{"id":396,"date":"2025-01-16T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/government\/?p=396"},"modified":"2025-01-24T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T20:27:11","slug":"oregon-state-university-government-relations-update-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/government\/2025\/01\/16\/oregon-state-university-government-relations-update-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon State University Government Relations Update | January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to the OSU Government Relations Newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this communication, we\u2019ll highlight some of the work conducted by the office, updates from the state legislature and congressional delegation, university engagements with elected officials and other OSU news. The newsletter will be sent at least quarterly. We encourage you to share this newsletter with your colleagues. They can also sign up by using this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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OSU-Cascades Chancellor Sherm Bloomer joins Central Oregon legislators Senator Tim Knopp, Representative Jason Kropf, Representative Emerson Levy and Senator-Elect Anthony Broadman in celebrating the grand opening of OSU-Cascades Student Success Center.<\/em><\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To kick off the new year, OSU-Cascades had a <\/strong>grand opening ceremony<\/strong><\/a> for the newly built Student Success Center on January 7<\/strong>. The 17,500 square-foot Student Success Center<\/a> will feature spaces for study and tutoring, arts presentation, informal gathering and student programming, in addition to offices and facilities for staff who are critical to supporting student success including academic and career advising, health and wellness counseling, student government and The Bridge, the new multicultural space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 2025 Oregon Legislative Session will convene on January 21, and tackling Oregon\u2019s underinvestment in higher education will be the top priority for Oregon\u2019s public universities. <\/strong>The public universities are requesting a $1.275B investment in the Public University Support Fund to support student success and help keep tuition increases below 5%. Unfortunately, the Governor only allocated $1.08B in her budget<\/a>, which is below the universities\u2019 base operational costs for the next biennium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OSU is focusing legislative priorities in areas that will support Prosperity Widely Shared by supporting student success, research development, and community and state collaboration and service. Click here for a copy of OSU\u2019s 2025 legislative agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the 2025 session, there are leadership changes in all of the higher education related committees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n