 The Oregon Education Roundtable is an independent, nonpartisan project. Its focus is to improve Oregon postsecondary education through better integration of all the stages of learning that students must navigate, from preschool through graduate school.
Composed primarily of business and philanthropy leaders, the Roundtable functions as a forum for sharing expertise and public views, both in meetings and online. It is also a source of findings and recommendations that education advocates and policy makers can take forward.
The Roundtable project was formed because postsecondary education is vital to Oregon's future yet plagued by problems such as growing enrollments, shrinking public dollars, rising tuition, and lagging state support for need-based student aid.
There is a danger in this environment that more and more students of modest means will find a higher education financially inaccessible. Oregon, in turn, will lose the talents, contributions, and competitive edge that these students would have brought to its economy. Because the Governor has made higher education a high priority, there is a window of opportunity to take a fresh look at what can be done to put postsecondary schooling on a new path.
To learn more about the Oregon Education Roundtable, please visit www.OregonEdRoundtable.org.
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