August 1978

THE RECORD

No. 53

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS,

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR: Marilyn Duncan

BARBARA JORDAN TO TEACH AT LBJ SCHOOL

U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan of Houston, one of the most influential women in American public life, will join the faculty of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs next January after she retires from Congress.

Her appointment was approved June 9 by the UT System Board of Regents.

Ms. Jordan will hold the new Lyndon B. Johnson Public Service Professorship, which will be supported initially for five years by an annual nine-month grant of $ 38,000 from the Sid Richardson Foundation of Fort Worth. Alternate support for the Johnson Professorship will be sought at the end of five years. Ms. Jordan is expected to retain her appointment indefinitely to the Johnson Professorship, which is designated for a person who has had a distinguished career in public service.

Ms. Jordan, a former member of the Texas Senate (1966-72) who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1972, will teach in the area of intergovernmental relations as well as in ethics in public affairs. She will be assigned two graduate-level courses—a topical seminar for LBJ School students and another seminar open not only to public affairs students but to law and other graduate UT students as well.

Over the past dozen years, Ms. Jordan has gained increasing national recognition for her role in public affairs. Elected at age 31 to the Texas Senate, she was the first black member of that body and served as its president pro tempore in 1972.

As a Congresswoman from the 18th District of Texas, she was (along with Andrew Young) the first black to be elected to Congress from the South in the 20th Century. She also was the first black woman elected to Congress from the South.

As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee, she attracted wide attention in 1974 for the views she expressed during the impeachment hearings that preceded the resignation of President Nixon.

In addition to her work on the Judiciary Committee, she has served on the House of Representatives' Government Operations Committee and as a member of the steering and policy committee of the Democratic caucus.

Ms. Jordan, a powerful orator, received an ovation for her keynote address before the 1976 Democratic Party national convention.

Prior to entering public service, Ms. Jordan was a practicing attorney in her hometown of Houston and an administrative assistant to the county judge of Harris County (1959-66).

She was appointed in 1971 as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She has received 25 honorary degrees, including one in 1977 from Harvard, where she also delivered the commencement address.

She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and member of the American Bar Association and of the state bars of Texas and Massachusetts.

Ms. Jordan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history in 1956 from Texas Southern University and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1959 from Boston University.

She will be the subject of a new psychobiography, entitled "Self-Portrait," co-authored with Shelby Hearon, an Austin author, and due for publication next January by Doubleday.

(UT News and Information Service)

WRIGHT SPEAKS, AWARDS PRESENTED AT 7th LBJ COMMENCEMENT

Commencement ceremonies for the seventh graduating class of the LBJ School were held May 20 in the B. Iden Payne Theatre of the UT Drama Building.

Addressing the sixty-member class was Congressman Jim Wright of Fort Worth, Majority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Wright advised the graduates to bring to political institutions their gifts of idealism, innovation, and impatience. "The years will temper the impatience and purify the spirit of innovation through the filter of wisdom," he said. "But let them not tarnish the idealism, for that is the leaven in the loaf, and without it we would perish."

Two academic achievement awards were presented during the ceremonies. Sharing the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation Award for Academic Excellence, to be given annually to one or more members of the graduating class, were four students with 4.0 averages: Harley T. Duncan, Lilas J.S. Kinch, Chris Kuykendall, and Peggy Ann Hamilton. Presenting the award was Mr. Frank C. Erwin, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Directors, LBJ Foundation.

The Emmette S. Redford Award for Outstanding Research, established in 1976 to recognize a graduating student or students for an outstanding piece of research completed during the second year, went to Harley Duncan and Jeffrey D. Dunn. Mr. Duncan's Independent Research Project on "Local Government Idle Funds Management in Texas" and Mr. Dunn's IRP on "Reappraising Social Security: Historical, Political, and Economic Analysis of the Old Age and Survivors, Disability and Health Insurance through 1977; Including a Comprehensive Recommendation for Reform," were the research pieces recognized.

A reception for the graduates and their guests was held after the ceremonies on the eighth floor patio of the LBJ Library.

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Dean Elspeth Rostow issued the following statement on the appointment of Barbara Jordan to the School's faculty.

"The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs is extremely fortunate to have persuaded Barbara Jordan to join its faculty as of January 1979.

A new position has been created for Miss Jordan, The Lyndon B. Johnson Public Service Professorship, which will be funded for the first five years through the generosity of the Sid W. Richardson Foundation.

Professor Jordan is singularly suited to teach in a public affairs, school. Throughout her distinguished career, she has witnessed from the inside the operations and interaction of both the state and the federal governments. Her teaching at the School will embrace the nature of the federal system and also the increasingly important question of the role of values and ethics in public life. . .

One of her courses will be a seminar restricted to LBJ students; the other will be open to graduate students across the campus, including those in the School of Law, the Colleges of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Humanities, etc.

