President Smith Applauds Governor's Support of H. E. a Package of Proposals by Gov
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Friday, December 16, 1994 President Smith applauds governor's support of H. E. A package of proposals by Gov. Mike Lowry to nium and continue to serve state higher educa restore higher education-as a priority of state tion needs, he said. policy drew praise from WSU President Sam "This proposal will give school officials Smith this week. more flexibility in managing their institutions, Smith and University of Washington Presi which they greatly need during these tough dent William Gerberding spoke Tuesday at an economic times," he commented. "The regents hour-long news conference in Olympia where have requested this authority to help them meet Gov. Lowry unveiled his initiatives which in the challenges that lie ahead." clude local authority to set tuitions, tax credits Lowry also will recommend to the next for corporations and the creation of a state task Legislature a proposal to grant up to $60 million force to address higher education funding and in tax credits to businesses making cash contri access issues. butions to colleges and universities for financial The president applauded the governor's at aid programs. tempt to develop creative solutions to higher Under the proposal, businesses would re education's dilemma. "We must find a way to ceive a dollar-for -dollar credit against their busi deal with the severe access problem facing the ness and occupation tax. No single school could state," Smith said. Washington will .see a 50 be eligible for more than $20 million. The lid, percent increase in high school graduating coupled with a revenue-sharing formula, would classes by the year 2010, and Washington al ensure that needy students from all schools get With a few tools, numerous spare parts and a lot of elbow grease, Bob ready ranks 49th out of 50 states and Washing a share of the additional aid. Peavy turns bits and pieces into functional, safe holiday bicycles for ton D.C. in access to public four-year universi The governor said the proposal would in children. (Story on page 2) ties. crease available financial aid from the current Smith said the plan reflects the governor's level of $125 million statewide to $185 million. concerns for higher education. By giving insti An additional20,800 students would be helped tutions greater autonomy brings the problems through 1997, a 45 percent increase over exist Foley donated papers to university and solutions closer together. ing programs. Most of the funds would provide More than half of Eastern Washington's con ans. "The collections reveal not only the work Gov. Lowry will ask the legislature to give aid to low-income students, and the balance gressional history since statehood can be found of Congress, but also provide insight into the schools the power to increase tuitions for the would help middle-income students through in the university's treasury of documents with lives and careers of the representatives them- 1995-97 biennium. No increases would be re work study programs. the additional gift of papers from Speaker Tom selves." · quired, but any raise would be limited to 6 He noted that applications for financial aid Foley. Guido also disclosed that negotiations with percent for resident undergraduates and I 0 per-·. by college students increased 27 percent be · Materials gathered during Foley's 30 years 4th District Congres.sman Jay Inslee and his cent for other student categories. tween 1992 and 1994, and the trend is expected as a member of the House of Representatives staff have been taking place to add those papers The governor pointed out that the current to continue as college enrollments increase and began arriving at the WSU Manuscripts, Ar to the library's collection. system of basing tuition rateS on the cost of. the cost of attending college continues to rise. chives and Special Collections office last week. WSU was selected to receive the Foley pa education as determined by the Higher Educa~ "Maintaining a quality higher education sys The documents will dominate the congres pers when university officials expressed a clear tion. Coordinating Board's cost study would tem is critical to our state's future," said Lowry, sional collection that ·also includes six other interest in obtaining them and demonstrated the result in tuition rates decreases for 1995-97. "and it is especially important in continuing our former U.S. Representatives. They are Sid capability to manage the collection, a<;cording Colleges and universities cannot endure a re strong e.conomic recovery and growth in family Morrison, who represented the 4th Congres to Foley spokesman JeffBiggs. "Congressman duction in tuition revenue during the next bien- wagejpbs." sional District ·from 1980 to 1992; Mike Foley has worked closely with the university Mc€ormack, 1970-80; Catherine May, the first over the years, and this seemed.anatural site for: .... woman to represent Washington, 1959-69; Hal his