September/October 1979

THE RECORD

No. 64

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS,

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR: Marilyn Duncan

School Enrolls 173 Students for 1979–80

Final enrollment figures for the 1979–80 academic year show a total of 173 students enrolled in the LBJ School's various degree programs. An additional six students are enrolled in the non-degree Fulbright Visiting Fellows Program, and one other is enrolled as a special student.

According to figures issued by the OACIP, the entering class consists of 94 degree-seeking students. Eighty-six of these are enrolled full-time in the School's two-year program; the other eight are enrolled part-time.

For the first time in the School's history, the number of women in the entering class equals the number of men. In the past the proportion has been one-third women or less. The class also includes eight Mexican-American students and five Black students.

Eight of the first-year students are participants in the joint degrees program with the School of Law. Three students are enrolled in the joint program with the College of Engineering.

Members of the first-year class have a broad range of interests and backgrounds. Thirty-two percent are from out-of-state, and forty-five percent have degrees from out-of-state institutions. These degrees range from B.A.s in Political Science and related fields to B.P.A.s in City Management, B.F.A.s in Broadcast Journalism, M.A.s in History, and M.Ed.s in Special Education.

The returning class consists of 79 students, including twelve JDP/Law and two JDP/Engineering participants.

Faculty Report for 1979–80

The LBJ School faculty for 1979–80 includes two new assistant professors and one professor who has returned from a year's leave of absence.

Balancing the faculty additions are the resignations of two faculty members, both of whom were on leave during 1978–79.

New to the School's teaching staff this year are Susan G. Hadden and Robert H. Wilson. Professor Hadden, who received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago in 1972, came to the LBJ School from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was an assistant professor in the Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy.

Among her recent publications are "Controlled Decentralization and Policy Implementation: The Case of Rural Electrification in Rajasthan," in Policy Implementation in the Third World, ed. Merilee Grindle (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979); and "Technical Advice in Policy-Making: A Propositional Inventory," in Science and Technology Policy: Perspectives and Development, ed. Joseph Haberer (New York: Lexington Books, 1977).

Professor Hadden is teaching a section of Quantitative Methods this fall as well as a Policy Research Project on public policy toward risk.

Professor Wilson earned a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning in Summer 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation on the political economy of regional development and urbanization in Brazil involved 3 1/2 years of experience in Northeast Brazil. While in that country he also taught in the Master's program in urban and regional planning through the federal university system.

Among his publications are a coauthored chapter on "Planning and Decision Making in the Soviet City: Rent, Land and Urban Form Considerations" in The Socialist City: A Study of Internal Urban Structure (Chichester, Eng.: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 1979); and a mimeographed article in Portuguese entitled "Polarizacao an Estrutura Urbana no Nordeste do Brasil e suas Implicacoes para o Planjamento—Relatorio Fin," issued in December 1977 through the Mestrado em Desenvolvimento Urbano, UFPE.

Professor Wilson is teaching a section of Quantitive Methods this fall in addition to directing a Policy Research Project on community economic development.

Professor Sidney Weintraub, holder of the LBJ School's Dean Rusk Chair, returned to the School after spending a year as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

His courses for the fall semester include a Policy Research Project on economic coercion and foreign policy, and a topical seminar on international policy.

The two faculty members who terminated their positions at the LBJ School are Professors Victor Bach and Albert Blum.

Dr. Bach, an assistant professor at the School since 1974, submitted his resignation in May. He was on leave during the 1978–79 academic year to serve as Research Associate in the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Blum, a professor at the School since 1974, was on leave during 1978–79 to act as Dean of the School of Management and Finance at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.

The LBJ School faculty now consists of twenty-three members, with an additional two part-time appointments for the fall semester. These participating faculty members are Professors Robert Glover and Robert McPherson, Acting Director and Project Codirector, respectively, of the UT Center for the Study of Human Resources.

