THE RECORD

AUGUST 31,1976

No. 26

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

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

78 STUDENTS BEGIN FIRST YEAR

Dr. Jurgen Schmandt, who will become acting dean of the LBJ School on September 1, welcomed 78 first-year students to the School at the beginning of Orientation Week on August 24.

Schmandt told the entering class, the seventh and largest in the School's history, that the LBJ School "is still a young enterprise—in many respects still experimenting."

Schmandt emphasized the ways in which the School differs from other graduate programs. He told the students they would be working with real problems and would be getting on-the-job training in the School.

In welcoming the new class, Schmandt cited some demographic information on the entering students. The class includes 54 males and 24 females; 45 received undergraduate degrees in Texas, 30 at the University of Texas. Schmandt noted that 10 students were from the Northeastern United States and 11 from the Midwest. There are two foreign students, one each from Egypt and Mexico. Forty-four of the students have had some public service involvement and 19 have worked at full-time jobs.

As for educational backgrounds, Schmandt said by far the largest number come from political science and government (32). The next largest group came from history, with economics, sociology, Plan II (UT liberal arts), and journalism all producing three or more. Four of the students already have master's degrees in other areas. Seven of the students are in the joint degrees program with the School of Law and have spent their first year in law.

With 57 second-year students scheduled to return to classes following the completion of their summer internships, total enrollment will be 135. There were 114 students at the end of the 1975-76 academic year.

SCHMANDT SUCCEEDS TOLO

On August 16 President Lorene Rogers of The University of Texas at Austin named Schmandt, who has been a professor in the LBJ School since 1970, as acting dean, effective September 1.

Schmandt will succeed Kenneth W. Tolo, who has served as acting dean since January 1. Tolo will be on special assignment from The University of Texas at Austin to the Office of the Secretary (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy), U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington. He has also been appointed as a 1976-77 Faculty Fellow of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He plans to return to the School in the fall of 1977.

Tolo expressed his appreciation to students, staff, and faculty for the support he received during his eight-month tenure as acting dean.

COMING EVENTS

September 4 — LBJ School picnic for students, faculty, and staff. Zilker Park, 2 p.m.; supper 6 p.m.

September 8 — Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson speaks in the East Campus Lecture Hall, 2 p.m.

September 12-16 — Symposium, "Toward New Human Rights," LBJ Auditorium.

U. ALEXIS JOHNSON TO SPEAK

U. Alexis Johnson, chief negotiator for the United States in the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT II) will speak at the LBJ School at 2 p.m. Wednesday September 8 in the East Campus Lecture Hall on "Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice."

Johnson, who has extensive diplomatic experience, served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, Thailand, and Japan, and was under secretary of state for political affairs from 1969 to 1973.

During his visit to the School he will be meeting with several groups and plans are being coordinated by Professor Sidney Weintraub.

"On the Record"

. Dr. Kenneth W. Tolo participated in a conference in San Diego, California, on the implementation at the state level of new federal legislation regarding education of the handicapped. The meeting on July 29-30 brought together 10 representatives each from Texas and California, drawn from the fields of legislation and education.

. The LBJ School Alumni Association's Alumni Services Committee will be sponsoring the third "Start Off the Week Right" gathering at Scholz's Garten on Monday, September 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. Subsequent get-togethers will be each second Monday of the month. All LBJ alumni, faculty, and staff are invited.

. Professor Richard Schott was a member of a peer review panel assembled by the U.S. Office of Education to evaluate applications from various public affairs schools and public administration programs for funding under the Title IX ("Education for Public Service") section of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Schott also was an invited lecturer at the U.S. Civil Service Commission Executive Seminar in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Schott spoke on "The Challenge of Public Management in the 1970s." The seminar is geared to the needs of mid- and high-level managers in federal agencies.

. Work is underway on revision of the LBJ School's Guide to Texas State Agencies, with the Fifth Edition scheduled for publication by January, 1977. The guide, a comprehensive reference manual listing and describing state agencies, their organization, and functions, is a widely utilized publication. Elaine Wogan, a research associate in the Office of Research, is working on the guide, which is a project of the Office of Research and Office of Publications.

. Professor Beryl Radin was a participant in a conference on "Coping with the Demands for Change Within the Human Services Administration," in Louisville, Kentucky, cosponsored by the Section on Human Resources Administration. Additionally, she attended a meeting of the Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice of the Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Radin has also been named as a member of the editorial board of Public Administration Review.

