The academic and administrative structures of UO/Central Oregon have been described in the previous section and are displayed in Figure 1. The Vice Provost for Central Oregon and Dean of the College will serve as both the chief executive officer and the chief academic officer during the early years of development of UO/Central Oregon. As the College grows, we anticipate that these will become separate positions, but for purposes of this proposal, they will be held by the same individual. The Eastern Oregon University Division will report to the Provost of Eastern Oregon University, but will coordinate all activities with UO’s Vice Provost for Central Oregon, and through the Central Oregon Program Advisory Council.

As also previously described, the initial persons to hold most of these positions have been identified, and in fact most are already serving Central Oregon in comparable positions as a part of UO’s existing programs, as well as the COUC. Therefore the timeline for the implementation of this academic structure is immediate. More detail on the specific individuals who have agreed to lead in the establishment of UO/Central Oregon is found in Appendix A.

From an academic perspective, an important aspect of this academic structure is the close connection and working relationship with the Eugene campus. This is both necessary from an accreditation point of view, and desirable from a program quality standpoint. This aspect of the academic structure and expected working relationships has also been described in the preceding section.

The University of Oregon mission statement describes our commitment to undergraduate education designed to help the individual learn to question critically, think logically, communicate clearly, act creatively and live ethically. A primary goal of undergraduate education is the development of critical core competencies learned through the perspectives of the liberal arts and sciences. These core competencies are essential to success in the contemporary workplace, and include critical thinking, problem solving, basic analytical skills, written and oral communication, creativity, basic computer skills and the ability to work effectively in teams. Not surprisingly, we affirm the same mission for the UO campus in Central Oregon. Students admitted to the University of Oregon will be able to earn a baccalaureate degree through programs and courses offered at either the Central Oregon or the Eugene campus, and will be able to move between the two campuses at will.

Students will be able to earn the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science degrees upon successful completion of academic programs offered at the Central Oregon campus. Initially, we will offer three majors: General Science (B.S.), General Social Science (B.A. and B.S), and Humanities (B.A.). We will ensure for each of these majors that there will be sufficient course offerings, taught by UO and COCC faculty in classrooms at the Central Oregon campus, to graduate in a timely manner. Even within the first two years, students in these degree programs will also be able to minor in areas such as Anthropology, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Information Technology, Geography, Geological Sciences, History, English, Philosophy, Sociology, Mathematics and Psychology. Furthermore, we will provide on-site programs from two of our most respected professional schools — a minor from the Lundquist College of Business as well as administrative licensure and a minor in Family and Human Services from the UO College of Education.

As the number of students enrolled at the Central Oregon campus increases, additional course offerings and academic programs will become available. We anticipate that by the fifth year, most of the initial minors will also be available in Central Oregon as majors, and new minors will be added. The specific majors and minors available will depend on demand and on continued legislative funding. Even in the initial years of the Central Oregon campus, students can attain degrees in many additional majors by spending one or two terms in Eugene. All UO majors and minors will be offered within the Division of Humanities, Division of Sciences, Division of Social Sciences, and Division of Education.

Table 1 summarizes the anticipated curricular offerings by listing the number of courses we anticipate offering in each disciplinary area in the years 2001, 2003 and 2005. The availability of a minor (m) or a major (M) in each area is also indicated. Further description of these programs is provided in the following section, which describes each of the proposed UO/Central Oregon divisions. Additional details of our academic offerings, including the requirements for the majors and minors, the courses offered and their descriptions and the participating faculty are presented in the form of an upper-division "Catalog for the UO/Central Oregon campus." Although not complete or definitive at this time, this ‘catalog’ does indicate our intentions as we plan to initiate the programs in the fall of 2001, and as we envision the curriculum evolving over the initial five-year period. The catalog is bound as a separate document, and submitted along with this proposal.

The University of Oregon currently offers degree programs in general science and general social science through the University Center on the COCC campus. Beginning in the Fall of 2001, these successful existing programs will be significantly expanded with additional courses and minors, as well as augmented by the introduction of our academic degree program in the humanities. Thus, UO’s new Central Oregon campus will immediately provide on-site programs leading to baccalaureate degrees representing the core areas of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

As Oregon moves from a resource based economy to one increasingly reliant on technology, it becomes ever more important for the college educated public to achieve a degree of scientific literacy. Our citizens, especially those residing in rapidly growing regions such as Central Oregon, need to understand basic science and participate in debates about scientific issues affecting society. They should be able to experience firsthand the richness of the Central Oregon landscape and the excitement of understanding the natural world, and to use scientific processes and quantitative reasoning in decision-making.

Many exciting areas of scientific inquiry, such as the neurological sciences, environmental sciences, and biophysical sciences require broad science backgrounds and encompass several science disciplines. The General Science major allows pre-health science students preparing for careers in medicine, dentistry, or related fields to meet professional school admission requirements while completing a bachelor's degree. It is widely recognized that students planning graduate study or preparing for careers in the health sciences, in science education, or in a science- or technology-related business are well served by a comprehensive, multidisciplinary science program, such as we propose for UO/Central Oregon. For many of these students, the focused minor in business will also be especially useful.

The General Science major, offered through the Division of Science and Mathematics, emphasizes "inquiry based learning," where upper division students participate directly in the research and professional activities of faculty and/or local businesses through internships, practica, capstone projects and other experiences that extend and augment classroom-learning activities. Our General Science program currently offered through the COUC has been very successful in promoting such participatory learning experiences. During the 1999-2000 academic year, more than 60% of the students held internships. The program is multi-disciplinary (requires basic mastery of several sciences beyond the introductory level) and quite flexible, so that the General Science majors can tailor their academic program to meet their specific goals.