'On the Record'

Angel Leshikar, often dubbed Guardian Angel of the LBJ School by her colleagues, retired August 31 after serving seven years as the School's Director of Operations. Her service to UT Austin extends back to 1961.

Upon her retirement, Angel and her husband flew to the British Isles, where they spent the month of September touring England, Scotland, and Wales.

A reception in Angel's honor will be held October 4 in the LBJ Library.

Cathy Slusser, who has served as Accountant I in the School's Business Office since 1977, became Acting Director of Operations September 1.

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On September 18, Dean Elspeth Rostow hosted a dinner for Mrs. Coretta King at the Headliners Club, in conjunction with Mrs. King's visit to Austin.

Dean Rostow attended a meeting of the College Board Trustees in New York City September 27–28.

On October 10, she will address the new class at Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. Her topic will be "National Security Policy in an Open Society."

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From June through August, Professor Kenneth Tolo acted as consultant to the Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (U.S. Department of Labor) in Washington, D.C., on development of the corporation's legislative program.

On September 19–22, Professor Tolo participated in a national conference on pension plan termination insurance sponsored by the American Bar Association's Joint Liaison Group. Dr. Tolo made a presentation and served as reporter for the session on "Withdrawal and Termination Liability in Multi-Employer Plans."

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Professor Norton Grubb will attend the Research Conference on Public Policy and Management in Chicago on October 19–20.

His paper will address the topic of the relation between schooling and work in historical and current manifestations.

In connection with the same conference, Professor Kenneth Tolo is organizing the panel on education, which he will also chair.

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Professor Stephen Spurr gave a keynote address for the Dartmouth Symposium on Renewable Resources, held in New England in August.

In October he will give a paper in Paris at a meeting of the International Union of Societies of Foresters.

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The September issue of Texas Highways magazine features a photo story on one of the Natural Areas Survey's summer projects: a reconnaissance of the Pecos River to the Rio Grande confluence.

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Professor Kenneth Tolo is editor of a volume published recently by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, entitled Pension Plan Termination Insurance: Does the Foreign Experience Have Relevance for the United States? (Washington, D.C., September 1979).

The book records the proceedings of an international forum on pension plan termination insurance held in Washington, D.C. in June.

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This past summer the National Science Foundation invited Professor Jurgen Schmandt to evaluate a five-year research plan and budget for the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis.

Dr. Schmandt participated last year in an on-site evaluation of the institute, located in Laxenburg, Austria. The NSF Board recently approved continued U.S. participation and funding; the U.S., the Soviet Union, and fifteen other nations now contribute to the institute's budget.

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The LBJ School's Office of Publications has gained three new staff members in recent months.

Now setting type in the Composing Room are Jennifer Brewster and Melissa Martin. Ms. Brewster came to the

School in May from UT's Center tor Social Work Studies, where she worked as a typesetter for the organization's publications program.

Ms. Martin, formerly a graduate student in UT's Journalism Department and a typesetter for Ibid, Inc. in Austin, began work at the LBJ School in early September. She replaced Shelley Caldwell, who left the School to work in Dallas.

Serving as production manager for the Office is Candy Adams, who joined the staff in late July. Ms. Adams worked at UT Press for four years—two in the capacity of Journals Production Manager—and recently returned from a six-month stay in Boston, where she was Production Coordinator for the Word Guild.

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Professor David Eaton spent three weeks in the month of July in Bogata and Cali, Colombia working with the Colombian Ministry of Public Health and the State Health Services of Valle del Cauca on problems of rural health delivery.

He will present a paper on the results of this work at the November meetings of the American Public Health Association in New York City.

Public Personnel Management Institute To Meet in October

A voter referendum reduces a city's tax base, bringing on a cutback in the public employee workforce.

Managers of public agencies feel growing pressure to revamp incentives to match the new motivations of workers.

Those are among issues confronting public personnel professionals from all levels of government that will be discussed Oct. 4–5 at the Sixth Public Personnel Management Institute, sponsored by the LBJ School Office of Conferences and Training.

