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Southern Oregon University is facing a challenging financial path ahead as it deals with declining enrollment. SOU president Rick Bailey told faculty and staff on Tuesday morning that the school is facing a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.

Prakash Chenjeri, Cherstin Lyon, and Justin Harmon of SOU about campus theme and Democracy Project.

Administrators at Southern Oregon University announced the largest gift in the school鈥檚 150-year history on Wednesday night. Approximately $12 million will be donated to SOU from Lithia Motors, the Medford-based auto dealership.

Tribal members from outside Oregon can soon attend three of the state鈥檚 universities for reduced prices.

Several universities reassure students and employees of ongoing reproductive health protections in Oregon. Two large private universities with religious ties stay quiet.

The Oregon Institute of Technology says it will lower its tuition increase due to estimated additional funding from the state. Southern Oregon University will get increased state funding, as well.

Southern Oregon University鈥檚 board of trustees voted unanimously on Friday afternoon to increase tuition by nearly 3.98% for resident undergrads. The increase will take effect during the 2022-23 academic year.

Falling enrollment and financial challenges are plaguing Oregon's regional state universities. Western Oregon University is the first to announce a tuition increase for the next school year in an attempt to deal with those impacts.

Southern Oregon University faculty and administrators avoided a strike after the two sides came to a tentative contract agreement over pay, workload and job protection on Monday night.

The newly-hired president of Southern Oregon University says collaboration and innovation are key to his approach to leading SOU into the future.

The Pacific Northwest is rightfully proud of its thriving microbrewery scene. Most beer lovers probably consider the rise of craft brewing a phenomenon of the past few decades. But the first brewpubs in the Northwest date so far back that archaeologists were called in to excavate the remnants of one in Jacksonville, Oregon.

After a two-week remote start for fall quarter, and more than 18 months since the pandemic emptied out the Southern Oregon University campus, in-person learning begins again on Monday.