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UO E-clips, Dec. 6
Top stories for December 6, 2007: The State Board of Higher Education is to take up the idea that undocumented immigrant students should be able to attend college with in-state tuition, reports the Associated Press, quoting a UO student; the NCAA's Myles Brand says that the disparity of athletic spending is creating a 'quiet crisis,' reports USA Today, with comment from the UO's Nathan Tublitz; any trip to the UO's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is inspiring to the students of an area elementary school, reports the Register Guard
Panel: Undocumented students should pay in-state tuition (Associate Press, KATU.com and Register-Guard): A panel of students, faculty and administrators is proposing charging in-state tuition for undocumented immigrant students at Oregon's public universities. The idea didn't get to the last Legislature but is being discussed through Friday by the State Board of Higher Education as a way to diversify enrollment. Tuition is three times higher than in-state rates for the undocumented immigrants, which prevents many high school graduates from attending college. … Lorena Landeros, a senior at the University of Oregon, said it's unfair that some Oregon high school can't attend college because of their immigration status. She said she had friends in that situation when she graduated from Junction City High School.
NCAA's Brand: Athletic spending disparity a 'quiet crisis' (USA Today): The competition between free-spending athletic departments and academic faculty for the same pool of university dollars is creating a "quiet crisis" on campuses, NCAA President Myles Brand said Wednesday. Athletic department spending is increasing at two to three times the annual rate of general university budgets, Brand said during SportsBusiness Journal's 6th Annual Intercollegiate Athletic Forum. Only half a dozen major schools actually turn a profit on athletics, the NCAA president said. The rest are subsidized. … The NCAA's Brand is, if anything, understating the growing resentment among faculty of athletic departments sucking up funds that should go to academics, said Nathan Tublitz, a neurobiologist at the University of Oregon.
Schooled in the arts (Register-Guard): Fairfield Elementary School teacher Judy Sinnott says her students always come away inspired after a tour of the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. “They all love it,” said Sinnott, who began taking classes on field trips to the museum last year. “To see all the different art forms and the multicultural art, it really expands their horizons. They come back and they’re excited and they want to make things.” On Wednesday, after seeing samurai armor from Japan, intricate silk screens from Korea and a forest of glass by Eugene artist David Willis, they got an extra dose of inspiration: artwork made by kids just like them, mounted, framed and displayed in what the museum hopes will be an annual exhibition of children’s creations.