Oregon daily emerald., January 13, 1986, Page 8, Image 8

Batiste happy with State Board’s progress
The president peers out over his
bifocals at the board members as they
cast their roll call votes. Sitting at the
head of the table, he casts a commanding
presence.
Aye. aye, no, no. aye.. .the members
announce their votes -.i turn. When the
vote is done the president announces the
verdict and drops his travel.
All eyes are on the president as they
await his next move.
Being the center of attention is not all
that uncommon for Alvin Batiste, the
president of the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education.
He has been president since June of
1985 and a member of the board since
1978. however, the next six months will
be the last of his eight years.
Batiste is used to the glare of television
lights, the intrusions of reporters, and
the delay, decorum and frustration of
public service.
And while he is used to the formality
of governmental procedures, he still
sometimes stumbles over the procedural
intricacies of parliamentary procedures.
Occasionally he will move an item to
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vote when it is only being amended.
Then, he will have to backtrack under
the direction of the board’s secretary and
reroute the motion through its proper
course. But that is not to be unexpected
from a president chosen from the ranks
of a volunteer board.
Otherwise his board meetings run
with efficiency.
That his meetings run smoothly is not
unexpected of Batiste, who is frank but
friendly in his demeanor. He has always
seen himself as a “good soldier.” In fact ,
he has needed a soldier's sense of
discipline to get to where he is now. he
savs.
The son of a laundry business owner.
Batiste was born and raised in a Hispanic
neighborhood in San Antonio. Texas.
‘‘1 was always disciplined.” Batiste
says. "I never had problems living
within the constraints of what was
proper.”
While his family was not poor, neither
were they well to do. He says ho grew up
pressing clothes.
"I took pride in Hard work at an early
age.” Batiste says. “1 never lived-at a
time when I didn’t have that."
He also says he grew up, thinking in
dependently. “Therp were very few
black families in°our neighborhottfi in
San Antonio," says Batiste. "In fact. I’vei
never lived in an area that is
predominantly black." <> t •
This independence may account .for
his candor and the noticeable absence of
liberal buzzwords and rhetoric^ in ad*
dressing the issues of equity and
fairness, which have come before him in
his term as president.
While he is dearly not demagogic In
his approach to these issues, still he has
helped facilitate the board’s recent pro
gress in the controversial areas of affir
mative action, equal opportunity and
wage discrimination.
In the past six months since he became
president, the hoard has made public its
support for the principles of affirmative
action, it has established goals for the in
volvment of women and minority con
tractors and It is addressing the poor
representation of women and minorities
throughout state higher education.
The progress the board has made in
these areas, he says, is a result of the
Henk trial and is long overdue. But he
takes no credit for the new policies.
“These things would have happened
with whomever had become president,"
he says
In addition, he prefers to <|,iscuss these '
issues in the terms of fairness because it
.gets away° from the not.ion of *■
mathematical quotas. "Fairness applies*
to eyerybbdy, both the minority and the ° .
majority.’’ Batiste skys. , . * • . * ' .»
He says he is proud of the S1ate.Sy.8tqm>
progress in"those areas. but he has never' ,
seen h>s appointment to' the hoard >by
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