The arrival of Barbara Jordan will mark an important step forward in the history of the LBJ School. A public service professorship of the kind Professor Jordan will occupy balances well with the more preponderantly academic background of some of her future colleagues. We know that The University of Texas as a whole, along with the LBJ School, will gain greatly from Barbara Jordan's presence and we look forward to welcoming her to the campus."

'ON THE RECORD'

Professor Keith Arnold was one of 33 specialists invited to participate in a working symposium on renewable energy resources conducted at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire July 9-13.

The symposium was sponsored by the Dartmouth Research Program on Technology and Public Policy with the support of the U.S. Forest Service and with the cooperation of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Forests.

Discussion focused on the efforts that should be inaugurated now to enhance the United States' ability to assess, forecast, and establish goals for renewable resource availability, in anticipation of the competing demands for these resources and the conflicts that will inevitably arise.

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Dean Elspeth Rostow attended a meeting of the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland June 26-27.

While overseas. Dean Rostow met with Pierre Louis Blanc, Director of the Ecole National d'Administration in Paris, to discuss education for public service and to compare our program with the nationalized system in France.

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Orientation Week for incoming first-year students will be August 28 to September 1. Registration will be held August 28-29 in conjunction with orientation activities. Classes begin September 5.

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Professor Victor Bach will be in Washington, D.C. this coming academic year while on leave from the LBJ School. He will be joining the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where he will be involved in several urban policy monitoring studies.

While there, Dr. Bach looks forward to carrying out an informal, un-rigorous post-graduate assessment of LBJ School alumni working, loafing, or junketing in the Washington area. Those interested in participating are urged to contact him after mid-August at Brookings, or in Bethesda where he will be living.

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Professor Jurgen Schmandt has been appointed to a task force charged with evaluating the activities of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. The Institute came into being as a result of an agreement between President Johnson and the Soviet Prime Minister and now has thirteen member nations. Dr. Schmandt will conduct on-site interviews in Austria and in several capitals of member nations later this summer.

JOINT DEGREES PROGRAM WITH ENGINEERING APPROVED

A joint program leading to degrees of Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Public Affairs was approved by the UT Administration in June.

The program, to be offered cooperatively by the College of Engineering and the LBJ School, is designed to respond to the need for advanced graduate study both in the various engineering programs related to the public sector and in the policy oriented field of public affairs. The joint format will also prepare students for careers as public policy analysts and managers by providing strong technical competence within such engineering areas as energy, construction management, environmental health, and transportation.

The curriculum will feature three components: (1) graduate study in one of the engineering disciplines; (2) advanced preparation within the general area of public affairs; and (3) experience in "real world" public sector applications through a summer Internship and through client-oriented policy research seminars and professional reports.

Information about the new joint program will be available in the OACIP this fall.

SPURR RECEIVES MEDAL

LBJ Professor Stephen H. Spurr, a former president of UT Austin, recently received one of Yale University's three Wilbur L. Cross Medals for "outstanding achievement" in professional life.

The honor was conferred at Yale's commencement by the Yale Graduate School Association. The medals go to alumni of the Yale Graduate School.

Other recipients of the Cross Medals were Thomas Goddard Bergin, scholar of Italian literature and Sterling Professor emeritus of Romance languages at Yale, and Maynard Mack, Yale's Sterling Professor of English, who retired in June after 42 years on the Yale faculty.

The Cross Medals are named in memory of a Yale dean who went on to become Governor of Connecticut in the 1930s. Dean Cross served for many years on the Yale faculty where he was Sterling Professor of English, dean of the Graduate School and editor of the Yale Review.

Dr. Spurr serves on the Yale University Council, which advises the president of Yale. He has been active in the formation of higher educational policy for the U.S. through his membership on boards and commissions such as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service.

RECEPTION HELD IN D.C. FOR FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL

LBJ School Dean Elspeth Rostow and Congressman J.J. Pickle hosted a reception July 18 for friends of the School, alumni, and interns in Washington, D.C.

Approximately 200 guests attended the reception, which was held in the Longworth Building near the U.S. Capitol. Among those in attendance were the over fifty LBJ School alumni working in the D.C. area, the twenty-seven Washington-based student interns, and the agency Internship supervisors.

Other guests included Civil Service Commissioner Alan K. Campbell, Mrs. Linda Robb, and members of the Texas Delegation, including Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and Representatives Jack Brooks, Henry Gonzales, Ray Roberts, and Barbara Jordan, future LBJ School professor. Ten Congressional staff members also attended.

Other Washington officials in attendance were Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall; Comptroller General Elmer Staats; Mr. Ed Scott, Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department of Transportation; Ms. Alice Rivlin, Director of the Congressional Budget Office; and Dr. J. Michael McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, HEW.

A number of former LBJ faculty members now working in D.C. attended the reception, including Drs. Henry David, Allan Mandel, Beryl Radin, and Mr. Gery Williams. Hoyt Purvis, former LBJ School Director of Publications and participating faculty member, was also a guest.

