THE RECORD

JANUARY 19,1976

No. 16 

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR  Hoyt H. Purvis

TOLO NAMED ACTING DEAN

Dr. Kenneth W. Tolo, an associate dean for the past year in the LBJ School became acting dean of the School January 1.

UT President Lorene Rogers named Tolo to succeed Dean William B. Cannon, who accepted an appointment at the University of Chicago as vice president for business and finance.

Dr. Tolo's primary field is educational policy, but other areas of interest include manpower planning and state governmental operations.

During 1975-76, he is coordinating an LBJ School policy research project for the Joint Advisory Committee on Governmental Operations and the Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. The study, which is examining topics related to improving the administrative services and fiscal management of state agencies, is funded by a grant from UT's University Research Institute and a federal grant administered through the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System.

Dr. Tolo has directed several other policy research projects since joining the LBJ School faculty in 1972. He also coordinates the School's legislative internship program and has taught the statistical analysis portion of the research and management skills curriculum.

As Texas Associate of the Institute for Educational Leadership since 1973, he directs Texas Educational Seminars for selected Texas legislators and legislative staff involved in education planning.

Dr. Tolo has been a consultant on post-secondary education to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He also has participated in a wide range of national and regional committees and seminars. In 1974 he was part of a U.S. delegation to the Soviet Union that gathered Russian views of adult, vocational, and post-secondary education.

Dr. Tolo holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in mathematics from the University of Nebraska. He also has an M.A. degree in public affairs from the University of Minnesota. His bachelor's degree is from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.

His previous teaching experience has been at the Universities of Minnesota, Tennessee, and Nebraska.

Last week he traveled to New York and Washington where he visited foundation and government officials on behalf of the LBJ School.

SELECTION COMMITTEE APPOINTED

President Lorene Rogers of UT-Austin has appointed a faculty-student consultative committee to advise her concerning the selection of a new dean for the LBJ School.

Faculty members of the consultative committee are Dr. Albert A. Blum, Dr. Henry David, Mrs. Dagmar S. Hamilton, Dr. Jared E. Hazleton, Dr. Emmette S. Redford, and Dr. Jurgen Schmandt, all of the LBJ School; Dr. F.R. Marshall, economics, and Professor Jerre S. Williams, law.

Student members of the committee are Jesus Garza, Sarah M. Smith, and Frank Sturzl.

The Handbook of Operating Procedures provides that:

"Except for compelling reasons stated by the committee in its report, three or more nominees shall be submitted to the president by a consultative committee."

The Handbook also states:

"If the president declines or, because of rejection of the post by all nominees, is unable to recommend any of the nominees, the presidency may either request the committee to make additional nominations or invoke such different procedure for selecting the appointee as the president deems appropriate, provided that such different procedure shall include consultation with the committee before the president offers the position to any candidate."

At its first meeting, scheduled for January 22, the committee will select its chairman.

"On the Record"

. Video-taped documentaries produced last semester by LBJ School students in the topical Seminar on Government and the Media will be shown at a special brown-bag luncheon in the Student Lounge on Thursday January 22 at noon. Topics of the documentaries include working women in Austin; the state capital press corps; progressive Democrats in 1976; the Symphony Square project; and public employee unionism in Austin. All students, faculty, and staff are invited.

. Two LBJ School faculty members, Richard Schott and Dagmar Hamilton, were featured in a discussion on "The Relationship Between the American Executive and Congress" on the UT radio series 200 Years. The discussion focused on the development of legislative-executive relations in U.S. history and current trends in that relationship. The program was heard on 46 stations in Texas and 49 stations nationally earlier this month.

. Diana Zuniga, a 1975 graduate of the LBJ School, has been appointed to the Board of the Austin Housing Authority by Mayor Jeff Friedman. Board members serve a term of two years. Ms. Zuniga is presently employed by the Texas Health Services Commission.

. Dagmar S. Hamilton, assistant professor of public affairs, has been invited to be a speaker in the Great Lecture Series sponsored by the Texas Union UT Interaction Committee. The series features distinguished members of the UT-Austin faculty. Ms. Hamilton's lecture is scheduled for April.

