Faculty Note! , .iiversity makes fri--nc - n, "I men in state legislature by Clarence Hein bath the way L .,..,.....,, ,.L Stdewalk superintendents this iall characterized in the state system's w ~ lbl e keepmg tabs on constructlon master plans ior development and the 01 a new Proter<ronalSchools wav salary and other iundi are Building at Portland State, easily the d~stnbuted.Comprehens~veresearch most v~qibleresult o n h ~ csampus of unlveoltcer, ior example, are the recent state legcilat~vesesslon. compared with a d~fferentgroup o i What observers see through the schools than other colleges and construction fences at S.W. Sixth and univers~ttesfor salary levels. T h i ~ Harrison wdl he only one poiltlve questton curfaced again durlng a later result, however, and arguably not the heartng on the distrjbution ai salary most important one to emerge ~n money. Salem this year. Representative Mason stymied a For hlgher educatron and for 11naIvote on salary improvement Portland State ~n particular the 1985 funds unt~hl e had recewed assurance leg~slat~vc session produced from Chancellor W ~ l l ~ aDmav~sthat, stgn~i~caandt vances, evidence both of "There would be no two-t~ersystem a growing awarenesr of the of compensation among Oregon.5 importance oi hrgher education and three malor unlvers~t~es.'' of the ab~l~otyi the state Tystem and Mason said the chancellor also had the mstrtutlonr to get their mcrsager agreed that, "The state system across to decirion-makers in Salem. acknowledges, and would iurther Leg~rlatorsapproved an tncreare in attempt to ~mplement,the earl~cr higher education's biennial budget budget note in the higher education from $440 m~llronto $541 m~ll~on. budget regard~ngPortland State's rncluding more than $40 mill~onin improved status " state lottery funds. There war fundtng for salary enhancement, program improvement, cap~tacl onstructton. a Budget note challenges partial tuitton freeze and educational equipment. And along the way, there higher ed 'ystPm emerged from legtslattve debate an understandme of h~ehereducation's Namn Rme. Cha $ifl.ORO grant tror U~>!,I, ,"A 8.4 ,,-,, 8aSl hnyirphym, Hlrrory. and I Lrtlrhe. tronamrr. Univen~~y u Cal,lorn,a-Berkclq. have had tht ~ o ~ z a n sratptrait. rhe ~01,ttka Knzhanrrh. publlihed bv Bail1 Bta<kwetl. Oxtord. England Dmylry<hynalso co-aulhord wllh E.A.P Cmwnhnd-Vau~haninrl Thomsr Vauehan ni the Oregon Hliior$cal iocteiv. Rulsi.7o Con~urrl ol Slknr 1550.1700 A . " . 1 Servlcer ,a help educai8onallv diradvnntayed PSU fresh# enhance f h e ~rearonlngab~l~rier ~n prc ior rhpm,i,w c1arrei the" om1 8" the,, of rarer. tn the health pmfeamn< Richard Virre, ArcounnnR. ha5 been n memkr or the 1901Aclv~iorv Lrouo I< U 5 Cnmm,rr,onr.r "i lnlrrnal Reven", 10-men,bpr goup that wtll advw the cMlm,ir,oner and his nsii on ,ax adm#n~rtiar#on ,riucr tn the conicng UP. sv i he I< "lo%, concerned ~8th tar Fraohlro D RooreveL H!r l i Fnrvclo~r~ View, dnrd b Ir. and Meashan R. Wander. G K Hall (L Co In Memorian Ken Kmpner, Educnf8on 8. L r ~ awl mk, war awarded a Fulbr8ehl aholarrhtp lo lecture at the Federal Un~veiisfv ol Rlo de lanetm. Bmz~l. from August lo ~ o v ~ m k1r9.85 ~enpncr. who- iw~lall~ li d ~ l d t l o n drlesearch and war nsmd after hsrn He came to Pod Slate ~n 1950 renrtng irom the hrc,lne\ department 8 n 1979 Inqlrurnmlat ~n hr the canceul 01 n,ature ronuwanrs to ( Ma~ndh was a pait preradenl 01 the Orrw,# Atadem" of Sclenre and Ihe (Ireyon Chap the Nature Conrewancv He war a130 a ch memlm of the Orenon Marlop Brotogy l o r and served ac a truilre for the Oregon Mu. of science and Induitr),. Contnbul,nn. can made 8" Macnsb'i memory lo the Nature Conrewancy o i Portland. Thanr N m n , profera, ernerrtu, o i anthraplogv, dld 8" Ma" He Wd. i b Nmurnsn. who ,o#neclthe Pi,rtlnnd state faculty 8" 1919 and retld 8" 198J w.~ an authorin on the preh~rlocv of she Trllammk and Lower Chinook Indians tn Orwn as well ar WSI Airlmn r)wh#riav. He ward mernkr oi !he e v a l ~ a t #p~la,ns fa carh comparative edurarlon and qual#lal#vresearch methods in education at the Unrr~rnv'5 Graduate hhwl Lnnguaw. has ,i the order oi 0, (;ermany I for more than two lanroaee and ;erman ,rnm,gran,r ----,,....-. ,.. decades of feathlng man thnueht. h r hlr r~rearch cm I to the Northwert. and for htr ~~...,.......~... ... .L- ,.-~ utvhe Sommerrrhule am Patltlk " n Lin. Eranom8cs. r~eibd a Fulhnyh~ conduct mearch on "Mull~laleral ,I Pralunl",," cornpartvnr of Selened ~ ~ e l o p l nCgounlnei'' m stnwwre he 1981.86 acadcmlc war Lzn, who* r 49 mafhernattcalKmom,ci and KOnOmeBIcI.wlil 5tudy the mulhean Ailan ndtlonl d Slowpore. Mnlayna. Thailand. Indoneria. Brunei and the Ph,l,pp,nei. comparing patrernr of 4nduvnal pnwl"~,v,I" I" thew nx nations wtfh tho* 8 n the Unlld stater H a d Lim(au, Syrtemr kenre. and Wanx Ytnglua. ManaRemenl aml sy,rem, En~,n*ering at Xs'an Itnolong Unwrnlty rn Ch~ns. am rollahatrngan a research prolrrf rrr~nttv lund~~l 8th n %76.000 gran: irom the Naclonal ksmce Foundat,"" lacob Fried, ulun-Pi grant to sve the durtnafl bt notes do not h. b" ,In onnmr.2 . ., role and tts chronic lpvel of under-iunding. At the same time. Portland State Universtty found vocal leglslatwe a d v ~ a t e s .State Senator Frank Roberts ID-Portland) and Representative Tom Mason ID-Portland1 used thelr positions on Ways and Means committees to repeatedly make the care lor M U in budget allwation drscurstons. Perhaps the mort ~ignthcanrtesult of thn advocacy was the commtnee's attachment oi a "budget note" to the higher educat~onbudget. The note d~rectsthe State Svctem of Higher Educat~on,"To plan lor a ch,mpe oi %lafur ior Portland Starc= Univen,ty rrom that of a rompr~hensrve univercitv to that oia ron~prehenrive research univ~rsrtv~ 8 t th e accompanvrnp ch.anp?s rn adm~siion stand~rrfstor rtudcnfr and tanlity While budge status of law. tl.., continued anention to the topic through a progress report at the next and the PWIIIUO. rnd ha5 xovlde dudle legrslatlve re5ston. Ph~Bl ogue, assistant to the prerfdent ior unlvers~ty relations at PSU, mon~toredthe legidative session closely. He belleves the leg~slat~ve recognition oi PSU "could h the mort sign!i~cantdevelopment for the in~~lutlosmn ce the change in status from Portland State College to Portland State Un~verrlh/. ' Major components oi the hlgher educat~onpackage passed by the 1985 lerislature