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Originally published on April 8, 2021 2:30 pm
Oregon’s oldest public university, Western Oregon, in the small Willamette Valley city of Monmouth, will be cutting multiple programs and the equivalent of more than a dozen full-time faculty, hoping to get ahead of falling enrollment that’s only been worsened during the pandemic.
Administrators say it’s a necessary move to protect the financial health of the university, and a way to keep the 165-year-old institution affordable for prospective students. But employees, current students and alumni say they’re worried about a change in campus culture and community especially with eliminations of programs like philosophy, which teach broadly beneficial skills, such as critical thinking, analysis and writing.
SALEM â The fuzzy future of Oregon politics east of the Cascades went public last week â no diagrams, charts, data â really nothing tangible at all to show how new legislative and congressional districts will be drawn.
âWe donât have any maps,â said Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Lake Oswego, chair of the House Redistricting Committee. âWe donât have any numbers from the census.â
Salinas and her Senate counterpart, Sen. Kathleen Taylor, D-Milwaukie, said they were making a good faith effort to hold the legally required 10 public hearings on new political maps.
Maps that donât exist â at least, not yet.
The hearings are collateral damage from the constitutional car crash headed to the Oregon Supreme Court.