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Oregon daily
emerald
Tuesday, June 29, 1982
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 4, Number 2
Summer enrollment shrivels up 7 percent
Summer term enrollment declined
about seven percent from last year,
according to early estimates from Dick
Schminke, summer session director
Because of the session s flexible
schedule, students continue to register
throughout the summer Final registra
tion figures cannot be totaled until the
end of the term, Schminke says.
“Many major workshops do not start
until later in the summer, such as the
College of Education’s symposium on
computers in education," he says.
Schminke expects this year’s enroll
ment to “come in right around 6,200 to
6,300” students, below last year’s 6,800.
Enrollment can be tallied from the
number of students paying fees or from
the number of registration packets
picked up, Schminke says
Preliminary figures indicate the
number of students who have paid fees is
2,161, a 6.7 percent increase from last
year’s 2,025.
About 4,500 students have picked up
registration packets, down 3.7 percent
from last year's 4,656, according to
summer enrollment figures
The number of registration packets
picked up is usually greater than the
number of fee payments because many
students do not pay their fees immedia
tely, Schminke explains
Summer session officials planned for
an enrollment decline when constructing
the summer schedule, Schminke says.
Since summer session is self-supporting,
“there is no way you can maintain a class
with three or four students,” he adds.
Business and computer science
courses had no problem filling seats, and
the professional schools are "holding
their own,” Schminke says. However,
low enrollment in other areas caused
about four courses to be eliminated, he
adds
If summer enrollment dropped con
siderably more than expected, “it would
have been another matter,” Schminke
says. The University would have to draw
funds from the regular school year, he
says.
Out-of-state students make up a large
portion of the summer student popula
tion, Schminke says One reason is be
cause tuition is the same for resident and
non-resident students The school also
advertises the session in other states.
Schminke explains that anyone
enrolling in one summer term automa
tically receives information for the fol
lowing summer. This brings many people
back to the University, he says.
"At least half of the students will be
non-Oregonians,” Schminke says. “A lot
of teachers and educators from the Mid
west often come for a four-week seminar
and bring their families with them.”
Photo by Mark Pynes
Summer session isn’t always studying In the sun in Oregon — sometimes it's
walking in the rain.
'Million dollar problem’ befalls University
By Debbie Howlett
Of tha EmaraM
The University is facing a
"million-dollar problem” that
can't be solved by cutting ser
vice and supply budgets,
University Pres Paul Olum told
the state Board of Higher
Education Friday
As expected, the board dis
cussed the state Legislature's
mandated cut of $2 4 million for
higher education at its June
meeting on the Portland State
University campus. Board Pres.
Ed Harms read from a handout
asking that colleges and un
iversities in the state system
meet the budget cuts by reduc
ing service and supply areas —
items such as travel expense
and library acquisitions
Olum said the University
could not meet the cut by
reducing service and supply
budgets. ' We reached the end
of that rope after the first special
session,” he said
"If we are not to terminate
individuals and not to terminate
programs, that leaves us in an
impossible situation.
"If we did not buy another
book for the library that
would save only about
$300,000," Olum said.
PSU Pres Joseph Blumel told
the board that the ‘‘cir
cumstances described by Olum
can be found at all institutions.”
Olum then told the board that
the University's share of the cut
would be about $550,000 and
that the University must also
"reabsorb” a 3 percent pay
decrease that classified staff
agreed to this spring,
amounting to an additional
$400,000. The reason for the
"reabsorbtion,” Olum said, is
because the Legislature also
cut state employee's salaries 6
percent.
"We couldn’t ask (classified
staff) to take a 9 percent cut,”
Olum said. "That would be
extraordinary.”
What this adds up to, Olum
said, is that "there is just no way
Ken Tollenaar
EmortkJ Photo
Tollenaar hit
by budget ax
again, maybe
By Debbie Howlett
OfttwEnwraM
Somebody’s yanking the rug from
under Ken Toilenaar’s feet again.
First the school for which he is acting
Dean, the Lila Acheson Wallace School
of Community Service and Public Affairs,
was cut. Now. as head of the Bureau of
Government Research and Service, his
second program is hearing the creak of
the budget trapdoor.
With each special session, it seems
Tollenaar feels the sharp edge of the
budget axe. But Tollenaar isn’t making
the assumption he'll be out of a yet
another job.
"I'm still here,” he says. “You must
proceed on the basis of if the cuts are
made. I'm not assuming the cuts are
going to be made.”
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we can save a million dollars
(through service and sup
ply) All of this puts us in an
utterly impossible situation.”
Olum has already announced
tentative plans to eliminate
University funding of four
programs: the Labor Education
and Research Center, the Bu
reau of Government Research
and Service, the Oregon Insti
tute of Marine Biology at
Charleston and University radio
station KWAX.
Later in the meeting, Harms
read the names of several in
dividuals and groups who had
written opposing the proposed
cuts, including Gov. Vic Atiyeh
Atiyeh’s letter said he was
concerned by Olum's "threat"
to eliminate programs. He said
the most recent cuts were
"predicated on assurance from
Chancellor Roy Lieuallen that
the cut would not cause major
program impacts or layoffs in
higher education institutions."
The only two programs Atiyeh
mentioned by name were the
Bureau of Government Re
search and the Labor Education
and Research Center, both of
which are funded with money
specifically allocated to them by
the Legislature.
Olum stressed that he was in
no way asking for special
privileges in dealing with the
cut, but that the University
simply could not cut further into
the service and supply budget
without doing serious damage.
If the University does not cut
its budget through service and
supply areas, it must submit a
proposal to the board for dis
cussion at its July meeting.