Oregon Student Association
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Color the Vote!
Statewide Day of Action: Wednesday, April 23rd
With the voter registration deadline days away, the Oregon Students of Color Coalition (OSCC) is holding a statewide day of action to turn out the student of color vote. The event draws on the historic student of color-led vote drives that built communities’ of color power to win concrete change during the Civil Rights era and other movements. Today in Oregon, turning out students of color to vote is more important than ever. While a college degree is crucial in the current economy, college enrollment rates have declined for the majority of communities of color—even when our state’s population of color is increasing.
“Oregon is failing to get our students of color to college,” said OSCC Board member Aimeera Flint, “and we want to change that. The first step to building our power is making sure that students of color turn out at the ballot box. Join us in registering students of color to vote!”
Below are the events at each campus:
MHCC: Main Mall, 11am-2pm (part of Diversity Fair)
PSU: Park Blocks in front of Smith Memorial Union (SMU), 12-2pm; also in Multicultural Center (SMU Rm 228) at 3pm (as part of MCC Open House)
WOU: in front of Warner Center, 12-2pm
UO: back lawn of Erb Memorial Union (EMU), 12-2pm
SOU: in front of Smith Center, 12-2pm
Students Return to Salem
‘Thanks for funding college students, and p.s., don’t forget us!”
Oregon’s first-ever supplemental session is now underway and students are returning to the capitol February 13th and 14th with their famously creative tactics. Students are delivering bagged lunches to legislators filled with items from last year’s “bake sale” as a way to thank them for the historical reinvestments they made in students last session. The lunches also contain a napkin with a hand-written message, just like the one mom or dad would put in your lunch bag, reminding legislators not to forget about students next session!
Said OSA Board member Mike Filippelli, “With a possible upcoming recession on everyone’s minds, OSA wants to ensure that Oregon’s college and university students don’t once again get tossed to the bottom of the pile when it comes to funding. With these bagged lunches, we are both thanking our legislators for the great job they did last session for Oregon’s college and university students as well as reminding them to keep it up! A continued reinvestment in postsecondary education is what will ensure that our economy has the college-educated workforce it needs for the future.”
Find Out How Much Grant $ You’ll Get Next Year!
Students, the 2007 Oregon legislature over doubled funding for our state’s only need-based grant program—the Oregon Opportunity Grant. As a result, thousands more students will receive the Oregon Opportunity Grant next year, and those currently receiving the grant stand to receive more! Find out how much your Opportunity Grant may be using the OOG Estimator, available at GetCollegeFunds.org.
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