Oregon daily emerald., May 12, 1983, Page 3, Image 3

Student issues funds report
By Sandy Johnstone
01 the Emerald
Oregon has the money to
support quality higher educa
tion — it just doesn’t choose
to do spend it that way, says
one State Board of Higher
Education member.
Randal Gill, a student board
representative, says Oregon
chooses to spend funds that
could be appropriated to
higher education on other
state agencies.
Gill says a state House
Ways and Means Committee
member said Oregon doesn't
have the funds to build up
higher education like North
Carolina, New Mexico and
Arizona.
But Gill made a comparison,
compiled a pamphlet of tables
and information for student
leaders, and found that
Oregon has the funds.
In terms of 1981 per capita
personal income, Oregon
ranks 30th at $10,008 with
Arizona trailing at 32nd with
$9,754. North Carolina is 41st
at $8,649, and New Mexico is
44th at $8,529.
"Oregon has had and does
have the funds to support
quality higher education. It
does not choose to do so,"
Gill says.
Oregon is second in terms
of property tax collections as a
percent of total personal in
come. North Carolina ranks
eighth, and Arizona comes in
30th, with New Mexico ranking
39th.
The rankings are the same
for state individual income tax
collections as a percentage of
total personal income. All are
1981 figures.
Gill also objects to the pro
posed "superboard," which
would govern education in the
state. He says a superboard
will "add another layer of
bureaucracy” to the system.
Governance proposals in
the Legislature do not include
student members, Gill says.
"(This is) definitely a big step
backwards for the Oregon Stu
dent Lobby, students and the
governing process.”
Consolidation of univer
sities with regional colleges is
not the solution, Gill says. “I
am not convinced the con
solidation of our universities
with the regional colleges
wculd strengthen programs
for institutions or would not
limit existing diverse oppor
tunities for students.”
Gill points out that states
average one public institution
for every 329,000 people.
Oregon ranks 26th in number
of institutions for population.
The state board is working
to strengthen management of
the state system and to im
prove the quality of state
system programs, Gill says.
He says examples of the
state board's work include the
strategic plan for 1983-87, a
new Salem public affairs of
fice, and a recently-appointed
director of the Council for Ad
vanced Science and Engineer
ing Education/Research for
Industry.
To improve quality, the state
system has proposed new ad
missions requirements, reduc
ed remedial courses, and
established a presidential
scholarship program to attract
“Oregon’s best students."
Joint board mulls admissions
The proposal to raise admissions stan
dards of state system institutions will be
discussed Friday in a joint meeting of the
Board of Eduation, Board of Higher Education,
and Educational Coordinating Commission.
The board members will receive the report
of the Joint Committee on High School College
Connection, which has been holding public
hearings around the state to obtain public reac
tions about the chancellor’s proposal.
The proposal calls for four years of
English, three years of math, two years of
science, and three years of social science, and
“highly recommends” two years of a foreign
language. The implementation date is fall 1985.
T.K. Olson, ECC executive director, says
some secondary school officials aren’t
satisfied with the implementation date
because they believe it would be difficult to ad
just curriculum quickly.
Olson says the joint committee, which is
composed of members from each of the three
boards, “tends to support” the recommenda
tions although they have some suggestions.
Committee members advise the higher
education board to spell out the performance
standards because merely requiring four years
of a subject does not necessarily translate into
college level work, he says.
A task force, composed of high school
principals, teachers, school board members,
and administrators, will present a report.
He says that group reviewed the new stan
dards' implications on secondary schools’ cur
riculum and are "quite critical" of the proposal.
The Board of Higher Education probably won’t
act on the proposals until May 27.
Physicist speaks
George Sudarshan, an internationally
acclaimed physicist, will deliver a speech
about pre-Western science and its in
fluence on our world view at 8 p.m. today
in Science I, Room 123.
Sudarshan, a physics professor at the
University of Texas, Austin, is credited
with discovering the theory of radioactivi
ty and the invention of the tachyon, a
faster-than-light particle.
The India Students Association and the
Foreign Students Organization are spon
soring the speech.
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