U. Oregon Tries to Slash $65 Million From Budget as it Shutters Two Dorms
“Based on our new numbers, we will need to cut around $65 million from our budget to avoid an ongoing annual budget deficit in the coming years.”
Is the University of Oregon going to be the next Hampshire College? Maybe not. They are building two new dorms, but why? Enrollment is down.
The College Fix reports:
Low enrollment rocks U. Oregon as it works to slash $65 million, shutters dorms
Low enrollment is forcing the University of Oregon to slash $65 million from its budget and shutter two dorms.
“Based on our new numbers, we will need to cut around $65 million from our budget to avoid an ongoing annual budget deficit in the coming years,” President Karl Scholz recently announced to the campus community.
He primarily blamed lower out-of-state first-year enrollment, which means lower tuition revenue, and instituted a hiring and pay freeze.
Other factors cited at a June 1 Board of Trustees meeting include increased costs and a loss in grant funding.
The university on June 2 announced it will shutter two off-campus dorm as it grapples with the budget shortfall. It will close Barnhart Residence Hall and Barnhart Dining Hall and shutter Riley Hall for the 2026–27 academic year, the Daily Emerald reported. If some students need to be housed, Riley Hall will serve as an overflow dorm.
Despite the closures, UO is still building two new dorms, the Register-Guard reported, adding “UO has opened three new dormitories in the past five years.”
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Seeing that everywhere you go there are claims of an “affordable housing shortage” why not convert these dorms into a for-profit studio apartment community?
Probably wouldn’t work because when leftists cry “affordable housing” they mean FREE housing.
Are there any jobs in Eugene OR that are not at UO?
And I thought they were a Big ten school!?
One would have to be an idiot to spend out-of-state tuition money to have their kid turned into an America-hating communist.
Go woke go broke. Simple as that.
They are just following along with Portland Public Schools who want to build 3 new high schools in the face of declining enrollment. It seems that the two largest growing demographics in Portland, gays and homeless, don’t have many kids. Cue Jim Nabors.
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