PSU Vanguard
February 2nd, 2015
Thursday, Feb.12, students are invited to join the Oregon Student Association (OSA) for the Rally to Restore Higher Education. The event will take place on the Capitol Steps in Salem.
The goal of the rally is to push for an allotted 755 million dollars for public universities and 560 million dollars for community colleges in the 2015–17 biennial Senate budget in order to ensure a two-year tuition freeze.
OSA hopes to get 700 students at the rally. “Our capitol steps are very large, and [we] need about 700 people to fill them,” said Daniel McCall, Communications Director at OSA.
Failure on the behalf of Oregon Legislature to provide this money could result in a 10 to 12 percent increase of tuition at Portland State, said OSA Campus Organizer at PSU, JP Cummings.
“I do think it’s an achievable goal,” McCall said. The state Board of Higher Education froze tuition last year for the first time since 2001, according to the Statesman Journal.