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morning friends and colleagues

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thank you for being here today

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welcome to the start of another

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new academic year. So before 

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we look ahead to nineteen

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twenty let's take a moment

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reflect back on twenty eighteen

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and nineteen so thinking

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in terms of our graduation

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ceremony the graduation class

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of twenty nineteen total

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eighteen hundred and twenty

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eight individuals who hard

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earned eighteen hundred and

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forty degrees over a thousand

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of these students attended

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commencement eighty seven

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percent earned the bachelor's

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degree and thirteen percent

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earned a master's degree the

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youngest students receiving their

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degree was nineteen years old

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the youngest student recieving a

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master's degree was twenty

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two the most experienced

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graduate received a bachelor's

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degree was sixty two years old

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Our first initiative in our

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student plan is student success

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so I would like to highlight

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some of the things that were

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accomplished under the umbrella

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of student success. As Chair

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Komp indicated WOUSalem we

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start offering courses in Salem

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in winter twenty nineteen and

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this we will have a full slate

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of classes offered including

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a new graduate program that

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masters in organizational

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leadership his work has been

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supported by many faculty

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who teach in these

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classes many faculty built

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the curriculum but it's also

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been supported at a very high

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level by Hilary Holman 

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I think she's here as well

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these enrollments in these first

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two terms are really part of

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what we often times say in

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business with a soft opening

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and you may have seen our

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Busses in Salem, wrapped with

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western advertisement and

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Wolfie and so you may have

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seen Wolfie riding around

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Salem as a way to indicate

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that we were making our our

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initial entree into the

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Salem market  this past year

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And as Betty indicated last

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week the board of trustees

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approved the purchase of

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the Vic building. after remodeling 

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this will become our home in

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WOU Salem, it is ideally located

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at five twenty five trade

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street which is really on

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the eastbound highway twenty

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two corridor it lies at the

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intersection of trade in High

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Street just a block east of the

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Grand Hotel if you're familiar

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with the downtown area and once

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remodeled it will include up

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to eight classrooms it will

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have a meeting space office

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space and other activities

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related to our work in Salem

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it's about thirty six thousand

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square feet over three floors

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the property has forty parking

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spaces adjacent to the building

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there's ample street parking

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on the street but also nearby

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is a large parking structure

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the city of Salem owns Salem

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has over a hundred seventy

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residents in about sixty

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thousand adults who have a high

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school diploma some college

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credit but no degree or two

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year college degree capturing

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just one percent of this market

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will translate into more than

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five hundred new students in

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the vast majority of these

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are going to Oregon residents

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Which will enhance our effort to

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maximize the state funding

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model as we move forward

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three hundred student athletes

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engage in sports year round and

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many of them come back early

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on as the fall sports begin

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prior to students arriving so

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we have on campus for the last few

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weeks our volleyball women's

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soccer and mens football and

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cross country teams have been

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earnestly getting ready for

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Engage in competition already

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but focusing on their GPA

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so life in the balance I'll

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do the women's sports women's

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basketball this is the team

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GPA three point one five

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cross country three point

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five five women's soccer three

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point four two softball three

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point three five track and

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field three point four seven

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volleyball three point three

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three overall average women

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three point three eight

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men's sports baseball three point one

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seven basketball two point

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two five cross country three

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point three six football two

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point six nine track and field

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three point one seven overall

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average two point nine three

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Each year I have a chance 

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welcome the athletes as 

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I will later this week and

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I remind them of these numbers

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and -- the athletes are

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slightly competitive on the

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as you might imagine

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And I always remind the men

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on that they have room to grow

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but the overall average

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all combined three

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point one five now

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this is on top of carrying

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Full academic loads practicing

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traveling and excelling in their

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sport it's remarkable that

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these young men and women are

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ambassadors for us on a side

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note all of our men's football

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team played a game in Texas

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on this year now to open the

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season and on the way back they

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were flying on one leg of the

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journey in one of our players

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was seated next to a former

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state senator from Texas in a

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struck up a conversation about

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what he was doing and were 

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He had been and she took the time to

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write me personally and talk

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about the fact that she now has

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faith in the next generation

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because of her interaction with

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our student athlete about his

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aspirations for his generation

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in what he exhibited as a

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student athlete from western

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I'm pleased to report this

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year the university housing did

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not increase room board rates

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for twenty nineteen twenty and

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westerns tuition increase of

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two point three percent was the

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lowest amongst four year public

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universities in the state of

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Oregon now I want to especially thank

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Eric Morgan who participated

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in the tuition advisory

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committee process this year and

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all those on that process to

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identify a sustainable level

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at two point three percent

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that's a segway into some updates

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on capital projects that are

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nearing completion in some

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cases have been completed you

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may recall on last year it

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There was a question about a child

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development center and after

