About

PSU-AAUP represents over 1,200 instructional faculty and academic professionals employed by Portland State University. We strive to defend the rights of our bargaining unit through advocacy, collective bargaining, and grievance procedures, and are committed to protecting tenure, due process, and academic freedom for all PSU faculty. We are affiliated with the American Association of University Professors, the nation’s only organization that exclusively represents higher education faculty.

News RSS Feed

Copy the link below and paste into your RSS reader.

https://www.psuaaup.net/blog/rss

Home / News / Board of Trustees lowers tuition hike. Will students feel the pinch?

View Blog Categories

PSU-AAUP

Board of Trustees lowers tuition hike. Will students feel the pinch?

July 26, 2017 / PSU-AAUP

Vanguard
By Anne Williams
July 24, 2017

At a special meeting on July 21, the Portland State Board of Trustees approved a resolution to lower the planned tuition increase set for Fall term.

After passing an Oregon Senate bill that adds an additional $70 million to Oregon's higher education budget, the BOT's new increase resolution replaces a prior resolution that increased PSU's tuition 8.9 percent. This prior resolution was already approved by the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission in May.

Read the full article at the PSU Vanguard website here.