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Baby boom to increase demand for teachers
Another baby boom is go
ing to hit the nation's public
schools by the mid HU k that
will set off an explosion of
jo b o p p o rtu n itie s fo r
teachers, predicts the new
dean of Oregon State
U n iv e r s it y ’s school of
education
"Public school enroll
ment has already bottomed
out nationally and is now on
an upswing,'* said Robert
D
B arr, who replaced
Sylvia Tucker as education
dean on Jan 1.
"Forecasts based on U S
Census Bureau reports in
dicate that by the 1<M5O6
there will be teacher shor
tages in almost every area
of public education, which
mean the teaching job
market will be wide open,"
he said.
"High school seniors and
university freshmen who
decide now to major in
education are going to be
right on target, they're go
ing to step out of college in
to the best employment pic
tu re in m a n y , m a n y
years "
The next enrollment ex
plosion, labeled the "baby
l>oom boom" because it is
being
g e n e ra te d
by
children of the post-World
War II baby boom who are
now raising families, is
already occurring
Mt. Hood computers
serve two purposes
Word processing brought
the future to Mt Hood
Community College in 1979.
and since then has been us
ed to spread that future to
a d m in is t r a t o r s
and
students alike.
During the daytime, the
w ord processing co m
puters serve the college as
an institution, producing
official documents, calling
up tests for faculty and
aiding in student registra
tion, said May Oka, office
occupations and general in
structor at MHCC
When the evening comes,
however, word processing
is handed over to the
students. Whether they are
enrolled in the word pro
cessing specialist program
or are merely taking the
courses for general ex
perience, the college equip
ment is theirs to learn from
on Tuesday and Thursday
nights.
" It (the system) is per
forming two functions It
trains students for future
jobs as well as producing
d o c u m en ts
fo r
the
college,” Oka said.
Located in the MHCC
centralized word process
ing center for student use
are three Blind Standalone
IBM Mag II word pro
cessors and one F u ll-
Screen Standalone. Two
Amtex 425 word processors
and one Optical Character
Reader (OCR) are used by
administration as well as
for teaching devices.
The number of students
in Oka's word processing
courses "has grown by
leaps and bounds." she
said "There are more than
100 brands of word process
ing equipment produced by
more than 50 vendors," and
the com puter tra in in g
given at MHCC "transfers
right over to any other
word processor
" T h is
g iv e s
them
(students) a real edge over
anyone else seeking a word
processing position." she
added
" E n r o llm e n t
na
tionally—in the elementary
grades and in certain fields
like science, mathematics
and lan gu ag e a r t s —is
beginning to nudge upward
to reflect this increase,”
said Barr, a professor of
e d u c a tio n a t In d ia n a
University prior to assum
ing the OSU post
He was also director of
IU 's Office of Teacher
Education and Extended
Services and interim direc
tor for that institution's
C enter for U rban and
Multicultural Education
‘ Projections indicate in
creased enrollment will ex
pand across the board," he
said, "so that by the mid-
and late- l9Hos there will be
teacher shortages, accom
panied by employment op
p o rtu n itie s , in alm ost
every area of education
"Teacher shortages are
already showing up in cer
tain areas." noted Barr
"Over 22 percent of the
math teaching positions in
32, Clatsop, Astoria, 10;
Lane. Eugene, 78, Mt.
Hood, Gresham. 63, Rogue,
G ra n ts
P as s,
18;
Southwestern, Coos Bay.
18, Treasure Valley, On
tario, 20; and Umpqua,
Roseburg, 36
The Gibbs report showed
that the first community
college transfers to OSU
were in 1963 There were 25
that year "Since then, the
number has increased 25
tim es as m any m ore
Oregon young people start
their higher education ex
perience in a community
college and then transfer to
Oregon State to complete
their degree work," Gibbs
observed
A 1977 OSU study on the
academic performance of
c o m m u n ity
tr a n s fe r
stu d en ts showed th a t
"after initial adjustment to
the large campus and the
competition, Oregon com
munity college transferees
do very well academically
at OSU " The study was
done by Morris Ix>May,
d ir e c to r of the OSU
Counseling and Testing
Center
be a plus during the next
one
"A fter the baby boom
passed through America's
public schools during the
1970’s, we experienced low
enrollments which allowed
us to improve the quality of
our
e d u c a tio n a l
programs," he said
" F o r e x a m p le ,
we
became far more selective.
We have raised our admis
sions standards and are in
stituting basic skills tests
to m ake c e rta in th a t
teachers have the basic,
fundam ental skills ab
s o lu te ly e s s e n tia l to
teachers
"Through stiffer a dm is
sions requirements and in
creased program quality,
teacher education pro
grams are far superior to
those in the past,"said
Barr "Our programs are
now characterized by ex
tensive field experience,
m icrocom puter training
and vigorous course con
tent.
So I d o n t perceive
schools of education ever
going back to the old ‘fac
tory model,* where we
ground out thousands of
teachers in the emergency
situation of the post World
War II baby boom
. "We will be much more
careful to tie entrance into
teaching, in terms of the
number of persons admit
ted, to the availability of
positions in the field." he
said.
In some areas, that could
mean actively recruiting
prospective teachers In
others, it m ay means
students will find it difficult
to gain admission to a
specific teaching field.
"In fields where OSU has
a statewide mission—in
vocational education, in
c lu d in g
a g r ic u lt u r e ,
business, industrial educa
tion and home economics,
as w ell as m ath and
science—the situation real-
ly dem and s vig o ro u s
recruitm ent p ro gram s,”
said Barr
"Not just so our students
will get jobs, but so our
public schools in Oregon
will be staffed with truly
outstanding people who
have sufficient training to
do t r u ly o u ts ta n d in g
jobs not just for today,
but for the technological
classroom or tomorrow "
Johns, Nazeeri
on dean’s list
Susan J Johns and Mar-
jan Z Nazeen, former San
dy Union High School
students, made the dean's
list at the University of
Oregon
Those on the dean's list
are in the top five percent
of all undergraduates in
their respective schools of
study They also must have
a grade point average of
3 75 or better.
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Record set for
transfer students
Oregon State University
enrolled a record number
of transfer students from
Oregon community col
leges this year, according
to a report prepared by
W a lla c e
E
G ib b s,
registrar and director of
admissions
"The fall term total was
646," Gibbs said, compared
to the 574 the year before
The largest number of
tra n s fer students, 143,
c a m e fro m
n e a r —by
Linn—Benton Community
College, Albany
The
number was bolstered,
Gibbs believes, by students
who wanted to enrol) at
OSU initially but who miss
ed making the early new
s tu d e n t
ad m is sio n s
deadlines that had to be
established to slow enroll
ment at the university "A
substantial number stayed
in the area,” Gibbs pointed
out
The totals for the other
Oregon community col
leges included Blue Moun
tain Community College.
Pendleton. 22, C entral
O re g o n ,
B end ,
30.
Clackamas. Oregon City,
the nation are vacant and
25 percent of the filled posi
tions in that area are oc
cu p ie d by te m p o ra ry
teachers without certifica
tion
" I f you put these
statistics together, you’re
really saying that only 50
percent of the mathematics
teaching positions nation
wide are staffed by cer
tified teachers
"So in a grim time of
employment," he added,
"here is a possible way of
finding a job with great
professional opportunities
“ There are employment
possibilities for people with
m a th
and
scien ce
b ack g ro u n d s
at
the
bachelor s degree level and
OSU's school of education
is attempting to assist peo
p ie
w ith
a c a d e m ic
backgrounds in these areas
to get certified and move
into some of positions "
Barr believes the low
enrollments that followed
the last baby boom should
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