Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey is scheduled to deliver his realignment plan aimed at balancing the school’s structural deficit at a Board of Trustees meeting this Friday, preceded by a Finance and Administration Committee meeting on Thursday.
Impacts of proposed budget cuts weigh heavily on faculty, it was evident at a two-hour “town hall” meeting Thursday in Stevenson Union, the last before the realignment plan goes to the SOU Board of Trustees on Friday, March 17, for initial review. Final adoption is expected April 21.
Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey released the fine print of his plan last week, detailing all but the names attached to the positions he is recommending be cut as part of what the university is calling a “four-plank realignment plan” to balance the budget and essentially avoid bankruptcy.
Veteran journalist Bert Etling will speak about “Sense of Place: Community journalism’s role in mediating community identity,” Thursday, March 9, as part of the Friends of Hannon Library Speaker Series for the 2022-23 academic year.
Southern Oregon University students join more than 30 other teams taking the Southern Oregon Polar Plunge on Saturday in Medford to benefit the Special Olympics. Registration for the event opens at 9 a.m. and the plunge starts at 11 a.m. at the Rogue Valley Country Club regardless of rain, sleet, snow or sun.
Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey spent time in Salem this week, with plans to meet with the six other public university presidents, state House Speaker Dan Rayfield, and other key legislators regarding funding for SOU and other public higher education institutions across Oregon.
Cutting more than 80 positions is needed as part of a “realignment” that will reduce costs by $3.6 million in Southern Oregon University’s approximately $66 million budget this year, SOU President Rick Bailey told a hall packed with concerned faculty, staff and students Thursday morning.
Southern Oregon University on Thursday will unveil a cost-saving plan that includes cuts to more than 80 university positions, according to university officials.
Ahead of a planned announcement of proposed budget cuts intended to realign Southern Oregon University’s multi-million dollar structural deficit, student leaders are saying that their classmates were largely surprised by talk of reductions and/or cuts to faculty, staff and programs in a recent student town hall.
How can chemistry be utilized to understand human impacts on the environment? That question will be answered during a Friday science seminar hosted by Southern Oregon University assistant professor Chris Babayco, Ph.D., organizers have announced.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival announced Monday the nonprofit’s six on-screen film lineup as a documentary showcase coming April 14-20 to the Varsity Theatre. Each Varsity feature will be paired with a short documentary directed by a local filmmaker.
Oregon drivers who for decades have been banned from touching gas pumps could soon have the right to fuel their own cars, under a bill the state House overwhelmingly approved Monday.
After announcing last week that the ski-snowboarding area broken its all-time season attendance record, Mt. Ashland Ski Area managers announced Sunday that its season has been extended to April 23, adding two weekends on to a schedule that typically would have ended on April 9.
During a visit to Central Point Sunday, Deb Haaland, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announced $21 million was on its way to Oregon to help reduce the risk of wildfires. Joining her were U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, and Mike Shaw, chief of fire protection at ODF.
A procession celebrating spring wound its way from the ice rink on Winburn Way to the Ashland Plaza on Saturday afternoon, drawing an estimated 150 participants with a like number of spectators.
Reader photos: Carlyle Stout of Ashland took these photos in Lithia Park after the last storm on March 1.
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