Through the Division of Science and Mathematics, we also will offer students the opportunity to earn minors in the following areas:

• Biology: The Biology minor covers a broad spectrum of questions about living organisms and life processes — the physical and chemical bases of life, how organisms and their component parts are structured, how they function, how they interact with their environment, and how they have evolved.
• Computer Information Technology: The minor prepares students for current developments and evolving technologies in work environments outside a university setting. It takes a practical approach, using up-to-date software tools throughout the curriculum. Students who add a CIT minor to their major field of study are highly qualified for jobs that require development and management of business databases, computer networks, web applications and software systems.
• Chemistry: The minor in chemistry is currently focused on organic chemistry. The course work provides a sound foundation for students interested in advanced work in chemistry or related sciences, particularly such fields as biochemistry, and health-related fields.
• Mathematics: The minor in mathematics is intended for any student, regardless of major, who has a strong interest in mathematics. While students in such closely allied fields as computer and information science or physics often complete double majors, students with more distantly related majors such as psychology or history find this minor useful.
• Geological Sciences: The Geological Sciences minor is designed to provide an understanding of the materials that constitute the earth and the processes that have shaped the earth from deep in its interior to the surface environment. It also addresses natural hazards and environmental change.
• High Desert Environmental Science/Ecology Option: In addition to the General Science major and the various minors listed above, we also propose developing an option specifically relating to Central Oregon Environment with a focus on Science and Ecology. This interdisciplinary option is designed to allow students to complete a four-year B.S. degree with a major in General Science whose focus is on the environmental science and ecology of the East Slope of the Cascades and the High Desert of Central Oregon. Graduates will obtain a deep understanding of the science of this unique western ecosystem. They will be prepared to proceed to graduate school or move directly to employment where these understandings and perspectives are critical to successful implementation of local and regional land use programs as well as long range planning at all levels of the Central Oregon community.

The curriculum for this option, as detailed in the Catalog, provides students with a rigorous undergraduate science experience that will be consistently focused on issues relevant to understanding of the Environmental Science of the High Desert Ecosystem. Course offerings will be selected and revised with the assistance of an advisory panel of regional educations, researchers and agency representatives who can provide particular insight into the academic needs of the program.

The General Social Science major is designed to foster an understanding of social and intellectual history, logical thinking, clear communication, and the quantitative and analytical skills needed to address social problems and issues. This program contributes substantively to the broad university mission of educating productive citizens and leaders who will participate wisely and effectively in the local, national and international communities to which they belong.

The social sciences concern themselves with the individual and society. Thus, anthropology studies human development and diversity; economics explores the problem of allocating society’s scarce resources to meet its unlimited wants; environmental studies investigates the relationship between humans and their environment; ethnic studies examines the construction and context of ethnicity; geography studies the natural and cultural landscapes of the world and the processes that form them; history analyzes human experience through historical records, accounts of witnesses to past events, and interpretive studies; international studies concerns itself with the interrelationships (political, economic, social, and cultural) that exist among nations in the interdependent modern world; and sociology explores the development, structure, and function of human groups and societies. In addition to substantive courses, all students majoring in General Social Science take courses in the methods and tools of the social sciences.

Minors in social science disciplines include the following:

• Anthropology: This minor focuses on the study of human development and diversity, includes social or cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, and archaeology. Courses offered span the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and provide a broad understanding of human nature and society for students. Anthropological training provides suitable background for positions with a variety of federal, state, and local agencies and provides background for teachers of social studies in secondary schools.
• Geography: The emphasis in the Geography minor is to develop an awareness of the natural and cultural landscapes of several regions of the world and investigate the processes that form them. Use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) will be included as a part of this minor, and will build on the strong existing GIS program at COCC.
• History: This minor offers both a framework for a liberal education and the background that is essential for understanding the contemporary world. Through analyzing interpretive studies, accounts by witnesses to past events, and historical records, students come to appreciate more fully the complexity of human experience. By examining changes in the past, they develop a broad perspective and the ability to weigh evidence and argument.
• Psychology: The undergraduate minor in psychology provides a background in psychological principles and techniques as intellectual tools for work in the social and biological sciences and in such professional fields as education, business, law, and journalism. It provides a solid introduction to the discipline, courses that ground students in the tools and methods of psychology, as well advanced courses.
• Sociology: The undergraduate minor in sociology provides a background in the development, structure and function of human groups and societies. It provides a background for the scientific understanding of human behavior within groups. As such it is useful in any profession where understanding the interactions between people is important.
• Business: The Charles H. Lundquist College of Business will offer a "focused Business Minor" which will serve students in all majors who also wish to acquire a strong background in business. By completing integrated coursework in accounting, competitive analysis, management, marketing, and finance, students acquire the ability to make complex business decisions within any profession. The business minor is popular among students because it offers professional preparation for those seeking employment upon graduation and academic preparation for those pursuing advanced degrees in business, law, or public administration. Offering the business minor program in Central Oregon will also provide an additional forum for developing relations with the business community.

• Applied Information Management: The multidisciplinary master’s degree program in applied information management (AIM) is designed to educate students to respond to rapid developments in information technologies and the resulting impacts on organizations. We have put this degree "on-line" with the assistance of e-college. We will make this applied degree available in Central Oregon through a combination of on-line and face-to-face learning opportunities, beginning in the third year of development.

As indicated in Table 1, we anticipate that the minors in anthropology, geography, history, psychology, and sociology will have evolved into majors by 2005.

The Humanities Major provides students with a solid foundation in the humanities disciplines. Through participation in humanities programs and courses, students improve their abilities to communicate orally and in writing, to reason and argue effectively, to read carefully, to work in teams, to contextualize immediate issues in their larger philosophical and human setting, to appreciate and interact with diverse peoples and cultures, to pursue wisdom as a goal beyond knowledge, and to seek balance in achieving a life well lived. It is well recognized--both within academia and in external communities such as the business world--that students well educated in the liberal arts represent the most creative and adaptable employees. They also represent some of the most thoughtful and engaging citizens. It is the goal of the humanities program to help its students transform lives–their own and others’–through the discovery and application of knowledge to human problems. The program is designed to provide essential skills and understanding for intelligent action.

The Humanities major, offered through the Division of Humanities, emphasizes "disciplined inquiry", where upper division students cultivate excellence in written analysis and argumentation, critical and close reading, and engagement in both general and practical issues arising from the study of central themes of the human endeavor. Thus Humanities majors will take courses from across the disciplines of the humanities–classics, comparative literature, English, folklore, foreign languages, philosophy, and religious studies.

