THE RECORD

DECEMBER 14,1976

NO. 34

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

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

CAMPBELL NAMED AS SCHOOL'S NEW DEAN

Dr. Alan K. Campbell will become dean of the LBJ School, effective February 1. His appointment was announced by President Lorene Rogers on December 8. Since 1969, Campbell has been dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. In 1974‑75 he served as president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

"In Campbell, we are fortunate to find a rare blend of academic and governmental experience that eminently qualifies him to lead the LBJ School of Public Affairs," Rogers said. "Like the School itself, he represents a combination of scholarship and the current realities of public service."

Professor Jared Hazleton, chairman of the Dean Search Committee, said he was "delighted" by the appointment. Hazleton noted that Campbell has a "distinguished record of public service" and "has published widely in the field of state and local finance and administration."

Campbell, 53, received an A.B. degree from Whitman College in 1947, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received an M.P.A. from Wayne State University in 1949 and an M.P.A. from Harvard in 1950. He received his Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard in 1952.

Campbell began his teaching career at Hofstra, from 1954 to 1960, where he served as professor and as chairman of the political science department.

He has been a professor of political science and public administration at Syracuse since 1961. He also served as director of the Metropolitan Studies Programs at the Maxwell School from 1961 to 1968, prior to becoming dean.

Campbell was a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1961‑62, a faculty member of the Salzburg (Austria) Seminar in 1965, and a visiting lecturer at Harvard in 1967.

His public service record includes having served as an elected delegate‑at‑large to the New York State Constitutional Convention in 1967. He was chairman of the Convention's Committee on Home Rule and Local Government.

He has served as a consultant to the National Institute of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. He was a member of the Urban Education Task Force of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1969‑70, and a member of the Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 1967‑68.

In the State of New York, he served as Deputy Comptroller for Administration and Research (1960‑61) and as a member of the State Council of Economic Advisors (1970‑74). He was chairman of the State Democratic Platform Committee in 1962 and was a member of Senator Robert Kennedy's Military Academy Selection Board from 1965 to 1968. He also served on the State Advisory Council on Continuing Higher Education and as co‑chairman of the Governor's Comptroller‑Accounting Improvement Committee.

Campbell has been active in a numerous national organizations, in addition to having served as president of NASPAA. He was chairman of the national conference of the American Society of Public Administration in 1973 and has been affiliated with the National Academy of Public Administration, the Committee for Economic Development, and Resources for the Future.

He is a member of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Board of Overseers for the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also serves on the governing council of the National Municipal League and the American Jewish Committee's Advisory Committee to the Institute of Human Relations.

The most recent entries in his extensive list of publications include The Political Economy of State and Local Government Reform, co‑edited with Roy W. Bahl, and Taxes, Expenditures, and Economic Base: Case of New York City, with Roy Bahl and David Greytak. He was one of the authors of Watergate: Implications for Responsible Government, published in 1974.

Other books by Campbell have included Financing Equal Education Opportunity: Alternatives for State Finance (with Joel Berke and R. Goettel), 1972; The States and the Urban Crisis (editor), 1970; and Metropolitan America: Fiscal Patterns and Governmental Systems (with S. Sacks), 1967.

Campbell spoke at the recent PreSession Legislative Conference here on "Fiscal and Economic Size‑Up of Texas." (See The Record, December 3, 1976.)

The new dean is married to Jane Owen and they have two children.

Campbell will succeed Jurgen Schmandt, who has served as acting dean since September. Prior to that time Kenneth W. Tolo was acting dean, following the resignation of William B. Cannon at the end of 1975.

WASHINGTON ALUMNI, FRIENDS GATHER

On December 2, Representative J. J. (Jake) Pickle hosted a reception for LBJ School alumni, friends of the School, and members of the Texas Congressional delegation. The reception in the Rayburn House Office Building preceded a business meeting of Washington alumni.

At the meeting, Acting Dean Jurgen Schmandt described recent programs and developments at the School and introduced Dean Rusk Professor Sidney Weintraub who discussed the foreign policy program at the School which he has been developing over the past year.

Placement Director Wilda Campbell spoke briefly about the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Task Force and the alumni career survey.

