Southern Oregon University President Rick Bailey says the school faces difficult decisions as its board considers major cuts tied to emergency state funding.

Students, employees and community members protested a proposal to slash programs at SOU during a Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday night.

Oregon State Ph.D. student Rudrajit Choudhuri and Professor Anita Sarma reveal extraordinary declines in cognition among students using generative AI regardless of varying levels of knowledge and experience.

Conversations about educational technology are kicking up in districts across Oregon.

Southern Oregon University is facing protests and pushback on a plan to cut $20 million, as the institution barrels toward a tight deadline to approve it.

The Deloitte report outlines sweeping cuts at Southern Oregon University, including program eliminations, as some faculty question the impact on the school’s future.

California State University’s $17 million contract with ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is up for renewal. Some students and faculty say equal access to AI is important for preparing students for the workforce. Others say the implementation of AI tools has been confusing and opens the door to cheating. Some faculty have banned AI from their classes altogether and even started a petition to end the contract deal.

Oregon ranks near the bottom in instructional time, with students spending fewer days in class and high absenteeism compounding learning gaps.

A consultant says the university must make $20 million in cuts to help stabilize its finances. Those could affect JPR.

Southern Oregon University will need to completely rethink its academic programs and make major overhauls to survive, a preliminary consultant report warns.

For the past two months, Deloitte Consulting has been assessing the school’s financial situation.

Annual undergraduate tuition for Oregon residents at the state’s seven public universities is expected to increase nearly $600 on average from the year before.