EUGENE, Ore. — Students at the University of Oregon are protesting a proposed 4.7 percent tuition hike, arguing that the increase isn’t affordable.
About 50 students rallied outside the campus administration building Wednesday, undeterred by the afternoon’s rainy weather, The Register-Guard reported. That protest was followed by a tense hourlong meeting in which students accused school officials of undermining their education.
“I work 20 hours a week on campus,” said Ted Yanez, 26, a mathematics major with a wife and 1-year-old child. The tuition increase, he said, “doesn’t seem like much, but even that makes it hard to support a family.”
The UO Board of Trustees will vote in March about whether to raise tuition by 4.76 percent for in-state students and 4.46 for out-of-state students. The university’s figures show that UO has raised tuition by more than 70 percent over the past decade.
