much of the cost,
because any cost over the PCPI
won t come out of their pockets,
but out of the pockets of tax
payers.
The OSL, on the other hand,
opposes the fixed percentage
proposal, saying it would pit stu
dents against faculty members
because holding down instruc
tional costs would mean holding
down the salaries of faculty mem
bers.
Ironically, the PCPI is one of the
few issues the State Board of
Higher Education and the OSL
agree on.
According to State System
Vice-Chancellor John Richard
son, the issue of fixed percentage
vs. PCPI boils down to a
philosophical question — should
society or student bear the costs
of higher education?
“Society benefits from higher
education, and I'd like them to pay
for all of it.” said Richardson in an
interview earlier this month. “I’m
pragmatic enough to know that
won't happen, but I think the tax
payers should pay a dispropor
tionately higher share than stu
dents for education. The CPI pro
vision is a step in that direction.”
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