. Dr. Charles Cranford, director of the Division of Resource Development for the Dallas Regional Office of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, will be at the LBJ School at I p.m. Friday January 23 (room 3.242) to interview students for internship and placement. Details are available from the Office of Student Affairs.

. "Lobbying as a Force in American Government" was the subject of a recent panel discussion for the UT radio series, 200 Years, and the participants included Hoyt Purvis, director of publications at the LBJ School; Lewis Gould, associate professor of history; and Lawrence Dodd, assistant professor of government. The panelists reviewed the history of lobbying, its functions in government, and the various forms it has taken. The program, which is broadcast nationally, was heard locally last week.

. A brown-bag luncheon will be held in the Student Lounge at noon on Tuesday January 20 to introduce Ms. Wilda Campbell, the new Director of Placement, to LBJ School students.

. Victor Bach, assistant professor at the LBJ School, was appointed last fall as a field associate for the Brookings Institution study of the community development block grant program being administered by HUD. Bach has responsibility for the field study of the Houston and Harris County programs. In addition, he has been invited to join a panel on the New Federalism scheduled for the coming meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association.

WEINTRAUB TO LEAD ECONOMICS DISCUSSION

A school-wide seminar on current international economic issues is scheduled at 4 p.m. Wednesday January 28 in the Student Lounge. A panel discussion will be led by Dr. Sidney Weintraub, recently named to the Dean Rusk Chair at the LBJ School.

Weintraub, whose appointment was effective January 16, had been serving as Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID).

The Rusk Chair, named in honor of the former Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was created with a $500,000 endowment from the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation. Weintraub is the first holder of the chair.

Weintraub will teach a topical seminar on Issues Between Developed and Less-Developed Countries. The seminar will meet Mondays from 8 a.m. until noon.

His office is in room 3.201.

SEMINAR INTRODUCES MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS

A professional development seminar introducing high-level local government executives, such as county auditors and city managers, to new concepts in management was held at the Thompson Conference Center January 12-16 under sponsorship of the LBJ School.

Areas explored in the seminar included:

. Policy analysis, stressing the application of system theory to problem solving.

. Fiscal management, based on ARMS (Accounting for Resources Management System).

. Zero-base budgeting.

. Management by objectives, a successful private-sector technique that offers applicable methods for public managers and public organizations.

. Productivity management for the public sector.

. Performance auditing and program evaluations.

. Management of change, touching subjects ranging from citizen participation to environmental impact statements '

. Organizational development, including more effective ways of working with people in an organization.

. Urban economics, reviewing economic factors which influence local government policy and determine the productivity of the tax base and revenues.

Visiting teachers included Werner Z. Hirsch, director of the Social Science Research Institute, University of California at Los Angeles; Roy Hogan, chief budget examiner of the Governor's budget office; and Michael E. McGill and Jim Tarter of Southern Methodist University's business school.

Jared E. Hazleton, associate professor at the LBJ School, was an instructor for the seminar and directed a session on policy analysis, which included consideration of methods for investigating decision (policy) problems, defining objectives and alternatives, and comparing the consequences-the application of scientific method (system theory) to problem solving.

LEGAL SERVICES SUBJECT OF SPECIAL INSTITUTE

The delivery of legal services to the poor in the Southwest will be the subject of a special institute at the Thompson Conference Center January 22-23.

The UT Law School and the LBJ School are co-sponsoring the institute with the state bar associations of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

The institute will acquaint attorneys and bar association officials from the five-state region with the federal government's newly formed Legal Services Corporation. Grants from LSC assist in the support at the local level of offices which provide legal services-in civil cases only-to indigents.

In addition, the institute will acquaint the corporation's board of directors with legal services needs of the Southwest, including those related to migrant workers, rural areas, and Chicano and Black populations.

The Legal Services Corporation is an outgrowth of a legal services program that had its origins in President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty and that functioned initially as the Office of Legal Services under the Office of Economic Opportunity.

The institute at UT-Austin is the first in the nation to be held since the corporation was formed last summer.

Delivering the opening remarks will be Roger Cramton of Ithaca, N.Y., chairman of the Legal Services Corporation and former dean of the Cornell University Law School.

[news item]

Ysleta Birdsong, administrative assistant in the Office of Conferences and Training at the LBJ School, died of a heart attack on January 4.

Last year she had been honored with an award for 25 years of service to The University of Texas.