At the invitation of the School, a member of the Carter Transition team, Al Stern, visited the meeting and outlined the Carter campaign promise for a new Federal Service Fellowship program. Stern solicited suggestions from the group as to how the program might best be organized. At this point the program is only a campaign promise, Stern noted, but it should be operating within one year and have 250 appointees.

The business segment of the gathering was conducted by Representative Pickle who expressed concern over the difficulties LBJ School graduates are facing in entering civil service jobs. He asked for suggestions as to how his office might assist.

NASPAA Executive Director Joe Robertson suggested that NASPAA's recent negotiations with the Civil Service Commission indicated that the current barriers to career entry would be changing. Within six months Robertson believes significant changes will be made and that M.P.A.'s will begin to have better opportunities for securing civil service jobs.

"On the Record"

. Glen P. Wilson, a senior staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, spoke at a schoolwide seminar on December 8 on "The Changing Face of Science Policy."

. Students who are interested in an internship with federal agencies should take the PACE exam. (This does not apply to CIA, OMB, CBO, GAO, or ERDA.) To take this exam, an application must be submitted before December 31. Applications are available in the Office of Student Affairs and students considering an internship in the Federal Government should send one in.

. Acting Dean Jurgen Schmandt has announced plans for a Christmas celebration for faculty and staff on Thursday, December 23 from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge.

. All LBJ School students are reminded to make an appointment with their faculty advisors for Friday, December 17. The faculty will meet on December 16 for student evaluations and will be available to talk with students on Friday.

. The Christmas Party for LBJ School students, faculty, and staff will be Wednesday night, December 15 from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Thompson Center. Tickets are $3 each and there will be refreshments, music, and dancing.

. Director Elizabeth Hall of the Office of Student Affairs says that all is not lost for students who did not preregister. University registration will be Monday and Tuesday, January 10 and 11, in Belmont Hall. Late registration will be January 17‑20, the first four days of classes. There is no penalty for graduate students who register late. Centralized adds and drops will be on January 14. Adds and drops can also be transacted the first four class days in the Office of Student Affairs. Classes will resume on Monday, January 17.

. Kent Talbot has announced that the Public Affairs Library will be closed from December 24 until Monday, January 3.

HEAVY SCHEDULE FOR DEC. 15

Wednesday, December 15 will be a busy day at the LBJ School. Two guest speakers will be at the School during the day and the annual Christmas Party is scheduled for Wednesday night.

John Macy

At noon Wednesday, John Macy, former chairman of the Civil Service Commission, will speak at a brown‑bag luncheon in the Student Lounge on "Presidential Staffing."

Macy, who headed the Civil Service Commission from 1961 to 1969, earlier served as assistant to the under‑secretary of the Army, as executive director of the CSC, and as executive vice president of Wesleyan University.

From 1969 to 1972, Macy was president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Since that time he has been president of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

Fred Ikle

The director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Dr. Fred C. Ikle, will address a school‑wide seminar at 4 p.m. in the East Campus Lecture Hall. His topic will be "What Lies Ahead in Arms Control?"

A key figure in development of U.S. policy at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviet Union, Ikle was appointed director of the arms control agency in 1973.

A political scientist, Ikle formerly headed the social science division of the Rand Corporation. He also has been a research associate in international relations at Harvard and professor of political. science at the Massachusetts Instititue of Technology.

Christmas Party

The annual Christmas party will be in the Thompson Center from 7 to 11 p.m. Students are planning the party and will be selling tickets at $3 each to help cover the cost of refreshments and the expense of renting the Thompson Center.

ALUMNI CAREER SURVEY MAILED

The first alumni career survey questionnaire has been sent to all alumni. Placement Director Wilda Campbell, whose office is administering the survey, suggests that alumni consider it as a participatory season's greetings card and return it before Christmas.

She said an effort was made to make the questionnaire brief, intersting, and useful to placement and school planning. However, without large‑scale participation from alumni, the results will not be terribly meaningful due to the relatively small number of School graduates.

"I want alumni to know that each return will make a difference and will be greatly appreciated," Campbell said.