The Humanities program will cultivate general excellence in reasoning and communication in both classic face-to-face instruction and in innovative opportunities for capstone experiences and participatory learning experiences and internships in the community. The program has been specially adapted for Central Oregon to provide thematic coherence in upper division concentration courses that fits well with the needs and interests of Central Oregon communities.

In addition to the Humanities major, by the third year of development students will also be able to earn a minor in English, philosophy or religious studies, and a certificate in European studies. By the fifth year of development we expect to be able to offer majors in English and philosophy, and to add minors in romance languages and theater arts. A brief description of the first three minors and the certificate program is given below, and more detail is given in the next section.

• English. This flexible minor permits students to focus on the study of literature and written communication.

• Philosophy. Through the study of primary texts, drawn from various historical periods and cultures, and of contemporary issues, this minor provides a means for reflecting on one's beliefs and values while developing critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.

• Religious Studies. This minor provides a secular examination of the history and philosophy of human religious experience.

• European Studies. This certificate program is designed to enhance work in the major with a broad and comparative knowledge of Europe.

In addition to these minors, in support of the Humanities major and the overall humanities program, courses will be offered in the classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and literature, folklore, German, romance languages, and theater arts. As indicated in Table 1, we anticipate that the minors in English and philosophy will have evolved into majors by 2005.

The Division of Education’s proposed programs are designed to be responsive to the diverse educational and family/human service needs of Central Oregon’s educational service districts, local school districts and community agencies. The nationally recognized teaching, research and outreach capabilities of the top-ranked University of Oregon College of Education will be used in collaboration with COCC and Eastern Oregon University to provide a comprehensive and innovative approach to meeting these needs. The Division of Education plans initially to offer two programs: an undergraduate minor in Family and Human Services and a continuation of our administrative licensure program currently offered in Central Oregon at the graduate level. Future graduate degrees will follow the innovative model of "locally tailored, embedded programs" pioneered by the administrative licensure program.

• Family and Human Services. This minor is designed to provide students a field-based learning experience which will give them an ecological and systemic perspective of family systems and the types of human service supports and services needed to sustain healthy communities. Students selecting this minor will obtain experiences relevant to the following professional services: drug and alcohol abuse and addiction, child abuse prevention, social welfare, early intervention, child protection, youth services, probation, case management, family support, and recreation.

• Locally Tailored, Embedded Graduate Programs. Using the current administrative licensure program as an example, the Division of Education proposes a general architecture and approach to graduate professional degree and licensure programs in Central Oregon. In each case, the applicant’s current capabilities are determined through a validated assessment, and progress and proficiency are monitored based on a standards based program plan. This approach has proved both successful pedagogically and well suited to the Central Oregon environment.

1. Central Oregon Field Studies Center

In addition to these programs, UO currently has many activities underway in Central Oregon, including field studies in geology, geography, anthropology and archaeology, community service workshops and resource assistance to rural communities, and our Pine Mountain Observatory. We plan to provide a Central Oregon center for these activities, which will both enhance their ability to contribute to Central Oregon and to make their academic programs more accessible to Central Oregon residents. A more detailed description of the proposed Central Oregon Field Studies Center is described later in this section, as an applied program.

One of the greatest strengths of the University of Oregon is our dedication to providing an international education. In our mission statement, UO has committed to promoting "international awareness and understanding, and … the development of a faculty and student body that are capable of participating effectively in a global society." UO’s on-going commitment is amply demonstrated on our Eugene campus by our large percentage of international students and frequent foreign faculty visitors, diverse array of foreign languages offered, breadth of courses in international topics, extensive study abroad and internship opportunities for UO students, and the existence of UO’s Office of International Education and Exchange (OIEE), Center for Pacific and Asian Studies, and the existence of numerous area studies programs, ranging from Asia to Canada to Latin American to Europe.

Similarly to UO’s mission, Central Oregon Community College’s mission states that "COCC will be a leader in regionally and globally responsive adult lifelong education in Central Oregon". COCC in its vision statement envisions that "because of COCC, Central Oregonians will…be able to connect actively with …the world in order to attain…globally responsible perspectives". COCC aspires to provide opportunities for Central Oregonians to "interact effectively with …global communities".

Consistent with our mission and COCC’s mission, the University of Oregon is committed to providing students, faculty and others in Central Oregon opportunities to interact with foreign peoples and learn about foreign cultures. To this end, UO, intends to establish, in partnership with COCC, a "Central Oregon International Center" on the COCC campus. The purpose of this International Center will be to foster greater communication, understanding and interaction between the people of Central Oregon and citizens of foreign countries. UO hopes to dedicate space for the International Center in the second Higher Education building to be constructed on the COCC campus. UO’s vision for the International Center is described in the following paragraphs.

The Central Oregon International Center will serve numerous important educational functions. The Center will house a foreign language learning laboratory and contain classrooms for international studies courses and lower-division foreign language instruction. It will provide meeting space for international and multicultural student organizations. Offices for visiting foreign faculty will also be situated in the Center.

In addition, the International Center will house an international resource office on the Central Oregon campus. This office will provide information for college students interested in study or internships abroad. It also will support as necessary foreign students and faculty studying, teaching, or doing research on the Central Oregon campus. The international resource office will also contain information about other international opportunities for travel, research or networking. Information for local high school students interested in summer foreign exchange programs will also be made available.

In addition, the Central Oregon International Center could serve as an innovative demonstration project by offering courses that use foreign language materials in content areas and selective modules where instruction in content areas is done in one or more foreign languages. For example, a course such as Environmental Issues in Latin America could be taught in Spanish. If adequate funding and staff could be secured, the International Center could become a center for proposal writing and grant funding for specific program initiatives that responded to the interests and needs of the Central Oregon community as expressed by the community.

