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Uncategorized Chemeketa Community College (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Katherine Moore didn’t want to spend her career working at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Moore, 20, knew a college education would prepare her for a higher-paying career. In the fall of 2019, she applied for a pharmacy technician program at Chemeketa Community College. But after[Read More…]
Willamette University will soon have more options for students studying art after finalizing a merger with the Pacific Northwest College of Art on Wednesday. The college, which has a downtown Portland campus, will maintain its own admission process and be an independent college within Willamette, offering both undergraduate and graduate[Read More…]
Uncategorized Members of the Oregon Tech faculty union are joined by students during a strike for better wages and benefits in front of their facility on Chemeketa Community College’s campus on Monday, April 26, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Five Oregon Institute of Technology professors in Salem joined colleagues in a faculty[Read More…]
Uncategorized Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Willamette University is slashing its “sticker price” tuition rate by almost $10,000 per year in a bid to attract more students to Oregon’s oldest university, which has seen falling enrollment for several years. Starting next fall, the[Read More…]
Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Willamette University has had one student and two employees test positive for Covid since students returned to campus[Read More…]
The Lillis Business Complex at the University of Oregon in Eugene (Rick Obst/Creative Commons) EUGENE – The University of Oregon made it official Wednesday: It will operate primarily virtual classrooms this fall due to the pandemic. Michael Schill, UO president, said freshmen will be welcome to live on campus. But[Read More…]
Uncategorized The Western Oregon University campus in Monmouth (Courtesy/Diane Stevenson/WOU) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Western Oregon University is moving nearly all classes online for fall quarter after administrators watched in-person university reopening efforts quickly reversed in other states. [Read More…]
Uncategorized Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) As Salem six-year-olds prepare to learn to read over Zoom, more than one thousand local college students will be back inside classrooms and dorms this fall. Willamette and Corban, both small private universities, are planning for in-person classes[Read More…]
Uncategorized Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Willamette University will have significantly fewer international students when classes resume in the fall whether or not a Trump administration rule limiting international student visas announced this week goes into effect. Kris Lou, director of Willamette’s Office[Read More…]
Uncategorized Two people walk through Willamette University on May 15. 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Willamette University is furloughing 80 employees for two months and laying off 37 workers in the latest move to balance the budget amid revenue hits from event cancellations and dorm closures. The university’s Board of Trustees approved[Read More…]
