Group provides educational services
By MARIAN GREEN
OfttwEmwald
Higher education has found a
friend in a program that works to
improve education in the West.
The Western Interstate Com
mission for Higher Education is
a non-profit regional organiza
tion with 13 member states and
a goal "to provide high quality,
cost effective programs to meet
the educational and manpower
needs of the West.”
WICHE’s services range from
student exchange programs
and internships to nursing and
health resources. It also
provides services in minority
education, mental health and
economic development.
WICHE receives almost
one-quarter of its general oper
ations funding through legisla
tive appropriations from each
member state. Other sources of
funding come from private con
tributions and grants.
Each member state has three
commissioners who serve on a
WICHE board of directors.
Oregon’s state systems
chancellor Roy Lieuallen is one
of Oregon’s commissioners.
Although WICHE covers a
wide variety of programs,
Lieuallen says all the programs
are related to higher education.
According to Lieuallen,
WICHE’s main program relates
directly to higher education —
the student exchange program.
Under the program, students
can enroll in out-of-state school
majors and pay in-state tuition,
Lieuallen says.
“It provides the mechanism
for students to come to our
medical school from Montana
(which doesn’t have a medical
school).”
Member schools pay a set
amount to cover the tuition dif
ference, Lieuallen says.
During the last academic
Browne concert
tickets available
in EMU, Feb. 3
Jackson Browne will play a
benefit concert for No Nukes on
Feb.23 at 8 p.m. in McArthur
Court.
Tickets go on sale Feb. 3 at
8:30 a m. in Room 108 of the
EMU.
University students can buy
two student-priced tickets with
a current fee card and can re
serve six additional tickets by
name. Those tickets can only be
claimed by the person named
with proper identification.
Tickets cost $7.50 for Univer
sity students and $8.50 for gen
eral public for seats on the main
floor, bleachers, first and
second balconies. Tickets are
$6.50 for University students
and $7.50 for the general public
for seats in the third balcony
and behind the stage.
The Pacific Alliance and the
EMU Cultural Forum is spon
soring the event.
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WICHE gives to higher ed
year, WICHE sponsored 1,353
students who enrolled in 15
professional programs in 50
western institutions.
Several years ago, Lieuallen
and two other commissioners
received a Carnegie Foundation
grant to study the feasibility of
cooperative graduate education
programs.
The study’s outcome sug
gested establishing a coopera
tive, regional graduate program
in five northwest states.
This year WICHE’s member
states are asking their state
legislatures to approve the
regional graduate program. The
program would be similar to the
student exchange program, but
schools accepting students
would eliminate non-resident
tuition for approved graduate
programs totally, Lieuallen says.
The five states in the program
are Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana and Alaska. Of the 32
programs approved in 14
schools, 12 programs are in
Oregon schools.
Programs were included if
they were of “demonstrated
quality” and were not found in
more than one other school,
Lieuallen says.
Lieuallen presented the
proposal to Oregon’s Legisla
ture at the end of January. And
because the proposal is ex
pected to pull its own weight,
Lieuallen says he is confident
the Legislature will approve the
proposal.
“It would reduce pressure on
schools to set up masters pro
grams in certain fields and
would reduce duplication of
fields."
As a result, Lieuallen says,
"programs will become
stronger."
"It does, to some extent,
threaten them (schools), but in
the long run, no one organiza
tion can provide everything to
everyone.
WICHE also sponsors work
shops, research and community
education programs to improve
the quality of nursing, mental
health, minority education and
economic development.
The workshops and research
programs help higher education
institutions match their educa
tional programs closer to the
needs of these areas, Lieuallen
says.
Although overall im
provement cdh be seen in these
areas, Lieuallen says it's dif
ficult to measure how much of
the improvement is due to
WICHE programs.
“You do lots of things that
you have hope and faith in and
never know, with finality,
whether they will produce good
results.”
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