Board backs tuition freeze
By Mike Sims
Of the Emerald
The State Board of Higher Education voted
7-2 Friday to continue the tuition freeze at Oregon
state colleges and universities through the
1985-86 and 1986-87 academic years.
Before the freeze is extended, however, it
must be approved — along with the entire higher
education budget — by the state Legislature.
Budget officers with the state’s higher educa
tion department had recommended to the board
that tuition rates for all student categories be in
creased by three percent, excluding resident
graduate, medical, dental and veterinary
students.
According to the staff report, maintaining the
freeze through 1987 would cost the state $10
million.
At the board's Friday meeting, Oregon Stu
dent Lobby Executive Director Sherry Oeser said,
’‘We’re not asking for another $25 million to get
(tuition rates) back down to the Western states
average — we’re just asking to hold the line for
another two years.”
In an earlier letter to the board, Oeser pointed
out that Oregon’s tuition levels were the highest
in the West even with the current freeze. She also
reminded the board of the state system’s 1983-87
Strategic Plan which calls for a tuition freeze un
til tuition rates are comparable to other western
states.
Student board member Linda Walling said
that the plan could lose its credibility unless the
state makes progress toward that goal.
Oeser said the OSL could approve an in
crease in tuition rates if it knew that financial aid
policies were in line with current demands.
“Federal financial aid has decreased 20 percent
in the last three years,” Oeser said. “Next fiscal
year’s federal aid won’t cover student needs.”
Walling reminded the board that not all
students are eligible for financial aid. “We must
attempt to keep costs down for all students,” she
said.
Loren Wyss, who voted against the freeze,
said he favored the three percent increase as an
approach to dealing realistically with socio
economic issues.
“I think it’s a case of ‘pay me now or pay me
later,’ ” Wyss said in support of the increase. “I
think we’ll see an increase in all (living) expenses
— food, housing, etc. — over three percent in the
next few years.”
The board amended the staff report and ap
proved extending the freeze while supporting
another recommendation that post-baccalaureate
students be assessed fees in correlation with the
level of each course or group of courses taken.
As a result, post-baccalauTeate students
enrolled in undergraduate-level courses would
pay undergraduate fees beginning in 1985-86.
The new post-baccalaureate fee policy
would, if implemented, mean a potential 1985-87
revenue loss of just more than $1 million, accor
ding to the staff report.
The board also approved Chancellor Bud
Davis’ tentative recommendations for priority
ranking of 1985-87 capital construction requests.
Topping the list was a request for $6 million to
remove access barriers for the handicapped at
four institutions, including the University.
Board member Ed Harms of Springfield, who
chairs the board’s finance committee, said that
the request's main objective was to make all pro
grams accessible — not necessarily all facilities.
Harms also noted a ‘‘catch-22” type of situation
with regard to federal funding.
”1 wish that the federal government had
helped fund the project,” Harms said. “But they
control financial aid, grants and the like, and we
may lose those if we don’t spend the money to
modify our buildings.”
The first phase of additions and alterations to
the University architecture and allied arts com
plex, which had been the top priority, was drop
ped to eleventh on the list. This disturbed Bill
Gilland, architecture school dean, who asked the
board to restore the project to its former position
for the 1985-87 biennium.
“I’ve been on campus since 1969. . . and I’ve
constantly found facilities problems,” Gilland
said. He said that in 1981 a visiting certification
team called the architecture and allied arts
facilities “a disgrace to any professional program
and an embarrassment to the University.”
Gilland cited safety concerns, the state fire
marshal’s complaints of overcrowding, and leaky
roofs that damaged or destroyed student projects
as major difficulties for architecture students and
staff.
“It’s tragic, not having a school of architec
ture and allied arts in facilities which are an ex
ample of the school’s excellence,” Gilland said.
Academic minors pushed
By Mike Sims
Of the Emerald
University Pres. Paul Olum
asked the State Board of Higher
Education last week for nearly
$1.1 million to support a pro
gram for academic minors in the
University’s professional fields,
arts and sciences.
“We want to continue to
build a total institution — it’s
important to us and our
students to maintain strong
liberal arts and professional
programs, as well as programs
in the humanities,” Olum
began his proposal.
Olum’s request to the board
topped a list of 15 University
program improvement pro
posals totaling about $4.1
million.
The board met Thursday
night and Friday in the EMU to
review and act upon staff
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recommendations for a propos
ed 1985-87 higher education
budget totaling $162.2 million.
Olum and his colleagues from
Oregon’s eight state colleges
and universities brought $20.3
million worth of program im
provement requests to the
board.
The minors-program request
calls for about $541,000 per ac
cademic year through 1986-87.
That sum would provide for the
equivalent of 13 full-time in
structors, 5.6 graduate
assistants and 4.5 classified
staff.
According to Olum’s pro
posal, enrollments over the past
decade have risen in business
administration and computer
science but declined in other
professional areas and in some
arts and sciences programs.
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baccalaureate graduates earn
double degrees, the proposal
stated.
“(Minor programs) make
possible both broad liberal
education and professional
training without greatly in
creasing the time required to
graduate,” the proposal read.
“The existence of minors will
assist students in focusing their
academic work, and students
will find job placement easier
because recruiters are attracted
to graduates with such
preparation.
“By having a wide range of
minors, students can, say, ma
jor in East Asian Studies and
minor in business,” Olum
explained.
Earlier, Olum told the board
that the University has made a
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