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Posts tagged as “Students”

Student debt trends

3/6/2012: From the NY Fed: The outstanding student loan balance now stands at about $870 billion,1 surpassing the total credit card balance ($693 billion) and the total auto loan balance ($730 billion). With college enrollments increasing and the costs of attendance rising, this balance of student loan debt is expected…

More Indian students?

10/14/2011: A New York Times article explains how competitive Indian universities have become, and how more students are coming to the US, instead of the UK. These are top students and it would be good networking for our Oregon students. Indian enrollment is still very low here. President Lariviere is…

What ASUO does

9/19/2011: From the ODE Franklin Bains article: – Last year, when the state government was looking through proposals to fix the ailing public higher education system, students in Oregon — including University students — roundly condemned University President Richard Lariviere’s plan, which wanted to use a mix of public and…

Take the booze bus

9/18/2011: The just released campus livability working group report is here. Joe Moseley’s HotTopics blog has some good comments, here. And Ed Russo has a long story in the RG – part of a series – on the impact of student partying on the neighborhoods south and west of campus.…

Diversity of thought at UO

6/5/2011: UO student Ben DeJarnette adds some diversity of thought to his education – with a joint class with Oregon State Penitentiary inmates. From his Op-Ed in the RG: … As universities do somersaults to achieve diversity in their student bodies, the Inside-Out experience should force us to question what…