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Show U administration supports single regent hoard The University administration Jports the proposal for a single ate Board of Regents because it $ ves the board will be a werful advocate for higher Son and will be able to cure necessary state funds for education. This was administration view as expounded by University Executive Vice President Neal Maxwell, addressing members of the Executive Council of the Associated Students of the University of Utah Wednesday. Maxwell had been invited by the council to discuss the master plan for higher education with the studentbody officers. A proposal for a single board of control was defeated by a 6 to 3 vote Monday by the nine member Utah Coordinating Council of Higher Education. The council did vote, 9 to 0, in favor of "a strong central agency" to put into effect the master plan for higher education now being developed by the council. The problems facing higher education today are governance and a shortage of dollars, Maxwell explained. Speaking of apportionment from the state, which is the source of funds for the "meat and potatoes" or undergraduate program of the University, Maxwell said that the University is not so much concerned about the size of slice of its pie, but of the size of the pie itself. While Utah ranks fifth nationally in apportionment per capita for higher education, it also ranks 49 in apportionment per : student. This is due to the high percentage of Utah residents who attend institutions of higher learning. Maxwell said that significant gains in obtaining funds had been made in the last legislature, and that it is now vital to at least keep these gains. Utah's apportionment from its general fund to higher education has increased approximately 10 per cent since 1960. The average of the national increase in funds for higher education from 1960 to 1968 is 216 per cent, while Utah's increase is 156 per cent, according to Maxwell. Maxwell said that many of the so-called evils of a single board would be upon Utah's institutions of higher learning - if the Coordinating Council of Higher Education were to be allowed to gradually strengthen itself. Some Executive Council members had expressed concern that the studentbody would not be able to work directly with a single state board, as they now are able to do with the University Board of Regents. Maxwell did not seem to believe that this would be a valid problem. Steve Gunn, ASUU president, said that he was disappointed that students were not included in the planning stages of the single board proposal and that their viewpoints are not represented to the Utah Council of Higher Education. In other action Wednesday by the Executive Council, appointments were approved to a commission to study the structure j of student government, an i Executive Council subcommittee to write a White Paper expressing j concern about the price increase i in Union Food Services, chairmanships of the Block U i Committee, Leadership Training Committee and Panel of Americans. Appointed to the committee to study student government ! were: students, Harris Vincent, j Stayner Landward, Laury j Hammel, Jack K. Little, Bob Curtis, Jeff Brown, Jane Lobell, Paulette Flandro, Scott Robertson, and Bruce Hancey; as secretary administrators, Mike Mattson, Mary Olpin, Peter Grundfossen. The faculty anpointments are pending. The subcommittee to write the White Paper will be headed by Brian Swinton. Members are Frank Overfelt and John Adams. The paper will be presented to the Council at their next meeting Oct. 16. |