The Central Oregon International Center is also intended to serve the greater Central Oregon community as a venue for people of diverse cultures to gather and become acquainted with each other. For example, the International Center can sponsor international cultural events such as art exhibits, speaker series, and music and film festivals. The Center can host receptions and speaking engagements for visiting foreign dignitaries. It can organize foreign policy symposiums or debates among prominent U.S. national political leaders.

As a complement to COCC’s existing small business development center, the Center can offer workshops on international business topics. These could include, as a few examples, workshops in international marketing, hosting foreign nationals, planning a marketing trip abroad, international website access, securing foreign language translation services, and international bank and exchange services. The existence of the International Center can also facilitate the development of more extensive networking between the Central Oregon businesses and the international community.

We are confident that this Central Oregon International Center will quickly become a vital and dynamic link to the international world for students, faculty and the greater Central Oregon community.

E. Eastern Oregon University Division

Eastern Oregon University has been offering undergraduate degrees in English and multidisciplinary studies, teacher certification for undergraduates, and graduate degrees in education for more than 5 years. These programs, taken together, enroll about 100 FTE, and constitute the largest institutional program hosted by the COUC. Due to the size of EOU’s program and its historical role in Central Oregon, we propose to establish a separate division through which EOU will offer its programs.

This establishment of an EOU Division is not meant to imply that EOU and UO/Central Oregon will operate independently, without coordination. Both EOU and UO are committed to a close coordination of these programs, both to optimize opportunities for students and to minimize costs. This coordination will take place both directly, between EOU’s Provost, the Vice Provost for Central Oregon, and, as necessary, the UO Provost, as well as through the Central Oregon Program Advisory Council.

Within this Division, EOU expects to offer initially at least the following programs:

• BA/BS in Multidisciplinary Studies.
• BA in English (Discourse Studies)
• Teacher Certification for Bachelor’s Degree
• Master of Teacher Education (Intern)
• Master of Teacher Education (Practitioner)

UO’s primary goal in establishing the Central Oregon campus is to provide the residents of Central Oregon with the highest quality and most diverse educational opportunities possible, consistent with the growing demand and available funding. In order to meet that goal and to increase educational opportunities for both traditional and non-traditional students, UO/Central Oregon will include a Division of Extended Studies. This division, to be directed by current COUC Director Richard A. Markwood, will continue the tradition established by the COUC of facilitating the delivery of academic programs from partner OUS and private institutions, as well as all distance education endeavors.

We do not envision artificially phasing out any current programs, but do anticipate that with the availability of the programs through UO/Central Oregon some of the current programs may not find a sufficiently large audience to be financially viable. However, most of the current programs from partner institutions other than UO either offer degrees that UO does not plan to offer, and/or are directed at a different clientele from that of UO/Central Oregon.

1. Central Oregon Program Advisory Council

In order to better coordinate offerings among the partner institutions and the UO/Central Oregon campus, we will establish a Central Oregon Program Advisory Council. This council will be chaired by the UO Vice Provost for Central Oregon. The Vice Chair will be the Provost of EOU (or designee), because of EOU’s strong participation in higher education in Central Oregon. Each participating institution will appoint a member to this council. All matters of coordination of existing programs and plans to develop new programs will be brought to this council for discussion. It is our intention that issues will be resolved through this process, but if this is unsuccessful, the Vice Provost for Central Oregon shall make the final decision. This decision can be appealed to the Provost of the University of Oregon.

Academic programs currently offered through COUC by other OUS institutions are briefly described below. UO/Central Oregon will work cooperatively with all of these institutions to assist them in continuing to make these programs available in Central Oregon. However, continuing and future offerings will necessarily be at the discretion of the offering institution.

All academic programs currently under contract with the COUC will be continued through the duration of the existing contracts. In principle, we want to continue programs for which there is student demand and interest on the part of a partner institution to offer.

We have outlined in the previous section a broad vision for the curriculum. Table 1 shows the expected evolution of the curriculum in terms of numbers of courses, minors and majors available through the 2005-2006 academic years. The UO/Central Oregon sample catalog describes the requirements and provides a listing of many of the courses we plan to teach during the first five years. We intend to add additional degree programs, minors, and certificates in response to student enrollment and interest from the beginning of the Central Oregon campus onward. The specific courses will be selected in order to optimize a student’s ability to obtain these majors and minors. In many cases it will be possible for students to obtain a major sooner, or obtain one not listed here, either through courses offered by partner universities in Central Oregon or through distance education, or by spending one or two terms on UO’s Eugene campus. Obviously, achieving these goals will require both the enrollment growth we have projected (and are committed to exceptional efforts to achieve) and an appropriate level of legislative funding.

1. Minors and Graduate Programs in Applied Areas

Initially we plan to offer the following minors and graduate programs in applied areas:

• Computer information technology,
• Business,
• Applied psychology,
• Family and human services,
• Administrative licensure, and
• Applied Information Management.

We will also continue the applied programs described above through the Division of Extended Studies. In addition, we believe that one of the most effective ways for a student to both obtain a solid undergraduate education and prepare for a life-long career is through the liberal arts and sciences degree programs we will offer, combined with a participatory learning experience. We are committed, as we are in Eugene, to encouraging and assisting all of our students to obtain practical experience related to their educational objectives through internships, undergraduate research, practica, and the like.

As noted above, more than 60% of the students in our general science program have to date taken advantage of this opportunity in Central Oregon. We have had discussions with businesses throughout Bend, and in other Central Oregon locations, about their willingness to provide internship opportunities for our students. We are confident that we will be able to find an appropriate internship opportunity for every student who wishes one for at least the first three years of the development of the Central Oregon campus. During that period, we will work to expand these opportunities so that all students can continue to benefit.

We will also offer our Independent Studies program, described earlier, in Central Oregon. This program allows qualified students to develop their own interdisciplinary degree program in an area not represented by the existing departments or schools, and can have an applied focus. We will also offer our newly developed Professional Distinctions program, through which students complete a BA or BS augmented with a focused concentration in an area of professional expertise as they enter the employment market.

