In January, 1983, the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) All current equipment with a dollar value of at least $250 and USHE Equip. Study Report Page 2 of 4 Pages BACKGROUND --Continued As each item of equipment was listed on the invertory, the following information was also listed: * Units on hand * Age in years since manufactured or acquired * Origninal cost to institution * Whether it was acquired as "excess" or "surplus" or "donated * Its current usefulness/useability for effective teaching: A. Equipment is obsolete in business/industry Equipment is useful for training but is not used in business/industry B. C. D. Equipment is currently used in business/industry * Description of equipment needed to replace current * Units of replacement equipment needed * Cost of replacement equipment * Projected years of useability of either currently useful or needed replacement equipment. In addition, each program was asked to list "additional" items of equipment for which their was not a similar or equal item currently on inverntory. This inventory asked for the: * Projected years of usefulness/useability for effective teaching. USHE Equip. Study Report Page 3 of 4 Pages FINDINGS Across All Programs Among All Eight USHE Institutions Total units currently inventoried among eight USHE Total original cost to USHE for currently inventoried equipment: $9.45 Million. * Weighted mean age for current equipment: 8.5 years. Weighted mean years of projected usefulness/useability for "additional" equipment: 8.8 years. Total current equipment which is obsolete: 10 percent. Total cost to replace current obsolete equipment: Total current equipment which is either obsolete or not currently used in business/industry: 25 percent. * Total cost to replace current equipment which is either obsolete or not currently used in business/industry: 6.51 Million. * Total replacement units needed in USHE to bring ⭑ Total replacement costs for 5,534 units: $21.39 Million. * Total units of "additional" equipment needed beyond * Totat cost for "additional $8.31 Million. equipment needed: USHE Equip. Study Report Page 4 of 4 Pages FINDINGS --Continued Equipment Needs Across Eight USHE Institutions, By Program, Frank, I hope the data will be of value in your presentations before the various Congressional hearings on tax credits for equipment, on vocational education reauthoriztion, and on others. For some perspective, Utah's population is currently 1.65 million and growing. We need equipment not only to more closely approximate the state-of-the-art but also to provide for the tremendous growth which will hit the USHE in five years. Nearly 45 percent of all lower division full-time equivalent enrollments in the eight institutions studied are enrolled in vocational education programs. Call me if you want some findings not reported above. David R. Terry, Ph.D. cc: Dean Griffin, AVA Gene Woolf Arvo Van Alstyne Don Carpenter Gail Norris 1184F STATEMENT OF DR. RICHARD K. GREENFIELD, CHANCELLOR, ST. LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, ST. LOUIS, MO. Dr. GREENFIELD. Thank you, Senator. Mr. Chairman, my name is Richard Greenfield. I am the chancellor of the St. Louis Community College District in St. Louis, Mo. I am speaking here on behalf of my own institutions as well as the two associations that were just mentioned by Wayne Newton. If my statement may be entered in the record, I will summarize my remarks. Senator GRASSLEY. Yes; it will be included in toto. [The prepared statement of Dr. Richard K. Greenfield follows:] |