Emerald
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Oregon daily
emerald
Wednesday, June 1, 1983
Eugene, Oregon
Volume 84, Number 165
New entrance standards
allow higher expectations
By Sandy Johnstone
Ol It* Em«raid
Professors will expect more from
entry-level students when new admis
sions standards go into effect, says
Jim Buch, admissions director. The
State Board of Higher Education ap
proved higher standards for entering
freshman starting in 1985.
"Instructors have a dilemma," says
Buch. “There are the students who
took advantage of high school and
took all the prep classes and the
students who coasted on by. The new
requirements are a narrowing of the
gaps between the two.”
The new standards require four
years of English, three years of math,
three years of social studies, two years
of science and two years of other col
lege preparatory work.
Acting on strong recommendations
from Chancellor Bud Davis, the state
board approved the standards at its Fri
day meeting in La Grande.
Most students currently attending
the University meet the requirements,
says Buch. In a study during fall term,
the admissions office found about 80
percent of current studehts would
have met the requirement.
The implementation date for the new
entrance requirements has caused
some controversy. The state board set
the date at fall 1985, but the Board of
Education and the Educational Coor
dinating Commission have indicated
they prefer a more gradual implemen
tation beginning in 1986.
Buch says the earlier date will pre
sent few adjustment problems for the
University admissions office.
“I think there is adequate lead time
for all students to adjust their
schedules to meet the requirements,”
says Buch.
Exceptions are available for
students who are attending schools
unable to offer all of the necessary
classes, says Buch. Those schools,
however, are expected to conform to
the new standards by 1987.
Transfer students currently need to
have taken at least 15 hours and main
tained a 2.0 grade point average to gain
admittance.
However, the GPA requirement may
be raised to 2.5 and the number of
credits may increase to 24, says Buch.
No decision has been made about
those changes.
When the requirements were pro
posed in the fall, an interinstitutional
committee discussed how to make the
transition to the new admissions stan
dards, Buch says.
High schools will identify college
prep courses, Buch says. He says the
admissions staff will have more dif
ficulty identifying courses in out-of
state schools but will “gear up” to
identify college preparatory courses in
about 200 out-of-state schools.
The records office also will send a
survey form out to the high school in
September to get information about
college prep courses.
Although the University will make
some exceptions, such as for older
students returning to school, Buch
says the University will stick closely to
the new standards.
"If we have the requirements, then
by golly, we will be serious about it,”
says Buch.
Students fuel economy,
according to report
By Sandy Johnstone
0< ttw Emerald
About $150 million is tunneled in
to the Eugene/Springfield economy
through University and student
spending, according to a recent
report issued by the Office of
University Relations detailing the
economic impact of the University.
University students spend about
$48.2 million for food, clothing,
books, entertainment, personal liv
ing expenses and off-campus hous
ing, according to the report. Approx
imately 12,000 of the 15,500 Univer
sity students live off-campus.
The operating expenses of the
University, including payroll, exceed
$101 million, says the report. The
payroll in November 1981 for 5,900
full-time and part-time employees
was $56.7 million, the largest in
Lane County.
In addition, Eugene receives
about $575,000 in state per capita
gasoline, cigarette and liquor taxes
because of the number of students,
faculty and staff living in the city,
says the report.
“Most people don’t think about
the economic impact,” says Barbara
Edwards, acting vice president for
University relations. “It brings an in
credible amount of money into the
area that would not be here without
the University.”
The report also tells some of the
advantages of having the University
in the community, says Edwards.
For example, the University plays
a major role in tourism by hosting
cultural events, athletic activities
and conferences.
In the summer of 1984, some
10,000 people are expected to at
tend the International Society of
Music Education, hosted by the
music school, and the Olympic
Scientific Congress, hosted by the
human development and perfor
mance college, according to the
report.
‘‘In addition to plowing dollars
directly into the economy, the
University is an active partner in cur
rent economic development efforts
in the metropolitan area and
region,” says Charlene Curry,
University legislative relations
director.
She points out that the University
is involved with the Joint Commit
tee on Economic Diversification, the
Business Assistance Team, the
Southern Willamette Research Cor
ridor, and the Oregon Pacific
Economic Development Corp.
The report also says the high
caliber of University research is ex
pected to be important in the city’s
economic diversification effort,
bringing in about $18.9 million
in grants and contracts during
1981-82.
"University faculty are engaged in
scientific research of interest to
high technology firms, including
work with lasers, the genetic code,
cell biology and materials that may
be used to build faster computers,”
says the report.
Moonlighting professors explain two-job life
By Joan Herman
Of th« Emerald
The sentimental image of a cabbie
driving through dark city streets to
earn a few extra bucks doesn’t quite fit
the University’s “moonlighting”
professors.
For one, most professors earn much
more than the New York cabbie’s two
bit tip. But like the stereotypical
moonlighting American, they are driv
ing their own businesses as well as
Business school Dean James Reinmuth
holding down full or part-time faculty
positions on campus.
Many moonlighting professors earn
extra income from the business sector.
About 20 business college professors
do everything from advising large cor
porations on marketing strategies to
arbitrating industrial labor disputes.
And some have their own consulting
businesses. James Reinmuth, dean of
the business college, is also president
of Rubicon Asset Management Corp.,
an investment advisory service that of
fers financial counseling for both per
sonal and business investments.
‘‘Since we are business professors,
(the business world) is our laboratory,”
he says.
Reinmuth also does ‘‘lots of free
consulting" and occasionally leads
seminars in management training.
The business world also offers him a
breath of fresh air from the University’s
financial woes. "It’s simply nice to
have a change from the bureaucratic
environment of the University,” Rein
muth says.
“The outside world is a relief valve”
from constantly hearing about poor
funding, he says. Reinmuth gets the
best of both worlds as company presi
dent and University dean, but if he had
to choose between the two, he says
he’d take the latter.
“I have too much heart and soul in
this place,” says Reinmuth, who has
worked at the school for 17 years. The
University working environment allows
him the freedom to “dabble in other
interests.”
For their dabbling, business pro
fessors sometimes earn an extra
$10,000 to $20,000 yearly. It also gives
them much needed visibility within the
state’s business community.
On a shelf behind his desk, Rein
muth has a file crammed with note
cards. They represent many of the
business contacts Reinmuth has made
over the years. These contacts often
invest in the University’s future.
So the University — as well as Rein
muth — profits from his lucrative
dabblings.
Other professors say their "real
world” experiences enhance their
classroom effectiveness.
Psychology Prof. Stephen Johnson
offers graduate students in his prac
ticum course insights about
psychotherapy gleaned from his own
practice.
“I think I am a much better teacher
of psychotherapy than if I hadn’t done
it (started his own practice),” says
Johnson, who has taught at the Univer
sity for 15 years.
Three years ago, feeling burned out
from the “extremely demanding”
psychotherapy research he was con
ducting on families, Johnson made the
transition from full-time academician
to part-time professor and
psychotherapist.
But not without much soul
searching and a “few years of
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Psychology Prof. Steve Johnson
depression.”
“The doctrine of academia is that
the right, moral, noble thing to do is
systematic research because you af
fect more people,” he says. "Being in
private practice, making money, charg
ing fees and writing popular books has
a taint of materialism.”
He has authored a self-help book for
newly divorced people, “First Person
Singular: Living the Good Life Alone.”
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