GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon state university system is enjoying a kind of perverse upside to recession economics.
Enrollment is up 6 percent with more people out of work and interested in improving their chances for a job.
Meanwhile, the amount the state pays to run the universities continues to fall. Now about 30 percent, it is widely expected to drop to 20 percent next year.
That has taken the sting out of the 9 percent across-the-board state budget cuts ordered this past week by the governor.
And Oregon students are looking at far lower tuition increases than their neighbors in Washington and California.
