Florendo named new advisor By Julio Swenson O'ogc'’ Dotty [merotd To help moet the increasing number of students of color who seek advising services from the Office of Multicultural Affairs, a new half-time academic adviser has been added to the staff University alumnus James Florendo. an active member of the local Native American community, was selected after a thorough search and interview process that included student and faculty input Florendo. who will concentrate on advising students of color who am on academic warning and probation, said he hopes to help get more students of color through school, and to keep more of them in school. Marshall Sauceda, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said Florendo's long standing relationship and involvement with the Native American community in partic ular will help in the effort to serve Native American students "lames brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the office, and we look forward to his contributions." Sauceda stated. Florendo will join two other full-time adv ixers In the last fisc al year alone, the staff rec eives! about 2.000 phone calls from students, and about 2,500 'walk in'' contacts — about fit) percent of which regarded ac ademic, support activities, Sauceda said. Some students of c olor have preferred to seek advising at the muiiii ulturnl affairs office because they apprec inte the environment there, he said The fac t that they c an lie advised by another person of color simply enhanc es the comfort level, and makes it easier to work with an adviser," Sauceda said LINK Continued from Page 1 dents exchange between the Uni versity and Lane. Chereck said, and this trading agreement not only eases the transfer of student transcripts between schools but , sets a model for future agree ments with other schools. "I find this all very interesting We have been extremely pleased with how we have been able to improve our service for stu dents,” Chereck said. "In the post, it used to be such chaos and con fusion, but now, with a more modern mode of registration, stu dents are starting classes and doing things a lot better and foster.” The installation of Duck Call, combined with the SPEEDE/ExPRESS linkage, is a far cry from the punishment and mayhem of the old McArthur Court registrations where stu dents ran from department table to department table in a rush to register for classes, Chereck said. He said the registrar's office does not miss the stacks of documents from the old days. Building on projects complet ed in Florida and Texas, the SPEEDE/ExPRESS is another step toward a national (eventually, an international) standard for exchanging student records mon efficient ly. The process of installing SPEEDE/ExPRESS, though still in its infancy, requires the imple mentation of a standard comput er format program and common translation software programs The University and Lane fun nel their electronic transmissions through a translator mainframe computer located in Rochester, We have been extremely pleased with how we have been able to improve our service for students* — Herb Chereck. University Registrar N Y. Each day the institutions check an electronic mailbox for incoming messages (transcripts) and down-load them onto com puters at their respective regis trar offices Though the University is nut capable of sending transcripts vet. Chereck said it will be only a short while before it can The National Center for Edu cation Statistics, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the American Association of Colle giate Registrars and Admissions Officers support the develop ment of the system and plan for long-term provision of services using the SPEEDE/ExPKKSS for mat. Chereck speculated that with in two years most or all Oregon schools, both college and kindergarten through 12th grade, will be electronically linked and thus more readily and easily able to transfer stu dent information "The SPEEDE/ExPKKSS net work is an example of another innovative way that Oregon's higher education institutions are taking advantage of improving technology to do more with less." 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(please) Help our successful recycling program on campus by putting the Oregon Dally Emerald back i in its original rack when you’ve finished reading It. This will allow another person to reaa it ana/or De easily picked up for recycling. _ Officials say budget cuts mean fewer learr SALKM. Ore (AIM - Budget i uK as largo as those sought by the governor would require state colleges and universities to edit i ate fewer students, higher edu cation officials soy Gov Barbara Roberts is asking agencies to carve $50 million from administrative costs in their current two-year general fund budgets The higher educe turn system's share would he about $15 million. That's about l percent of the college system's budget of $008 million for 1093-95 Department officials say they cun come up with only $4 million in cuts The governor directed that outs not hamper hash programs approved bv the Urgislature Hut 1 jirrv I-arge, a vice chant ellor of the State System of Higher (edu cation. salt) a $15 million tut would leave no choice but to squeeze enrollment. Spending reductions of that si/e would "require us to make further t ails in programs and ser vices, including student ser vices." Weldon Ihrig. higher education finance chief, wrote to Roberts Higher education offtt ials argue they have taken more than their share of budget cuts in recent years, anti one key law maker tends to back up the claim Senate President Hill Hrati bury. D-Handon. said Friday that post trimming has left higher education with little waste in administrative operations "I told the governor in a meet ing I thought she was going about this backwards," he said. 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