About 125 public personnel professionals are expected to attend the event, which will be held in the Thompson Conference Center.

Participating in a panel discussion on "The Realities of Reduction" will be Stephen Huffman, assistant city manager of Galveston, which has undergone a workforce reduction in the past year, and Marcus L. Yancey Jr., assistant engineer-director of the Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation, which also has had severe personnel cutbacks.

A number of concurrent workshops will deal with personnel management in small governmental units, workforce innovations to cope with the energy crisis, employee appraisal as a tool to build worker rapport and techniques for handling workforce reduction.

Professor Lynn Anderson, director of Conferences and Training, says the meeting is being held at a time "when public agencies and their personnel are under pressure to be more productive and efficient but with lower taxes and fewer financial resources."

Among speakers for the institute will be Jule M. Sugarman ("The Future of the Public Personnel Profession"), who was appointed earlier this year by President Carter to be deputy director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management; Connie C. Stear ("The New Worker: Motivating Today's Employees"), vice president of the Signal Division of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, which monitors changing work values and employee motivations, and Charles Levine ("Hard Times–Hard Questions: Reduction in Force in the Public Sector"), director of the University of Maryland's Institute of Urban Affairs.

(Derived from UT News and Information release.)

Weintraub Visits Nicaragua, Chile

Professor Sidney Weintraub visited Nicaragua and Chile on missions for the U.S. Government in August and September. He was in Nicaragua August 15–22 to help prepare a macroeconomic analysis of the situation of the country in order to assess the needs for external economic assistance over the next one to two years.

In describing the reasons for his visit, Dr. Weintraub explained that Nicaragua suffered much physical damage from its civil war, and that many of its ongoing economic activities, such as agricultural planting and harvesting, industrial production, and commercial activities, came to a halt.

He said there is a lack of seed and other inputs for planting and inadequate inventories of intermediate and finished goods for industrial production and commercial activities. These problems are compounded by a shortage of foreign exchange to obtain the imports necessary to stimulate the economy.

In response to this situation, many countries and international institutions have agreed to provide assistance. Professor Weintraub noted that the U.S. Government already has provided emergency assistance and is now examining the nature and extent of its longer-term assistance.

Professor Weintraub was in Chile September 12–15 as a member of a three-person group of experts asked to lecture on U.S.-Latin American relations, particularly U.S.-Chilean relations, to senior civilian and military officials of the Chilean Government. Professor Weintraub's area was economic relations.

The visit was sponsored by the International Communication Agency of the United States.

ALUMNI FORUM

First Friday Get-togethers

Alumni, students, faculty, and staff of the LBJ School are invited to meet at the Scholz Garten Restaurant, 1607 San Jacinto, for informal discussion at 5:30 p.m. on the first Friday of every month. The next Friday get-together will be on October 5.

Brown Bag Luncheon with Students

Members of the Alumni Board will meet with LBJ students in a brown bag luncheon discussion on Monday, October 1, in the Student Lounge. The topic of discussion will be the services of the Association, particularly with regard to internship and placement assistance.

Reception for First-Year Students

The Alumni Association invites all students, faculty, and staff to attend an informal reception in honor of the entering first-year class on Tuesday, October 9. The reception will be held at the home of board member Bill Stotesbery, 1606 West 42nd St., from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Please notify one of the board members if you are able to attend: Bill Stotesbery, 458-8436; Malcolm MacDonald, 443-1799; Laura Doll, 451-0096; Bob Campbell, 345-1128; Dennis Deegear, 476-8303.

Continuing Education

This Year's Continuing Education committee consists of Meg Wilson (chair). Bill Stotesbery, Bonnie Young, Bryan Hamon, and Bunny Storbeck. The first continuing education session currently is being planned for late October with former Austin mayors Butler and Friedman, and Mayor McClellan. Details on the session will be posted at the School and mailed to Austin alumni. A newly revised phone network should be more effective this year in keeping alumni informed of upcoming events.