PLACEMENT REPORT: CLASS OF '78

Among the members of the LBJ School Class of '78 (some of whom will graduate in August) who have found employment in public or private organizations with public affairs orientation are the following:

Ken Apfel is employed by the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.

Craw ford Bunkley and J. Chris Dobbs are working in the Public Affairs Department of the Exxon Co. in Houston.

James Dodson is a Research Associate for UT's Natural Areas Survey.

Laura Doll is employed with Planergy in Austin.

Harley Duncan is an Intern with the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations in Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Dunn is an aide in Senator John Tower's Austin headquarters.

Bonnie Fisher is with HEW in Washington, D.C.

John Hall is with HUD in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research in Washington, D.C.

Albert Hawkins is working as Program Analyst for the Texas Legislative Board in Austin.

Scott Johnson is employed by the Carter Oil Co. in Houston.

Dale Napier is a computer programmer at UT's Data Processing Division.

Chauncy Nealy is now a Program Evaluator for the North Central Texas COG in Arlington, Texas.

Michael Patterson is a Planning Coordinator for the City of Austin's Manpower Training Division.

Cindy Powell is working as an Economic Development Planner for the Governor's Southwest Border Regional Commission in Houston.

Daniel Rabovsky is a Legislative Analyst for the Joint Legislative Budget Commission, California Legislature.

John Schuize is a foreign service officer with the Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Lee Solsbery is employed in the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, in Washington, D.C.

Mary Kay Stack is working in the U.S. Department of Justice, Division of Administration, Office of Management and Finance, in Washington, D.C.

Other '78 Class members are employed temporarily in public service-related positions, including Christina Bondy, Texas Natural Areas Survey, Austin; James Dodds, Texas Attorney General's Office, Austin; Marc Dominus, Administrative Assistant, Austin Assistant City Manager's Office; Lorry Farrow, Office of the Secretary for the Texas Senate; Peggy Hamilton, Administrative Aide for Austin Assistant City Manager Andrea Beatty; Bryan Hamon, Texas Department of Human Resources, Systems Planning; Lilas Kinch, Texas Natural Areas Survey, Austin; Glenn Martin, Intern/Staff Development, Texas Education Agency, Austin; Dan Preston, Texas Research League, Austin; Manuel Rios, HEW, Institute of Education, Washington, D.C.; Sara Rodgers, Texas Youth Council, Austin; John Rooney, U.S. Attorney's Office, New Orleans; Catherine Sims, Texas Department of Human Resources, Office of Volunteer Services; Michael Tolleson, Texas Energy Advisory Council, Austin; and Aileen Whitfill, CONRAIL, Washington. D.C.

ALUMNI FORUM

Bob Campbell, Nancy Davis, Dennis Dugear, Laura Doll, Bill Stotesbery and I are looking forward to working with as many alumni as possible during the coming year in order to make the Alumni Association a viable professional organization. As board members we intend to see that the continuing education program of the Alumni Association continues and expands. (The next occasional seminar will be held in early autumn.) Also we anticipate that with the involvement of many alumni several social events will occur.

As alumni you are encouraged to contact the board members if we or the association can be of assistance to you in job placement or Internship development activities. And always, your ideas on what the Alumni Association should or could be doing for its active members are welcomed.

Our common educational background should not be where our mutual involvement in professional development ends. We all have an interest in improving public services which are provided by government, the private sector, or citizen groups. We have an opportunity to share our interests and expand our own perspectives by being active in the Alumni Association. I encourage you to do so.

--Malcolm MacDonald

LIBRARY "WHAT'S" LINE

Reports from International Development Banks

The Library has recently petitioned significant international monetary and commodity organizations requesting that it be granted depository status for publicly issued documents. While results of this undertaking are still inconclusive, we have received a number of affirmative responses, and are particularly pleased to have been added to mailing lists maintained by some of the more noteworthy international development banks. Publications from these organizations supplement an existing collection of reports issued by the World Bank, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Monetary Fund.

Banks serving African nations have been the most cooperative of all organizations solicited, and we are currently receiving annual reports from one national and three international banks: the Central Bank of Kenya, the East African Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the African Development Fund. Of these, the African Development Bank (AFDB) and its counterpart, the African Development Fund (ADF), are the most significant. The AFDB, established in 1964 to promote the social and economic development of its member countries, is composed of 46 African nations. In FY 1976, the Bank's assets were valued at $454.2 million, and its approved loans totaled $408.7 million. The most substantial loans were made to Morocco ($26.3 million) and Tunisia ($23.2 million) with Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Congo, Algeria, Cameroon, Gabon, and Zaire each receiving loans in excess of $15 million. The African Development Fund, established by the AFDB in 1973 to provide financial assistance to its members, is composed of the same 46 nations plus 17 state participants consisting of industrialized and economically advanced countries. The ADF assets in FY 1976 totaled $217.6 million, and its approved loans were $219.6 million.

