Since Oregon's economic growth depends on these emerging companies for jobs and to create wealth, OUS is developing some plans and programs to connect with these firms. The major OUS goal is establishing an excellent postsecondary education system that has strong collaborations with industry. Each institution will identify a liaison to field requests for such services. This item, normally on Saturday's agenda, was moved to Friday to accommodate Sarah Witte's absence on Saturday. The trend is strongly to Spanish but OUS wants to keep diversity in languages so may need to subsidize the study of other languages.
More articulation is needed.
Finally, the Bend-area movement towards a college in the region is gaining momentum. A public hearing with Chancellor Cox in early November coupled with a summary of the effort and the plans for an institution have given the undertaking some currency. A set of handouts regarding the central Oregon college accompany the minutes of the Academic Council in the appendix. The economic level-off will put the legislature in a bind and there's no reserve fund to cover downturn incurred because of the heavy reliance on income tax revenues. Discussion among senators and the legislators followed.