For example, a student might complement the general science degree with a distinction in written communications or in data analysis or in design. The distinction is developed through a four-part program:

1. a set of sharply focused courses in the area of distinction (e.g. professional writing),
2. an internship or other participatory learning experience that employs the distinction (e.g. assisting a Central Oregon business with the prose needs of its developing website),
3. a set of non-credit employment workshops (e.g. preparing effective resumes and application letters), and
4. the development of an electronic portfolio in support of career goals.

Another opportunity for work in applied fields will be through the proposed Central Oregon Field Studies Center. This center will provide a logistical and intellectual home for field-based research in archaeology, cultural anthropology, geomorphology, geology and geophysics, linguistics, community service, and other areas. In its formative stage, the center will be directed by Mel Aikens, UO professor of anthropology and director of UO’s Museum’s of Natural History and of Anthropology. Professor Aikens has been doing research and teaching field studies classes in Central Oregon since 1970. The activities that will be carried out through the center are described briefly below, and in more detail in Appendix C.

In addition to serving as a staging facility for a variety of field-based research currently underway in Central Oregon by UO faculty and students, the center also will foster collaboration involving Central Oregon Community College (COCC) faculty and students, the community, and various public and private agencies.

The UO has a long and distinguished record of research, education and public service in Central Oregon. Faculty and students, who have been conducting field studies in the region since UO was founded 125 years ago, have made significant contributions to knowledge of the geological and archaeological history of Central Oregon. That work continues and includes:

Geology: Thomas Condon, the UO’s first Professor of Science, began studying the fossils in the John Day region in 1865. Scientific papers by UO students and Condon's famous book, "The Two Islands," laid the foundation for the study of Oregon’s unique geology and our current understanding of plate tectonics. The UO continues Condon’s work in the region and, since 1930, has taught an annual six-week geologic field school.

Seismology: Faculty and students are also engaged in significant research into seismic and volcanic activity in the area. The Pine Mountain Geophysical Station, located next to the UO astronomical observatory, houses a modern broadband seismometer that forms the backbone of the Oregon seismic array. The seismometer, because of its sensitivity and location, is capable of measuring the micro-earthquakes that typically signal the beginning of volcanic activity.

Archaeology: The UO summer archaeological field school in Central Oregon was established in 1937 by Luther S. Cressman, who is known as the father of Oregon archaeology. In 1938, the field school, excavating in Fort Rock Cave, recovered many sagebrush bark sandals from below a layer of Mount Mazama volcanic ash. A sagebrush bark sandal of the Fort Rock type was later proved through radiocarbon dating to be more than 9,000 years old. Since Cressman’s time, the UO has maintained an active program of research and training in archaeology in Central Oregon. The ongoing research of the field school’s Northern Great Basin Prehistory Project focuses on reconstruction of past lifeways, paleoclimatic study, and human responses to changing environmental conditions. One result of this research was the discovery by UO scientists of the remains of the oldest house in North America on the shores of Paulina Lake. Radiocarbon dating of this structure yielded an age of more than 9000 years, meaning that Central Oregon had a home with a lakeside view before the pyramids or Stonehenge were built!

Geomorphology-Geoarchaeology: The UO’s geomorphology field school, established in 1992, explores changes in the landscape of the Central Oregon region over time, including study of soils and rock strata. Operating in close collaboration with the archaeology field school, this field school provides students with perspectives and techniques for integrating archaeological and paleo-environmental research into the study of long-term human relationships with an ever-changing natural environment.

UO Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students in the region are also studying streams and how they are affected by practices such as logging and over-grazing–research that is of interest to government agencies such as the Forest Service and Bureau of Lane Management, as well as to Native American Tribes.

Linguistics: Since joining UO’s linguistics faculty in 1982, Professor Scott DeLancey has been working to preserve northwest native languages. The Northwest Indian Language Institute was conceived in response to a request from the head of the Warm Springs language program, and provides education, on-site training and consultation in the preservation of these languages. A field services center would improve our ability to offer these services in Central Oregon.

Community Service Center: The UO has provided community planning, resource assistance for rural environments and student originated studies in Central Oregon for the past 25 years. Projects include a survey analysis of Bend residents about tourism, a survey assessing Oregonians’ preferences for winter recreation, and a study of economic trends for the ski industry. Rural assistance projects include drafting a comprehensive economic development plan for the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, and help in the implementation of an action plan for the community of LaPine that addressed economic development and telecommunications. Student researchers assisted the Crooked River Watershed Council in development of the council and evaluating riparian and channel conditions in the watershed.

All courses required for a degree program offered at UO/Central Oregon will be delivered in classroom settings with face-to-face instruction by regular UO and COCC faculty members. This is the format used in our successful General Science and General Social Science programs currently offered through the COUC. In some programs (e.g., Geological Sciences), field courses are appropriate and in others non-classroom settings have proven to be effective.

Although some of the courses we will teach in a traditional classroom setting have counterparts offered through distance education, we emphasize that our curriculum will not depend on distance education technology for courses required for the majors or the minors. Our Division of Extended Studies will be separate and largely independent from the academic programs offered by the other divisions. Distance education programs will augment our curricular offerings, but we will not employ distance education as a substitute for qualified faculty teaching and working with students face to face.

As described above, we plan to transform the University Center into the "Division of Extended Studies." The Division of Extended Studies will administer the current COUC agreements and commitments with other OUS universities. It will continue working with other campuses to bring quality programs not offered on the Central Oregon campus. This role will help to make the transition to the Central Oregon campus smoother for the programs and for students. It also will provide the widest possible range of programs for the Central Oregon campus.

As illustrated in our UO/Central Oregon Catalog, lower-division requirements for all of our majors are fully satisfied by existing COCC courses. Over the past two months, faculty and directors from each of our proposed programs have met with their counterparts at COCC to discuss articulation issues and ways to provide a seamless transition for both students and faculty. These meetings have been spectacularly successful, in our opinion. We have developed a mutual trust, and we believe, respect for the programs we are proposing. The COCC curriculum provides a strong foundation for our upper-division courses, and COCC faculty have been exceptionally collegial and forthright in helping us design our academic offerings. We fully anticipate continuation of this collaborative approach to curriculum development and further integration of lower and upper division courses.