Of the 17 state participants, Canada purchased the largest membership ($75 million), with Japan, Sweden, and the United States among those nations purchasing lesser but still substantial subscriptions.

The East African Development Bank, whose membership is composed of the three partner states of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, has supplied the Library with its annual reports covering the years 1970-1976 and with a ten-year report summarizing the activities of the Bank in East Africa during the years 1967-1977. This report claims that the Bank was successful in achieving its function of financing industrial development in the three member States but was unsuccessful in achieving industrial complementarity and balance among the three economies.

The report from the Central Bank of Kenya overviews the Kenyan economy and correlates domestic economic activity with the international economic situation. Appendices to the report contain statistical tables synopsizing Kenya's balance of payments, national accounts, general economic indicators, and the assets, liabilities and deposits of the Kenyan banking and financial institutions.

Banks and funds representing Arab countries have also responded affirmatively to our requests for depository status for their publications, and annual reports are being received from the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the Islamic Development Bank. The first two of these are the more noteworthy.

The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa was established in 1974 by the Economic Council of the League of Arab States to (a) assist in financing economic development in African countries, (b) stimulate the contribution of Arab capital to African development, and (c) help to provide the technical assistance required for Africa's development. ABEDA is composed of 18 Arab and northern African countries, and its consolidated capital in FY 1977 totaled $706 million. Financial projects include the installation of water supply facilities in six major cities in Zaire, the reconstruction of a railway line in the Congo, and the revitalization of the cocoa industry in Ghana.

The Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development was established by the Economic Council of the League of Arab States in 1971. Its objectives are to promote the economic and social development of Arab countries through (1) financing development projects, (2) encouraging the investment of private and public funds in Arab projects, and (3) providing technical services for Arab economic and social development. Authorized capital is $1.46 billion, of which some $372 million was paid by 1976. In addition the Fund administers a special account established by member countries of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries to assist needy, non-oil-producing Arab countries.

The Islamic Development Bank was established in 1975 to foster economic development and social progress of members of the Islamic Finance Ministers' Conference and the Muslim communities. Composed of 28 member countries, the subscribed capital of the Bank at the present time is $912 million. According to its annual reports, the Bank is attempting to improve its operations by attracting scholars to study development plans and projects under review and by increasing its assets through the promotion of international trade among its member countries.

Asia is a third area of the world represented by development banks responding to our letters. The Asian Development Bank, which began operation in 1966, has supplied us with copies of its annual reports covering the years 1972-1976, as well as with a monograph by Alan Chalkley which surveys the first decade of operation, including the founding and organizing of the Bank, its major projects, its goals, and its chronology. Significantly, the author has included a brief summary of the political and social and economic conditions which culminated in the creation of the Bank. Composed of 28 regional countries and 14 nonregional countries (including the United States and other Western industrialized countries), the role of the Asian Development Bank is principally "to promote investment of public and private capital in the region of Asia and the Pacific for development purposes," to finance economic development projects which otherwise would remain unfunded, and to stimulate regional economic cooperation. The latest annual report indicates that the Bank encourages interagency cooperation and financing of technical assistance projects, particularly with such groups as the World Bank group, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the European Economic Community. In Fy 1976, the Technical Assistance Special Fund of the Bank approved more than $2.4 million in loans to member countries.

European countries belonging to the Common Market are serviced by the European Investment Bank, an independent public institution which, along with the European Economic Community, was created by the Treaty of Rome on January 1, 1958. The EIB has provided the Library with copies of its annual reports covering the years 1972-1976 as well as with a monograph overviewing the operation of the Bank from 1958-1978. This report shows that the original functions of the EIB (to foster development in less advanced regions, to assist in modernizing industries in declining regions, and to advance the interests of EEC as a whole) have been expanded, under various agreements, to include the subsidizing of development projects in nonmember countries, particularly those of the Third World.

As a supplement to the coverage of Latin America provided by the Inter-American Development Bank, the Library has added the annual reports of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, which promotes the economic integration and growth of its five member countries—Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. According to the latest annual report, CABEI in FY 1974/75 approved and/or disbursed $111.4 million in loans, a sum which capped $624.1 million distributed over 14 years to 75 operations in the fields of manufacturing, transportation, electric power and water, storage and communications, and physical infrastructure.

These annual reports—from banks which serve largely underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America—describe the flow of funds provided not only by the recipient countries but also by the more developed nations in Europe and the Western Hemisphere and by wealthier Arab nations. Such data reflecting loans, interest rates, development projects, and general expenditures and applications of funds, are useful in revealing policy priorities in the social and economic growth of poorer nations, as well as foreign policy, aid, and certain strategic priorities of wealthier nations.

Line Items

1. The Library has recently completed binding preparations for some 420 periodical volumes and 129 student independent research project reports. It has also completed the cataloging of the videotape collection of speakers and special events sponsored by the School as well as most of the publications for the AEI Center for Public Policy Research. Included among the AEI materials are 61 audio cassettes covering a variety of policy issues.