fnrludr been xt up ~n the PSU Foundatton ;o I ior an annual award to a de,en,ne era rtuden, 4" anlhrn~lo~ Hydrogen conversion fuels researcher Rebearchers I" PSU's chemist department and ~n the privatr 3 wrll share a three-y~ar $640.85 from the U.S. Department ot El to lnvest~gatethe iolar cncrp,y conversion oi hydrogen fnto a I iuel. The grant IS the largest evl received by Portland Statc. Prlnclpal lnvertlgators arc PSU', Carl Wamser, who spec~alires~n organlc chemistry and photochemc\try, and Harold Lonsdale, prestdent of Bend Research. Inc IBRlI, an Oregon firm speciallz~ng~n membrane technology Togpther the researchers will use a kind 01 artifrcral photo\ynthejiq to rpltt watcr ~ntu hydrogen and oxygen Laght-abrorb~ng membranes will bc develol~dto collect solar energy and convert it to chem~cael nergy, Wam5t.r expl;----' Wamier pred~ctsthat the e x dom~nanet nergy source within next 100 yeari could well Ihe hydrogen. "Hydrogen is par tic^ clean-burning and could k use most oi the ways natural gar i5 currently be~ngused;' hc noter cry ?'tor 7 giant lergy ~alari+$40 million over the next two yeari ior faculty dary enhancement, lnclud~ng520 million In across-the-board Increaicr. money for merlt and promotion Increaws, and extra fund~ngfor h ~ g hdcmand academ~cd,acrpllnes. Centers of Ercellence--PSU recelvcd iundmg to hnobt program5 ~n the School oi Engtneerlng and the lnternatlonal Trade and Commercc Institute. Capital Construction-Constr~~t~on begins th~siall on a $7 million Profesibonal Schoolr Bulldlng lo houar the School oi Buijneii Adm~niitrationand the lntcrnational Trade and Commerce Inst~tute. Tuitiorc5ufi~c1eniutnds were appropriated to allow runtton b he frozen ~nthe wrond year o i the b~ennlumrvlth only a 3 percent tncreare In thc itrst vear. That will make total tultlon and ieei ior res~dentundergraduates at PSU $490 per term compared w ~ t h$471 rurrrntiy amlral,on c l i the mullsple pprrprrtlve I nn~ppt to r~elonadl rvelapn~rnfl>lnnn!ils n the \Vcl Bei neglon ol 5haanxl problnre Ralph W. Mary. Prnierior Fmpr8lui of Rtotoyy. was recrnllv seleclecl 4lurnnur at the Year a! L#ni#rlCd olteg In ~rskl, rhr c<,tirye,aw.~nlr~l Ma'", s IYLY qnriuatc, an honotan L l ~co i of Sclencr degree Ma<>taught t>.lli~gv al PSU h m 1951 la 1972 latt!ng patterns. ' Preiently. only the Vnmercoty of Oregon and Oregon Stat? Unfversity are characrer!zed as cornpreh~nvve rrrearch Instttutlonr. Advoratt.~o i the budget note panted out that thc rl~ilcrence ~n dr\(gnatlon ha< created dltt~culttestor PSU ~n developing progrdm\ at a tsme when a malor rcrcarrh Inrtltutton. e5peclally In high technology programs. 15 nwded ~n the mrtrnml4tan reel"" Roben o'erim, ~homas ~ard. cwneliln cham and A h d Mchrab2-adeh. (Chem~rlrvh,ave recrned a 5114.0110 eranf from tho ~atronat Sclencc roundatton ta tnpmvr trr hnlraucr iwr nleasurlng hvdmx\,l ndtrali and other IlllW. 'h'5 the polluiana thnl are mure o! an srn!anl Thomas bulun, Cwpaphu war a mrmhpr oi a live mnrm delexrtmn parlirlplttne 80 the "So\~~~.~mrn~coanien,nrr on kunw anrl Cmprafron." hrld I" Muwox ,and #n lh? Sther~an rttv ol Khahardo,h Mav 29 lunc 7
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