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Universities in some parts of the country are responding to the federal DEI crackdown by shutting down diversity offices and eliminating equity-related groups. Oregon’s institutions are largely standing their ground.

This is the latest civil rights investigation directed at universities launched by the Education Department since President Donald Trump took office in January.

More than 500 researchers and their supporters gathered in Salem outside the state capitol building.

Oregon joined with California and 20 other states to protect funding to universities, especially those involved in medical-related research, from a Trump administration effort to cut ‘indirect’ costs.

From international students to asylum seekers, the new administration’s plans could affect tens of thousands of people in the state.

The state’s public universities and community colleges are calling for increased investment in higher education.

More women and people of color are working in construction related jobs than a decade ago. But there’s still significant work to be done.

More than half a million people in the state carry some amount of federal student debt.

The Student Emergency Needs Package looks to help the state’s public college and university students with the rising costs of housing, food and transportation.

A bill in the Oregon Legislature is looking to set up a pilot program that would give $1,000 a month to low or no income Oregonians over a two year period. If passed, it would create the nation’s first statewide guaranteed income program. The proposal has sparked heated debate.

Portland is moving forward with a plan to create several massive outdoor homeless encampments. The idea is partly based on outdoor shelters run by Urban Alchemy in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The state’s leading housing agency has agreed to fund the development of more than 1,200 permanent supportive housing units across Oregon. But it still leaves a wide gap in the state’s affordable housing needs.