2. In the interest of coordination and cooperative use of library resources, an outreach program for state agency librarians was held by the Library July 20. The program was highlighted by an informal lunch with Dean Elspeth Rostow.

3. To increase utilization of some 400 newsletters being received from public and private research groups and government agencies, the Library is undertaking a major cataloging effort, scheduled for completion by the end of the current year.

GUIDE, PRP REPORTS PUBLISHED THIS SUMMER

The Office of Publications has released several publications this summer, including the long-awaited Guide to Texas State Agencies, Fifth Edition.

The Guide, first published in 1956 by the Institute of Public Affairs, is issued by the School as a public service, filling a need for current and authoritative information about the structure and functions of state governmental agencies. The fifth edition describes over 240 agencies, offices, and programs in eighteen functional sections. Organization charts are provided for agencies with over fifty employees or annual budgets of one million dollars or more. Individual expiration and reassessment dates as set by the 1977 Sunset Act are also listed.

Included with the Guide is an updated wall chart which graphically displays the structure of the state government. The organization chart may be purchased separately for $3.00 from the Office of Publications.

Cost of the Guide is $12.50

Two Policy Research Project Reports and one resource handbook have also been released this summer. Texas Energy Issues: 1978, directed by Professor Stephen Spurr and codirected by Professor Marian Blissett; and Youth in Trouble: Problems, Issues, and Programs in Texas, directed by Professsor Henry David, are numbers 25 and 26 in the School's PRP report series.

Texas Energy Issues: 1978, released in July, examines a number of policy issues affecting Texas' role in national energy strategy, focusing on three major areas: permitting and siting energy facilities; economics, financing, and taxation; and environmental and community impacts.

The Energy report uses a format designed to be be of maximum use to both executives and their staffs. Concise one-page summaries of the issues make up the first section of the report and provide an easily accessible overview for legislators, agency heads, and other public officials responsible for energy policy formulation. Following the Executive Brief is an expanded text with full discussion and analysis of the issues for use by staff members.

Another PRP report released in July results from the Juvenile Justice PRP conducted in 1976-77 for the Criminal Justice Division of the Governor's Office. Youth in Trouble reviews the current state of knowledge about the causes of delinquent behavior and makes recommendations to the Criminal Justice Division on how to improve programs designed to help "youth in trouble" in Texas. The report provides data derived from a statewide survey of the attitudes of Texas youth concerning their schools, their parents, criminal behavior, authority figures, and other areas relating directly to emotional health and social behavior.

Other recent publications include two products of the Welfare Reform PRP conducted in 1977-78 under the direction of Professor Lodis Rhodes. The first volume, produced for the Texas Department of Human Resources, is entitled Linking the Carter Welfare Reform Package to the Income Maintenance System. Part I of the volume provides an analysis of the impact of the Carter Welfare Reform Proposal on the states, with particular reference to Texas. Included in the analysis are tables showing employment and federal cash benefit structures, cost estimates for the Program for Better Jobs and Income Program (PBJI), and the tiers of the present income maintenance system. Also included is an analysis of selected sections of HR 9030 and an outline of HR 9030 in its entirety.

Part II of the volume, "Synopses of Selected Income Maintenance Programs," provides complete legislative backgrounds of about forty public assistance income-transfer programs currently in effect. The synopses were prepared by the students in the PRP as background material for their research into topics related to welfare reform. The Office of Publications published the synopses in a separate resource handbook, available at a cost of $2.50.

Copies of Texas Energy Issues may be purchased from Publications for $4.00. Youth in Trouble is available for $3.50.

HAZLETON HAS ACTIVE SUMMER

Professor Jared Hazleton, Associate Dean of the LBJ School, has shared his economic and educational expertise with a wide range of groups in an even wider range of geographic locations this summer.

Dr. Hazleton travelled to Amman, Jordan May 28-June 13 to advise the U.S. Agency for International Development on the establishment of a rural credit system by the Jordan Valley Farmers Association. The project on which he was working is one element of a major development effort in the Jordan River Valley. The effort involves the construction of major dams and irrigation works and related development of the social and economic infrastructure of the Valley. His main objective was to provide a social impact analysis of the establishment of the rural credit system by the Jordan Valley Farmers Association, a cooperative organization of all farmers in the Valley.

On this side of the ocean, Professor Hazleton has been advising the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the U.S. Labor Department concerning a proposed generic regulation of carcinogenic substances in the work place. Essentially his work has involved evaluating the testimony of private consulting firms and economists with regard to the economics of the proposed regulation. On June 22 he participated in a formal hearing in Washington, D.C. before an administrative judge on the proposed regulations, and cross-examined the experts from the Snell Division of Booz-Allen with regard to their report on the proposed regulation. He is drafting a report which will be submitted as part of the post-hearing process.

On June 27, Dr. Hazleton testified before the Financial Institutions Subcommittee of the House of Representatives in the Texas Legislature on the feasibility of establishing a state authorized deposit insurance program for state chartered banks and savings and loan associations.