records," Biggs added. .. · Holmes; 1943~58; Knute Hill, 1933-43; and John Pierce, dean of liberalllf\s and a pro USTUR begins radiation res·earch with Russia. Walt Horan, who served 22 years before he was fessor of political science, was instrumental in Ron Filipy, professor ofradiobiology in WSU' s and other radioactive elements. Activities are defeated by Foley in 1964. obtaining the Foley donation. His association College of Pharmacy, will be in the icy Siberian fun9ed by the Department of Energy, with a ·Filling 500 archival boxes, the Foley papers with the congressman dates to 1970 when Pierce region of Chelyabinsk, Russia from Jan. 6-20 goal to improve radiation protection standards. include speeches, photographs, correspondence, was a Congressional Fellow of the American attending the international symposium "Chronic The January symposium is preliminary to a staff reports on legislation and congressional Political Science Association assigned to Foley's Radiation Exposure: Risk of Late Effects." developing collaboration between the Russian investigations, copies of treaties, appointment office. Filipy, a researcher for the U.S. Transura plutonium registry with 750 cases and the US books and other assorted documents. Because Delighted with the acquisition, Pierce said nium and Uranium Tissue Registry based at tissue registry of 250. "From preliminary data they contain files related to the Speaker's of the papers "provides us with a valuable and WSU Tri-Cities, will present "an estimation of it appears the Russians' body burden measure fice, the collection will have a wider range of unique perspective on political change in East" actinide elements, biokinetics, and organ doses ments are from 10- to 100-times greater than content than other library holdings of congres em Washington. in 250 humans based on about 20 samples ours," Filipy added, connoting higher exposure sional papers, said John Guido, headofMASC. "The contrast in turnover of representatives collected at each individual's autopsy," he said.· to radiation. The several-yearresearch program He said the papers represent an important of the two regional districts over the past 30 The USTUR is a national research program will compare data and mathematical models research trove for faculty, students and his tori- years presents a natural kind of experiment to studying human tissues exposed to plutonium from both registries. study elections and campaigns," Pierce added. This collaborative research was formalized in October by the US and Russian governments, WSU OFFERS EXTRA SECTIONS establishing the Joint Coordinating Committee FINCH JOINS NATIONAL FINANCIAL AID PANEL In this issue, WSU Week readers will find the for Joint Radiation Effects Research. It is co . Lola Finch, WSU financial aid director, has is chair of the Student Financial Services Corp., Fall Semester issue of Cornerstone, a report chaired by Dr. Tara O'Toole, Assistant Secre been appointed to the Advisory Committee on a NELA subsidiary. from the College of Liberal Arts. Also included tary of Environment for the DOE, and Dr. Student Financial Aid by Speaker of the House Previous appointments have included repre in the issue is the report of donors to the college Vassily Vozniak, the first Deputy Minister of of Representatives Tom Foley. sentation on the National Coalition of Student during the last year. Russian Federation for Civil Defense Affairs, The 11 -member panel, established by Con Financial Aid, 1983-84; the U.S. Department of As the university enters its public phase of Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences gress in 1986, serves as an independent source Education Advisory Council, 1972; and the Campaign WSU, a $200 million fund-raising of Natural Disasters. The projects deal with of advice and counsel to the secretary of educa Student Financial Assistance Study Group of effort, the college and WSU Week decided that scientific measurements and cancer risks both tion and Congress on student aid policies. Six the Department of Health, Education and Wel members of the WSU community, too, should to the general public and those exposed occupa members are appointed by the congressional fare in 1975. be able to see - through the 9,000-plus names, tionally. leadership and five by the education secretary. Finch graduated from WSU in home eco the. level of support fromn Cougar alumni The Russian representatives will return the Finch, who served as president of the Na nomics in 1955 and earned a Master of Arts in throughout the class years. visit to Tri-Cities and Pullman in the spring, tional Association of Student Financial Aid higher education in 1973. The Dec. 2 issue of WSU Week featured said Filipy, who is busily studying Russian for Administrators in 1983-84, has guided student In addition to its statutory responsibilities to Pipeline, the chronicle of efforts by the College the long-term project. They will see the aid and scholarship programs at WSU for more help ensure access to higher education for low of Sciences.