Emily Taylor at 71
Giving women opportunities
By Michael Hosmar
Of the Emerald
She’s 71 years old, and all she
wants to do is continue doing
what she’s done since
graduating from college: help
other people — especially
women.
Since the 1940s, Emily Taylor
has aided women in determin
ing their true worth in the job
market. She was in Eugene on
Friday to speak at a luncheon
and to answer questions about
the future of higher education
in the nation.
Taylor founded the Office of
Women in Higher Education in
an effort to make available op
portunities for women in the
work force.
• “Right after ! graduated from
coljege, 1 knew I wanted to help
women,” Taylor says.
Today, more than ever before,
women graduating from college
are taking advantage of their
own potentialities and doing
what they really want to do in
life, she says. Still, she says, the
questions facing college women
in the 1940s are still facing
women in higher education to
day. “They ask themselves,.
■Can 1 combine a career and a
family?’ ” she says.
For many years, women have
been put down for deciding to
quit their jobs to become
mothers or homemakers, she
says. ”1 try to tell them (women)
that it’s perfectly all right to
quit the workforce if they first
look at all of their options.” she
says. “The decision is very in
dividual. They’ve got to decide
what's right for them.”
To eliminate these sorts of
putrdowns. she says, women
have to take the initiative.
“You’ve got to get people talk
ing about it. You’ve got to get
women talking to both men and
women who are public figures
in the workforce,” she says.
The main objective of the Of
fice of Women in Higher Educa
tion, says Taylor. has been to
erase the stereotypical dif
ferences between the sexes in
the nation’s job market. More
specifically, the office has been
trying to find more women who
want to be college presidents.
“We’ve made great pro
gress." Taylor says. In 1975,
women made up about 5 per
cent of the total number of col
lege presidents in the nation.
Now 9 percent are women. Most
female college presidents are
nuns, she says..However, there
were 49. lay women college
presidents in 1975, and now
there are 163, Taylor says.
“Nobody ever made it on
their own.’’ she says.
“Somebody is always opening
doors for them. Somebody has
to take the first step.”
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She says millions of people
recently watched Sally Ride,
the first American woman to go
into space, open the doors for
women who want to be
astronauts. And in her cam
paign for the vice presidency.
“Now, excellence (in educa
tion) is being used an an excuse
for decreasing accessibility” to
a college education, she says.
Education officials think that by
reducing the number of
students attending a particular
‘Right after I graduated from college I
knew I wanted to help women. ’
— Emily Taylor
Geraldine Ferraro has opened
wide the doors of the political
world for women, she adds.
The most pressing question
facing both men and women in
higher education, Taylor says,
is whether or not students have
the same access to college
educations today as they did in
the past. “I think the question
really is who gets to go to
school,” Taylor says.
When Taylor was an
undergraduate, only 5 percent
of the people her age went to
college, she says, adding that
college was for the elite. After
she graduated, she says there
was a national trend toward in
creasing the accessibility of a
college education. Then, about
50 percent of college-age people
went to college.
college, the quality of education
at that college will improve, she
says.
Taylor cites the elimination of
scholarship programs and
reports of reduced quality in
higher education as evidence of
this trend.
As the senior associate of the
American Council of Education,
Taylor says she’ll continue to
fight for women and students in
general. “I’ve tried to help as
much as possible,” she says. “If
I had it to do all over again, I
wouldn’t change a thing.”
“A woman who graduates
from college today has many
more doors open to her than she
did 10 years ago,” Taylor says.
“They (women) have been able
to profit from the concern of
other people.”
Solomon Amendment:
students are complying
By Michael Hosmar
Of the Emerald
A controversial legislative amendment that prompted
protests at universities and colleges across the country last
year is now working well at the University, says Ed Vignoul,
director of the student financial aid office.
Vignoul says most students nationwide are complying
with the Solomon Amendment, which requires male students
to register for the selective service before they can receive
financial aid. “It’s no longer an administrative problem,” he
says.
Almost all of the students that say they are registered are
telling the truth, he says. The Department of Education did a
study last summer that shows there has been substantial com
pliance with the registration requirement, Vignoul says.
In a random sample of 1,000 students, 371 were receiv
ing financial aid and therefore had to be registered. The study
showed that 98 percent of those students were indeed
registered.
In another sample of 1,286 students, all of whom had to
be registered, 95 percent had complied with the requirement.
The Department of Education has attributed some of the
non-compliance percentage to misspellings, transposition er
rors or incomplete data, says Vignoul.
The amendment first stipulated that students who
wanted financial aid had to sign forms verifying that they
were registered with the selective services. In the 1985-86
academic year, a student would also be required to show the
letter he received from the selective services certifying his
registration, Vignoul says.
However this original design has been modified.
Students will not have to show the certification letter from
the government in the 1985-86 school year, but they still will
have to sign the verification form, says Vignoul.
According to a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher
Education, financial-aid officers throughout the nation press
ed the Department of Education to drop the certification
letter requirement.
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