From July 24-29 he participated in a workshop on teaching materials and approaches in public policy curriculum sponsored by the Ford Foundation. The workshop was held at Sea Pines Plantation at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Back on the homefront, Dr. Hazleton will participate in "The Middle East at the Crossroads" workshop being sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at The University of Texas at Austin on August 4. The subject of his remarks will be "Economic Development Efforts in the Middle East."

NUTRITION PRP DEVELOPED FOR '78-'79

Planning for a PRP on "Nutrition Policy: Texas and the Nation," to be offered in the fall, has led to a number of early developments. The faculty team will be made up of Jurgen Schmandt, Roseann Shorey (Nutrition Division, UT Austin), and Helen Campbell (recently retired as Chief Nutritionist, State Health Department). The following individuals have agreed to serve as members of an advisory group to the project: Wilbur Cohen (former Secretary of HEW and currently member of a HEW task force on nutrition policy), June Hyer (author of "Poverty in Texas" and Parliamentarian of the Texas Senate), William McGanity (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston) and Eleanor Young (University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio). Lilas Kinch, a recent graduate of the School, will work as project coordinator.

CONFERENCE HELD ON THE FUTURE OF URBAN POLICY

Some of the harsh realities involved in carrying out President Carter's urban policy objectives—including dissatisfaction on the part of many Sunbelt cities with Washington's "tilt" toward the older, declining cities—were aired at a conference held on May 5 in UT's Academic Center.

Organized by LBJ School Professor Victor Bach and Marshall Kaplan, visiting professor in the Community and Regional Planning Program of the UT Architecture School, the conference was sponsored by both Schools and brought together urban specialists, federal officials, and representatives of local municipal government for an examination and assessment of the Administration's urban policy position as announced in late March.

Success of the urban policy will hinge on a partnership of local, state, and federal governments, the private sector and neighborhood programs, said Kaplan, who was also a principal HUD consultant in the formulation of the Carter urban policy proposals. He and Ralph Schlosstein, member of the White House domestic policy staff, stressed the openness of the interagency process through which the policy was developed as characteristic of the President's style. The Administration's intent, Kaplan asserted, was to formulate long-term policies which would enable the press and public-interest groups to evaluate and criticize federal performance against explicit commitments.

But the roundtable comments offered by urban specialists focused more on substance than process. Francine Rabinovitz, a professor at USC's Center for Public Affairs, preferred to postpone comment on the Administration's urban policy until the presently broad policy objectives were hardened into specific program proposals. Instead, she pointed to recent Brookings Institution figures which indicate that cities are receiving an average of 40 percent of their operating budgets from nonlocal sources—state or federal. "We are no longer talking about the federal system," she asserted, and called for consideration of a "set of rules to the new game" in which the key question is: "What does the federal government have the right to demand in return for that sizeable portion of the operating budget?" By way of example, she cited two unpopular possibilities: greater local accountability for fund allocations against federally-set objectives, and the possibility of setting a cap on income increases granted under local public collective bargaining contracts.

Richard P. Nathan, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, stressed the importance of better "targeting" of federal urban aid toward the more distressed areas and jurisdictions, but faulted the Carter urban program as "principles without a printout." Contrasting the Administration's position with the already large and often poorly targeted battery of existing federal urban programs, he said, "This year they have a small urban policy which they say is targeted, but we don't know yet."

Robert Wood, representative of the Joint Centers for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard University and a former HUD Secretary during the Johnson Administration, pointed to questions of local property tax and land policy as omissions in the Carter policy formulations, and stressed central city-suburban disparities as a key issue. "We are going to have to face up to what we do about urban schools," he said, calling for an era of "benign neglect of the suburbs" and more emphasis on central cities.

Walt W. Rostow, UT Austin professor of history and economics, sounded the highest note of cynicism for the day. "You are kidding yourselves if you think urban policy can solve the problems of the cities," claimed the specialist in macro-economics. "I don't for a minute believe anything I've heard here today can do anything about the degeneration... and pathological unemployment of the Northeast and the industrial Middle West." Instead, he pointed to energy resource development, air and water pollution, and water supply for agriculture as key sectors of the national economy which would generate increased employment and accelerated economic growth.

An afternoon session chaired by Victor Bach gave Texas municipal representatives an opportunity to offer local responses to the Carter urban policy formulations. Although federal spokespersons—including Lawrence Houstoun of the Department of Commerce, Susan Foster of HEW, as well as Kaplan and Schlosstein—had earlier claimed that urban trouble spots in the South would have the same access to urban assistance as those in the North, and the urban specialists had disparaged the use of the terms "Sunbelt" and "Frostbelt" as masking the real urban issues, a Texas municipal representative had some serious reservations.

