Tuition freeze ranks high
OSL chairer lists top legislative goals
By SALLY HODGKINSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM — A tuition freeze for
resident students and statewide
mandatory release of faculty
course evaluations are among the
Oregon Student Lobby’s list of
legislative priorities.
“Many Oregonians will be de
nied post-secondary educational
opportunities if Gov. Vic Atiyeh's
biennial budget recommenda
tions for the Department of Higher
Education are approved by the
Legislature,” OSL Board of Direc
tors Chairer Norhum Chandler
said in a Tuesday press confer
ence.
Reading from a prepared
statement, Chandler said the OSL
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will advocate a tuition freeze for
resident students and a limited in
crease for non-residents.
Atiyeh’s recommended in
creases in tuition range from 28
percent for resident under
graduates to 70 percent for non
resident graduate students,
Chandler said, calling it the largest
tuition jump in over a decade.
Undergraduates at Oregon’s
state colleges and universities
currently pay 18 percent more in
tuition and fees than the national
average, while graduates pay 61
percent more, Chandler said.
"Since 1969, tuition has in
creased about 30 percent more
than the Consumer Price Index
and 18 percent more than the cost
of instruction,” he said. “Clearly,
students have been bearing a dis
proportionate share of cost in
creases for more than a decade.”
Atiyeh, in proposing the tuition
levels, has “reneged on his
gubernatorial campaign promise
to college students to keep tuition
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low,” Chandler charged. “These
proposed tuition increases are
also in violation of the spirit of
Pres. Carter's voluntary, seven
percent wage and price controls.”
The OSL also supports continu
ing the current financial aid pro
gram, opposing Atiyeh’s proposal
to reduce financial aid now availa
ble to students from middle
income families.
Chandler said the number of
scholarship grants for middle
income students will be ignored.
Both factors will eliminate a sub
stantial number of previously elig
ible students.
Rep. Mary Burrows, R-Eugene,
has introduced a bill at the request
of the OSL which would mandate
the release of faculty-course
evaluation results for state system
schools, reported Chandler.
The bill, HB 2831, is similar to
one which died in the Senate last
session after passage in the
House.
Major differences between last
session’s bill and HB 2831 are that
the evaluations would pertain to
faculty and course, and that re
sults would be released to the stu
dent associations which would
decide whether to publish them.
Additionally, rebuttals by faculty
members would be published with
the evaluations and evaluations
for first term would not be pub
lished but would instead be re
leased to faculty members.
"Not only will the release of
faculty-course evaluations en
hance the academic quality of
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students' educational experience,
but it would act as a ‘financial aid’
measure by increasing the credit
hour load of students by reducing
the number of courses dropped,”
said Chandler.
The OSL is also concerned with
increasing criticism of the compe
tency of college graduates, said
Chandler, who said the drop re
sults from the number of faculty
members who are ineffective as
instructors. "These instructors
severely hinder students’ ability to
learn course material and thereby
substantially harm the quality of
education the students would
hope to recieve," said Chandler.
Lack of training is the reason for
faculty ineffectiveness, said
Chandler, adding that only at the
university and college level is an
instructor not required to have any
prior training or aptitude for teach
ing.
"The fault of poor instruction
must be shared by an education
system presently based upon the
fallacy that good researchers are
good teachers," he said.
The OSL is proposing a
system-wide instructional im
provement project which would
create opportunities for faculty
members to improve instruction
techniques through workshop and
counseling, said Chandler.
Other OSL legislative priorities
include gaining minimum wage for
student employees, gaining child
care for low income students, pro
viding accessibility for handicap
ped in state system buildings,
gaining funding for women’s athle
tics and creating a student posi
tion on the educational coordina
tion council.
Rep. Gretchen Kafoury,
D-Portland, has introduced a bill
at the request of the OSL which
would designate $650,000 for
child care needs of low income
students.
"This program will, in effect,
break the circle of poverty by al
lowing women, stuck in low
paying jobs and dependent upon
state financed child care, to re
move themselves from public as
sistance,” said Chandler.
The OSL supports inclusion
within the Department of Higher
Education budget $450,000 for
women's athletics.
"This general fund support will
help reduce the inequality cur
rently existing between men's and
women's athletic programs," said
Chandler.
The OSL also endorses
Atiyeh’s recommendation that
$7.2 million be appropriated for
construction renovations at state
colleges and universities to make
them accessible to the handicap
ped.
“The OSL identifies with the
taxpayers' frustrations over the
increasing costs of government
and the declining quality of its ser
vices. We believe these principles
are embodied in our legislative
program," Chandler concluded.
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