In general, lower division courses will be taught by COCC faculty. If, in consultation with our COCC colleagues, we determine the need to offer a new lower division course that has no equivalent on the COCC campus, that course will be planned jointly and typically taught by a regular COCC faculty member. Under some circumstances, it may prove beneficial to all concerned for a UO/Central Oregon faculty member to teach a lower division course, but this will be the exception. More detailed information about the roles of the UO/Central faculty and the COCC faculty is given in the section on Faculty and Staff, below.

Enrollment projections for UO/Central Oregon for the first five years are given in Table 2. Note that in Year 1 about 30% of the projected student FTE are associated with UO/Central Oregon programs, and 70% with those of other institutions, through the Division of Extended Studies and the EOU Division. By the fifth year, we project that approximately 70% of the student FTE will be associated with UO/Central Oregon programs, and the remainder with other institutions. Thus significant growth is projected in both areas–indeed the number associated with other institutions more than doubles over this period of time–but the UO/Central Oregon programs will grow over this period to almost 900 FTE. Indeed, we believe that for the UO/Central Oregon programs we can exceed these projections, by utilizing the targeted student recruitment methods described in the section Student Affairs and Services below.

The faculty of the University of Oregon in Central Oregon will hold appointments as regular or adjunct faculty of the University of Oregon. (Note that at UO "adjunct" faculty are faculty who are approved by a department to teach certain courses and participate in certain departmental activities, but are not regular UO tenure or tenure track faculty. In most cases, adjuncts come from the professional community or from other institutions of higher education.)

Faculty for Central Oregon will be drawn from the ranks of regular, tenured and tenure-related faculty from the Eugene campus, from COCC, and through the appropriate and careful use of adjunct faculty. The procedures used to appoint faculty will largely follow those employed already on the UO campus in Eugene. Provisions for faculty governance of academic programs and curriculum will be those already in place for the UO, with full input from all faculty involved in specific programs.

The programs and degrees offered by UO/Central Oregon will be a subset of the programs and degrees offered on the Eugene campus. The faculty interaction between the Eugene and Central Oregon campuses will need to be richly collaborative and creatively adaptive as the UO/Central Oregon campus develops. In particular, it will be the quality of faculty appointed to teach in Central Oregon and the involvement of these faculty and those on the Eugene campus in program and curriculum development that will determine the long-term quality of programs for students in Central Oregon

All faculty teaching at the UO/Central Oregon campus will hold appointments as regular or adjunct faculty from the University of Oregon. In the earliest stages of the development of the UO/Central Oregon programs, the faculty will be drawn from three principal sources:

• Regular, tenured and tenure-related faculty from the UO,
• Regular tenured and tenure-related faculty from COCC, teaching as UO adjunct faculty, and
• Adjunct faculty, drawn from the community of academic and other professionals in the region.

In the first biennium of operation, we anticipate that the total FTE faculty needed will be approximately15-20, and that most if not all will come from these three categories. Throughout the five years of development that are the subject of this proposal, and well beyond, we expect to have a strong cohort of faculty teaching in Central Oregon who come from the UO/Eugene faculty. Some of these will transfer to Central Oregon, on a yearly or continuing basis, and live in the community. Others will be in part-time residence for a term.

In later stages of campus development, as enrollments grow and demand for programs meets anticipated goals, the faculty will also include:

• Resident faculty with appropriate appointments from the UO/Central Oregon campus, UO academic departments, and possibly COCC.

By 2005, assuming the funding continues at an appropriate level and the enrollment goals are met or exceeded, we would expect to have hired about 20 new faculty specifically for UO/Central Oregon, and to have approximately 50 FTE faculty from the other categories. A faculty staffing plan for the UO programs is shown in Table 3. This staffing plan is tied to the number of students and the number of courses expected to be taught.

In order to provide a strong incentive for outstanding UO faculty to participate in the development of the Central Oregon campus, we will offer up to 20 Knight Central Oregon Lectureships each year, at $3000 each, specifically to faculty from Eugene who teach at UO/Central Oregon for a term. These Lectureships will be funded from our Knight Chair Endowment.

The Knight Lectureships will be competitive and offered only to highly qualified faculty. Those who accept them will commit to teaching two courses in Central Oregon, to working with students on directed study or research, to being available to students throughout the week, and to give a public lecture on a topic related to the faculty member’s field at some time during the term. We believe in this way we can both assure that a large number of regular UO/Eugene faculty participate in UO/Central Oregon, and that we build strong connections between the two campuses.

Regular tenured and tenure-related faculty from the UO. Faculty drawn from the academic departments and programs of the Eugene campus will comprise an essential and significant segment of the overall UO/Central Oregon faculty personnel. Regular UO faculty will provide courses in Central Oregon in-load and will be released from corresponding teaching responsibilities in Eugene. Regular faculty will be used initially for most 400-level offerings and some 300-level courses.

Faculty will be selected as follows. The site director for a given program and the program director in Eugene will collaborate to determine needed courses. The program director will solicit participation from the relevant UO department or program, working with UO department heads to recruit faculty. Selected faculty will teach the given course in-load, receiving regular salary plus appropriate expenses and support for providing the course in Central Oregon. The department or program will receive compensation adequate to replace the full effort of the faculty member teaching in Central Oregon, and the faculty member would be expected to devote a comparable effort to UO/Central Oregon.

The incentives for department and faculty participation will be strong enough to ensure sustained, voluntary engagement in the development and delivery of degree programs in Central Oregon. In some cases, UO faculty will be recently retired faculty on 600 hour appointments, who have a particular interest in teaching in Central Oregon. In these instances, departments will be compensated at a level necessary to replace the anticipated teaching contribution of the faculty member in that department.

Regular tenured and tenure-related faculty from COCC. Faculty drawn from the academic departments and programs of COCC will comprise a second essential and significant segment of the overall UO/Central Oregon campus faculty personnel. COCC faculty will provide courses in Central Oregon in-load and will be released from corresponding COCC teaching responsibilities. COCC faculty will be used initially primarily for 300-level offerings.