. An article by Hoyt Purvis, "Texas-sized Mix-up," appears in the current edition of the Columbia Journalism Review. The article deals with the failure of the press to fully inform the public about Texas Supreme Court candidate Don Yarbrough and the public confusion about Yarbrough's identity. Many voters confused him with the former gubernatorial candidate Don Yarborough. And although Yarbrough was involved in a massive legal entanglement, mostly related to a series of banking and business deals, and at least 15 suits had been filed against him, none of this was reported prior to his winning the Democratic primary.

. Professor David Warner has been named to a three-year term on the Brackenridge Hospital Board by the Austin City Council. Beverly Hovenkamp, a 1974 graduate of the LBJ School currently employed by the Texas Department of Public Welfare, was also named to the Board.

. Professor Lynn Anderson was one of the five (four were from out of Texas) experts requested to testify before the Property Tax Committee of the Texas Legislative Council, which is working on a complete revision of property tax laws for Texas. Anderson also spoke to the statewide annual conference of the County and District Clerks' Association of Texas meeting in Brownsville and was an instructor in a Municipal Finance Workshop conducted for area city officials in Eagle Pass by the Texas Department of Community Affairs and the Middle Rio Grande Development Council.

. Professors Albert A. Blum and Richard Schott are instructors in the Professional Development Seminar for State Executives being conducted by the LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training. This course is designed to provide managers of state agencies with an executive development opportunity for themselves and their senior employees. Forty hours of instruction will be offered over a 20-week period.

10 RESEARCH PROJECTS SCHEDULED FOR YEAR

There will be 10 Policy Research Projects at the LBJ School in 1976-77. This is the largest number of projects in the School's history. There were nine projects in 1975-76 and six the preceding year.

The Projects and their faculty members are:

Alternate Care: Service Options for Long-Term Care of the Elderly. Faculty: Lodis Rhodes (director), John Hamilton (LBJ School); Robert Akin, project manager.

Federal Policy and Urban Low-Income Communities. Faculty: Victor Bach (director), James Hartling (Community and Regional Planning), Hoyt Purvis (LBJ School).

The Impact of Federal Activities on the Pursuit of Equal Educational Opportunity in Three Communities. Faculty: Beryl Radin (director), John Gronouski (LBJ School), Daniel Morgan (Economics), Mark Yudof (Law).

Impact of Safe Drinking Water Act on Texas Communities. Faculty: Gerald A. Rohlich (director), David Eaton (LBJ School), Barry Lovelace (LBJ School).

Health Care for Chicanos in San Antonio and South Texas. David Warner (director), Albert Blum (LBJ School), Ray Marshall (Economics).

Public Policy Implications of Lignite Mining in Texas. Stephen Spurr (director), Marlan Blissett (LBJ School), Charles Groat (Bureau of Economic Geology).

Juvenile Justice Policies in Texas. Henry David (director), Meg Gerrard (Center for Social Work Research), Anthony Neidhart (Southwest Texas State University).

Transportation Financing Policies in Texas. G.M. Williams, Jr. (director), Jared Hazleton (LBJ School), Michael Walton (Transportation), Kent Talbot (LBJ School).

Staffing the Johnson Administration. Richard Schott (director), Dagmar Hamilton (LBJ School).

Does the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Investment Insurance Facilitate or Impede Settlement of Investment Disputes? Sidney Weintraub (director), Keith Arnold (LBJ School), Vic Arnold (LBJ School).

Seven topical seminars are scheduled for the fall semester. The seminars and instructors are:

Marine Resources Policy (Victor Arnold); Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector (Al Blum); Electoral Politics (John Gronouski); Development Policy in the Middle East (Jared Hazleton); Social Experiment to Policy Formation: NASA Meals System for the Elderly (Jurgen Schmandt); International Migration of Workers (Sidney Weintraub); and International Systems Analysis and Peace Research (Kenneth Boulding).

SEMINAR TO ASSIST SMALLER CITIES

They may not have expressways or high-rise buildings, but the small towns of Texas have local government problems that are similar to those of their big-city counterparts.

To help upgrade the administration of small cities, the LBJ School is holding a professional development seminar August 30-September 1 for elected officials of general-law cities.

General-law cities, which operate under a body of state statutes, are those that have fewer than 5,000 residents and that are not eligible to become home-rule cities. In addition to officials of general-law cities, officials of home-rule cities of less than 10,000 also may attend.

