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Talk about putting the cart before the horse. Or in this case, the dam before the beaver.
It's no wonder the state legislature rejected the OSU leadership's request for $69 million earlier this year. Instead it offered $9 million in bonds for the branch campus on Bend's westside. At this rate of funding, it will be decades before it is even partially built out.
Now, the OSU brain trust wants just $38 million to partially fill a pumice pit and turn a demolition dump into a full-fledged university.
The state doesn't have the money OSU-Cascades wants.
Like other states, Oregon is getting out of the business of funding higher education. It's been a long-time goal of conservatives to de-fund higher education because they few most schools as swamps of liberalism.
Oregon, though, does offer free tuition to some community college students.
But, the state's flagship universities, Oregon and OSU, who already have their own boards of trustees, will likely become completely privately funded by 2025, if not sooner.
The University of Oregon and OSU are planning on becoming private institutions by seeking multi-billion dollar endowments. Of course, they're also raising tuition and accepting more out-of-state students who pay significantly more than in-state students.
Meanwhile, high rollers in Central Oregon have raised $10 million for OSU-Cascades. While impressive, that sum won't buy many buildings, let alone much-needed parking spaces.
As enumerated before, OSU-Cascades allowed no public vote on the location of the campus. It chose the most-congested and most expensive area of town in which to build the school. Students can't afford to live anywhere near the campus. In fact, the new master plan shows housing for faculty.
If professors can't afford to live near the school, how can students?
As we embrace the era of privatization, fewer in-state students will be able to attend in-state "public" colleges or universities.
In the 1980s, the state contributed more than 70 percent toward the cost of running the state's colleges and universities. Today, it is less than 7 percent, thanks in large part to tax-cutting measures voted by Oregonians.
That's the spirit of our times: Cut taxes and expect money to still flow to public institutions. Having your cake and eating it, too.
It's like saying, "Okay, let's all take a pay cut and we'll all have more money at the end of the month!"
Isn't that insane?
Kansans destroyed their state with tax cuts and now Republicans are hell-bent on destroying the country with their current tax proposal.
Once it passes, and corporations get their big fat tax cuts, maybe they'll turn around and fund higher education. Uh, not really.
And yet, it won't be long before UO is re-named Nike University.
Maybe OSU in Corvallis can be called Reser Salsa University.
OSU-Cascades needs a local sugar daddy like Les Schwab Tires or Brooks Resources.
If it's Les Schwab, we can call OSU-Cascades, LSU.
The school's slogan could be: We Tread on You.
Bundy mistrial declared. Bundy is and was a government plant. He was let off the hook today as promised.
ReplyDeleteLet's go for a ride in the "about a year ago" machine when I said the following. It's like I can see the future but really I can smell the stench of .gov and msm more than anything.
I don't really read your blog much anymore Ray. It tends to be full of regurgitated nonsense from whatever media outlet makes you feel better about your position. There's very little factual information or truth in your blathering. Again, I didn't vote for Trump. I could bring myself to vote for Clinton or Trump. Trump is one of them IMO. You'd stand in line to kiss his feet if the media told you to. It's like your post where you gushed about Obama. You even mentioned the Nobel Prize he received before bombing the shit out of the middle east, spending $6 Billion to facilitate regime change in Ukraine, and funneling arms to ISIS(yes they are for hire)via Libya.
AnonymousNovember 2, 2016 at 8:01 PM
Did it ever occur that Bundy is not what you think he is? I started to suspect something was fishy about that guy. When he got off, it solidified in my mind that the whole thing was somewhere between a false flag and a trial balloon. I could be wrong, maybe he thought he was doing good even though the Hammond family wanted nothing to do with him from the beginning.
It's interesting you bring up the Standing Rock Sioux as a comparison. Where is Obama, Clinton, Trump, Warren on this Dakota Access Pipeline issue? The silence is deafening. You've got police from four different states bringing in military gifts to deal with peaceful protestors. It's a good thing there's no sign of tyranny.
I'm going to go out on a limb. I could be totally wrong but I'm going to stick with the bizarro world lenses and the idea that truth is stranger than fiction. Trump is going to be our next president. Not for reasons that you'd think or not think. Both the right and the left will get it horribly wrong when the votes are all counted and the deal is finally done. If I'm correct, I'll elaborate on my suspicions. I could be wrong but I'm willing to put it out there. She's too tainted, ain't meant to happen.