Three schools could close
Enrollment cuts aimed at graduate students
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
SALEM — If the scales won’t
balance, one has two choices:
make the light side heavier, or
the heavy side lighter.
Gov. Vic Atiyeh’s budget is
about $240 million too bulky on
the expenditures side. The
Legislature has ordered all state
agencies to cut an additional 10
percent off the governor's
proposed budget.
That order equals $30.5 mil
lion for higher education. The
state education board and the
Educational Coordinating
Council have each submitted
plans to get the additional mon
ey.
Near the top of the its propo
sals, the board suggests cutting
enrollment by 1,330 students a
year each of the next two years.
Pres. Paul Olum has indicated
that would mean closure of at
least three professional schools
at the university.
According to ECC executive
director T. K. Olson, the plan is
premature. He contends other
Committee to review
grades, incompletes
The Academic Standards
Committee will examine
procedures for granting incom
pletes and giving grade
changes after a term has been
completed, the five-member
committee decided Wednesday.
The ASC, an advisory group
charged with maintaining
academic standards, agreed to
send a letter to all academic
department heads asking for
procedures currently followed
in granting incompletes.
An incomplete should be
granted only when a student
has been doing “satisfactory
work,’’ which committee
members agreed means a grade
of C or better, and when there is
a legitimate reason for the
student’s inability to complete
“some vital part” of the course,
said committee chairer Bob
Freeman.
Freeman said the current
procedure may be "hit or miss"
and that he would like to see a
uniform standard established.
The ASC also is examining
grade changes granted after the
term is over. Registrar Wanda
Johnson is researching the cir
cumstances under which grade
changes are granted.
The grade change often is
justified, Freeman said, such as
when an instructor incorrectly
figures a student’s score. But
it’s conceivable that "some kind
of pressure might be brought on
an instructor” to raise the
grade, he added.
The next meeting of the ASC
will be Wednesday, May 20, at
2:30 p.m. in the Fenton Hall
conference room.
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steps should come first, such as
cutting state funds from most
physical education courses.
"When Olum talks of closing
professional schools, he talks of
hurting graduate and upper
division students," Olson said.
‘ By definition, freshmen
don’t enroll in professional
schools. So Olum is talking
about reducing graduate and
upper division enrollment,
which is contrary to the policy of
the board. Our first commitment
is to upper division students,
then graduate students, and
lastly to lower division students.
The board and commision are
closer to agreement on other
items such as the suspension of
state support for intercollegiate
athletics at the three major in
stitutions at a savings of
Map library collection grows
The University library will send a representa
tive to Washington, D C., this summer to select
approximately $20,000 worth of duplicate maps
from the Library of Congress.
Paul Blint, a geography graduate student, will
select the maps for the library. University librarian
Edward Thatcher expects to gain between 12,000
and 15,000 duplicate maps for the Map Library
located in 165 Condon Hall
Subject maps, such as a state population
map. have been the most common types selected
through the program. Thatcher said.
The trip is funded by an $800 grant from the
University Foundation After consultation with
Thatcher, Blint will select maps from July 6 to
Aug. 14.
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Agreements also include an
additional 10-percent hike in
tuition at the medical-dental
schools, predicted to generate
$582,800; and a $108 tuition
surcharge for 1981-82, which
will raise $4.74 million.
“If we’re talking about cutting
back academic services, keep
ing students out of the system,
what possible justification is
there for not putting (athletics)
on the block early on?" asked
subcommittee Sen. Jim
Gardner, D-Portland
After the hearing, Chancellor
Roy Lieuallen explained his
reasoning for the cutbacks.
“The proposal for the univer
sities will modify the program a
bit. It will cause them to seek
additional funds, call for a cut
back a bit on the programs, but
in no way does it eliminate in
tercollegiate athletics at the un
iversities. But it would have that
effect at the state colleges,”
Lieuallen said