The seminar is in Thompson Conference Center under auspices of the LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training. Program topics will focus on the legal status and powers of Texas general-law cities, planning, finance, personnel and intergovernmental relations.

Instructors for the professional development seminar include Lynn Anderson, director of the LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training; Barry Lovelace, director of research for the LBJ School; Charles Rowland, a DeSoto attorney; and George M. Weinberger, assistant professor of government at Southwest Texas State University.

CAMPBELL ATTENDS TASK FORCE SESSION

Wilda Campbell, placement officer, attended a recent meeting of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Task Force on Career Opportunities for Pre-Service Students in Washington.

She is a member of the task force which is advising NASPAA in its consultation with the Civil Service Commission on providing more direct opportunities for MPAs in entering the civil service.

SCHOOL RECEIVES NEW FORD FOUNDATION FUNDS

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs has received $100,000 from the Ford Foundation for use in program areas of major importance to the future development of the school.

The LBJ School will use the funds from January, 1977, through December, 1979, said Acting Dean Kenneth Tolo, who announced receipt of the grant.

He noted that the Ford Foundation earlier had given the LBJ School sums totaling $445,000 ($250,000 in 1973 and $195,000 in 1971) which provided flexibility in developing education and research programs in areas where regular funding was not always available.

Dean Tolo said the new grant will be expended in four areas:

. Enhancing the public policy core curriculum.

. Developing new policy research areas.

. Converting policy research findings into major publications by the faculty.

. General program support.

The Ford Foundation grant will provide summer support and some released time so faculty members can work up new public policy case studies and other teaching materials for inclusion in the core curriculum.

In addition, the Ford Foundation money will be used to develop and support policy research projects in new policy areas.

The LBJ School hopes that the final reports of policy research projects, while being of use to the agencies of government involved, may also serve as springboards for major books and articles by faculty members. To that end, some of the Ford Foundation grant will be earmarked for faculty summer support and released time so policy research project data and analysis may be refined and expanded into authoritative publications that will influence public policy at state, regional, and national levels of government.

Finally, the Ford Foundation grant will help provide general program support in areas such as minority student recruitment, expanding the range of summer internships for students, more assistance for student independent research projects, and an extended visitors' program whereby students would have a longer time to meet with experienced public officials on a one-to-one basis.

The Ford Foundation this year allocated $1 million to continue for three years its general support of public-policy programs at seven institutions, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Carnegie-Mellon University, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University—each of which had received $500,000 from Ford for the first three years—received $200,000 each for the second three years.

LBJ School and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University—each of which had received $250,000 from Ford earlier—received $100,000 each for the coming three years.

The Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs at Duke University and the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies at the Rand Corp.—each of which had received $150,000 for the first three year period—received $100,000 each for the next three years.

The Institute of Public Policy Studies at the University of Michigan received a four-year Ford grant of $ 250,000 in 1973.

THREE ADDED TO FACULTY

Three new faculty members—with interests ranging from world peace to state planning to the environment—will join the LBJ School this fall.

As announced previously, Kenneth Boulding, an economics scholar of international renown who currently teaches at the University of Colorado, will be the first recipient of the Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences and a former president of the American Economic Association, Boulding has broadened his works to include an interest in international ecology and survival in the biosphere.

One of his major activities as the Slick Professor will be to coordinate the First Tom Slick Memorial Conference, which is planned for November 10-12 on the topic "Conflict, Order and Peace in the Americas."

Others joining the LBJ School faculty will be:

-Visiting Associate Professor Victor Lewis Arnold, who comes from the office of the governor of Minnesota, where he has served as director of development planning for the Minnesota State Planning Agency. Dr. Arnold, who holds a double doctorate in economics and oceanography from the University of Wisconsin, has served previously as executive director of the Commission on Minnesota's Future and as program director of the Minnesota Environmental Decision-Making Project. He will teach a seminar on marine resource policies and participate in a policy research project on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

-Assistant Professor David Eaton, who was scheduled to receive a doctorate in environmental systems analysis from the Johns Hopkins University at the end of the summer. He holds two master's degrees—in environmental health and in public works administration—from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been conducting a systems analysis on world grain reserves for the Economic Research Service and serving as director of a project for the Agency for International Development to locate health-care facilities in Colombia.

BACH TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE

Professor Victor Bach testified on August 23 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. The Committee, chaired by Senator William Proxmire, is holding oversight hearings on the Community Development Block Grant Program.

