Education subcommittee delays
final higher ed budget decision
By Debbie Howlett
Of th« Emerald
SALEM — A legislative subcommittee on
education has scheduled another work session
today to deal with the State System of Higher
Education’s budget proposal.
In a meeting Wednesday afternoon the
Ways and Means subcommittee discussed
parts of the 1983-85 budget proposal for
Oregon’s public colleges and universities. The
subcommittee dealt only briefly with the
general budget proposal.
Final recommendations for the entire
budget should come at a work session next
week, said Rep. Wayne Fawbush, D-Hood River,
subcommittee chairman.
The state system budget proposal will pro
bably be cut $4-8 million by the end of the hear
ings. Sen. Rod Monroe, D-Portland, says the $4
million figure has been approved by members
of the House Revenue Committee, the Ways
and Means Committee and the state system.
Monroe is a member of the education
subcommittee.
In brief dealings with higher ed's general
budget proposal, Sen. Mike Thorne, D
Pendleton, questioned the allocation of $1
million to the University for additional funding
of computer science. Nearly $2 million has
been proposed for improvement of state
system computer science programs.
The subcommittee discussed budgets for
the agricultural experiment station, the forest
research lab and the cooperative extension ser
vice, all from Oregon State University. The
preliminary recommendations for those
facilities totals nearly $70.9 million, a $2.6
million decrease from Gov. Vic Atiyeh’s
proposal.
Fawbush ran down a list of topics the com
mittee will discuss at today’s meeting, which
included:
• A report on the Bureau of Governmental
Affairs at the University.
• Whether to hire faculty for Council for
Advanced Science and Engineering Educa
tion/Research for Industry on a tenure track.
• Funding of institution libraries. ‘‘Allega
tions have been made that (previously
allocated) money never got there,” Fawbush
said.
• A “wish list” from Chancellor Bud Davis
that includes a "small amount of money” set
aside as a "kitty” to facilitate the hiring and
keeping of "star faculty.”
•The appropriate location for the
Chancellor’s office. “I’m not convinced in my
own mind that (Eugene’s) the place you ought
to be,” Fawbush told Davis.
• A report from the state system on the
University’s Environmental Law Center.
Faculty group still undecided
about University qovernance
A Faculty Forum held Wednesday after
noon to discuss proposed changes in the
University governance reached few
conclusions.
Following a general introduction of the
proposed changes, the Forum split into small
groups to discuss some of the controversial
University alum
to give artsy talk
Douglas Hofstadter, a University
alumnus and Pulitzer prize-winning
author, will speak on the relationship bet
ween art, music, mathematics and
science Thursday evening at the Eugene
Conference Center.
Hofstadter’s talk, titled “The Con
cept of Recursion in Nature and Art,” is
part of the Forum Lecture Series. The lec
ture, which is free and open to the public,
begins at 8 p.m.
The computer scientist from Indiana
University won the 1979 Pulitzer prize for
his book “Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eter
nal Golden Braid.” Hofstadter also writes
a regular column for Scientific American
magazine.
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proposals, including changes in the voting con
stituency of the Senate and Assembly and the
delegation of authority to the Senate.
The most controversial issue was the pro
posal changing the senate’s composition from
18 student members to two.
Studies of other university governance
systems with strong senates show little or no
student representation, said Katherine Eaton, a
member of the faculty task force. The general
feeling among faculty was that if more power
was delegated to the senate, there should not
be a one-third student representation.
The small group debate on the delegation
of authority to the senate met with general ac
ceptance from most members.
Some problems within the current system
are that the assembly is not representative of
the whole faculty and that decisions are
sometimes made despite little study and
debate, a group member said.
Advantages seen in the new system are
that it would “screen a lot of the nit-picky
things" from the assembly and allow for better
representation, a group member said.
The final wrap-up showed general faculty
support for a faculty quorum in the assembly,
but the suggestions ranged from 10-33 percent
of faculty in attendance.
The task force will study the suggestions
and present a notice of motion at the June
assembly meeting.
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