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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1992)
Oregon higher ed faces 20 percent cut By Came Dennett Emerald Associate Ed'iof The Oregon Slate System of Higher Education released on Tuesday its 1903-95 budget preparation guidelines, which cull for .1 2n percent cut in the higher education budget As a result of Measure 5, QSSHE. along with all other agen cies supported by the state's general fund, has booh-'directed to prepare 1901-05 budgets at a level 20 percent below the state support needed to sustain 1991-03 levels of services This reduction represents a dei rense of $152 million from a total general fund budget of S7t>0 million OSSHE's share will drop from $555 million to S4-15 million In addition to the no percent budget, (ISSUE has been tolii to prepare two supplemental budget requests The first is an initial 10 percent reallocation proposal that should reflect higher oducnllon's present and future priorities The second is a 10 percent reallocation proposal based on the.achieve ment of specific Oregon Benchmarks, or state priorities Chancellor Thomas Bartlett’s budget guidelines provide for long-term change in order to protect the capacity of (ISSUE institutions to expand in the future The guidelines shift the bnlam e of resouries toward ac a donnes, and call lor 50 pert tint ol the targeted cuts to come from administrative and support services, 15 percent of the proposed calls will come from academic programs through restructuring, increased faculty workload, and program eliminations The remaining 15 percent of the proposed calls will !>e offset by potential increased revenues Despite the c all for program eliminations. University Presi dent Myles Brand has suit! the University will not be subject to “vertical" program cuts like it was ill the 1991-93 budget Other guidelines include: • Reduction of graduate programs at the regional colleges • Consolidation of undergraduate and graduate programs and majors, particularly in low enrollment/low demand areas • Attention lo future viability and cost-effectiveness of sever al of OSSHE's professional schools • Better coordination of the lower division roursesbetween Porliand State and community colleges • Potential use of tuition sure barges to offset the high costs nl selected professional career preparation programs The Oregon State Board of Higher Education will review campus responses to OSSHE's HO percent budget plan nl the June 20 hoard meeting, for final action in July Further and fi nul announcements of campus program eliminations and lay offs will he released in the fall TUITION Continued from Page 1 Prms.lfllnnr said the urgencv of post Measure r> budget short foils is onlv one ri'.ison why a tuition polu v is hnmg attempt ed now An im reuse in the de mand for higher education is tin* other A one third uu reuse in the nunitx-r of Oregon high school graduates through the end ol the docude. coupled with a ; hanging ei ononis . is requiring the state to look ,ii how much aci ess to higher edm atiun it should provide i’erhsieiner said Oregon s job grow th is not happening in for eslrv or agrit ulture but in man agemeht and prolessinnai sis tors where M) penent ol (nils < reateii til the l'l'lOs w ill tie t.mplov ers are demanding tii at people's skills have to evolve over a lifetime he said This requires a college edilta (ton " Oregonians need -to"■decide what kin ! ol world lives want their state to live in and h •, Pernstetnir said ■f ills -ei iinoiliv wi.ll have to grow and change and he some vvhal different that it is Indus, lie so of U ith in im reaseii need lor higher edu> atiun in mind ( ire gnnians need to del ide how many pmiple should have ar l ess to i ollege and universities, .irid vs ho w ill pav lor it. lie said The options under consider.! lion are • Maintain ( urrenl ia li nut lev el, hut cut enrollment • Raise tnslrui turn lee lo Ml peri ell! ol total cost, with a smaller enrollment i ul • Raise instrui ! loll fee I.. lover full t ost, enrollment v arms • Maintain i urrenl tuition lev el and seek new tax revenues An audience suggestion that (7 $$$ TUITION OPTIONS OfWRAl fuw> Tumow TOTAL COST ENROLLMENT 1WU No Ttrtofl IncrMM Shutout* Pi; W% ol iRi>uctBfl Con Studinti Pi* 10C\ ol Intlmctton Co«t 3001 CoM I) Tu PT«n I curtort twkxi rN« luttoUMd SS5S million S2J5 million $790 million (SO,WO S445 MAS M45 1735 $195 5250 voriot S310 5640 S70S vonoi 49.100 54.100 17.900 54.000 SI,045 90.300 '» «+« (> mB ('***! George Pernsteiner the :.iti■ r.i'M' tuition to iuvit the full cost. but allow students to take out hond* us lo.ms, was i rilii i/eil Kiitier! Nusse, executive ill rector of the Oregon Student Lobhv . s.ml if the teller.il gin eminent is ennr erned about the student loan lief.iult rule, the state should he too II tie \ystern is really Inter ested in providing access.' In' said, then they should keep tuition low and pul lie < -isl out into tin- general community Another student, a returning Hanning. I‘ubli( Policy and MiHtii^rmcnl ma)or, said fun mg !l><- lull < ust of an edui .1(1011 tut students. even with loans will have disastrous etonulilil eliet ts Ihhng on tremendous loans on a Inrro number of people lit the slate means wo 10 not going to ho ahlo to hu\ homos or ears until nun h. mm It later," she sard Joe ( hoor, a I 'niv orsitv pre business major, said firt.iiH i.il an) a ltd loans situ ji I \ doit I make ends meet "A lot of rttv friends .ire leal log Oregon and taking their money w ith them." ho said Mike burton. .1 stale repro sontatlvo from I’orlland and .1 niomlwr of the tuition commit It .- Sitid the people ill that meeting ami the members ol tfie l.egislature .ire largely ton vtllt oil ol the important o of .a i essihlo higher oil tit ation !l s |lit* people u ho lire not hero who nired to ho t tint im od ol the issue," he said The tuition meetings tontiii tie through June ‘> The commit tee will make preliminary re< <1111 mend at ions In tint slate faiiird hv l.ite June ROLLER BLADE RENTALS *4.QQ 2 HRS 4 $fiQ0 4 HRS O ALL DAY *10“ -m sJfct*NDERSQN S —g^iJtrauii i~bust— 199 W. 8th Euq«n« • 464-7344 Great Coffee and Espresso on Campus Find the Coffee Corner's GREAT locally roasted coffee and espresso on campus at: EMU Fishbowl Skylight Cafe Breezeway Cafe Willamette Hall Atrium Allied Arts and Architecture Cafe The COFFEE CORNER Ltd „ «Susan Caperna0 °lloyd A Book Signing No Pictures in Mv Grave Susan Caperna Lloyd Wednesday has a BS. degree in art education and ]VlaV 6th * 1 English, and an M.F.A m photogra- J phy, both from the University of Or- Upstairs egon, and lives in Jacksonville, Or egon with her family. 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