Bach reported on findings of the 1975-76 Policy Research Project at the LBJ School which studied the local experience in six major center cities with the block grant program.

The study, Bach said, is intended to shed light on the changing character of local housing and community development efforts, as well as to identify issues and problem areas that currently need attention and to recommend policy adjustments and changes—both administrative and legislative—that might contribute to improved program expectations.

Bach cited these problems with the program:

. CDBG funds are not being concentrated on the needs of the lowest-income groups.

. Slowness of implementation.

. Decline in human services support at the local level.

. Citizen participation needs strengthening.

. The current decentralized structure of HUD administration is antagonistic to the concept and objectives of the block grant program.

Bach told the Committee that the emerging pattern of community development outcomes at the local level seems to be one which is limited in scope to short-range, small-scale neighborhood improvement and conservation efforts dispersed among numbers of low- and moderate income neighborhoods.

Bach said that while such programs are popular, visible, and meet some of the needs of long-neglected areas, "they fall short of addressing more fundamental problems of urban viability, or in providing incentives for cities to mount well-planned, long-range program innovations that respond to the problems of their lowest-income communities."

"We believe that federal policy should not continue to rely exclusively on the block grant approach," Bach said, "and that other parallel federal initiatives should be taken to complement the CDBG program with a new generation of federal policies that create incentives for locally innovated programs that have higher aspirations and more strategic impacts on the future urban agenda."

OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES BEGINS

The first two publications in the LBJ School's Occasional Paper series have been issued.

Occasional Paper Number 1 is The Supply of Physicians and Physicians' Incomes: Alternative Projections of the Future. The study, which identifies trends that will dramatically increase the number of active physicians in the United States during the next decade, was done by Martha Katz, David C. Warner, and Dale Whittington. Warner is an associate professor and Katz and Whittington were 1976 graduates of the LBJ School.

Occasional Paper Number 2 is a study of The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation by Dr. Warner.

Other publications in the series are scheduled soon.

SYMPOSIA BOOKS PUBLISHED

Two books based on symposia cosponsored by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and the School of Public Affairs have recently been published and a third will be available soon.

The Presidency and the Press, a 116page volume based on the April, 1976, symposium, focuses on the interrelationship between the Presidency and the press and their responsibilities to each other and to the public. Those who took part in the discussion and whose views are included in the book are George Christian, Frank Cormier, James Deakin, W. Thomas Johnson, Herb Klein, Marianne Means, Ron Nessen, Dan Rather, Hugh Sidey, Jerald F. terHorst, Helen Thomas, Ron Ziegler, Liz Carpenter, Joseph Laitin, Gerald Warren, and William S. White.

The volume was edited by Hoyt Purvis and sells for $3.50.

Women in Public Life, the report of the conference that drew more than 1,600 women last November, is also available. Edited by Beryl Radin and Hoyt Purvis, the book contains excerpts from and summaries of the conference speeches, panel discussions, and workshops.

Among the noted speakers were Elizabeth Reid, Representative Barbara Jordan, Judge Sarah T. Hughes, former Representative Martha Griffiths, and Jill Ruckelshaus.

Copies are $3.50 each and may be obtained from the Office of Publications.

The Arts: Years of Development, Time of Decision, a report of the September, 1975, symposium, will be available soon. The volume is edited by Albert A. Blum, and is also being published by the School's Office of Publications.

SPECIAL FELLOWSHIP WINNERS NAMED

Twenty-four LBJ School students have been awarded special fellowships for the 1976-77 academic year. Students receiving the special fellowships are:

Moody Fellows—Cloteal Davis, Robert Farley, Norman Linsky, John Kamensky, Tom Martin, Sarah Smith, Bonnie Young.

Office of Education Fellows—Harley Duncan, Susan Finnegan, Howard Solsbery, Susan Engelking, Roy McCandless, Terry Grogan.

Legislative Interns—Carol McDonald, Steve Stubbs, Marc Jacobson.

Governor's Interns—Deborah Beckett, Kenneth G. Leonczyk, Stephen Morgan, William Stotesbery, Luis Vallejo.

Armand Hammer Fellows—Nadia Rayes and Pedro Olivera Luna

Mitzi Newhouse Fellowship—Barbara Zeph Kulsrud.

HUMAN RIGHTS SYMPOSIUM PLANS ANNOUNCED

A symposium titled "Toward New Human Rights," which will focus on the social programs of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, will be held in the LBJ Auditorium, September 12-16.

