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What are your top 5 issues?

Since the Oregon Student Association’s founding in 1975, the Board of Directors has been comprised of each member school’s student body president and one additional student per school designated by the president. This 18 member student board works to expand access to affordable, quality post-secondary education for all Oregonians.

Help decide which issues your statewide student organization by filling in the following information and selecting your top five priorities from the options listed below. Your answers will remain confidential.

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* Your Expected Date of Graduation

BOD SURVEY ISSUES

* Pick your top 5 issues from those below, ranking them in order of importance with 1 being the most important and 5 being least important.

TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY - Students should be paying less for textbooks.

OREGON OPPORTUNITY GRANT - Protecting and expanding Oregon’s only need-based aid, available for low and middle income students.

TUITION & FUNDING - Low state funding = high tuition. We fight to keep tuition low.

TUITION EQUITY & DREAM ACT - Tuition Equity is a state campaign to allow all Oregon high school graduates to pay in-state tuition rates, regardless of documentation status. The DREAM Act is pending federal legislation which would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants through education and service. Let’s get these passed!

GENDER INCLUSIVE SPACES - To provide safe spaces for all students campuses need to offer restrooms, housing and other facilities designated for use by people of any and all gender identities.

WAIVE OREGON TRAIL WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS - To access Oregon’s food assistance program, low income persons must frequently meet certain work requirements which can be particularly difficult for students.

HEALTH CARE - Currently about 50 million Americans can’t afford it, and students face particular difficulties.

VETERAN’S ISSUES - Getting campuses ready to meet the specific needs of tens of thousands of veterans expected to take advantage of the new Post-9/11 GI Bill.

RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS - We need to make sure our schools are working to recruit and retain students of color, LGBTQ students and other students underrepresented in our colleges and universities.

CULTURAL COMPETENCY TRAINING - Our colleges and universities are increasingly comprised of students of diverse races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, economic statuses, life experiences and cultural backgrounds. Our schools need to provide members of the campus community with the training necessary to respect, foster and navigate this diversity — at school and in the workplace.

DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

Please check all of the following ways in which you identify yourself.

Low Income Student
Student Parent
Differently Abled / Disabled
Veteran
First Generation Student
Non-Traditional Student
Person of Color
White / Caucasian
Multiracial / Mixed Heritage
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Queer
Transgender, Gender Variant or Gender Queer

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