Middle schoolers learn about medical careers
■Tykes will overrun the
campus on Friday to attend
Career MED, a job fair for the
medical field
By Brooke Ross
Oregon Daily Emerald
University students will be shar
ing their campus with more than a
hundred middle school students
on Friday.
In order to help younger stu
dents prepare for their futures, two
of the University’s College of Edu
cation programs, the Youth Enrich
Tax measure
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n’t going to be any kind of cut in
current spending.”
For the first year however, she
said there would be no funding for
expanding programs.
Bruce said with more students
choosing to pursue a higher educa
tion, expansion is exactly what the
OUS needs to keep accommodat
ing rising numbers and interests of
students.
ASUO student body president
Jay Breslow said his position pre
vents him from voicing an opinion
about the measure, but he did say
he has no doubts that receiving
millions of dollars less in general
funding will affect students at the
University and elsewhere in the
state.
“Every single student pays tu
ition, so if there’s a tuition hike,
it’ll affect every student,” he said.
Breslow is not alone with his
impression that students would be
affected by the passage of the
measure. Mary Jubitz, chairwoman
of the University Alumni Associa
tion’s advocacy committee, said if
the budget cuts that are likely to re
sult from the measure were to be
spread evenly, higher education
would lose an estimated $54 mil
lion next year.
Jubitz said the measure would
reverse recent legislative efforts to
make education more affordable to
in-state students and might lead
the state’s smartest high school
graduates to earn their degrees
elsewhere.
“If we can’t keep young people
within the state, the best and the
brightest, we’re going to shoot our
selves in the foot,” Jubitz said.
“Why would we trade off a healthy
K-12 and higher education system
for something that is not going to
benefit very many Oregonians?”
Jubitz is currently involved in
drafting a letter to 60,000 in-state
University alumni to encourage
them to oppose the measure.
She said statistics show that only
the wealthiest 6 percent of Oregoni
ans would actually benefit from the
measure, and even among those,
many oppose the measure.
Miller, however, said after the
first year following the passage of
Measure 91, students should have
no reason to be concerned. In fact,
she said, the money taxpayers will
save in tax dollars will eventually
spur more growth, and consequent
ly yield additional funds for col
leges and universities.
“It’s really not a drastic cut,”
Miller said.
Although the exact impact Mea
sure 91 would have is unclear,
those with stakes in higher educa
tion have little doubt that tuition
would rise and the availability of
financial aid grants would fall if
the measure passed.
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ment and Talented and Gifted Pro
grams, are co-sponsoring Career
MED, a career fair designed to ed
ucate middle school students
about professional options in the
medical field.
Jane Mickles, coordinator of the
Youth Enrichment and TAG Pro
grams, thinks the fair encourages
younger students to think about
their futures.
“Middle schoolers have no idea
[that] when they get to high school,
they’ll have to make career deci
sions,” she said.
The Youth Enrichment Program
cide whether they would go to col
lege or not,” said Gene Evans, a
public information officer for the
Oregon Student Assistance Com
mission.
Evans said state need grants are
funded from general funds, which
would be affected by Measure 91.
Evans said that last year 33,000 eli
gible students applied for the grant
and 30,813 received them.
Measure 91 could cut the
amount of general funds available
for such grants drastically, Evans
said.
“As far as state aid goes, it could
definitely affect the students,” he
VI If we can’t keep young
people within the state,
the best and the brightest,
we’re going to shoot our
selves in the foot, why
would we trade off a
healthy K-12 and higher
education system for
something that is not
going to benefit very many
Oregonians
Mary Jubitz
Chairwoman,
Alumni Accosication’s
advocacy committee
said.
John Cooper, a professor emeritus
at Portland State University and a
member of the Interinstitutional
Faculty Senate, said the passage of
Measure 91 would hurt already low
faculty salaries across the state, in
addition to raising the amount of tu
ition students pay.
“It’s something higher ed really
cannot afford,” he said. ‘”1 think
every student should feel threat
ened by it. At the very least, there is
the danger of rising costs of a higher
education.”
He said he is confident universi
ties would have to cut programs as
well.
Besides the obvious effects oppo
nents of the measure fear, Bruce
pointed out that fewer students pay
ing more tuition would hurt the
state’s economy overall. Besides
adding consumers to university
towns’ economies, OUS institu
tions also produce revenues from
research projects, he said.
Last year, universities produced
about $300 million from such rev
enues. Should Measure 91 pass,
Bruce said there might be less bind
ing to invest into research projects,
and consequently there would be
less revenue.
“I think people overlook the fact
that universities are a really big con
tributor to our state’s economy,” he
said.
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and the TAG Programs are offered
to Lane County elementary and
middle school students. Both offer
Middle schoolers have
no idea that when they get
to high school, they'll have
to make career decisions.
Jane Mickles
Coordinator,
Youth Enrichment Program
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students a number of activities to
improve computer skills and intro
duce students to new interests,
such as theater and writing.
Participants will spend the after
noon at the University, meeting
professors and touring various lab
oratories around campus. Students
will tour the athletic training serv
ice center, the motion control lab
and the biomechanics sports lab,
said Kimberley Mangun, assistant
director of the International Insti
tute for Sports and Human Perfor
mance.
Dr. Li-Shan Chou, an assistant
professor in the Exercise and
Movement Science department,
will be guiding Career MED stu
dents through the biomechanics
sports lab tour.
Chou, a new faculty member at
the University, specializes in the
biomechanical analysis of human
movement and rehabilitation engi
neering. Along with two graduate
student assistants, Chou will show
students the lab facilities and edu
cate them on the basics of biome
chanical science. He said he hopes
the event gives students more
guidance for their future.
Mangun, who is assisting in the
organizing of Career MED, hopes
that students will get a good
overview of the programs offered
at the University.
This year the University pro
grams are sponsoring the event
with PeaceHealth Medical Center.
Linda Hawley, PeaceHealth
Medical Center public affairs coor
dinator, said the career fair is im
portant because it’s a rare opportu
nity for middle school students to
explore health care professions be
fore entering high school.
Participating students will begin
their day at Sacred Heart Medical
Center where they will visit three
of the hospital’s 10 departments,
learning about subjects such as di
etary information, emergency
room standards and the duties ol
hospital nurses. Students will also
break into small groups to meet
physicians and ask them ques
tions.
Mangun, who is assisting in the
organizing of Career MED, hopes
that students will get a good
overview of the programs offered
at the University.
The Career MED Career Fair
takes place Friday from 8:45 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
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