Plans for the four-day event, the lengthiest thus far in the series of symposia here, were announced by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at a press conference in Washington on August 23. She said she hopes the symposium will provide a "penetrating and useful" evaluation of the domestic programs of the New Frontier and Great Society.

Consideration will also be given to the future of such programs and governmental social policies.

Joining Mrs. Johnson at the press conference were Senator and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey; civil rights leader Clarence Mitchell; Esther Peterson, assistant secretary of Labor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former aide to President Johnson; and Robert Kennedy, Jr., representing the Kennedy family.

Also present were representatives of the four institutions which will jointly sponsor the symposium: the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the John F. Kennedy Library, and The University of Texas.

Representing those institutions at the news conference were Dan Fenn, director of the JFK Library; Harry Middleton, director of the LBJ Library, and Kenneth Tolo, acting dean of the LBJ School. The title of the symposium, according to them, represents the "new human rights" envisioned by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The purpose of the symposium, they said, will be to explore the extent to which those "rights" have been actually achieved.

On Sunday night, September 12, opening speeches will be made by Vernon Jordan, executive director of the National Urban League, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian, writer, and educator. Theirs will be an overview of the evolution of human rights and the U.S. Government's role in achieving them.

On Monday through Thursday, September 13-16, scholars from across the nation will present detailed papers, evaluating the successes and failures of the major social programs of the two Administrations: manpower, poverty, health and medical care, housing and community development, education, and civil rights.

Each paper will be followed by a panel discussion—the panelists being men and women who have dealt with the programs on different levels: members of Congress, current and former Administration officials, governors, mayors, representatives of universities and other institutions—a blend, Mrs. Johnson noted, of "creators and critics," those who have studied the programs, those who were responsible for writing them, and those who have worked with them.

These are some of the questions which will be explored:

—Which programs worked?

—Which programs significantly changed the way people live?

—Which programs were ill-conceived?

—Which programs failed for lack of funding or lack of support?

—Which programs should be strengthened?

—Which programs should be redirected?

—Which programs should be discontinued?

—Which lessons do the programs of the 1960s offer for the 1970s and 1980s?

"Lyndon would have welcomed this," Mrs. Johnson said. "He never thought of the Great Society as laws cut in stone. Many of us look back on those years as a great laboratory in which many good minds were searching for new ways to correct old ills. Now, a decade later, whatever can be discovered about the successes—or the failures—that came out of that laboratory should, it seems to me, be a substantial contribution to the 1970s—and beyond."

The program on Monday, September 13, will begin with an address by James Tobin, chairman of the Department of Economics at Yale. Tobin's address will be followed by the presentation of papers and a panel discussion on The Right to a Decent Standard of Living.

Tuesday's topic will be The Right to Health and Medical Care. The subject on Wednesday will be The Right to a Decent Home in a Decent Community. On Thursday there will be two panels: The Right to Equal Educational Opportunity and The Right to Equality Under the Law.

Individuals presenting papers will include:

Robert Levine, deputy director, Congressional Budget Office; Ray Marshall, director, Center for Human Resources, UT-Austin; Kenneth Clark, president, Clark, Phipps, Clark, and Harris, Inc.; Robert Lampman, director, Poverty Institute, University of Wisconsin.

Theodore Marmor, professor, School of Social Services Administration, University of Chicago; Dr. Karen Davis, senior fellow, Brookings Institution; David Warner, associate professor, LBJ School.

Victor Bach, assistant professor, LBJ School; Charles Haar, Harvard Law School; Bernard Frieden, professor, Department of Urban Planning and Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Marshall Kaplan, principal, Kaplan, Gans, and Kahn.

Douglass Cater, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies; Marian Wright Edelman, director, Children's Defense Fund of the Washington Research Project, Inc.

Clifford Alexander, attorney, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Alexander; Burke Marshall, assistant dean, Law School, Yale University.

Among the panelists will be Governor Wendell Anderson of Minnesota; John G. Veneman, counselor to the Vice President; Mayors Thomas Bradley of Los Angeles, Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, and Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana; Representatives Henry Reuss and Augustus F. Hawkins; Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.; Caspar Weinberger; Wilbur Cohen; Robert C. Weaver; Edith Green; Albert Shanker; Roger Wilkins; Sidney Hook; and Harry McPherson.

The rapporteurs will include Professors Beryl Radin and Dagmar Hamilton of the LBJ School.