Committee Reports and Assignments -University of Oregon Doctoral Research Fellowships have been awarded. S. DeLancey volunteered to serve as the Council member on the selection committee. The report of the subcommittee was circulated with the agenda. Several items were pointed out as significant and possibly problematic. In particular, in the distance learning arena, it appears that the State System would prefer to appear as a single unit with the distinctions between individual institutions greatly diminished.
Residency is a complex issue in distance education policy.
It was pointed out that reductions in the actual amount of time in residence might be offset by counterpart experiences built into distance education programs. The subcommittee's draft policy recommendations identify the burden of proof as falling to the individual program which must demonstrate how it might provide alternatives that meet the spirit of residency. Nevertheless, a revised policy needs to specify some minimal level of direct faculty-student contact. The EDPM program in Canada, the Guam program, or the former music education program, that included a year in Europe as residency, might provide useful examples when examining alternate residency requirements. The qualifications of non-UO faculty constitute another critical issue in distance education.