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a number of

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reviews and and participation

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by key staff we relocated

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that center to the north end

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of campus in that new center

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now provides toddler education

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as well as preschool programs

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so we now  have options for

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eighteen months to three year

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old in ages three to five

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and an after school program for

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Kinder to fifth grade at that

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location on north end of the campus

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because of that re model

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we now have a computer lab

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remodeled in Todd Hall 

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Todd Hall has been repurposed it

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also now hosts not only 

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the computer lab but offices for

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Oregon council of president's

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in our marketing communications

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team is now headquartered

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there as well natural science

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this nine point four

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million dollars construction

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project will be completed

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by the start of fall classes

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Under the watchful eye of Steve

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Taylor see you need to stand

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US military academy is eight

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point two million dollar

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project has been funded in

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this project when offered

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construction bid at the end

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of August in construction is

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scheduled to begin this fall

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OMA will become the welcome

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center for the university

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it will include admissions

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financial aid conference

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services and alumni relations

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we will keep relocating mailing

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print rooms permanently to

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welcome centers well it is also

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the home of the food pantry

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second floor will remain as

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housing options for conferences

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and short campus visits in

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this project is expected to

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be completed by fall of next

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year twenty twenty I.

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T.

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is also a project that will

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see activity this year was

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a ten million dollar project

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And it is schedule go out for

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construction bid here soon and

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begin to have construction

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probably in January twenty

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twenty so you see at least two

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major construction projects

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going on this coming year

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once we a button up the

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science remodeling major

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improvements to I.

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R.

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seismic HVAC additional

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gallery space to showcase

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our parts in

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communication design work the

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entire project is expected

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be completed in winter twenty

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twenty one so a little bit further

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Delayed ITC will continue

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to be our home of our programs

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if you computer science in

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visual communication design

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as I mentioned the print shop

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and mail room will be relocated

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to OMA going forward

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I'm also please that we will have major

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upgrades in our Pacific room

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that will be available starting

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next week this hundred twenty

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thousand dollar project

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replaced in upgraded sound

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system with new speakers mixing

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council wireless mikes laser

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projection units I think I

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promise that the disco ball going

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to stay in the Pacific room

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closing the educational

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attainment gap for Latin X

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students remains our top

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priority for nation and for

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Oregon and for western we also

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need to continue our efforts

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to be continue to be the most

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affordable public university

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in Oregon our tuition increases

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I mentioned earlier was

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the lowest among all Publix

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the housing costs do not

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increase we need to continue

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to look at course fees and

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other activities that sneak

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up the cost of attendance in

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be mindful of the net cost

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of attendance for coming to

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western Oregon university

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in fact this is one of the

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benchmarks that our board of trustees

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looks at its net cost of

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attendance compared to median

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household income of the state

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of Oregon it's about net cost

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of attendance verses ability

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to pay and we tracked that we

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want to be the most affordable

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public university in the state

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finally our retention rates

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need to improve in Fall twenty

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eighteen westerns retention

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rate was seventy two percent

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compared to appear as a seventy

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three percent so about average

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we can do better we do much

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better when it comes to our

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Hispanic population we need to

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raise the bar for all of our

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students so as reported earlier today

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we have new efforts to help

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our students succeed related

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to nudges, interventions I

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believe the apple project

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Will allow us to make contact with

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our students all these are

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small steps toward students

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success having students

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graduate on time and with

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minimum Debt with that in mind

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attention right down to a local

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level each year with about

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eight hundred new freshmen so

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eight hundred new freshmen start

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is the first time full time

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cohort that's the measure

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the Feds require us to report

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about the official retention

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rate is how many of your first

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time full time students come

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back for a second here how may

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return that's the retention so

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we think about eight hundred

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students and I say if we

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were to move that seventy two

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percent up one percentage point

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one point that translates into

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eight students eight so what

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Our students faculty  ratio our

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campus our community what pride

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each of us commit to helping

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eight students succeed eight

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students many of you're engaging

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activities related to your your

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life that were you have groups

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of kids in your houses that

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probably exceed eight on a every

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weekend this that's what I mean

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by by really making it local

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so I meet with new employees

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I have a chance to talk to them not

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talk about the the the legacy

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that you all have built that

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we've been blessed to be

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part of since we can't now

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talk about going on campus we

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rise up making contact making a

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difference If someone was having a tough

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day intervene and ask you may

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not be the person to solve that

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particular crisis of the day

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which you will know how that

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person can get the help they

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need it's about that personal

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attention often times to tell

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a story about imagine it's

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your favorite niece or nephew

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your neighbor help them finish

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their race I want to reiterate

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all the data throughout

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the last eighty years plus

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beyond that even show the

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impact of higher education

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on a person a nation a state

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the world in westerns at

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the forefront of doing that