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Lab: Facility doesn’t receive funds tt Continued from Page 1A undertake research on behalf of private organizations that abide by academic research standards. Over the years the facility has conducted research projects in volving surveys for the Oregon State System of Higher Education, Oregon State Lottery and Oregon Department of Education, as well as several small mail and tele phone surveys of University stu dents and faculty. The facility nor mally conducts about 35 projects a year, and usually about five are done for the University. According to Gwartney, the facil ity primarily hires people with so cial science, voice and theaterback grounds. About half of the OSRL staff is composed of University stu dents, and the other half is made up of people from the community. One student at the facility is Karen Long, who has been working for OSRL for two years. As OSRL supervisor, Long, a senior psychol ogy major, said the most interesting survey she worked on was the Tar get Cities Project. Long and other personnel interviewed people who have been through drug rehabilita tion programs and asked them questions about their drug use, per sonal problems and mental health. "Some people are happy to help out and are interested in the surveys, but sometimes others we called get mad,"Longsaid. "Sometimes it’s in teresting to hear what people have to say about the questions.” OSRL is currently working on the "National Risk Survey" for De cision Research, a private research company. One result from the sur vey’s preliminary findings is the asteroid statistic. The survey in volves about 1,200 people from all over the country who are picked at random by the facility’s computer through random-digit-dialing. Gwartney founded the research laboratory in 1992 with about $36,000 in strategic planning funds, and she said the facility cur rently receives no funding from the University. She added that the facility is probably the only re search facility of its kind in the country that gets no funding from its host university, although just about every major university in the country has a similar facility. Despite all the OSRL’s accom plishments over the years, there is one thing that remains at the top ofGwartney’s list of goals — more space. “Just this fall we have turned away tens of thousands of dollars in projects because we don't have the physical capacities,” Gwartney said. Maybe that’s a survey idea they should look into. Program: Student interns have an ‘edge’ P Continued from Page 1A state funds,” she said. “We are also looking at our in ternship sites for more support — direct support for the students, maybe in terms of housing, overseas transportation and meals.” About 250 Oregon higher education students have done internships through the program so far, including students interning in winter term 1998, Lanningsaid. University contact Kathy Poole said 85 University students went on internships through the Global Graduate program during the 1996-97 school year. University students have interned with such organi zations as the Labor Party in England and the Van guard Foundation, a think tank in Taiwan. “Our ideal internship connection is an Oregon business that does business overseas,” Poole said. “Students ideally would intern with the Oregon com pany and then work at their overseas offices.” Poole said she hopes Oregon businesses will see the benefit to their companies in the program and help fund it with stipends when the grant runs out. ASUO President Bill Miner said corporate involve ment in higher education programs, particularly in fund ing, runs the risk of tailoring education to industry needs. "They should leave the corporations out of fund ing and decrease the chance of them co-opting the true liberal arts education that we so value,” Miner said. The program is proof that OSSHE recognizes “the importance of increasing service to business,” according to Lanning. "OSSHE has been looked upon critically by busi ness and industry for not being in touch with busi ness and employment needs in Oregon,” site said, “We are trying to be responsive by better preparing students to be productive quickly.” Miner said he is concerned with the program’s focus on business needs as opposed to student needs. Tailor ing higher education to business demands could turn students into “clones of the corporate world," he said. Global Graduates internships are intended to make students potentially more employable, banning said. "It gives students an opportunity to get hands-on work experience and put what they’ve studied in a work field," she said. "They’ll have an edge by being able to put their experience on an application or resume.” The program dearly has merits, Miner said, but he is mostly concerned with the ideological risk. “I think it'll give some students a chance to show off some of their skills in businesses before they’re put in the work force,” he said. “1 think it will be real ben eficial to some students." But the actual impact of the program on student em ployment success has yet to lx: determined, Lanning said. banning said the program coordinators generally determine which companies provide internships. “We go to companies, governments, non-govern ment organizations and negotiate the conditions of the internships. We ask them things like what kind of skills will fill a void in their company," she said. Miner said he is hopeful the program coordinators will take student feedback seriously when determin ing what businesses participate in the program. Pre-Game Party at the UO Bookstore! 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