THE RECORD

MAY 3,1977

NO. 42

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

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

In this final issue of The Record under my editorship, I am taking advantage of my editorial platform to make some personal comments.

My association with the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the LBJ School has been both beneficial and enjoyable and I want to express my appreciation to all those affiliated with the School.

In particular I want to thank the Publications staff—Gwen Wells, Laura Eisenhour, Sharon Hanson, Gayle Frizzell, and Shelley Caldwell—and George Warmingham of the Media Center for their strong support and cooperation. This group has made possible the publication of The Record plus a number of books, reports, and other documents which I believe reflect credit on the LBJ School.

Further, I want to express appreciation to my students. They have taught me a great deal and, I hope, learned a little in return.

Despite its problems, the LBJ School retains great potential. I am strongly convinced of the importance of public affairs education and I hope that this School will continue to strive to be in the front ranks of this field. I look forward to a continued association with the School and those connected with it.

‑Hoyt Purvis

ELSPETH ROSTOW NAMED NEW LBJ SCHOOL DEAN

President Lorene L. Rogers of The University of Texas at Austin has appointed Elspeth Rostow, who was dean of UT's Division of General and Comparative Studies, as dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

The appointment was made on April 25 and was effective immediately.

Dean Rostow, professor of American government and American Studies, succeeds Dr. Alan K. Campbell, who resigned the LBJ School deanship to become chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, a position to which he has been nominated by President Carter.

Dr. Campbell will be on leave as a professor of the LBJ School.

In naming Dean Rostow to head the LBJ School, President Rogers said:

"Elspeth Rostow is one of the most highly regarded persons on this campus. She has guided the Division of General and Comparative Studies with exceptional distinction. I am confident her strength as an administrator and the breadth of her insight into public affairs issues will make her a most effective dean of the LBJ School."

A member of the UT faculty since 1969, Dean Rostow has been acting director of the American Studies Program (1970‑71), chairman of Comparative Studies (1972‑74), acting dean of the Division of General and Comparative Studies (1974‑75), and dean since 1975.

Her principal scholarly interest is the institutional analysis of American government. She teaches a popular course on The Politics of Presidential Elections. With her husband, Professor Walt W. Rostow, UT professor of economics and history, she has team‑taught a televised course, Problems of the Presidency. They are currently offering another televised course, Continuity and Change: The U.S. Since the 1930s.

Dean Rostow has served as chairman of a planning committee which has brought to the campus national and international authorities from many fields to participate in symposia sponsored jointly by the LBJ School and LBJ Library.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College, Mrs. Rostow earned an M.A. degree from Radcliffe College and a second M.S. from Cambridge University. She completed requirements for the Ph.D. degree, short of thesis, at Radcliffe.

Her teaching career has included appointments at Barnard College, Sarah Lawrence College, the Salzburg Seminar in Austria, University of Zurich, Cambridge University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, American University, and Georgetown University.

She has been a lecturer for the Department of State in Europe and formerly organized and conducted a "Seminar for Diplomats" for the State Department. She also has been a lecturer for the Foreign Service Institute.

She serves as a director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation and of the Texas Art Alliance. She also is vice president of Concerned Citizens for the Arts (Texas) and a member of the national advisory council for Hampshire College.

During World War II, Mrs. Rostow was a research associate with the Office of Strategic Services, 1943‑45. She was the Geneva correspondent for the London Economist, 1947‑49, and Faculty Associate of the Foreign Service Institute, 1967‑69.

She has been a lecturer for the Air War College (1963‑76), Army War College (1965, 1968, and 1969), National War College (1962, 1968, 1974, and 1975), Industrial College of the Armed Forces 1961‑65), and Naval War College (1971).

Her publications include Europe's Economy After the War (1948), "The Political Economy of Partnership" (in America Now, 1968), "Realignment for Whom?" (in The Coattaillers Landslide, 1974), and articles, reviews and poems.

Mrs. Rostow is a native of New York City. She and her husband are the parents of a son and a daughter.

FORD SPEAKS MAY 3

Former President Gerald R. Ford will speak to a schoolwide seminar at the LBJ School on Tuesday, May 3 at 3:30 p.m.

Plans call for Ford to have a question-and‑answer session with LBJ School students and faculty in the East Campus Lecture Hall.

Earlier the ex‑President will visit the LBJ Library. Ford has a particular interest in the Library because of the plans to establish the Gerald Ford Library on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Admission to the East Campus Lecture Hall will be by identification cards which were made available to LBJ School faculty, staff, and students.

"On the Record"

. Professor Kenneth Boulding, who has been the Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professor of World Peace in the LBJ School during 1976‑77, will be the guest speaker at the School's sixth annual commencement ceremonies at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 21 in the East Campus Lecture Hall. A reception on the eight‑floor patio of the LBJ Library will follow.