Alumni Survey

During October, all LBJ alumni will be receiving by mail a questionnaire soliciting information for the 1980 Alumni Directory and asking a few questions about Association activities. The survey is invaluable in updating the directory; a pre-paid envelope will be included to ease return. Please help us put together an accurate directory. If you have not received a survey by November 15, please contact the Alumni Association at P.O. Box 13241, Austin, Texas 78701.

Class Representatives Elected

The Class Representatives and representatives to the Council of Graduate Students for fall 1979 were elected in September by members of the first- and second-year classes.

Representatives for the first-year class are Maxine Kramer and John O'Brien.

Second-year Class Representatives are Adriana DeKanter and Jim Gradoville.

The representatives to the Council of Graduate Students are Jay Schenirer (first-year) and Barbara Goldberg (second-year).

Report From The Placement Office

According to a graduate placement profile issued in early September by the LBJ School's Office of Interships and Placement, 86 percent of the School's 319 alumni are currently employed. Only 5 percent are unemployed, while 4 percent are enrolled in graduate school, and the remaining 4 percent are unaccounted for.

The statistics indicate that one-third (91) of those employed work in state agencies. Twenty-three percent (64) are employed in federal agencies, 21 percent (58) in private organizations such as law and consulting firms, 11 percent (29) in city offices, 8 percent (21) in nonprofit organizations, 4 percent (10) in county/regional offices, and 1 percent (2) in foreign governments.

Geographically, most employed graduates have remained in Texas (144—56 percent); of those, 100 (36 percent) work in Austin. The second largest concentration of alumni is in the Washington, D.C. area (65—24 percent).

As of the end of August, 77 percent of the fifty-three 1979 graduates were employed. The largest proportion of these (39 percent—16) work in federal agencies, with 29 percent (12) employed by state agencies, 19 percent (8) by private organizations, 7 percent (3) in nonprofit organizations; and 4 percent (2) in city and county/regional offices.

Dallas Alumni Reception In October

A reception for alumni and friends of the LBJ School living in the Dallas area will be held October 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the Dallas City Hall.

Dean Elspeth Rostow will be guest speaker for the occasion, which is being coordinated by Dallas alumni Nancy Umbach, David Black, and Dan Petty.

Policy Research Projects Underway

Fourteen Policy Research Projects are being conducted at the LBJ School during this academic year.

The projects and their participating faculty members are as follows:

1. Non-Fuel Strategic Minerals Policy, Professors Victor Arnold and Jurgen Schmandt

2. Public Land Management Policy, Professor Matthew Berman

3. Energy Policy I, Professor Marlan Blissett

4. Energy Policy II, Professor Stephen Spurr

5. National Energy and Transportation Policy, Professor Leigh Boske

6. Equity, Efficiency and Effectiveness in Urban Public Services, Professors David Eaton and Mark Daskin (Department of Civil Engineering)

7. Services to Children and Youth in Texas, Professors Norton Grubb and Lodis Rhodes

8. Areawide Planning for Environmental Management, Professors Gerard Rohlich and Richard Howe (adjunct)

9. School Desegregation and Bilingual Education, Professor Richard Schott

10. Economic Coercion and Foreign Policy, Professor Sidney Weintraub

11. Community Economic Development, Professor Robert Wilson

12. Chronic Illness in Texas, Professor David Warner

13. Public Policy Toward Risk, Professors Susan Hadden and Jared Hazleton

14. Federal Employment and Training System, Professors Robert Glover and Robert McPherson (Center for the Study of Human Resources)

Hilliard Publishes Article On Employee Development

The development of a productive work force in Texas business and industrial firms in the next decade is the subject of a recently published article coauthored by Cora L. (Corky) Hilliard of the LBJ School and Carol E. Kasworm, Lecturer with UT's Adult and Continuing Education Program.

The article entitled "Employee Development in the 1980s," appears in the September-October issue of Texas Business Review.

Its primary focus is on the issues related to the changing role and function of employee training programs. The authors, in interviewing five experts in the field of business training, were able to define several broad problem areas and program trends.

