Is this Oregon?
On Friday, June 15, University of Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer returns to City Club to discuss the importance of higher education and the serious challenges that the Oregon university system faces.
Frohnmayer will talk about the unmistakable changes in Oregon’s higher education system over the last twenty years — a shift that has seen Oregon cut its higher education spending faster than any other state in the country. He will also address the need to return to the creativity — and hard decisions — in order for Oregon to emerge an innovator in education. Frohnmayer will also offer specific solutions for the higher education funding crisis, as well as ideas to curtail student debt. It’s not all doom and gloom, though Frohnmayer will offer his vision for Oregon’s return to leadership in higher education.
Frohnmayer was appointed president of the University of Oregon in 1994. He formerly served as dean of the University of Oregon School of Law, as Oregon’s attorney general, as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives and as a law professor and legal counsel to the president of the University of Oregon. As attorney general, he argued and won six of seven cases before the United States Supreme Court, the most cases and best record of any contemporary state attorney general.
Join us for this forum as Dave Frohnmayer outlines what is needed to revise our higher education system.