COCC faculty will be selected as follows. The site director for a given program and the program director in Eugene will collaborate to determine needed courses. The site director, working with the program director, will solicit participation from the relevant COCC department or program, working with COCC to identify prospective faculty. Prospective faculty will be reviewed by the appropriate department or program on the UO campus in Eugene to determine whether an appointment can be made as a UO adjunct professor, with any appointment contingent on review and selection by the relevant academic department. COCC faculty will normally be directly hired and compensated by COCC with appropriate payment from the UO program, but in some cases will be hired directly by the relevant UO department.

Adjunct faculty, drawn from the community of academic and other professionals in the region. In some cases where neither the UO campus in Eugene nor COCC can provide needed faculty directly, adjunct faculty might be appointed through the processes already in place for the appointment of temporary adjuncts. Such adjuncts will comprise a secondary segment of the overall UO/Central Oregon campus faculty personnel. These adjuncts will be used primarily for 300-level offerings and perhaps some 400-level courses as well.

Adjunct faculty will be selected as follows. The site director for a given program and the program director in Eugene will collaborate to determine needed courses. The site director, working with the program director, will solicit participation from the relevant COCC department or program, working with COCC to identify prospective faculty.

If neither UO faculty nor appropriate COCC faculty are available for the needed courses, the program director and site directors will collaborate with the relevant UO academic department or program to conduct an appropriate search for an adjunct faculty member. Prospective adjuncts will be reviewed by the appropriate department or program on the UO/Eugene campus to determine whether an appointment could be made as a UO adjunct professor, with any appointment contingent on review and selection by the relevant academic department. Selected adjunct faculty will teach the given course for an appropriate salary, and will typically be compensated directly by the UO program.

Resident faculty with appropriate appointments from the Central Oregon campus, UO academic departments, and in some cases, COCC. As enrollments increase and programs mature in Central Oregon, there will arise a need for faculty hired specifically for the UO/Central Oregon campus. These resident faculty members will contribute to essential community building as the branch campus matures.

Most faculty will be recruited and selected through a collaborative process involving the relevant academic unit from the Eugene and the Central Oregon campuses. Faculty review and consideration for contract renewal and tenure and promotion will involve both the academic unit at the Eugene and the Central Oregon campuses. In some cases, it will be more appropriate to hire a faculty member who will be expected to teach regularly both at COCC and UO/Central Oregon. In these cases, UO and COCC will work together to develop an appropriate shared position, and hiring decisions will be made collaboratively among UO/Central Oregon, the appropriate UO department, and COCC.

The general administrative structure of UO/Central Oregon has been described earlier. A Vice Provost for Central Oregon, with overall responsibility for administration of UO/Central Oregon, and a set of academic divisions, each with a program director responsible for the academic content and integrity of degrees and course offerings and a site director responsible for smooth local management of all programs on the Central Oregon campus. This section clarifies the role of the faculty on the two campuses in the development and management of curriculum and degree offerings at UO/Central Oregon.

At the outset it is useful to underscore that it is the faculty of the University of Oregon–which will include both Eugene campus faculty and faculty appointed for the Central Oregon campus–who have the responsibility and authority to develop the curriculum and offer degree programs. Thus, all degree programs, any new courses, and any needed review of existing courses must follow existing procedures for review and approval through the UO curriculum process (including appropriate departmental review; College, School, and University curriculum committee reviews; Undergraduate Council review; Senate review; etc.). Such responsibility by UO and its faculty is necessary for accreditation purposes, and to ensure that the students at UO/Central Oregon are receiving a degree comparable in quality to UO students in Eugene.

With this background in mind, UO degrees and degree programs will be offered at UO/Central Oregon as follows:

The University of Oregon Library, a member of the Association of Research Libraries, houses the largest research collection in the state. With over 2.5 million volumes, and 15,000 serial subscriptions, the UO Library has become the premier resource for students and scholars throughout Oregon and the Northwest. The collection supports the full liberal arts curriculum, with special strengths in the areas of life and physical sciences, Northwest history, art and architecture, geographical information, business, and environmental studies. The University of Oregon is also recognized as a leader in library cooperation and resource sharing through its key role in the development of the Orbis Consortium.

To support higher education in Central Oregon, the goal of the University is to provide library services, collections, and networked access equivalent in quality to those that exist in Eugene. To achieve this goal, the University will provide the necessary resources to enhance the COCC Library and to address the full range of specific information needs associated with all upper division courses. A successful model will require a seamless integration of these additional services into the existing facilities and administrative structure at COCC. Resource sharing and remote services will be an important aspect of information delivery, but UO’s emphasis will be on providing onsite resources, instruction, and support.

1. Facilities

The COCC Library will serve as the primary facility for the branch campus. The need for additional shelving and public-access workstations associated with the UO/Central Oregon campus needs will be provided by the University of Oregon.

2. Staffing

The University of Oregon will fund one full-time professional librarian (9-month contract). The librarian will be a member of the COCC library faculty and report to the COCC Library Director. The individual in this position will be responsible for instruction and collection development in support of upper division courses and share general reference responsibilities with other COCC librarians. To facilitate integration of services, the COCC Library Director will also act as Director of Branch Library Services for Central Oregon and report to the UO Library Administration and the Vice Provost for Central Oregon.

In addition to this professional position, the UO will provide funding for COCC to hire additional support (up to .5 FTE classified staff) to address increased demand in circulation, reserve processing, stack maintenance, technical support, etc.

The UO Library staff includes 54 faculty and 92 support positions. Subject and function specialists in Eugene will be available for onsite visits in Bend for student instruction and staff consultation.

The University of Oregon Library System commits to monitoring the impact of additional students and faculty on library services. As programs and enrollment expand, the UO willingly accepts responsibility for increasing staffing levels in Central Oregon to meet the need.