. Editorial comment from Austin newspapers:

The Austin Citizen—"Mrs. Rostow brings not only the credentials needed for the post but, we hope, a stability in leadership that has been lacking... We would hope the turnover is at an end and the LBJ School, with Mrs. Rostow at the helm, can achieve the promise it offered when it was first opened."

The Austin American‑Statesman— "... Rostow... has made a commitment to serve as head of LBJ for the next three years. That should give Rostow time to tackle its problems with her widely heralded abilities as an administrator. The legislature, which has been balking at funding the school, may be more inclined to regard the school in a favorable light. The Legislative Budget Board had recommended no special item funding for the facility, but one day after the Rostow appointment, the Senate Finance Committee voted a $200,000 annual special item appropriation. In all, the choice of Dean Rostow by UT President Lorene Rogers seems wise."

The Daily Texan—"Besides just bringing much‑needed leadership to the LBJ School, the selection of Rostow is a political and intellectual masterstroke. For Rostow possesses one of the University's great minds. Her students readily testify to the power of her intellect. And since she has worked both as a teacher and a dean, Rostow is particularly well-suited to assume the LBJ School's administrative duties while she establishes the student‑dean rapport that makes a relatively small institution like the LBJ School a worthwhile place to study... She is articulate, capable of assuming the role of spokesperson just when the cancellation of the LBJ School's special legislative funding seems imminent. Rostow has a calm, sensible manner and her logic is compelling and often irrefutable ... "

. Students in the topical seminar on Communications and Public Policy have completed their videotape documentaries projects for the semester. The documentaries are one of the requirements for the course. Subjects of the documentaries include: Remember the Ladies (International Women's Decade)—Paul Smolen, Ellen Jones, Cassie Goyne, and John Carlson; Abortion Unresolved—Sheila Beckett, Susan Engelking, Sarah Smith, and Scott Fleming; Emergency Medical Service: The Austin Alternative—Luis Vallejo; Texas Arts Alliance—Norman Wigington, Mary Jo Seeman, and Carol McDonald; Cable Television and Public Access in Austin—Janet Fincher and Mary Spruill; and Austin Mayoral Forum—Lynn Cooksey. The students were assisted in the project by George Warmingham. The seminar is taught by Hoyt Purvis. Copies of the tapes will be available for viewing through the LBJ School Library and they will be shown on Austin Community Television.

. David Warner recently spoke to a group of nurses in Fredericksburg on the Texas Health Policy System at a two‑day workshop sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio School of Nursing. He also presented the paper he wrote with Martha Katz and Dale Whittington on the Supply of Physicians and Physicians' Incomes to the Southwest Social Science Convention in Dallas. That paper will be published in the summer issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Warner also served on a panel at a conference in New Orleans in mid‑April convened by the National Center for Health Services Research and Regions IV and VI of the Public Health Service to discuss how current health services research could be made available.

. Dean Alan Campbell met with the topical seminar on Science and Public Policy, taught by Marlan Blissett and Jurgen Schmandt, on April 25 to discuss reorganization plans for federal science and technology operations.

. There will be an informal gathering at Scholz' at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17 for alumni and graduating students. Faculty and staff are also invited. The gathering will provide an opportunity for alumni to meet the past graduates of the School.

. The school picnic will be on Saturday, May 14 at Angel Leshikar's lakehouse. Swimming and sports will begin at 1 p.m. with eating at about 4:30. Students, faculty, staff, families, and friends are welcome, with a cost of $1 per person. Drinks and chicken will be provided. Those who can attend should sign up in the Office of Student Affairs.

. A pre‑commencement buffet for graduating students, families, friends, faculty, and staff, is scheduled for Friday, May 20 at the Hilton Inn. The cost will be $9.44 per person, including tax and tip. Entrees will be seafood newburg and roast beef. There will be a cash bar from 7:30 p.m. with dinner at 8:15. Those planning to attend should sign up in the Office of Student Affairs. Cassie Goyne and Ellen Jones will sell tickets the week of May 10‑17.

. The Placement Office has announced that these 1977 graduates have accepted jobs: Bill Stotesbery, consultant, Peat, Marwick & Mitchell; Bob Farley, research, California Energy Commission—solar research; Cathy Bruns, methods analyst, State Comptroller of Public Accounts, Office of Budget and Evaluation; Nancy Davis, budget analyst, City of Austin, Office of Budget; Jesus Garza, health planning intern, Central Texas Health Services; Greg Roberson, staff of Senator Lloyd Bentsen, in charge of minority affairs; Rita Seymour, Treasury Department.

. Professor Albert Blum of the LBJ School has been elected to the Executive Board of the Southwest Labor Studies Conference.

