The board eliminated committees during this year and the participation of IFS, which had been primarily through the committees, needed to be rethought. As part of the issue of representation, the IFS agreed that Marjorie Burns should request that Les Swanson (board president) appoint Leif Terdahl to the 2010 commission.

The effects of Measure 5 continued to influence many issues of importance to IFS for several years after it was passed in 1989. During 1992 those issues included OPERS, state subsidy for intercollegiate athletics

Faculty productivity was a big issue in the legislature. There was no real definition of what productivity meant: how many classes, how many students, how many hours of preparation and what role research has in faculty production. Legislators tended to think that reduction in research would solve the problem, thus allowing more students to be taught. The governor and house speaker wanted 15% more FTE of students to be taught with no additional cost. IFS senators heard from legislators (particularly Ted Calouri) that higher ed has not been effective getting out the story of what it does. At the October meeting Vice Chancellor Shirley Clark thanked the faculty for the role they played in educating legislators about higher education and bringing about a more positive view of higher education among them.

Many proposals were floating around about how to increase student access without raising costs: limit the hours students can take without additional tuition (the cost of monitoring it would eat up any savings); more classes per faculty; 2-track faculty with one teaching and the other doing research (presumably supported by grants, not the state budget); end tenure or modify it (IFS senators discussed some alternatives; fixed-term, part-time and rolling contracts)(the system asks for more study on the evaluation of teaching effectiveness)(OHSU proposes to separate granting tenure from promotion to associate professor and increase the probationary period to 10 years)(Leif Terdahl later reported the OHSU faculty council voted not to change tenure policy); develop campus productivity plans; (Herb Jolliff reported that the productivity study showed faculty have a typical work week of 50 hours)

It was becoming clear the legislative view of higher education had changed from ³we support you but have no money² to changing higher education and making it less costly (Paul Engelking). The discussion of this new view by the legislature began a shift by IFS to a more active role in presenting higher educationıs case that grew through the 1990's until it became almost the primary role of IFS.

Faculty member on the board was an issue again. It was first raised in the 1970's and reappeared as an issue until finally resolved by legislation in 1997.

IFS put the issue of equal representation on IFS by all campuses on the December meeting agenda.

Paper on athletics? Tony Wilcox proposed a method to insure campuses adhere to SBHE guidelines for intercollegiate athletic budgets. ³The board adjusted aathletic budgets so that the increased tuition would not require athletic programs to bear high costs for tuition waivers.² However Vice Chancellor Weldon Ihrig reported this does not involve money transferred to athletics, just a paper transfer.

Ednet II was posing expense problems. Banner programs difficult for campuses

Sam Connell was put in charge of arranging an IFS reunion to which past members were to be invited to join in the discussions.

The defeat of the sales tax proposal in November left the system with no options but the serious cuts in programs.

Faculty concern about the hiring of institutional presidents without full faculty participation was addressed by a letter to the board committee advising that the IFS would appoint a committee to present recommendations to the board on the subject.