Source: oregonlive.com Posted By: Wright G...5491 days ago
They aren't going away (we hope), but if they did, they would leave behind 38,000 college and university students needing higher education services at substantial taxpayer expense. Oregon's private colleges and universities enroll that many students each year, and the money those students spend on college-related expenses contributes in excess of $1 billion annually to the state's economy.
But more importantly, a sizable number of those students (9,161 last year) will earn college degrees and