UNIVERSITY Many students finding four years not enough By Stacy Ivie Emerald Associate Editor The pattern used to lie standard. Col lege-bound students would put in their four years and then join the work fort e However, attaining a bachelors degree in four years has become much less common than it used be Out of the University’s freshman class of 1984-85. somewhere between Hi and 19 percent of students completed under graduate work in I'lHH. according to the University registrar office. Those are average figures with rates varying only a percent or two during the last Hi years, said Anne leavitt. assis tant to the vice provost in student af fairs. "There are a lot of factors that affect students getting through in four years,” she said These far tors include finances, lack of adequate advising, outside interests such as family and work, and students vai dialing between majors Nationally, fewer students are gradu ating within a four year period, accord ing to I'hr American College Student a study i ondui ted by the (Inoper ative Institutional Research Program based at the Higher education Researr li Institute at I'(II.A "I ewer than two freshmen in five (35.1 percent) earn a bachelor's degree in fi> freshmen." the study showed, using a research pro ject done in 1«J71 by Alexander Astin. CRP director, for comparison. The study also found that women are more likely than men to complete an undergraduate program within four years CIKI’ includes information on about 1.300 institutions and more than H mil lion students The University is following that trend, taravilt said "A lot of students are choosing five years instead of the traditional four." she said University President Myles Brand said taking five years to finish makes sense. "It gives students more exploration in various courses, and a lot of students have to work to make ends meet." he said. AImjuI 01 percent of incoming fresh men at the University are making it through the first three terms of college, and between 75 and ho percent will re turn for a se< ond year according to the registrar's offir e The number of graduates iu< reases greatly during the five years and sis year point at the University, with about I'i percent getting .1 degree in five years and AA percent taking six years to fin is fi. Leavitt said. "Our sixth year graduation rate is not as good as it should be." brand said "It is below national figures If they don't graduate in six years, it's likely they won't graduate at all " So how many students actually com plete a degree? "More than half," Leavitt said. "That’s pretty good for a public univer sity of this size " However, many students are finding that even after they gel their degree, the battle is not yet over. "It's a job to find a job." said tarry Smith, director of the University's Ca reer Planning and Placement Service. "It is partii ularly hard to find one that is interesting and potentially a career ” According to a survey done in spring of 1‘IHH by Career Planning and Place ment. 82 pen ent of the graduating 1 lass found employment before graduation Most graduates (t>:t percent) found employment in Oregon, while 17 per cent went to California and (1 percent to Washington The Midwest pul c hums on a percent and foreign countries and other western steles employed -4 percent oac h of I'ni versils graduates All in all. 7 percent of the polled graduates wore still searching for em ployment at the time of graduation. "That's just alxiut average, because within that 7 percent are students who are traveling or didn’t intend to work af ter graduation.” Smith said. Of the 82 percent that had found work, a mere 53 percent held a full-time career-related position. "It is not unusual for a large number of students to not be working in their field." Smith said. "An awful lot of our students don't have a clear idea of what they want to do when they graduate so they enter into positions to provide them with a steady income so they can lx- independent." The University is producing more graduates in business administra tion finance, economics, and psycholo gy than any other majors. However, ar chitecture, journalism and political sci ence are running close behind. In the career planning study, the aver age income for a 1088 graduate ran jus! about $18,000 a year "Wages are increasing from 5 percent to 7 percent a year." he said "I expect that they will go up 5 percent this year." Thirteen percent of the 1088 gradu ates went directly into jobs that provid ed .i salary of $25,000 annually or more, at i ording to the study SETA gets sizable budget increase for 1991-92 By Catherine Hawley Emeiaid Associate Editor Students for tin' Ellin .rl Treatment of Animals re< eived .1 latest in its funding from stu (font int 1 (it-iita 1 fees from its current level of SJ.tli per year to $80:.' for the 1991 ‘12 school year SETA and three other student groups were fumled Friday at the Incidental Fee Committee s first Imifget hearings session of tlie school year The im reuse in funding will permit SETA to establish its own telephone line next year and del rease its dependent e on tlie Survival Center, said SETA dirts tor Monii a Semeria SETA, which has been on campus since 1*187. now uses the phone line in the Survival Center, with It is also providing $7)0 per month from its budget to provide a work study sli pend to Semeria "We would like to he less de pendent on the Survival Center and use less of their re Group Literary Society ACT SETA CIE IggfcSl $4,648 $2,593 $239 $941 1991-92 $4,570 $2,656 $802 $685 sources." Semeria told commit tee memliers Fridav SKTA. in its first year .is an 11'(! fumil'll group. submitted a budget proposal to ASUO li name c oordinators several weeks ago that included a $-tHt> request for .1 director's stipend and a $1,200 request for speak ers tees Finance coordinators Sam N'ehni and Fd Henderson, w bo worked with Semeria during SKTA s budgeting plot ess. dul not 'in lude the stipend in their recommendation to the li t' and reduced the speakers line item to $100 "Fm happs w ith most of the outcome." Semeria saiti Sun day "I wish we could have got the stipend, hut I understand their reasonings why.” The Literary' Society received tile largest allocation of the ses sion $-t.!i7ll. slightly less than the S-t.ti-IH it received for this vear A i tit was made in the group's office supplies budget, and $4H mistakenly al located this year for a phone yvas eliminated from the 10*11 Ml! budget The Literary Society holds regular readings of graduate and undergraduate students' writings and publishes Timber line, an annual magazine fea turing poetry , fiction and art work by University students Amazon Community Ten ants. an organization for resi dents of the family housing area. y\as allocated $2.ti5f> for ii«*vt year The $(>•( increase will be combined with money cut from other areas to pav a stipend for ii roseari li assistant to work with the I’niversily housing department on its plans to renovate Amazon fam ily Housing. Director Hindu Pearsall said Campus Information fx chaugc which provides stu dents with access to national and international computer in format ion-sharing networks, took a 17 percent decrease in its I mi I li^ budget The group will receive StjHS in ini idental lees next year 1'he tut was mutually agreed upon b\ Cll, Director Chris lie lav and the A SI ’() Imam e coor dinators making the reduc lion legal under the (! I ark Docu ment The dot ument. which out lines guidelines for lit! proce dures. stipulates that budget re ductions for traditionally fund ed programs cannot exceed 25 percent unless the program th rector requests such a reduc tion \ehm saitl records show CIIK has not been spending 25 to .40 pert ent of ds allocated budget ('IK had a -44 percent reduction in its current budget from its ttmfl-'IO budget Delay said previous (UK di rectors had requested larger budget amounts The amount allocated in the last two sears "keeps us running." he said. 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