PAC to make final proposal on tuition hike
By Wayne Walley
associate city editor
Final recommendations on a tuition hike and salary increases will be completed by the President's Adv isory Council today.
The recommendations will be forwarded to President John R. Hubbard, who will present a final proposal to the Finance and Budget Committee of the Board ofTrustees on Wednesday.
“Our recommendations will be given to President Hubbard and he will then make his proposal to the Finance Committee who in turn pretty much make the final decision on tuition and on a pool for salaries,” said Francis Feldman, chairman of the PAC.
David Shawaker. assistant treasurer and budget officer, said the Finance and Budget Committee will make a decision, on details and form a scheme for the total budget, but the decisions will not be official until the full board meets in February.
The meeting today, a continuation from last Friday’s meeting, is scheduled for
2:30 p.m. in Student Activities Center 205. All persons are invited to attend.
Feldman said today's meeting will adjourn by 4 p.m., if possible.
“The members of the council have all the materials and we hope to answer all questions. We will set time limits if necessary, but we should be done by 4 p.m.,” Feldman said.
John Griffith, executive secretary of the PAC said they would probably limit personal speaking time and try to avoid repetition.
*‘0f course, we won t just clear the room at 4 p.m.. but we will try to finish the meeting as close to that time as possible." Griffith said.
In the first session ofthe two-part meeting, the council considered the recommendations of the Resource Management and Planning Committee and discussed the materials included in more than 100 page document compiled by the committee.
The recommendationsofthe committee included a proposal for a 7% to 11% increase in salaries and a 5.5% to 6.5% tui-
tion hike if possible and if tuition must be increased further, should not exceed
9.3%.
Hubbard outlined the assumptions the council must consider before making a final proposal in Friday's meeting.
“In making your decision, you must remember, we will have a balanced budget and we will not invade our reserve,” Hubbard said.
He said the board would try to close the gap in pay levels of faculty in comparison to other institutions and that any monies generated this year would be used for remuneration.
He also expressed concern over the tuition rate, but said there will be a tuition increase.
“We can't eliminate inflation. We will need some tuition increase, but we hope it will be as small as possible,” Hubbard said.
“I will listen closely before taking any proposal to the Board. The process of decision has been open and this will be another test of the process by which we arrive at decisions.”
KSCR manager says station’s future hinges on allocation request
By Peter Fletcher
staff writer
If the Campus Activities Allocations Board does not give KSCR the funds that it has asked for, the station will have to terminate service by the end of the semester. Bob Moore, general manager of the station, said Monday.
The board will consider KSCR’s budget request in mid-December, Mike Peterson, chairman of the board, said.
The radio station was supposed to have its budget reviewed on Nov. 20. but the decision was put off until four new members could be appointed to the board. Peterson said.
The board is supposed to have nine members. It is now operating with five.
The new members ofthe board should be appointed by Christmas. Terry Hillis. chairman of the allocations board review committee, said.
Peterson said that he told the representatives of the station that they should try to get outside funding.
KSCR has been circulating petitions to show student support for its allocation request. So far, 1.000 signatures have been collected. Moore said.
The station is funded and run by students. The only money that the station has received from the university is $300 from the Office
of Student Affairs to buy a piece of equipment. Moore explained.
The station has requested $8,975. which will go for a new studio and equipment, he said. KSCR will lose its present studio next semester because the room is needed for classes.
In other business considered Monday, the review committee heard an appeal from the Associated Trustee Scholars. Their request of $250 was denied.
The trustee scholars wanted the money to cover office expenses of a study on student government at different universities. John Petrovich, chairman of the group, siad.
The review committee voted 4-3 to have the board reconsider the trustee scholars' request.
Any group that has its budget request denied by the board is entitled to an appeal within a week if a a request is submitted in writing. Hillis said.
The committee has the power to recommend whether or not the board should review the group's case, she added.
The board has allocated about one-half of its $89,000 budget. It has allocated $7,000 to the speakers committee, $15,000 to the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment and $8,000 to the recreation coalition, which consists of 39 clubs, for longterm supplies and operational expenses.
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Volume LXVIII, No. 54	Los Angeles, California Tuesday, December 9, 1975
TAKEN FOR GRANTED—Many students who pass Von KleinSmid Center and look up at its rising bell tower consider it nothing more than a campus symbol that tolls every hour. But to many photographers, it's a
structure that captures their imaginations with its many arcs and architectural designs. Photo courtesy of USC News Bureau.
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Study shows private universities still solvent
By Sherie Stark
staff writer
Private colleges and universities are keeping their heads above water in spite ofthe potentially threatening economic situation, a nationwide study shows.
The study was conducted for the Association of American Colleges by a research team headed by Howard Bowen, professor of economics and education at Claremont Graduate School.
While the study notes that 27 of the 100 institutions examined were in “serious distress” from the 1969-70 through the 1974-75 school years, it concludes “that the private colleges and universities have enormous staying power. They are a viable and sturdy part of the American system of higher education.
“The disaster that has been so widely predicted has not yet befallen most private institutions,” the study said.
USC and major research institutions such as Harvard and Stanford were not considered among the 100 universities chosen to be studied, said Harrison Stephens, public information director at Claremont Graduate School.
Besides the relative handful of prestigious research institutions, Bowen also narrowed sampling by excluding two-year colleges and specialized professional schools
such as music conservatories, independent law schools and theological seminaries from the study.
Bowen, on a speaking tour, was unavailable for comment. But Stephens said that he had narrowed the study because problems in the schools excluded differ from the majority and have to be studied separately.
He said that Bowen hopes to widen the study next year to include the additional types of private institutions. He said that he assumed that major universities such as USC would be next in importance to the study, and would be the first to be included.
Thus far, however, the study has included only the middle sector in private institutions—the four-year, accredited nonprofit universities, as defined by the Carnegie report on higher education, Stephens said.
He said that the sample represents 866 universities, or about 65% of all private institutions. It also represents about 75% of all students enrolled in private universities, or nearly one-and-one-half million students.
The study shows that for private universities as a whole, revenues have outpaced inflation, assets and net worth have grown, and the ratio of assets to liabilities has improved. Also, deficits, a frequent problem in the 1970’s, have been largely corrected.
The study warned the 27 unidentified institutions in “serious distress” that, “if recent trends...are not corrected, the odds against survival are formidable.”
It said that while the financial condition of most private institutions appears to be much better than would be expected, there are some indications of financial stress.
Such trends include the declining percentage of total expenditures devoted to instruction and departmental research and the gradually increasing dependence on private gifts to balance operating budgets.
Stephens said that the three-year study was funded by Lilly Endowments, Inc.. and is the first attempt to organize this type of data.
"This study is now the data base from which the economic and academic health of a university will be measured over the next three years, and probably beyond,” he said. “Narrowing and interpreting the data is the hardest part: from here on it will just be a matter of comparing the new data to the base of information already studied.”
Sunday’s report was the first to be released by the study. The next report, a kind of follow-up progress report, will be released about April. Stephens said.