GROUP CONSIDERS CIVIL SERVICE ENTRY PROBLEMS

LBJ School graduates, like other M.P.A. graduates across the nation, have found it extremely difficult to be hired for federal positions that are filled through the civil service system. Recognizing this problem, 1975‑76 NASPPA President Alan K. Campbell began last year a long process of negotiating with civil service officials to rectify this situation. A joint working group on career entry into the federal service, involving the Civil Service Commission, NASPPA, and representatives of schools and colleges of business, was established.

NASPAA President Campbell and his successor, Chuck Bonser, have been key members of this group. Bonser set up a national task force of M.P.A. school representatives, federal practitioners, and NASPPA staff to advise him on what he called the single most important concern of NASPAA at this time.

Placement Director Wilda Campbell is a member of this task force and has attended a number of working meetings since August.

She reports that the task force feels that there are a variety of major reasons for the difficulties encountered by the M.P.A. graduates. However, an overriding problem is the Civil Service Commission's lack of recognition of education training, complicated by apparent ignorance of what M.P.A. training involves, and thus how M.P.A. graduates could be suitable utilized in the federal service. The task force has recommended a variety of specific procedural changes that could both open up present job categories to M.P.A. graduates and actually create new categories of employment appropriate to an agency's needs.

The recommendations were recently presented to the joint working group by Bonser and were well received. The CSC is expected to take action on the recommendations within the next few months.

Ms. Campbell says she is quite hopeful that the system will be opening up. She believes it is crucial that this occur because thus far no LBJ School graduate has been able to use an M.P.A. to enter federal jobs through the civil service system. However, after serving on the task force, she believes that she has obtained information which will help overcome some of the barriers faced by previous graduates.

ASSESSORS MEET

About 200 Texas tax assessors-collectors attended the 18th Institute for Tax Assessors, December 6‑7.

Sessions in UT's Thompson Conference Center alerted tax assessors to legislative proposals relating to Texas property taxation and introduced them, through a mock session, to some of the procedures of a board of equalization in "Typical City, Texas."

The institute is sponsored annually by the LBJ School in cooperation with the Texas Association of Assessing Officers and the Texas Municipal League.

The meeting began with an address on "Challenges of the Professional Assessor" by Charles R. Hennington of Shreveport, La., Caddo Parrish tax assessor and president of the International Association of Assessing Officers.

In the mock session of a board of equalization various experts assumed the roles of board members, assessor, property owners, attorney for land owners, a corporation's expert witness and a utility company tax representative. Professor Mark Yudof of the UT Law School, who is chairman of Austin's Board of Equalization, was "type cast" as a board member.

Workshops focused on problems in the appraisal of agricultural land, apartments and syndicated land holdings, as well as on the impact of flood zone designations on property values for tax pruposes.

BLUM WRITES ON WARTIME WORKERS

Professor Albert A. Blum is the author of an article, "Working to Win World War II," published in the October, 1976, issue of Worklife.

Blum's article is one of a series of special features related to the American Revolution Bicentennial which have been published in Worklife.

The article deals with the civilian labor force during the World War II, including the large number of women who took industrial jobs. Blum also discusses the critical choices that had to be made concerning which citizens to draft into the armed forces and which to give deferments because of industrial or agricultural jobs.

Blum is the author of a book, Drafted or Deferred; Practices Past and Present, published in 1967.

JOURNAL PUBLISHES RADIN ARTICLE ON SSI PROGRAM

An article by Professor Beryl A. Radin on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program has been published in the fall, 1976, edition of Policy Analysis.

In January, 1974, the Social Security Administration began administering SSI, the new federal welfare arrangement for the nation's aged, blind, and disabled. Radin's article focuses on the implementation problems encountered in that program and on the lessons SSI provides for future welfare reform efforts. She suggests that the administrative difficulties connected with such a program must be ameliorated before new action is taken.

Radin writes that Congress, with the support of the administration, "must move in the direction of program simplification, eliminating some of the requirements of SSI that make it so complex and open to error."

With such action, Radin says it would be "foolhardy" for Congress to bite off another chunk of welfare reform.

Among the conclusions which she draws from the SSI experience are:

. Implementers should be wary of congressional rhetoric about a program being easy to put in place.

. New programs are rarely inexpensive during start‑up.

. Strategy for new social programs should take note of interdependent effects from other governmental programs and attempt to anticipate the problems that may arise from them.