Tuesday, April 6, 1982
Eugene, Oregon
Oregon daily
Volume 83
Number 124
emerald
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Photo by Mark Pynes
Dick Schminke, summer session and continuing education director, looks forward to a
reasonably normal summer term.
Summer tuition going up —
but only for heavier loads
‘82 summer tuition
UNDERGRADUATE
Credits Tuition
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
66.50
92.50
118.50
144.50
170.50
196.50
222.50
248.50
274.50
300.50
326.50
352.50
378.50
404.50
430.50
456.50
482.50
508.50
GRADUATE
Credits
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Tuition
96.50
152.50
208.50
264.50
320.50
376.50
432.50
488.50
544.50
600.50
656.50
712.50
768.50
824.50
880.50
Each additional hour 26.00 Each additional hour 56 00
Plus $25 refundable general deposit required of ail students
By Ann Portal
Olttu Bmurmtd
Rumors circulating about a $150 in
crease in tuition this summer term
aren't exactly wrong, says Dick
Schminke, director of summer session
and continuing education They're just
a little misleading
An undergraduate student taking 18
credit hours will end up paying more
than last summer, Schminke admits,
but students who take the average
summer term load of 10 credit hours
actually will pay less than last summer
As a local newspaper article pointed
out, the impact on an undergraduate
taking 18 credit hours will be to raise
the tuition paid from last summer’s level
of $350 to $508 this summer
But of 6,700 undergraduate and
graduate students who attended sum
mer session last year, less than 300
took more than 12 credit hours,
Schminke points out Based on a slid
ing tuition scale, students will have to
take 15 credit hours to end up paying
more tuition than they paid this spring
term
The new tuition is based on levels
adopted by the State Board of Higher
Education during the spring break. In
order to make the 1982 summer term
self-supporting, the board adopted —
for the first time — a tuition scale that
charges students according to how
many hours they take, instead of
whether they are part-time or full-time
students
The result is an undergraduate and
graduate tuition that shifts as student
enroll for additional credit hours. For
example, undergraduate students en
rolled for 12 credit hours will pay total
tuition and fees of $352.50.
Proportionately, undergraduate
students enrolled for 10 hours wHI pay
$300.50 and students who take 14
hours will pay $404.50, compared to the
one figure of $338 for full-time tuition
last summer. “The part-time student is
no longer going to pay disproportiona
tely." Schminke says.
Graduate tuition will be based on a
similar scale. Nine graduate credit
hours will cost $544.50, compared to
$511.50 last summer. Spring term, the
same number of hours cost graduates
$600.
The summer tuition is an even better
bargain for out-of-state students,
Schminke says Those students pay the
same tuition as Oregon residents dur
ing summer term, instead of the $1,256
paid by out-of-state undergraduates
and the $945 paid by out-of-state
graduates during spring term.
Schminke says summer term gener
ally is slightly less expensive than the
other terms because less-experienced
professors teach in the summer and
they cost the University less
Nearly as many faculty and courses
will be available this summer as last,
Schminke says, although there will be
fewer “experimental" courses that
might not pay their own way.
Provost Richard Hill says the Univer
sity is approaching the summer session
with an eye toward the 1982-83
academic year, which he says is going
to be a difficult year.
“We’ll take some chances this sum
mer,” Hill says. “But we have to be very,
very sure we don’t go in the red."
‘Telefunders’ coax alumni support, pledges
By Sandy Johnstone
OdwfiwnW
In the never-ending search
for more money, the University
Foundation will use paid callers
to extract both money and
goodwill from alumni starting
April 12
Since January, "telefund”
callers have raised $7,000 in
pledges to be collected in
December Last year they raised
pledges of $23,500, of which
$20,500 actually was collected
"We are not trying to replace
what the Legislature cut,” says
Brent Dahl, coordinator of the
telefund "That’s an impossible
task We just do the best we
can "
So far the six telefunders
hired each term are calling fresh
alumni. Dahl figures it will be
two to three more years before
they start repeating calls, unlike
some universities that call
alumni two to three times a year.
One example of where the
Foundation money goes is the
Chemical Physics department
Some professors were interest
ed in creating a new department
and so the Foundation granted
them a $3,500 grant to set up a
conference to decide whether it
was worth pursuing
The professors received
$400,000 from the Murdoch
Foundation, a scientific organ
ization, which allowed them to
hire 30 part-time students to
help them begin the program.
Using paid callers to raise
money for the foundation is a
relatively new idea Before
summer 1981, volunteers
staged a two-night calling mar
athon to raise money
‘ They were not as successful
as we are,” Dahl says “The
quality of each call shows the
difference between profession
als and volunteers. Not all of
them are motivated to do it.
"Some of them just do it
because their fraternity or sor
ority said to,” he says. "They
were not as highly qualified as
the hired students
‘ Paid students are not so
worried about getting money
out of the alumni to make the
thermometer get redder, like on
telethons,” Dahl says in
defending the use of a paid staff
of student fundraisers
"Instead they are willing to
make each phone call positive
even if they don’t get any money
immediately," he says "Quality
is not measured in money for
1982 but down the road in the
good that results for the Univer
sity ”
Initially, every student who
started the job "admitted money
was their primary motivation,”
Dahl says
“Yet by the end of the term
the experience itself became
their primary benefit," he says.
"They found out about the
foundation and that gave them
an incentive to do well."
It is sometimes difficult to talk
to some alumni who have bad
memories of the University, and
volunteer callers may not bother
to take the time, Dahl says
"A lot of people think
students here are still hippies
who only care about demon
strations," he admits. “They
came here in the 1960s and
have never been back. Our
callers must emphathize with
them and try to find out what
ticked them off
"Sometimes it’s a valid com
plaint and sometimes it's just a
vague feeling that we are only
here to support athletics," Dahl
says. "Then the caller tries to
explain that what they hear is
Brent Dahl
just what gets media coverage
and that actually the students
are not like that "