Richard Brown, executive director of the Texas Municipal League, claimed that Carter's policy emphasis on the older, declining cities will continue to penalize Southern cities with sound fiscal mangement and public willingness to settle for lesser public services, while it rewards the "profligate" cities of the North for "unnecessary frivolities" such as five-man garbage crews, optional administrative salary increases and expanded pension programs, and "featherbedding" of union and working contracts. "Local optional policy choices should not be supported by federal grant-in-aid programs," said Mr. Brown, who claimed that to do so is to "reward systems that have failed in the past."

Richard Smith, councilmember from the city of Dallas, also took exception to regional inequities in federal urban aid and called for more equitable revenue-sharing programs. Henry Cisneros, a member of the San Antonio city council, was the only participant in the Texas panel who fully endorsed the Carter urban initiatives. He viewed the targeting of federal aid toward the more distressed cities as a sensible policy and felt that the "incremental nature" of the Carter urban policy proposals was a consequence of a political and economic climate in which compromise was essential to any new policy initiative.

Kaplan and Schlosstein were the principal advocates of the Administration's position during the day's session, and took the controversy and disagreement over central issues in their stride as they responded to the various issues raised. Targeting federal aid toward the economic development of declining cities was defended against macroeconomic criticisms on the grounds that aggregate national economic growth in other sectors might not reach distressed central city populations. They stressed the comprehensiveness of the Administration's urban policy objectives and the commitment of the full spectrum of federal agencies to the policy statements. Claiming that the urban policy proposals address the comprehensive range of problems—problems of institutional capacity, of people, and of place—Kaplan asserted: "We hope this will be the litmus test by which the Administration can be judged in future years."

SIXTY LBJ STUDENTS SERVING INTERNSHIPS

LBJ School students are engaged in public service around the world this summer, as sixty students serve internships at all levels of government in areas ranging from Kenya and Bangoi to Colorado and Arkansas to Washington, D.C. and Texas.

The internships, a required component of the School's two-year MPA program, involve students in the practical workings of the policy process through full-time paid work experiences.

The 1978 interns and their assignments are as follows:

Texas–

Jim Arnold, Legislative Budget Board, Austin; Donel Bagby, Governor's Office-Criminal Justice Division, Austin; Rhonda Belt, Texas Department of Human Resources-Policy Office, Austin; Lynn Belton, Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Austin; Chip Burgin, House Study Group-Texas Legislature, Austin; Joel Campbell, Senate Committee on Human Resources, Austin; Gregg Cannady, Exxon-Public Affairs, Houston; Pablo Collins, Texas Senate Interim Subcommittee on Housing, Austin; B.C. Cornish, Texas Attorney General's Office, Austin; Crespin Guzman, Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas; Thomas Halicki, Texas Public Utilities Commission, Austin; Patrick Johnson, Texas Department of Human Resources/ Policy Office, Austin; Clarence Little, Department of Human Resources, Region VI, Austin; Virgil Rambo, Texas Department of Human Resources, Region VI, Austin; Vivian Redman, Governor's Office of State-Federal Relations, Austin; Betty Rogers, Natural Resources Council-Governor's Office, Austin; Ty Sponberg, Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Austin; Carol Tombari, Lieutenant Governor's Office, Austin; Don Watson, U.S. General Accounting Office, Dallas; Richard Wiggans, Management Services Director, City Manager's Office, Dallas.

Washington, D.C.–

Jack Adams, Government Relations Department, U.S. Postal Service; Ira Birnbaum, Senator Moynihan's Office; Matt Burns, U.S. AID/Office of Management Planning; Jeff Clark. General Accounting Office; Benjamin Cole, Congressional Budget Office, Budget Process Unit; James Dimas, Texas Office of State-Federal Relations; Gary Flynn, Office of the Administrator, UTMA, Department of Transportation; DeAnn Friedholm, Senator Bentsen's Office; Mitchell Gold-stein, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; John Gooding, Office of Congressman Jim Wright; Richard Gowen, Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Russell Hedge, Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works-Subcommittee on Economic Development; Paul Hilgers, Office of Congressman Pickle; Jan Hilton, Civil Service Commission; Kathy Johnson, Academic Exchange Program, International Communications Agency; A lan Jones, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, Department of the Interior; Larry Junek, U.S. General Accounting Office; ToddKaufman, Senate Democratic Policy Committee; Elise May field. Office of Congressman Teague; Brooks Myers, U.S. General Accounting Office, Program Analysis Division; Maria Orozco, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Office of the Commissioner; Dan Reingold, HEW-Office of Education, Office of Management; Jordan Richland, U.S. General Accounting Office; Ginger Sampson, Community Services Agency; Judy Shifrin, Texas Governor's Office of State-Federal Relations; Bunny Storbeck, Department of Treasury, Office of Revenue Sharing; Co nnie Treece, General Accounting Office.

