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Student financial aid
hampered by red tape
Students financial aid programs
are bringing about alarmingly
increasing governmental inter
vention in higher education,
Mercer University Vice President
William T. Haywood told an
Atlanta audience.
Dr. Haywood, who is vice presi
dent for business and finance,
presented a paper entitled
“Student Financial Aid: True
Cost!" at a workshop sponsored
by the National Association of
College and University Business
Officers and the National
Association of Student Financial
Aid Administrators. Haywood is a
past president of the business
officers association.
The problem of governmental
intervention has developed at
both the state and national levels,
Dr. Haywood said. It stems not
so much from laws as from
bureaucratic rules and regulations
and interpretations of laws by the
courts.
Dr. Haywood traced the history
of student financial aid programs
in the United States, pointing out
that there was little governmental
concern over higher educational
institutions and their functions
until the late 1950 s when the
Russians launched their Sputnik
satellite. The reaction to Sputnik
by the American people was one
of fear and from that fear grew a
determination to catch up, Dr.
Haywood said.
"It was the consensus of
national leadership that the only
way America could catch up with
Russia in the Sputnik era was
through the mass production of
college level, educated citizens,”
he said. “Thus the first national
effort to subsidize college students
without reference to any forms of
repayment for services rendered
(i.e., the G.I. Bill of World War
II) evolved and reflected the
national concern in its title: the
National Defense Education Act,
the emphasis of which was the
National Defense Student Loan
(NDSL) Program."
The original NDSL regulations
were extensive in their published
form. Dr. Haywood said, but at
least they were written in such
fashion that the college had
broad administrative discretion.
But as always, there was a joker
in the deck. “However simple
those initial regulations were, they
provided the first entree of the
federal bureaucracy into the
internal management and decision
making of both public and
private higher educational insti
tutions,” Dr. Haywood said.
Dr. Haywood cited numerous
instances in which “colleges over
extended themselves in research
and support facilities, employed
many basic research scientists and
tenured an over-abundance of
them, and had established un
balanced reliance on teh spon
sored research dollar and its
overhead contribution to general
operating revenue.
"It took only one national
administration, disenchanted with
further space exploration, to
traumatize the colleges by
dramatic reduction of research
support. Major universities slipped
quickly from black to red and
many private ones entered the
public domain. Others merged or
ceased to operate.
"Lest this paper seem to place
all of the burden of governmental
interference on the federal
bureaucracy, let us hasten to
acknowledge that we are now
facing an emergence of similar
problems in many states which
have developed state financial aid
programs for college students.”
The level of government inter
ference in higher education
through student aid programs has
expanded in several areas, Dr.
Haywood said. It has affected not
only financial affairs of colleges
and universities, but has extended
as well into accreditation and
admissions policies.
“If there remain those who
would challenge the premise of
this paper that the use of student
financial aid funds creates op
portunity for bureaucratic inroads
into the internal management of
colleges and universities, we can
look to some examples which are
current, alive and kicking,” he
said, "although to do so may
well call attention to the inaction
of some institutions which techni
cally places them in violation of
federal regulations — as
distinguished from federal law."
Quoting from an article in The
Chronicle of Higher Education in
November, 1975. he cited a
statement from an unidenfified
source in the Department of
Health. Education and Welfare
saying: "We will probably
propose more rules later to ex
pand and cover all student aid
programs."
Concerning accrediting problems.
Dr. Haywood said: "Unfortuna-
tely, governmental bureaucrats are
dissatisfied with a system which
has worked well but which
appropriately has excluded them
from direct participation in the
accrediting process.
Dr. Haywood cited a recent
speech by President Kingman
Brewster of Yale, in which he
warned of the tendency of
government to prescribe every
thing from Washington. Brewster
said higher education needs
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By State Rep. Bobby Sigman
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STATE REP. BOBBY SIGMAN VISITS WITH BYRON
PADEN OF NEWTON COUNTY ON HIS RECENT IN
SPECTION TOUR OF GEORGIA WAR VETERANS NUR
SING HOME IN AUGUSTA.
The Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home cost $2-million dollars
and was born in 1966 when the state of Georgia took advantage of
Public Law 88-450 and matched funds of the Federal Government for
construction. The Home was completed in Nov. 1968 and the first
patient was admitted in Jan. 1969.
