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rollment figures — it only has
about 2,000 students. The old sys
tem allowed the school to share
the gains of every public Oregon
university.
Yet, Voves said, Eastern would
receive extra state incentive money
for its cooperative degree programs
with other OUS schools. Eastern
hosts Oregon State University agri
culture programs and Oregon
Health Sciences University nursing
degrees, for example, she said.
For Eastern, the problem lies in
keeping its small faculty-to-stu
dent ratio while trying to increase
enrollment for the new system.
Back in the Willamette Valley,
Oregon State is expecting some
funding gains but isn’t the biggest
winner among OUS’s larger insti
tutions.
Like Portland State, the school
is expecting its largest freshman
class in years — about 600 more
this year added to the 400 extra
last year — building on its about
14,000 full-time students.
OUS figures predict about a $12
million increase for Oregon State.
For the University of Oregon, the
days of giving up 10 percent of its
non-resident tuition to the state
money pool could be finished. Last
year, the University lost $4.4 mil
lion in tuition money that it brought
in because of the old funding sys
tem, said Frances Dyke, University
resource management director.
Based on OUS figures, the Uni
versity would receive almost $69
million from the state in the new
system as opposed to the $49 mil
lion it received for the 1997-98
school year.
Taking into account a drop in
nonresident enrollment, the Uni
versity would gain almost $18 mil
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funding system
■ Eastern Oregon University
■H $1,261,513
I Oregon Institute of Technology
■1 $194,185
Oregon State University
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lion, depending on the amount of
future enrollment and money the
Legislature approves, she said.
Competition
If each university needs stu
dents to boost its budget, would
n’t they all be competing for the
same students? University offi
cials don’t think so.
"Every school fills a niche,”
Eastern’s Voves said.
Students looking for a large ur
ban campus like Portland State
aren’t usually interested in a small
rural school like Eastern, she said.
"We do not compete in the same
pool of students,” she said.
Portland State’s Pernsteiner
said the Eastern, Southern and
Western Oregon universities
won’t lose out in the competition
because they provide a private lib
eral arts experience at a public
school price.
“That’s a product that has a lot
of value to a lot of people,” he said.
The thinking at OUS is that a little
competition won’t hurt.
“There will be some competi
tion for some students, but I don’t
think that competition is un
healthy if in the end they’ve
served the interest of students,”
said Nancy Goldschmidt, an OUS
senior policy official.
Problems
Some analysts predict the new
system will eventually leave Ore
gon’s smaller public colleges be
hind.
If Portland State’s funding in
creases while Eastern’s funding is
stable, funding inequalities will
result over time, said Ed Dennis,
Oregon Student Association exec
utive director.
In addition, Dennis said, the ad
ministration and overhead costs at
each university are not accounted
for in the new model.
And now university officials
await the Legislature’s move.
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