Other States–

Doug Christenson, Department of Commerce, EDA, Denver, Colorado; Howard Friedman, California Department of Finance, Sacramento, California; Charles Galvin, Department of Commerce, EDA, Denver, Colorado; Ronald Pergamit, Department of Social and Health Services, Olympia, Washington; Don Saylor, Employment and Economic Policy Administration, Boston, Massachusetts; Charles Schonert, Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, Little Rock, Arkansas; Sharon Slepicka, National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, Colorado.

Other Countries–

Bill Hagelman, American Embassy BANGOI, Central African Empire; Treila Krueger, Hospital Infantil Universitario, Bogota, Colombia; Maria Mendez, U.S. AID Mission to Dominican Republic; John Nelson, U.S. AID, Nairobi, Kenya; Kathleen Otwell, Department of State Nutrition, Population Division, Kingston/ AID; Barbara Weinberg, Ministry of Social Welfare, Israel.

SIX PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS FILL SUMMER PROGRAM

The LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training, under the direction of Professor Lynn Anderson, has coordinated an active summer program, with three professional seminars conducted in June and July and three scheduled for August.

On June 16-28, a seminar on Organizational Communication: Skill Development for Managers in the Public Sector was held. The approach was on the governmental manager as communications-decisionmaker, focusing on everyday components of the decisionmaking process and demonstrating the use of communication as a managerial resource. Instructors for the seminar were Dr. Larry Browning, Director of Training, Office of the State Comptroller of Public Accounts (Austin, Texas) and Assistant Professor of Speech Communications, University of Texas at Austin (on leave); Dr. Lynn Reynolds, Assistant Professor of General Business and Coordinator, Business Communications Division, School of Business, University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Jack Whitehead, Associate Professor of Speech Communications, University of Texas at Austin; Dr. Bonnie Johnson, Assistant Professor of Speech Communications, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; and Ms. Callie Meyer Barnett, Training Specialist, Office of the State Comptroller of Public Accounts, Austin, Texas.

On July 10-12, Basic Public Purchasing: A Professional Seminar for Texas Local Government Officials was conducted to serve the needs of those involved in the public purchasing function at the municipal and county levels. Instructors were Solon R. Bennett, Director of Purchases and Stores, City of Austin; Bill Bonds, Purchasing Agent, Austin Independent School District, Austin; John Brooks, Director of Purchasing, City of San Antonio; and Claude Zachry, Director of Purchasing, Harris County, Houston.

On July 24-26, a seminar on Budgeting for Small Governmental Units was held. The program was designed to provide a basic level of instruction and training in governmental budgeting; familiarization with the budget process and the various elements considered in preparing departmental and jurisdictional expenditure estimates; and exposure to basic management requirements vital to effective budgeting and budgetary control. Instructors were Lynn F. Anderson, Professor and Director of Conferences and Training, LBJ School of Public Affairs; W. Terrell Blodgett, Principal, Peat, Marwick and Mitchell, Certified Public Accountants, Austin; C.J. Webster, City Manager, City of San Marcos; and Joe Liro, Assistant City Manager, City of Austin.

On August 14-16, a seminar is scheduled on Advanced Public Purchasing and Materials Management for the purpose of providing an intensive professional experience for managers and executives of purchasing organizations within state and local government. Instructors for this advanced seminar will be Solon A. Bennett, Director of Purchases and Stores, City of Austin; Bill Bonds, Purchasing Agent, Austin Independent School District; John Brooks, Purchasing Director, City of San Antonio; and James H. Quick, General Counsel, State Board of Control, Austin.

Another seminar. Accounting for Small Governmental Units, is scheduled for August 23-25. This seminar is designed to provide a basic level of instruction in governmental accounting as applied to smaller Texas county governments. It will utilize instructional materials developed by the International Municipal Finance Officers Association Career Development Center, and, with adaptation to Texas legal requirements and practices, will be similar to the course offered by local finance officer groups and educational institutions throughout the United States. Instruction for the seminar will also make illustrative use of the Standard Financial Management System of the Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, State of Texas, which has recently been promulgated and is currently being implemented on a voluntary basis in a number of Texas county governments. Instructors will be Donald H. Cormie, Partner, Alexander Grant and Co., Certified Public Accountants, San Antonio; S.G. Fullerton, Jr., County Auditor, Harris County, Houston; Ray Harris, County Auditor, San Patricio County, Sinton; Tom Nilsen, Planner, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, State of Texas, Austin; Jack Reynolds, Planner, Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, State of Texas, Austin; and Professor Lynn F. Anderson.

Also scheduled for August 23-25 is a seminar on Organizational Communicataion: Skill Development for Municipal Executives. This program, similar to that offered earlier for governmental managers, is designed for executives of Texas municipal governments: mayors, city managers, assistant city managers, municipal department heads, and similar classes of administrators. Its focus will be on the active use of communication as a managerial resource. Featured in this seminar will be a workshop with Austin Mayor Carole McClellan and Austin City Manager Dan Davidson. Instructors will be Dr. Larry D. Browning, Dr. Bonnie Johnson. and Dr. Jack Whitehead.