State board approves University budget
By ANN PORTAL_
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The State Board of Higher Education
took its first steps along a financial tight
rope Friday — a tightrope that the board
expects will become even more precar
ious during the 1982-83 school year
Unlike tight-budget years of the past,
this year the board advances without a
net — the padding is gone after preced
ing years of underfunding and budget
cuts
Working within the budget's con
straints, the board approved budgets for
each higher education institution, ap
proved an academic salary adjustment
proposal and approved residence hall
and food service charges
In his opening comments. Chancellor
Roy Lieuallen said that he considers
higher education s 1981-83 budget
"much less than a minimum level bud
get "
But if nothing goes wrong higher
education institutions should be able to
avoid financial exigency — the first step
necessary to lay off tenured faculty, he
saRT _
"Isn't it strange that we get our solace
from the fact that we have avoided
bankruptcy?"
The budget came too late to allow
careful planning to effect program
reductions or limit enrollments in the
coming year, he said, which means the
eight higher education institutions may
be "serving more students and clientele
than may be desirable within anticipated
resources "
But Lieuallen left no doubt that "sub
stantial" program and enrollment reduc
tions will be necessary in the 1982-83
school year to meet a budget that is
projected to fall short by "several mil
lion ”
He directed university presidents to
begin to review programs and identify
areas to be trimmed Included in pro
gram reductions will be the necessity of
laying off tenured faculty, he said
Although the Legislature appropriated
higher education funds for each of the
two years of the biennium, it placed only
$1 in some of the second year’s ac
counts, so a definite 1982-83 higher
education budget will not be available
until the Legislature reconvenes some
time during the spring.
The two-year budget contains two
"land mines" that could further damage
the higher education budget, Lieuallen
said — the possibilities that revenue or
tuition income might fall short.
The budget is built on the assumption
that higher education will receive certain
revenues from areas other than the gen
eral fund — but those estimates have
been optimistically high all along, he
said
For example, income would "drop
sharply" if a predicted decrease in
nonresident enrollment and increase in
resident enrollment takes place, Lieual
len said
The University's share of the $236
million 1981-82 budget is $58,037,902,
compared to a 1980-81 budget of about
$54 million Of the eight higher education
institutions, only Oregon State Universi
ty, which received $66 5 million, has a
larger budget than the University.
—The hoard adopted a faculty salary
recommendation that allows an average
adjustment of 5.3 percent at the begin
ning of the year and 4 percent on May 1,
1983, which will yield a compounded
average increase of 16.083 percent.
The board said that the cash used for
salary increases is not to exceed 6 per
cent during 1981-82 and 6.36 during
1982-83. Although the board left it up to
each institution to determine individual
faculty raises, it said that all faculty
members performing ‘'adequately" — as
determined by department heads — must
receive part of an across-the-board
raise
The board deleted a clause that stated
merit raises could be waived for 1981-82,
relying instead on a previous policy that
provides for merit adjustments at the
discretion of administrators
Room and board rates will increase
11.5 percent at the University. The cost
for a standard, multiple-resident dormi
tory room will increase from $1,740 to
$1,940 and single rooms will increase
from $2,262 to $2,522
Home to be rec center, expert says
by DON COULTER
04 thm Emerald
Americans in the 1980s will be shitting their leisure
interests from community recreation to home activities,
a leisure studies expert said Thursday
Dr H Douglas Sessoms, chairer of the Department
of Recreation at the University of North Carolina, said
leisure time activities will become more decentralized in
the coming decade due to technological advances and
demographic changes
Speaking at a seminar on contemporary leisure
concerns, Sessoms said technological advances in
items such as home video will cause people to spend
their leisure hours at home rather than in community
related activities
The home may become the number one recrea
tion center "
For example Sessoms said he forsees the wides
pread use of television-computer hookups that will
allow people to select from a wide range of information
channels and give them the ability to communicate with
others
No longer do people need to wait for information
— it is always continuous." Sessoms said "The televi
sion is becoming more than a baby sitter People will
communicate through the electronic medium rather
than through mass interaction ”
With the growth of cable TV and home movie extras
like Showtime," Sessoms said he wouldn't be sur
prised to see a drop in attendance at movie theaters and
sports events in the near future
In addition, the advent of the videodisk will enable
people to stay at home and learn how to do everything
from playing the guitar to baking bread, he said
"The videodisk will put the participant in the
director's seat "
Sessoms also noted that demographic changes will
shift the emphasis on leaisure activities from youths to
adults Leisure interests are starting to reflect the fact
that the 25 to 45-year-old group is now the dominant
5
Dr H Douglas Sessons looks on as youngsters enjoy
video games at the EMU Rec Center.
sector of our population, he said
According to Sessoms, adults seem to enjoy
home-centered quasi-work hobbies such as gardening
and crafts to fill their leisure time The great number of
"how to do it" magazines on the market today reflect
that change, he said
Finally. Sessoms said that high fuel prices and
energy shortages during this decade will force people
to stay home to have fun The emphasis on activities like
power boating and Recreation Vehicle camping is
becoming an outdated form of entertainment, he said.
Photo by Bill Wack
Lieuallen says
he will resign
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen announced his
resignation Friday, two decades after assum
ing the position in which he has directed,
guided and pleaded for higher education m
Oregon
Lieuallen will resign on June 30, f 982 — one
year ahead of the date that he originally had
told the State Board of Higher Education that
he would resign,
OSBHE Pres Ed Harms, commenting on
LieuaUen’s resignation, said dial Lieuallen has
had a highef impact on higher education in
decided to speed up the transition to a new
chancellor and not wait until the end of the
biennium to resign, as he originally had
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