Cuts may trim matching funds.Byline: DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. STEVES The Register-Guard SALEM - Citing higher education's difficult lesson from the 1990s, University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. President Dave Frohnmayer warned lawmakers Tuesday that cuts in academic offerings could scare students - and their tuition For tuition fees in the United Kingdom, see . Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning or by a private tutor usually in the form of one-to-one tuition. dollars - away. "Once a place has a reputation of not being friendly to the enterprise of educating its citizens ... it can't get back that reputation," he told the Senate Budget Rebalance Committee. Frohnmayer, who was flanked by President Daniel Bernstine of Portland State University and President Paul Risser of Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. , said the cuts being considered to close a projected $710 million shortfall Shortfall The amount by which the capital required to fulfill a financial obligation exceeds available capital. Notes: Shortfall risk is often combated with an efficient hedging strategy created by a fund, group, institution, or individual. would bring the Oregon University System The Oregon University System (OUS) consists of seven public, four-year universities in the State of Oregon administered by the Chancellor of the OUS, who serves at the will and pleasure of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education. to the same path it took after voters passed a property-tax limitation in 1990. That year's Measure 5, which forced the state to pick up the majority of public school costs, squeezed the amount of money left for other state programs, including the higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. system. In response, tuition eventually doubled and many universities eliminated academic offerings that were also available on other campuses. And those policies, Frohnmayer said, prompted students to take a pass on attending Oregon's public universities. When other universities did away with disciplines that the UO offered, such as journalism and music, students didn't transfer there; and many didn't enroll in college at all, he said. The lesson, Frohnmayer concluded, was this: "Even the perception of program instability causes the loss of students." The difference between the way Oregon universities operated then and currently is that student enrollment now has a bigger impact on how much money the schools receive, through both tuition and state funding. "That means if we start losing students to a perception of program instability, we start losing resources," he said. |
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