Some of these were: (1) the need for competence in both verbal and technical language skills in the work force, and the remedial programs currently attempting to meet that need; (2) the demand for managerial attention to the personal needs of employees—human relations skills, preretirement counseling, mid-life career counseling, etc.—and the resultant personal development programs instituted by progressive organizations in Texas; and (3) trends toward training through community and university educational programs, training for equal employment, and training for tangible results.

Cora Hilliard is a Training Specialist in the LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training.

UT Professors Suggest Constitutional Revisions

Professor Richard Schott of the LBJ School is coauthor of a textbook published in August by John Wiley and Sons entitled Congress and the Administrative State.

Professor Lawrence Dodd of the UT Government Department coauthored the volume, which examines the ascendancy of the federal bureaucracy (the "administrative state") and the impact of its development on policymaking and policy implementation.

Their book is not a "definitive study," they say, but rather a broad, integrated interpretative treatment of the subject, based on the backgrounds and personal experiences of the authors and on current literature.

In looking at the problems arising from the decentralization of Congress and the endless subdivision of the bureaucracy it created, Schott and Dodd move from a historical examination to an analysis of approaches to improve the system.

They conclude that significant improvement in the capacity of the federal government to make and implement public policy in a rational and responsive manner may require more than organizational reform and tinkering within Congress and the administrative state. Rather, they suggest that the nation consider possible revisions of the Constitution itself.

Hamilton Accepts Award for Justice Douglas

On August 7, Professor Dagmar Hamilton accepted an award on behalf of Justice William O. Douglas at the Annual Convention of the American Society of Journalism School Administrators.

The award was made to Justice Douglas for having contributed the most during the past decade to the defense of freedom of information.

Professor Hamilton's speech, which compared Justice Douglas's accomplishments with the relevant cases now before the Court, will appear in the organization's October bulletin, The Journalism Educator.

Summer, Fall Yield New Publications

Several publications were released from the School's Office of Publications during the summer, and others are scheduled for release this fall.

The Health of Mexican-Americans in South Texas (PRP Report No. 32) is a volume reporting the research findings of a Policy Research Project conducted in 1976–77 under the direction of Professor David Warner.

The study focuses on a broad range of health issues in forty counties in South Texas in order to consolidate the scattered information on the health status, programs, and needs of the Mexican-American population in that region.

Included in the report are over 130 tables and twenty-three maps illustrating relevant demographic and service-distribution patterns. The accompanying text describes and analyzes existing socioeconomic conditions and methods of providing health care to indigents, with the aim of showing the nature and extent of health care problems among that significant population in Texas.

Other publications released recently include a monograph from the April 1979 Slick Symposium, three faculty working papers and two student independent research project reports.

The Triple Collision of Modernization, by 1979 Tom Slick Professor Harlan Cleveland, is a revised version of the opening address given by Professor Cleveland at the School's conference on "Modernization vs. Tradition vs. Equity" last April.

The monograph discusses the "triple collision" in developing countries from the standpoints of the overthrow of the Shah in Iran and the current socioeconomic crises in Mexico. He moves from these examples to a more general examination of issues, addressing in particular the problem of helping developing nations to experience economic growth while accommodating its indigenous, often counter-modern, traditions.

On Development of Health Resources in Rural Valle de Cauca, Columbia (Working Paper No. 11) was written by Professor David Eaton and coauthored by Richard L. Church (University of Tennessee at Knoxville). Vivienne L. Bennett (UT Institute of Latin American Studies), Bryan L. Hamon (1977 LBJ School graduate), Luis Guillermo Valencia Lopez (Health Service, Cali, Colombia).

rigo Bustamante Alvarez (Health Service, Cali, Colombia).

The paper reports on the data collection, problem formulation, analysis, and conclusions of a joint Colombian-American study to integrate the use of location analysis into rural health planning in Colombia.

