OSU Cascades received more than $5.7 million for research and other grant funding this past fiscal year. Find out more here!

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Research and other grant funding at Oregon State University – Cascades reached more than $5.7 million during the past fiscal year ended June 30, a record for the Bend campus.

“OSU-Cascades researchers and experts increasingly fulfill our commitment to Central Oregon, the state and nation, advancing regional economic development priorities and contributing to a growing and innovative branch campus of OSU,” said Andrew Ketsdever, interim vice president of OSU-Cascades.

Research at OSU-Cascades contributes to Oregon State’s leadership as the state’s top comprehensive public research university. This past fiscal year research funding…

PORTLAND — Dr. Robin Holmes-Sullivan will be the first woman and first Black person to become president of Lewis & Clark College in the school’s 155-year history.

She will step into the role in July after president Wim Wiewel retires, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.

Holmes-Sullivan is currently vice president for student life and dean of students at Lewis & Clark, a private liberal arts college in Portland.

“It’s obviously something that is going to be, and is, very meaningful…

Oregon’s graduation rate for the class of 2021 edged slightly above its 2019 level, buoyed by large gains among Black students and students with disabilities.

The new statewide rate of 81% represents a gain of 3 percentage points from four years ago as well as a gain of about half a percentage point from when Oregon last handed out pre-pandemic diplomas, in 2019.

However, it also marks a decrease of 2 percentage points from 2020, when the state