. Planning is underway for a conference on Congress and the Presidency: A Shifting Balance of Power to be held here November 14‑16, 1977 under the joint sponsorship of the LBJ Library and LBJ School. A committee including Elspeth Rostow, Emmette Redford, Dick Schott, and Hoyt Purvis from the LBJ School, Larry Dodd from the Department of Government, and Harry Middleton and John Fawcett from the LBJ Library has been working on the conference.

WEINTRAUB ON PANEL ON U.S.-MEXICO

United States‑Mexican relations, particularly the influx of migrants across the U.S. border, is the subject of a radio panel discussion involving Dr. Sidney Weintraub, Dean Rusk Professor at the LBJ School.

Weintraub, along with Dr. Stanley R. Ross, professor of history, and Dr. Americo Paredes, professor of anthropology and English, discuss U.S.‑Mexico border programs on the radio program "200 Years" which is heard on KUT and a number of other stations.

Weintraub describes the influx of migrants to and across the border as "an economic pheonomenon."

"There's the push‑pull factor—the push out of Mexico because of high population growth rates, lack of opportunity for jobs and low wages" and the pull to the U.S. for the reverse reasons.

He explains this type of movement is common throughout the world, but the U.S.‑Mexico situation is unique because of the disparity of income between the two countries and because the border is contiguous to both countries for so many miles.

Unlike European boundaries, the U.S.-Mexican border remains relatively "open" to illegal migration, despite the use of patrols, Weintraub says.

The border movement not only encourages illegality, but also lower wages for American citizens living near the border because of the cheap labor provided by the migrant workers, he continues.

LEVINE SPEAKS ON POLICY ANALYSIS

Dr. Robert A. Levine, deputy director of the Congressional Budget Office, spoke on "Making Policy Analysis Effective" at the LBJ School on April 27.

Levine called for an overhaul of the bureaucratic structure. He stressed the "proliferation of rules" in government programs and administration. The tendency in government, said Levine, is just to write more new rules to apply as new groups and new problems develop.

Levine also noted the increasing dominance of "quantitative aspects" in policy analysis and policy making.

Recalling his experience as an official of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Levine said the Community Action Program was the most successful Great Society program although it worked along entirely different lines than its planners expected. The CAP worked to create new institutions in every city and new political power bases.

MEALS SYSTEM CONFERENCE JUNE 6‑7

The National Conference on the NASA Shelf‑Stable Meal System will be held June 6‑7 at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C., under the sponsorship of the LBJ School and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The conference will present results of the first demonstration of shelf‑stable meals for the elderly conducted in 1976 by an LBJ School Policy Research Project.

The conference will also:

• explore potential uses of the meal system for various public sector needs;

• discuss a proposed national demonstration of the meal system for the elderly.

• provide an opportunity for exchange of ideas among public sector and private industry representatives.

Keynote address at the conference will be delivered by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, who will speak on "Nutrition, Aging, and Public Policy."

Dr. Jurgen Schmandt, director of the LBJ School Meals System Project, will open the conference with a statement of purpose. Also appearing on the opening program will be Gary Primeaux, director of the NASA Meal System Project; Peggy Wilson, coordinator of the field network for the LBJ School; Dr. Lodis Rhodes, LBJ School faculty member; and Dr. William McGanity, of the UT Medical Branch in Galveston.

The conference will include workshops on "Functional Uses of the Meals" and "Strategy for Action." There will be panel discussions on strategies for government‑industry cooperation and representatives from federal, state, and local levels and from industry will discuss potentials of the meal system.

Participants will also view the NASA-LBJ School documentary film, "Meals from Space."

The final report on the Meal System project at the LBJ School, Meals for the Elderly: Conventional Food in Novel Form, has been published by the LBJ School and is available through the Office of Publications for $3.50.

Peggy Wilson, research associate at the LBJ School, testified at the field hearings of the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs in Cicero, Illinois, April 4. She told the committee of the work of the LBJ School-NASA project, and reviewed the results of the field demonstration conducted by the LBJ School. The demonstration showed that shelf‑stable, nutritious, single‑serving meals were popular and beneficial to the elderly.

PROFESSORSHIP RECEIVES GRANT

A $100,000 grant from Houston Endowment, Inc., was accepted April 15 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents for the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Professorship in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

The endowed position was approved by the Regents in 1973 when U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., of Houston, indicated his intent to fund the professorship through his and others' gifts.

A minimum of $100,000 is required to fund an endowed professorship in the UT System.

The Bentsen Professorship, which has not yet been filled, already has accrued funds totaling $66,000 which are comprised of initial gifts from the senator and others, plus earnings on those gifts.

At its April 15 meeting, the Board of Regents also approved establishment of the H. B. (Hank) Harkins Professorship in Constructive Capitalism in the UT Austin Graduate School of Business.

