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Saturday, May 21, 2022
EOU joins state’s other public universities in tuition hikes
Increase is just below
what would require
approval from state
trend they say is critical to address.
“The real key to everything
really is enrollment. That’s what
we’re going to live and die on is
enrollment,” EOU Trustee Brad
Stephens said at the board’s meeting.
All of the public universities
are instituting tuition increases for
the upcoming academic year of
anywhere from around 3% to 5%
for in-state undergraduate students.
By MEERAH POWELL
Oregon Public Broadcasting
LA GRANDE — Eastern
Oregon University’s Board of Trust-
ees on Thursday, May 19, approved
a 4.9% tuition increase for under-
graduate students for the upcoming
academic year.
EOU is the last public university
in Oregon to decide on tuition this
year. It follows in the footsteps of
the six other universities that have
all recommended increases.
However, even with the tuition
increase, and an estimated boost
in enrollment, Eastern offi cials are
still anticipating a budget defi cit of
at least $2 million.
EOU’s Vice President of Finance,
Lara Moore, said the university
made certain decisions it knew
would contribute to that operat-
ing defi cit — including freezing its
tuition rates for most undergraduate
students last year.
“Our tuition proposal recog-
nizes that,” Moore said. “It recog-
nizes that we are in an operating
defi cit. It recognizes the infl ation-
ary pressures that we are under as
an institution, because we do want
to maintain our fi nancial stability.”
Moore stressed that even with
the tuition increase, affordabil-
ity is an important principle to the
university. According to EOU board
documents, Eastern is still Oregon’s
cheapest public university by credit
Rate at which tuition is
climbing
Eastern Oregon University/Contributed Photo
Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, is the last public university in Oregon to decide on tuition this year. The
university’s board of trustees Thursday, May 19, 2022, approved a 4.9% tuition increase. EOU follows in the foot-
steps of the six other universities that have all recommended increases.
hour for in-state students even with
this increase.
Undergraduate in-state students
are paying a little over $7,800 in
tuition this school year if they’re
taking 15 credits per term in a regu-
lar three-term year. They’ll pay
roughly $380 more starting next
school year — or about $8,200
in annual tuition. Students from
Washington and Idaho can also get
in-state tuition at Eastern.
Undergraduate out-of-state
students are currently paying about
$20,500 annually, based on that
same 15-credit load. They will see
an annual increase of about $1,000
— up to $21,500 in annual tuition.
Tuition prices also vary for
students in the Western Undergrad-
uate Exchange Program, or WUE —
students who come from a number
of states near Oregon, like Califor-
nia and Nevada. Rates also vary for
students solely taking classes online.
Eastern is Oregon’s smallest
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public university and like nearly
every other public university in
the state, it got a little smaller
during the pandemic. Only Oregon
State University has avoided a
decrease in enrollment this past fall
compared with numbers before the
pandemic, according to Oregon’s
Higher Education Coordinating
Commission. Offi cials at the small
university in La Grande are report-
ing an 8% decrease in enrolled
students from 2019 to fall 2021 — a
EOU Colloquium concludes with
a look at biosensor technology
a continuation of her previ-
ous work in studying small
LA GRANDE — Eastern artificial DNA strands,
Oregon University’s faculty called aptamers, and how
academic presentation venue, they can be utilized to recog-
Colloquium, fi nishes out the nize a specific biomarker
year with a look at research that signals the presence of
in microfluid devices and the bacterium responsible
aquaculture biosensor devel- for bacterial kidney disease
opment.
in salmon. She is currently
Professor of chemis- developing a microfluidic
try Anna Cavinato
based biosensor to
will present Thurs-
detect the presence
day, May 26, from
of Renibacterium
salmoninarum..
4-5 p.m. in Acker-
“Aptamers are
man 210 the find-
used as an alter-
ings from her 2021
native to antibod-
research sabbatical
in microfl uidics and
ies in assays, and so
the development of
Cavinato
for many years I’ve
worked on identify-
an electrochemical
biosensor for aquaculture ing aptamers that bind to an
applications. The event is extracellular protein on the
free and open to the public.
surface of Renibacterium
“The presentation will salmoninarum which causes
highlight the research that I bacterial kidney disease in
previously did on aptamers salmon,” Cavinato said.
and then how I utilized the
During her sabbati-
aptamers for the development cal, Cavinato took part in
of an electrochemical, micro- research at Colorado State
fl uidic sensor for the detec- University under Profes-
tion of bacteria in water,” sor Chuck Henry studying
Cavinato said.
microfl uidic platforms that
Cavinato’s recent research use colorimetric or electro-
experience in microfl uidics is chemical detection meth-
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Some universities like the
University of Oregon and Oregon
State University, have cohort-style
tuition rates which diff er depending
on whether a student is new to the
university or continuing. Both UO
and OSU are charging new in-state
undergraduate students 4.5% more
than current tuition rates.
University offi cials who aren’t
facing the direct threat of lowered
student enrollment have cited rising
infl ation costs as a reason for the
increases.
Still, all of the universities
have committed to staying under
5% increases. If they go over that
amount, they have to seek outside
approval from the state’s Higher
Education Coordinating Commis-
sion. Getting approved for a higher
tuition increase is not guaranteed,
as UO and Portland State University
learned in 2017.
The Oregon Institute of Technol-
ogy was initially recommending a
7% increase in tuition and fees, but
it lowered that increase to 5% last
week, after a funding adjustment in
their favor.
ods. She also worked with
university graduate students
learning how to fabricate
disposable devices that could
be utilized in the develop-
ment of the bacterial sensors.
“There was a lot of learn-
ing involved and it was
wonderful to immerse myself
in research and be a student
all over again. It was very
exciting to be able to learn
something completely new,”
she said. “In the lab where
I was, they were applying
microf luidics to COVID
detection, so they were very
busy working on microfl uidic
devices, both electrochemi-
cal and colorimetric.”
Cavinato also started
a new project developing
paper microfl uidic devices
obtained by printing specifi c
shapes with conventional
laser printers rather than
traditional wax printers
which are becoming obso-
lete. She introduced these
simple devices in her Analyt-
ical Chemistry course during
fall term and had students
experiment with different
shapes and diff erent analyt-
ical applications.
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Island City man dies in
motorcycle crash
BAKER CITY — An Island City man
died when he lost control of the motorcycle
he was riding while exiting Interstate 84 in
Baker City on Tuesday afternoon, May 17.
John Dale Atwood, 73, died at the scene,
according to an Oregon State Police.
The accident happened around 4:24 p.m.
Atwood was riding westbound on the free-
way when he took the off ramp at Exit 304,
the Campbell Street interchange, OSP
reported.
“For unknown reasons,” Atwood lost
control of the 2011 Harley-Davidson and
crashed into a guardrail, according to state
police. He was thrown from the motorcycle,
which continued down the off ramp.
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