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State teaching
program needs
Salem’s backing
By ERIC BENJAMINSON
Of the Emerald
A five-year-old Oregon State University program aimed at
improving faculty teaching quality could extend to the other state
system colleges and universities, if a proposal currently in com
mittee is successful in the Oregon Legislature.
The College and University Teaching Project (CAUT), created
in 1974 by OSU’s Office of Undergraduate Studies, provides
services that will enable faculty to design and implement ap
proved instructional procedures.
The College and University Teaching Project (CAUT),
created in 1974 by OSU’s Office of Undergraduate Studies, pro
vides services that will enable faculty to design and implement
approved instructional procedures.
The program is meant primarily for faculty who “show an
interest in improving their teaching, but have trouble picking the
proper route,” according to a CAUT pamphlet.
CAUT is a full-year program incorporating four phases of
instructional activity. Workshop sessions that expose faculty to
different teaching methods, make up the first part of the pro
gram.
Following that is a two-month planning period, during which
comprehensive instructional plans are designed with the help of
CAUT personnel and campus resource departments.
Further consultation at the instructor’s own pace makes up
the program’s third phase, followed by a colloquium-style evalua
tive section.
After the program CAUT staffers remain available to assist
their ex-students.
Faculty participants are chosen by application to department
curriculum committees and deans, who also nominate faculty
members on the basis of faculty proposals to improve their
courses. The program reports a “robust” past enrollment.
Participants receive a $1,000 stipend to attend the work
shop. In addition, their departments contribute a $500 subsidy. To
date, 150 faculty members have gone through the program.
Until now, CAUT has only been in effect at Oregon State
University, and program funding has been “inconsistent,” accord
ing to Cindy Wilhite, director of state affairs for the Associated
Students at OSU.
Money has not been budgeted directly for the program —
instead, funds have been “taken from where they can be gotten,
mainly from surplus budgets in other areas.” CAUT’s latest was
Cp I U I ,UUU.
Program supporters are currently lobbying in the Legislature
to assure a direct state committment for program'funding. Such a
bill has been drafted in the Senate Education Committee, but has
not yet been scheduled for committee discussion.
The proposal, sponsored at the request of the Oregon Stu
dent Lobby and the ASOSU, will be sponsored on the floor by
Sen. Cliff Trow, D-Corvallis, who chairs the Education Commit
tee.
The bill calls for an $800,OCX) appropriation to fund the pro
gram for the next four years, and to extend it to all schools in the
state system. The present CAUT program is considered a “pilot
effort to this end,” according to Wilhite.
Dave Hebert, an ASUO administrative assistant for state and
federal affairs, reiterates OSL support of the measure.
“We hope to tie in this bill with the issue of faculty evalua
tions," he says. “The only opposition we have noticed are finan
cial objections.”
Wilhite also hopes to link the bill with other issues. “The
Senate Education Committee is currently discussing teachers’
standards at the high school level. With this bill, we hope to
extend this concern to the level of the universities.”
The position of the Oregon Faculty Lobby on this bill is now
uncertain. James Tattersal, University economics professor and
OFL member, says the lobby has not “got around to a specific
position on the CAUT issue.”
He predicts that the issue will come up at the next OFL
meeting, scheduled for Feb. 27.
Bob Becker, an OSU biochemistry professor and OFL presi
dent pro tern, agrees with Tattersal.
“We cannot anticipate the position we will take yet, nor can
we be sure of the opinion of the general faculty on the issue.” He
adds, however, that a poll of faculty would probably show a
majority supporting the bill.
Becker guesses that “an audible faculty thought is that we
would be enthusiastically for the bill were it not for the method of
funding.” He says that “line budgets" like this should not be
funded through the Legislature.
“The problem with these little bills for specific plans is that it
usurps power from the State Board (of Higher Education)."
Becker stresses the uncertainty of the OFL position, and the
difficulty in guessing at faculty response.
Wilhite disagrees with Becker on the issue of funding
methods. “Line items are necessary to assure the Legislature of
what we are doing." She says. “This is the only way to assure
consistent funding of what we consider a very important pro
gram.”