The Nursing Home is owned and financed by the state of Georgia,
Department of Veterans Service, and operated by the Medical College
of Georgia. All of the employes are Medical College of Georgia
employes and are classified in the same manner and paid the same
wage scale. Also, all of the common service facilities of the College
are used since the Home is a Division of Hospital and Clinics,
Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hospital. Services used are the specialty
clinics, special consults, pharmacy, procurement, computer center,
inpatient care, x-ray and clinical labs, comptroller and budget, per
sonnel and central services.
An essential difference between a hospital and skilled nursing home
is the amount of skilled nursing care required. In hospitals, the
skilled nursing care is assumed to be sufficient when any biological
crisis can be met. However, in a skilled nursing home, the amount of
skilled nursing required will vary with individual patients as based
upon care requirements and the physical and mental functioning levels
of the patient. Care requirements involve a minimum of two-hours per
day nurse care on a twenty-four hour basis in a controlled therapeutic
environment. Physical and mental functioning levels are measured by
need for continuous supervisions for safety; incontinency; the inability
to feed self adequately; the incapability of using prosthesis or inability
to care for prosthesis; inability to ambulate or move safety by wheel
chair or walker and unable to assist self in any significant degree
with personal care. Any one or combinations of these will establish
the need for skilled nursing care and admission.
The Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home stafi consists of a full
time medical director with a staff consists of one-hundred budgeted
positions and is made up of registered and licensed practical nurses,
nursing assistants and ward clerks. A full time director of nursing
heads up the nursing staff. Therapy services are provided and a full
staff is maintained in the Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy
Departments. Also maintained is a Food Service Department, House
keeping Department Activities and Recreation Director, social worker
for patient and family affairs, a Medical Records Department, and a
Business Office to handle patient funds and property and to handle
regular fiscal affairs. Maintenance Service is responsible for patient
equipment, safety and maintenance of installed fixtures. Clinical pro
fessional services offered are speech and hearing therapy on a con
stractual basis, as well as podiatry and dental services.
Admissions to the Nursing Home is limited to Georgia War Veterans
who have served the nation during a war time period and who have
resided in Georgia one year at the time of application, and is in need
of nursing home care. Admission is determined upon review of the
application by the Administrator, Medical Director and Director of
Nursing, according to the need of the patient after all aspects have
been considered.
Patients are categorized as I, 11, 111 or IV. Briefly, a Category I
patient is completely dependent on care needs; Category II is almost
completely dependent and needs help; Category 111 is not completely
dependent, can help but needs support, and Category IV is essentially
self care, needs medical and therapy treatment. This type of categori
zation is required to maintain a proper patient mix and to stablilize
the work force for efficient and professional patient care operations.
Upon admission by the Medical Director, patients are given a
physical examination within 24-hours and diagnostic impressions ren
dered. These impressions are then staffed by the Medical Director to
the Patient Assessment Panel. The Patient Assessment Panel, com
posed of the professional disciplines, review the admission impression
and provide their speciality input for formulation of a Patient Care
Plan.
The Patient Care Plan, under Nursing Service monitoring, is
assembled and then forwarded to the Medical Director of approval.
Upon approval, the plan is put into effect. The plan is constantly
updated, goals evaluated and periodically reviewed. Discharge results
when a patient has reached maximum nursing home benefits,
hospitalized for an extended stay, deceases, or just decides to leave.
The Georgia War Veterans Nursing Home philosophy is that. "Life
is one thing and living is another." The Nursing Home believes in
living. The Home is concerned with the patient as a “total" not a
“diasnostic entity." The goal is to establish a sense of "well being" in
the patient which will prdmote an attitude resulting in a happy,
worthwhile and dignified life. Care is based on the ability of each
employee to have a mutual trust and respect for all people. It's the
ability of the employees, the confidence in their ability and the will
ingness to share with others that is the keystone of the Nursing
Home management and operations.
support from the federal govern
ment. but stressed that it must
come without strings.
Paraphrasing a portion of
Brewster's address. Dr. Haywood
said: "It is time to reaffirm that
merely because the national
government is the national banker
for education it does not follow
that the government should make
every educational institution an
instrument of the Washington
political bureaucracy.
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