At a meeting in Portland today, members of the Higher Education Board’s Finance and Administration committee agreed to submit a budget proposal to the Oregon University System that includes 4.8 percent tuition increases across the state system and a 4.5 percent tuition increase for the University of Oregon. The proposed increase for 2013-2014 comes after [...]

The latest development in a recent game of administrative musical chairs was announced Wednesday, when W. Andrew Marcus, associate dean of social sciences, was announced as the replacement to act as Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. This temporary promotion follows the appointment of former Dean Scott Coltrane to the Interim Provost position by [...]

Each day brings finals week one step closer and, as the end of the year nears, deadlines are the top thought on students’ minds. On a national level, another deadline looms: On July 1, 2013, the interest rates for subsidized student loans are set to double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. With fewer than six [...]

Coffee fetcher. Errand runner. Fledgling. The title “intern” rarely carries a positive image. “A lot of the time, the term ‘intern’ has the negative connotation that you don’t know anything as a college student,” senior public relations and advertising major Megan Bauer said. “You have to put yourself in a position where you have to [...]

With June just around the corner and the school year coming to a close, many students will return home for the summer and leases will end. People are moving — whether it is in or out. To help make moving easier for everyone, students and neighbors alike, the University is putting on two separate events [...]

When the clock struck noon, the crowd started pouring into Matthew Knight Arena and the 11,000 expected attendees filtered through security, which consisted of stepping through a metal detector and being subjected to a brief bag check. By 1:30 p.m., there weren’t many seats left to spare. The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet made his appearance [...]

Near the end of spring term, most students are too busy trying to balance midterms and tanning to worry about the fate of Oregon’s university system. However, as the end of the 2012-2013 academic year draws to a close, a proposition that would significantly rearrange higher education remains a hot topic in the Oregon State Legislature: Senate [...]

The Free Application for Federal Student Aidis not known for its simplicity. Filling it out involves weeding through pages and pages of a complicated financial questionnaires, including estimating parental income to generate an “expected family contribution” for college expense, which in turn determines federal aid allotment.  Things get even more complicated when you throw same-sex parents [...]

With handmade signs, water bottle maracas and chanting “Contract now,” the University of Oregon’s faculty union — United Academics  — held a demonstration outside the Knight Library in support of their negotiating team and their efforts to complete negotiations with the UO administration regarding their contract proposal. The faculty negotiating team proposed the collective bargaining [...]

Win Min was offered a scholarship to study as an international student at the University of Oregon in 2008. However, it wasn’t until 2010 that Min could accept his tuition-paying International Cultural Service Program Scholarship and enroll. As the child of humble vegetable farmers working as a community English teacher for a salary of $50 [...]

For Matt Tofte, the University of Oregon was the right price. When he received his financial aid award letter one year ago, the incoming freshman estimated payment for tuition and fees at $9,258, including $433 in fees per term. Compared to out-of-state schools and combined with the presidential scholarship he received, the price tag helped [...]

Every minute spent discussing faculty union negotiations at the University of Oregon is another minute billed to an external lawfirm. After five months gathered around a bargaining table, faculty contract negotiations that started between the University and United Academics — the faculty union — in December of last year are still in the process of [...]

Hundreds of students will gather Thursday, April 25 in Salem, Ore., to rally for higher education funding. The march will include students from 26 different schools throughout the state as a part of an ongoing statewide effort from the Oregon Student Association to advocate for more funding from Oregon schools, increase financial aid program budgets and seek [...]

Founded by a University of Oregon graduate — training hundreds of students over the past two decades — the James H. Warsaw Sports Marketing Center has become one of the best sports business programs and is celebrating its 20 year anniversary this year. In 1993 the Warsaw Center, part of the Lundquist College of Business, [...]

The University of Oregon Selection Advisory Committee — on the hunt for a replacement provost of outgoing Jim Bean — met for the first time on Monday evening to lay the groundwork for the rest of the search. “We are just starting the search process,” said Alec Murphy, committee chair and geography professor. “We were [...]

Governor John Kitzhaber’s choice to hire Rudy Crew as Oregon’s first chief education officer was a bold one. The position is intended to help fulfill Kitzhaber’s goal to improve Oregon’s 67 percent high school graduation rate and integrate public schools from kindergarten through college, and Crew certainly has the credentials for the job. Crew once [...]

Something to consider the next time you hammer an alarm clock’s snooze button in the morning: You’re not only sleeping through classwork, you’re also wasting money. An undergraduate student at the University of Oregon pays $2,848 for a 16-credit term, according to the Office of the Registrar’s website. While that figure doesn’t take into account [...]

When Mike Andreasen was hired as vice president for University Development in 2010, his goal was to lead the department in building external support for the campus community. Since then, the responsibilities of public relations have changed in accordance with the evolution of technology and communications, and the University of Oregon is changing to keep [...]

For the past 10 years, Carla McNelly has been plagued with breathing problems, fatigue and eyes and nose and throat irritation. When the Oregon Hall employee steps out of the building she works in, however, the problems disappear. “The fact is that the symptoms … are not present when I leave Oregon Hall,” the University [...]

Tuition freezes for incoming undergraduates in Oregon universities could be one step closer to reality if House Bill 3472, heard in the Oregon Legislature this week, is passed. The bill, which would begin a study on the plausibility of tuition freezes in the Oregon University System, had its public hearing on Wednesday, along with two other [...]