She was highly regarded by her colleagues at the LBJ School and others who had known and worked with her over the years.

Lynn Anderson, director of the Office of Conferences and Training, expressed his sadness and regret in informing others at the LBJ School of the death of Ysleta Birdsong and this sadness and regret is shared by all those who knew her.

ELDERLY MEALS SYSTEM PROGRESS REPORT ISSUED

The LBJ School Policy Research Project on Meals Systems for the Elderly has issued a progress report on its work in designing, developing and evaluating a system of meals for elderly persons who cannot be reached by traditional meal systems.

The Project, which is being conducted in cooperation with the United Action for the Elderly (UAE), Texas Research Institute for Mental Sciences (TRIMS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), utilizes NASA-provided meals and food packaging technology.

The Meals for the Elderly Project is divided into four phases and the group is now in the midst of Phase II. In the first phase of the Project, a nutritionally balanced 21-day menu cycle, made up of 93 food and beverage items and a packaging system were developed.

Phase II has involved the demonstration of the possible meals and the packaging system with typical user groups and subsequent evaluation.

Planning for Phase III, the longer field demonstration, is now underway. A 21-day menu cycle will be tested by 200 elderly persons in urban rural and small town locations in Texas.

UAE and LBJ personnel are finalizing plans for site selection, delivery systems to be used, and the selection procedures for participants., In addition, evaluation team members from LBJ/SPA are currently developing evaluation instruments which will be used to assess the field demonstration.

A comprehensive final report will be Phase IV of the project. Each associate will be responsible for preparing that report section covering their area of primary responsibility. NASA will be responsible for the compilation and publication of the final document.

A postprogram workshop will be held six months after the completion of the field demonstration. LBJ/SPA will coordinate this effort. The workshop will involve state and federal officials and agencies who may utilize the Food for the Elderly research findings.

The Project is being directed by Professors Jurgen Schmandt, David Warner, and Lodis Rhodes of the LBJ School faculty.

Copies of the report are available from the Office of Publications.

[news item]

The Policy Research Project on housing and community development will be entering its field phase this month. Field teams will begin interviews and information gathering in six major center cities including Baltimore, Birmingham, Houston, Kansas City, and San Francisco. Titled The Center City and the New Federalism: An Initial Assessment of the New Housing and Community Development Programs, the study will attempt to determine the impact of the new special-revenue sharing format on local urban programs. At the conclusion of the study, the plans include briefing HUD officials in Washington and appropriate Congressional committee staff on the study findings and recommendations. Anyone with useful contacts to suggest in any of the cities mentioned should contact the faculty project director, Victor Bach.

WILDA CAMPBELL NAMED PLACEMENT DIRECTOR

Ms. Wilda Campbell has been named Director of Placement in the Office of Student Affairs at the LBJ School.

Ms. Campbell, who assumed her duties at the beginning of the year, will work on developing and identifying job opportunities for LBJ School graduates and alumni.

She said that she would be working closely with second-year students to aid them in securing employment.

Further she hopes to establish a standard process for handling placement matters and to develop a resource center to aid students and graduates.

Currently she is collecting information on available jobs and developing contacts with alumni and friends of the School who are interested in assisting graduates in placement.

Campbell has been an anthropology instructor at Southwest Texas State University for the past three years. She is a graduate of UT-Austin and has an M.A. from Duke University. She also received teaching certification from California State University at Chico.

She was a Fulbright Scholar in India and worked with the Peace Corps in Washington, D. C.

Campbell also worked as a U.S. Senate staff member in Washington and was an educational consultant for Office of Economic Opportunity programs in California.

Her office is room 3.234.

SCHEDULE

January 19     Classes resume

January 19     Faculty Meeting, noon.

January 20     Brown-bag Luncheon with Wilda Campbell, director of placement, Student Lounge, noon.

January 21     Internship Committee, room 3.242, 4 p.m.

January 22     Brown-bag Luncheon, Video documentaries from Government and the Media seminar, Student Lounge, noon.

January 23     Dr. Charles Cranford, interviews, room 3.242, 1 p.m.

January 26     First-year students pay tuition and fees, Academic Center.

January 28     Schoolwide Seminar, panel discussion on international economic issues, Student Lounge, 4 p.m.