Determination of Allowable Cut on National Forests (Working Paper No. 12), by Professor Stephen Spurr, discusses the technical decisions involved in determining the programmed annual allowable cut of timber on National Forests.

In his paper, Dr. Spurr reviews the present methodology of computation and the accompanying technical policy issues. He then lays out some broad criteria for future development of harvest schedules.

The most recent working paper published by the School is entitled The Policy Research Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Written by Professors Marlan Blissett, Jurgen Schmandt, and David Warner, the paper describes the purposes and scope of the PRP in the School's curriculum. It also provides a comprehensive list of projects completed at the School since 1970, including client/participant information.

Student IRP reports published by the School this summer included Reorganization as Policy: The Temptation of a FHWA-UMTA Merger, by Gary C. Flynn (winner of the 1979 Redford Award for Outstanding Research) and Public Participation in Administrative Rulemaking—Child Care Licensing in Texas, by Ginger Rae Sampson (cowinner of the 1979 Lyndon Baines Johnson Award for Academic Excellence).

Publications now in production and to be released later this fall include these PRP Reports: Texas Energy Issues: 1979, directed by Professor Stephen Spurr; Solar Alternatives: An Institutional Assessment, directed by Professor Marlan Blissett; Preparation for Apprenticeship through CETA, directed by Professors Kenneth Tolo and Robert Glover; Location Techniques for Emergency Medical Service Vehicles (4 vols.) directed by Professor David Eaton; and Options for Community Response to the Safe Drinking Water Act, directed by Professors David Eaton and Gerard Rohlich.

Symposia publications to be released soon are The Presidency and the Congress: A Shifting Balance of Power, resulting from the 1977 conference by that name cosponsored by the LBJ School and the LBJ Library; and Government and the Humanities: Toward a National Cultural Policy (1978 School/Library symposium).

Publications are available at a reasonable cost from the LBJ School Office of Publications. A list of all School publications currently in print may also be obtained through that office.

LBJ School of Public Affairs Committees 1979–80

Admissions and Financial Aid

Jurgen Schmandt, Chairman

Marlan Blissett

Leigh Boske

Robert Wilson

Sidney Weintraub

Jonathan Cykman; Steve Palmer (second-year students)

Ex-Officio: Elizabeth Hall; Jared Hazleton

Faculty Recruitment

Stephen H. Spurr, Chairman

Dave Warner

John Gronouski

Matthew Berman

Mike Abkowitz (second-year student)

Internships and Placement

Lodis Rhodes, Chairman

Norton Grubb

Susan Hadden

Emmette Redford

Barbara Daly; Glenn Moore (first-year students)

Renee Oshinski; Rodney Rideau (second-year students)

Ex-Officio: Elizabeth Hall; Wilda Campbell

Joint Degrees Program

Dagmar Hamilton, Chairman

Gerard Rohlich

Victor Arnold

Art Anderson (first-year student)

Susan Rieff (second-year student)

Speakers, Conferences and Publications

Richard Schott, Chairman

Lynn Anderson

David Eaton

Leslie Loflin; Craig Pedersen (first-year students)

Kathleen Kelly; Jennifer Pfiester (second-year students)

Lemonias Writes Chapter in GAO Study

Peter J. Lemonias, a 1976 graduate of the LBJ School, authored a chapter in the recently published Cases in Accountability: The Work of the GAO, edited by Erasmus H. Loman (Western Press, Boulder, Colorado).

Lemonias's chapter, "Federal Supervision of State and National Banks," examines GAO's first review in this area. The case study follows the evolution of GAO's review of federal bank supervision from its inception to the finding that some bank failures may have been avoided if federal regulatory agencies had forced policy changes at problem banks rather than accept promises from management that were often unfulfilled.

The book, which contains twenty-eight case studies, is a companion volume to Frederick C. Mosher's The GAO: the Quest for Accountability in American Government, the first scholarly examination of the U.S. General Accounting Office since 1939.

Mr. Lemonias is a management auditor in GAO's National Productivity Group in Washington, D.C.