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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1985)
Atiyeh requests ‘big ticket1 items for higher education By Michael Hosmar Of Um Emerald Gov. Vic Atiyeh has re quested two “big-ticket items” in his 1985-87 budget request — items aimed at improving higher education in Oregon. One is a salary enhancement package designed to bring Oregon universities and col leges up from the cellar position in terms of salaries, said Senate Majority Leader Steve Starkovich, D-Canby. Atiyeh is requesting that $20 million be divided between the University and Oregon State University to improve faculty salaries, Starkovich said in a free public discussion at the University Wednesday night. Average faculty salaries in Oregon are currently the lowest in the West. The University ranked 75th out of 107 public doctorate-granting institutions in the 1983-84 academic year, according to a recent report cir culated by the State Board of Higher Education. More than ever, teachers are leaving their jobs at Oregon’s colleges and universities for better-paying jobs in the industry. The second big-ticket item in Atiyeh's budget is a $33.6 million allocation to four Oregon schools for capital con struction projects, Starkovich said. If approved, half of this money would come from the state lottery, which is schedul ed to begin April 26. The other half would come from the higher education’s general fund, he said. The University would receive $6 million, the largest chunk of the capital construction funds, to build a biological science building. Oregon State Univer sity would get $4.3 million for an economics and computer science facility. Portland State University would receive $3.5 million and the Oregon Institute of Technology would get $3 million. Steve Starkovich Starkovich also outlined the state budget and discussed possible tax reforms that would remedy problems of the current Oregon school finance system. He said legislators are still in the process of formulating opi nions about the sales tax and property-tax relief. One of the most important questions legislators are asking each other, Starkovich said, is “What do you do with property tax relief? Do you take it out of the governor’s budget or do you leave it in and remain commit ted to funding it? “Another important question is: What in the higher education budget are you willing to cut to fund property-tax relief?” Answers to these questions are still being formulated, Starkovich said. He predicted that the Senate will probably elect to phase out property-tax relief and cut agency budgets, rather than eliminate property tax relief altogether as Atiyeh requests in his budget. The Senate will also have to grapple with Atiyeh’s sales-tax proposal. “It’s not in conceivable that the sales tax will go down (this year) and show up on the next ballot” as •mother Ballot Measure 2, itarkovich said. Cash For Textbooks Mon. - Fri. 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After two harrowing experiences with registration this academic year, Joannides ap pealed to Davis with a couple of questions: Why hasn’t the University switched over to a computerized system? And what needs to be done to change over to a computerized system? Instead of answering his questions, Davis asked the University sophomore to act as a stu dent advocate and get the ball rolling on this issue — one more time. In fact, the issue of computerized registration has been raised nearly every year during the past decade, ac cording to Registrar Herb Chereck. Davis directed Joannides to Chereck, who says he’s eager to establish a computerized registration system. “When you have to sit through two days of registration, that’s not an efficient use of anyone’s time,” Chereck says Although Chereck is unsure about the reality of establishing a new system soon, he does believe the University has to keep trying. The biggest obstacle so far has been getting funds from the State System of Higher Educa tion. The state system is reluctant to hand out funds for a computerized system because it would prefer to funnel money into a broader method that could be u&d by all eight colleges in the system, Chereck says. Davis also is skeptical about obtaining funds from the state system. “If we squawk too loud, they won’t give us any money,” she says. “And if we don’t squawk loud enough, they won’t hear us.” Of course if funding is allocated for this pro ject, there still will be other things to be work ed out, Chereck says. For instance, finding the kind of system that best fits the needs of University students and faculty is one problem, he says. Also, working out the best conversion process needs to be ad dressed, he says. “But for now, there will be no action because there is no money,” Chereck says. Joannides isn’t discouraged, though. 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