PROJECT ASSESSES FEDERAL URBAN POLICY

Federal revenue sharing has increasingly shifted the responsibility for decision making to local governments in setting priorities and allocating funds. One of the 10 Policy Research Projects being conducted at the LBJ School is examining the impact of revenue sharing within the center cities of major metropolitan areas and its influence on local decision processes and program outcomes.

The project on Federal Policy and Urban Low‑Income Communities involves 17 students from both the LBJ School and the graduate program in Community and Regional Planning. The project is directed by Victor Bach of the LBJ School, Jim Hartling of Community and Regional Planning, and Hoyt Purvis of the LBJ School.

A major focus of the project is on the consequences of federal policy for low-income center‑city residents, both in terms of the distribution of program benefits and participation or influence in decision processes.

The research includes a comparative analysis of field studies in six cities: Baltimore, Birmingham, Hartford, Houston, Kansas City, and San Francisco. Beginning in January, student‑faculty teams have visited these cities and conducted interviews with city officials and others involved with local urban policy, including center‑city residents.

Information gathering has concentrated on three major functional concerns:

• Community development;

• Human Services;

• Employment/economic development strategies.

Major emphasis is being placed on the federal Community Development Block Grant program (CDBG) and the field studies are being funded under a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which administers the CDBG program. However, the way in which all the federal revenue-sharing programs are being used and combined by the cities is being studied. The group is also analyzing what changes have resulted from the implementation of revenue sharing and block grant programs as compared to previous federal urban programs, including which groups are benefiting from the newer programs.

Currently students are preparing narrative reports on each of the six cities which include overall case studies as well as analyses of the functional areas in each of the cities. Following the narrative reports there will be a comparative analysis among the cities by functional area. This will include an effort to identify common trends and key differences in the way cities are implementing the revenue‑sharing and block‑grant programs, and the factors that account for them.

Finally, the group will develop conclusions and recommendations based on the study.

In part the project is a continuation of a Policy Research Project conducted at the LBJ School in 1975‑76, which conducted field studies in the six cities. However, in addition to the six‑city study, this year's project has also worked with Austin's six neighborhood advisory boards at the request of the boards. This has given students an opportunity to become acquainted with aspects of local program experience from the vantage point of community participants, since such relationships are not possible in the more remote field‑study cities. Besides working on an overall basis with representatives of the neighborhood boards, students have been assigned to work with each of the six neighborhoods.

ALUMNI CAREER SURVEY

More than three‑fourths of LBJ School graduates (77 percent) are currently employed in the public sector and the majority of these (60 percent) are employed at the state level according to a recent alumni career experience survey conducted by the LBJ School Placement Office.

Through 1976 there were 168 graduates of the School and 131 of these responded in time to be included in the tabulation. Because of the steadily increasing size of graduating classes (from 12 in 1972 to 62 in 1976) the survey results more heavily reflect the experience of recent graduates.

The graduates are working in 21 states plus Washington, D.C., with the majority (58 percent) employed in Texas. Austin is the home of the largest number of graduates—43 percent—and the State of Texas is the largest employer of LBJ School graduates, with 31 percent of the total respondents working for the state.

Besides Texas, the other popular locations are Washington, D.C. (10.7 percent) and California and Washington (both with 5.3 percent).

Nearly 90 percent of the respondents are currently employed and another 6 percent are full‑time graduate students. None of the respondents are unemployed and seeking employment.

City agencies and offices are the second largest public‑sector employer of graduates, with 20 percent as compared to 60 percent in state jobs. Fourteen percent are employed at the federal level, and 7 percent are working in county or regional offices.

At the state level the graduates are employed in a wide range of positions, but a common job responsibility is budget and agency program analysis and planning.

Of the 25 respondents employed in the private sector the survey reports that only 4 could be considered to be using skills and knowledge unrelated to their MPA training.

The average starting salary figure according to the survey is $12,435. The current average salary is $16,439. The current salary range, by class average, is from $13,865 for the class of '76 to $23,750 for the class of '72.

Private sector employees are receiving higher average salaries than those in the public sector, particularly in the first years of employment.

Females show a smaller average starting salary ($11,500) than their male counterparts ($12,888). However, this difference begins to decrease as the graduates' working experience increases.

The survey also included an evaluation of the School and its curriculum, with 76 percent noting that relative to their careers, the LBJ experience was good to excellent.

Internships were considered particularly useful to the professional careers, with 70 percent citing the internship as useful or very useful. Research methods were ranked next (64 percent). Independent research projects, policy research projects, statistics, and topical seminars were all ranked by more than half of the respondents as useful or very useful.

Twenty percent suggested that the curriculum should include a heavier emphasis on budget and accounting work and 13 percent suggested a stronger emphasis on economics.

A detailed report on the survey results is on reserve in the School Library.