Report shows job success rate
Most grads hold major-related jobs
By MARIAN GREEN
Of th« Emerald
Editor’s Note: This is the first
in a series of articles on the
job-market success of college
graduates.
Many students find them
.selves caught in the dilemma of
whether to major in an area of
interest or in a field that guar
antees a job.
If you decide in favor of a job,
a Career Planning and
Placement report that indicates
which majors are getting jobs
for students could help you
make the right choice.
According to the report, 75
percent or more of the
graduates with bachelor’s de
grees had full-time jobs. The
report published last year used
information obtained from 1978
University graduates.
The 14 of 20 departments re
sponding for the report includ
ed architecture, anthropology,
computer science, economics,
English, mathematics,
sociology, accounting, man
agement, marketing, business,
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community service and public
affairs, education and jour
nalism.
Three of the departments —
management, marketing and
computer science — had a job
success rate of 100 percent.
However, six departments
said one-sixth or more of their
graduates with bachelor de
grees were unemployed. They
were art education, biology,
political science, pyschology,
telecommunications and music.
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About 68 percent of ba
chelor’s degree graduates
report their jobs were major
related and had "definite” car
eer potential. For those
graduating with a master’s or
and a doctorate, the figures
were higher.
Graduates of professional
schools and colleges reported
greater career potential than
students in the arts and
sciences.
In general, 68 percent of
Enrollment cuts can mend
higher ed, Lieuallen says
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
Editor's Note: This is the first
in a two-part series on funding
and higher education.
Gov. Vic Atiyeh’s budget
proposal sends 10 percent of
the state's revenues to higher
education. But state systems
chancellor Roy Lieuallen says
that's just not enough to halt
Oregon education’s slide into
mediocrity.
Lieuallen says the quality of
higher education has been
deteriorating for the past
decade, listing three examples
to support his contention.
“One of them,’’ Lieuallen
says, “is that the number of
students served by each faculty
member has gone up 6 or 7
percent. Whenever the number
of students to be served goes
up, the quality of educational
services available to each in
dividual goes down."
“The second reason is that
the library support has eroded.
Our budget has simply not kept
up with inflation, and our librar
ies are undernourished.
"And the third important fac
tor has to do with salary levels.
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society starts getting a smaller
share of the salary money, in
evitably, some of the better
people in the organization are
going to be moving to other
enterprises.
“When you move these able
people, you have a negative im
pact on quality."
Most legislators agree with
the chancellor’s assessment,
and one member of the money
controlling Ways and Means
Committee, Rep. Vera Katz, D
Portland, offers a suggestion.
“For the size of this state, we
have too many institutions. My
battle with the chancellor and
the board of higher education is
to force them to look at how we
can pull back and raise the level
of the remaining institutions."
But Lieuallen says closing
one of the state’s seven col
leges and universities is not the
answer.
"If you close an institution
and permit the people enrolled
to go elsewhere, you have to put
operating money with those
people wherever they go. So
basically the only way you cut
costs or improve quality and
maintain your present level of
support is to reduce the number
of people you serve."
Lieuallen says the state will
lose if such reductions are
forced.
Tomorrow: Where can addi
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those with bachelor’s degrees
reported they were employed
full-time, 15.2 percent reported
part-time employment, and 16.1
percent reported unem
ployment. Of the unemployed,
7.1 percent were looking for
work.
When these figures were ad
justed for national unem
ployment averages, about 75
percent of the graduates were
employed full-time.
Although the nation's econ
omy has suffered recently, "the
trends are still true,” says Larry
Smith, director of the Career
Planning and Placement
Center.
“Last year, 170 companies
came to campus to recruit for
jobs. That demand is just as
strong this year, despite what
we’ve heard — that fewer jobs
are available.”
However, the report failed to
point out an important factor
about the University's academic
emphasis, Smith cautions.
“One of the things that many
people are not aware of is that
we’ve got about 60 percent of
our students graduating with
professionally related majors
every year. That’s a bit of infor
mation we often overlook.
“We’ve got a stong emphasis
on professional areas as well as
the softer liberal arts areas."
The placement center cur
rently is planning an annual
survey of job trends.
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