The state has cut its funds to higher education, so tuition could increase as much as 5 percent. The Tuition Fees Advisory Board met on Tuesday and will come up with a recommendation to the board about a tuition increase, UO President Schill said. It all happened at the UO Faculty Senate meeting yesterday.
“It’s going to be an unusual situation because we won’t know our budget from the state until several months after the tuition decision,” Schill said. “This is a complicated process and not an easy process.”
Schill spoke briefly about a variety of topics at the meeting, including calling UO a sanctuary campus.
“In the resolution, we do ask that we call ourselves a sanctuary campus, and that’s not what we’re going to do,” Schill said. “I don’t feel that we need to do that.”
The president also accepted the Intercollegiate Athletic Advisory Committee, a new committee approved by the senate at its last meeting of fall term, and said it was a good compromise.
Chris Chavez, Co-chair of the Bias and Education Response Team Task Force, spoke about how students are not always referred to the BERT. Students can contact the BERT if they experience bias on campus, but students are often confused about where to go or are mislead to other groups and don’t report to the BERT when they should. Chavez also mentioned that the Bias Education and Response Team can have privacy issues, is disciplinary in nature, and can constrain academic freedom.
Roger Thompson, UO Enrollment Manager, passed out the 2016 Annual Report at the meeting. He revealed that the university has met its goal that it made seven years ago to have a freshman class that is 31 percent students of ethnic and racial minorities.
“Our goals have always been pretty clear,” Thompson said. “We try to increase quality as measured by grade point average and standardized test score, as well as the amount of college work a student brings to the University of Oregon when they come from high school.”
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