Oregon Student Association
Founded in 1975, OSA is a coalition of student governments dedicated to the representation, service, and protection of the collective interests of over 100,000 students in postsecondary education.
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2007 Legislative Session Comes to an End—College Students Big Winners!
Congratulations Students!
At 1:15pm on June 28th on the Capitol steps, Governor Kulongoski signed the community college and universities operational budgets into law. Students attended the event, celebrating their success in helping to bring postsecondary education from low on the state’s list to a top priority this session, with the largest reinvestment in a decade.
In addition to increased funding for colleges and universities, the 2007 legislative session brought many victories for students, including historical commitments to college affordability. Read more in our press release.
Fix Postsecondary Education Funding First
Businesses and postsecondary education communities take cooperative action to ask that additional state funds go to postsecondary education first
May 3rd: At a press conference in the Capitol today, representatives from Oregon businesses and postsecondary education communities announced our plan for putting colleges and universities back on track by the end of this legislative session. Our message was clear: legislators can’t leave Salem this session without first funding an accessible, affordable, and quality postsecondary education system. Coined “fix this first,” the plan asks legislators to invest unallocated funds and new funds that become available to postsecondary education as the number one priority.
Read our press release here.
Read a fact sheet on the “Fix This First” plan here.
Following the press conference, students held a bake sale in the Capitol in a symbolic attempt to earn extra funds for our starved university and community college systems. Without adequate state support and tuition already sky-high, students didn’t know what other option we had—so we put on our aprons and held a good old fashioned bake sale.
Students also delivered giant piggy banks to legislators full of thousands of postcards signed by students across the state that call on legislators to “bank on students” as an investment in our education will bring exponential returns to the state when we enter the workforce as degree-carrying professionals.
Funding for Postsecondary Education Supported by Newspapers Across State
On April 25th, students handed out copies of all of the opinion pieces that have been published in Oregon newspapers since the beginning of the year in favor of funding for postsecondary education. The document is 142 pages long! View it here.
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