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May 3, 2021 Jack Johnson drove in six runs in leading the 5th ranked Lewis-Clark State baseball team to a 17-2 victory over Eastern Oregon Sunday in La Grande. Johnson had a three-run homerun and a 3-run double in the win. Brock Ephan hit his team-leading 18th Jack Johnson homer and Lewiston’s Luke White added a two-run shot. LC improves to 38-4 and will host the three-team Cascade Conference Tournament this weekend at Harris Field. The round robin, double-elimination tournament begins S...

The university filed a petition asking for the state agency to declare the strike unlawful last week.

Support grows for striking faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology Oregon Tech faculty picket line (Photo: OT-AAUP Facebook) The struggle is the first public university faculty strike in the state’s history, and the first contract being negotiated by the Oregon Tech chapter of the American Association of University Professors (OT-AAUP) since it was established in late-2018 to cover full-time faculty, instructors and librarians. Dozens of faculty, staff and students showed their support on p...

18 2 minutes read April 26 marks the start of the first public university strike in Oregon’s history. After 550 days of negotiation, the faculty, represented by American Association of University Professors,  were forced to withhold their labor from an administration which refused to bargain in good faith. The faculty have demanded a modest raise, secure benefits, and a reasonable and clearly defined workload. Faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology have been trying to negotiate for the...

The NAIA National Office announced its National Athlete of the Week selections for outdoor track & field on Wednesday. Kenny Benton of Tennessee Wesleyan was named the Men’s Track Athlete of the Week after a sterling performance at the AAC Championships. Benton earned Track MVP honors thanks to winning the 100, 200, 400 and helping out on the first-place 4×100 relay. Hunter Drops of Oregon Tech was named the Men’s Field Athlete of the Week after a strong effort at the CCC Multi Champ...

Oregon Tech faculty go on strike April 27, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Tech’s faculty union has gone on strike. Picket lines were seen Monday on the Klamath Falls and Wilsonville campuses, The Herald and News reported. By noon, roughly 100 people, including some students, held signs and chanted near the school’s main entrance. The scene marked the first faculty-wide strike in the history of higher education in Oregon, the newspaper reported. According to Or...

Civil Engineering student awarded national scholarship supporting design and building of safer structures in our communities Klamath Falls April 28, 2021 Kela Leamy, Civil Engineering student at Oregon Tech, has been selected as recipient of the 2021 Simpson Strong-Tie Student Scholarship. These extremely competitive national scholarships are offered to students to support education and encourage the design and building of safer structures in our communities. Kela is from Corvallis and ...

The union representing Oregon Institute of Technology faculty went on strike Monday. The union and the university negotiated over the weekend, but they were not able to reach an agreement. The two parties have been in contract talks since fall 2019. “We organized our union in record time and we’re the first faculty ever to go on strike in Oregon,” said Mark Clark, professor of history and OT-AAUP past president in a release shared Monday morning. “I hope Oregon Tech’s senior administr...

Oregon Tech Professors Go on Indefinite Strike By   Oregon Institute of Technology’s faculty union went on strike Monday, saying it seeks to preserve the university’s traditions of shared governance, small class sizes and hands-on instruction. The union, which is affiliated with the American Association of University Professors, traces its concerns about the future of the institution to the arrival of Oregon Tech president Nagi Naganathan in 2018. Mark Clark, professor of history, said d...

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — The faculty union at the Oregon Institute of Technology went on strike Monday morning, making it the first faculty to ever go on strike in Oregon. The strike, organized through Oregon Tech – American Association of University Professors (OT-AAUP), said it’s demanding fair wages, secure benefits and a reasonable, clearly defined workload. “We organized our union in record time,” said Mark Clar, professor of history and OT-AAUP past president. “I hope Oregon Tech...