Programs Financing
The ASUO Programs Finance Committee has committed $1,874,844 so far for next year’s program budget. That represents
a 6.4 percent increase over last year’s funding — slightly more than the PFC’s 3 percent benchmark.
ORGANIZATION
2001-02
2000-01
%CHANGE
FROM THIS YEAR
$ CHANGE
FROM THIS YEAR
Disability Services Project
$10,800
Asian Pacific American Students Union
$10,800
$12,276
Coalition Against Environmental Racism $14,485
Kultura Philipinas $2,739
$11,999
2.3%
$277
$12,158
19.14%
$2,237
$2,923
-6.3%
Chinese Students Association
Crisis Center
-$184
$7,413
$6,914
7.2%
$499
$18,226
Spencer View Tenants Council
$21,548
-15.4%
-$3,322
$1,923
$1,313
46.5%
$610
Total
$67,862
$67,655
0.3%
$207
Tabled for future discussion
ORGANIZATION
2001-02
2000-01
%CHANGE $CHANGE
FROM THIS YEAR FROM THIS YEAR
Jewish Student Union
$10,745
Black Student Union
$16,693
Student Bar Association/PALS
$7,312/$316
Stipend draws PFC debate
■ Opinions differed
concerning the amount that
Crisis Center student
counselors should be paid
By Emily Gust
Oregon Daily Emerald
The new stipend model being
implemented this year sparked
considerable debate Tuesday as the
ASUO Programs Finance Commit
tee members argued over how
much money student counselors in
the Crisis Center should receive
next year.
The Crisis Center was asking for
a 20 percent increase in the
stipends for its counselors, even
though its proposed overall budget
was an 18 percent decrease from
this year’s budget.
The PFC first suggested $175 a
month for each counselor, which
would have equated to roughly $43
per 15-hour shift.
During the budget presentation,
Crisis Center Director Alison Lusk
said she wanted to raise the
stipends to $60 per shift from the
$50 currently paid.
“They haven’t been raised since
the ‘80s and now we’re looking at a
decrease,” she said of the $175 pro
posal.
In response, the PFC approved a
$200 monthly stipend for each coun
selor — keeping stipends at their $50
level per shift — but one committee
member was still unhappy.
“Here we have a group that’s
coming to us to lessen their de
pendence on the student fee,” PFC
member Lawrence Gillespie said. “I
just think the students deserve it...
and we’re talking about students
that can save somebody’s life.”
Sen. Jackie Ray, however, said the
PFC was giving the Crisis Center the
option to increase stipends next year
to the highest level — $225 — and
PFC member Aaron Week pointed
out that the counselors would al
ready be receiving one of the highest
stipends available.
“If you push it up to $225, there’s
nowhere to go from there,” he said.
“That’s it.”
He added that $200 was a fair
wage, considering that even direc
tors of some student groups don’t
get stipends that high.
Several groups’ requests were
tabled Tuesday because of compli
cations with their mission and goal
statements.
Last year, University President
Dave Frohnmayer vetoed the Jew
ish Student Union’s statement,
which PFC Chairwoman Mary Eliz
abeth Madden explained was done
because some language was too po
litical or religious.
This year, the PFC was cautious
while considering the group’s state
ment and ultimately decided to
wait until it was reworded before
hearing the budget.
Conference
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achusetts Institute of Technology on
the East Coast, said David Conley, di
rector for the Center of Applied Policy
Studies and the director of the nation
al Standards for Success project.
“From these conferences, we get a
much better idea of what the faculty
want from students,” Conley said.
One of the goals of the conference
was to gather material for a CD
ROM, including exemplary work
samples and support information,
which will be sent to every high
school in the nation, as well as to
policy-makers and other officials.
Participants hope the information
will help close the gap between uni
versity and high school standards.
Francois Bodone, a research asso
ciate for Standards for Success, said
there was quite a bit of feedback in
terms of content and format from
the small groups.
One important modification to
the program that faculty members
said they would like to see is the in
clusion of syllabi, assignment
guidelines and a scale of work for
the work samples, Bodone said.
Rather than presenting just exam
ples of “A” papers, work samples
for the CD-ROM should include ex
amples of “C” and “F” papers, she
said.“ We need to work on the whole
package,” Bodone said.
She said results from the confer
ence showed a desire by faculty and
administrators to work with the pro
gram.
“There was a lot of engagement
and a strong willingness to partici
pate and discuss the issues,”
Bodone said.
Although the overall attitudes
from the sessions were positive,
Conklin Bueschel said one of the
primary concerns raised was
whether the University would dic
tate what high schools could teach.
“We want to see communication,
not just a dictum coming down
from the University,” she said.
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