The University of Oregon will assume responsibility for meeting the information needs of the students enrolled in the branch campus. This responsibility includes the selection and purchase of an "opening day collection" and an annual budget to purchase new books, serial titles, and online resources. UO librarians will work with COCC to evaluate the existing collections and to determine what overlap exists and what gaps need to be filled immediately. The University of Oregon will provide a minimum of $50,000 to purchase additional books initially.

The UO Library regularly receives between 5,000 and 10,000 gift titles annually. These valuable collections, usually covering the humanities and social sciences, often duplicate existing holdings. All duplicate titles will be offered first to COCC Library in an effort to strengthen the core collection.

To cover recurring needs (including electronic resources and serials subscriptions), the University of Oregon will allocate funding in line with the average library expenditures at other Oregon undergraduate institutions, i.e., $250/FTE. All resources purchased in support of the branch campus will be fully integrated into the COCC catalog and remain the property of COCC.

The University of Oregon Library offers a broad range of web-based electronic resources in support of the research activities of its students and faculty. These resources include over 100 citation databases, the full-text of approximately 6,000 electronic journals, and more than 150 electronic reference works. The breadth and depth of these resources provides strong support across all disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

The UO will add branch campus FTE to existing licenses whenever possible. If separate licenses must be negotiated, the UO will evaluate the level of need and purchase a separate license whenever necessary. Branch campus students and faculty will have off-campus access to licensed electronic resources by using the library's proxy server for authentication. Strategies to provide in-library access at COCC will be developed by the COCC and UO library staff. The UO will also work with COCC to establish a joint license whenever appropriate. COCC will continue to have responsibility for covering the licensing costs for COCC students.

The UO Library will collaborate with COCC staff to establish unified circulation policies. Ideally, no distinctions should exist between COCC and branch campus students. UO staff will assist in expediting the creation of a complete patron database for the COCC Library. All students and faculty in Bend will continue to use Orbis for access to the book collections in Eugene. In addition, Bend faculty (COCC and branch campus) will have faculty borrowing privileges when visiting the main campus, and COCC students will have regular privileges through existing reciprocal agreements. Although efficient mechanisms to allow extended offsite loans are not in place, the UO staff will work with COCC to achieve this objective.

The University of Oregon Library consistently lends more materials within the state than any other Oregon library, and it has a long-standing commitment to providing the most efficient service to students and faculty throughout Oregon. Staff are recognized nationally as leaders in the use of technological innovations. To facility access to the Eugene collections, students and faculty in Bend will have priority status as off-campus patrons. The goal is to provide the branch campus and COCC with electronic access to journal literature within 24 hours of the request. Whenever possible, articles will be delivered direct to the user's desktop. The UO Library will work with COCC to provide the most cost-effective and timely interlibrary loan services. Whenever possible, books borrowed from other libraries will be sent directly to the users.

The University of Oregon has over ten years of experience managing all aspects of the III Innopac system, and the staff are recognized nationally has having in-depth expertise related to technical services and database maintenance. Locally, the Library's technical services operation has been able to achieve significant economies of scale because of the volume of materials that are routinely purchased and added to the collection. The Library has been able to hire and train a diverse staff with strong language skills and specialized subject knowledge.

The most effective methods of acquisitions, cataloging, and processing will depend upon the established routines that exist at COCC and the additional volume of purchasing for the branch campus. The UO Library is prepared to work with COCC librarians in providing any of the following services that are most appropriate and cost/effective:

• UO staff accepts full responsibility to purchase, catalog, and process all library materials selected in support of the branch campus, or

• UO staff accepts some portion of the acquisition, cataloging, and processing of upper-division library materials, either by function or by subject/language. The UO will also consider assuming all of one function or subject for both the branch campus and COCC, or

• COCC staff accept the acquisition, cataloging, and processing for the branch campus materials. UO staff offers consultation and advice on specialized functions, e.g. foreign-language acquisitions and cataloging, authority control, database maintenance, preservation.

Current UO unit costs for acquisition, cataloging, and processing are $8.00 for monographs and $20.00 for new serial subscriptions.

UO Library faculty serve as subject specialists for a full range of disciplines in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. These librarians would provide specialized instruction, database training, and subject-area collection development expertise when needed. E-mail reference service is available with a 24-hour weekday response time. In addition, the UO Library is prepared to work with COCC to incorporate the most appropriate technologies in the area of "virtual" or online reference.

Branch campus students would be able to take advantage of the UO Library’s full range of credit courses, including introduction to research methods and several specialized and more sophisticated courses. The UO Library will also make its Information Technology curriculum available to both branch and COCC students. These workshops cover a wide range of Internet applications from advanced web design concepts to multimedia production.

The UO Library's Media Services department offers a wide range of services that will benefit and support students and faculty on the Bend campus, including classroom equipment support; media production for instruction, research, and public service, faculty consultation, training, and development.

The COCC Library's Media Operations group provides day-to-day support for classroom technologies on the Bend campus, and would partner with the UO to provide comparable services for the branch campus as well. Media Services staff from Eugene will visit the branch campus as needed for engineering consultations, facilities planning, equipment specification, and major installations.

Branch campus needs for video, graphics, and digital multimedia production will be accommodated from the Eugene campus by the award-winning production staff of Media Services. Designers, producers, and videographers will visit the branch campus as needed for client meetings and location shooting. Media Services is the Eugene campus head-end for satellite and microwave uplinks and downlinks (Net I & II) and has excellent teleconferencing facilities.

UO Library staff will make regular visits to teach workshops and offer one-on-one consultation for faculty, including onsite training sessions and remote support of the Blackboard web-based courseware package.

The UO will install a general-purpose computer lab in the new facility. The lab will include approximately 30 workstations, classroom projector equipment, and a server. The UO will work closely with COCC to create mechanisms for the joint purchase of software and hardware to ensure campus-wide compatibility and lowest possible unit costs.

Success will require effective ongoing collaboration with COCC staff. The University of Oregon will work with the COCC librarians and IT professionals to establish mechanisms for evaluating programs and planning new services. Within the UO Library, the Associate University Librarian will serve as the primary liaison with COCC Library. In addition to the AUL, the Coordinator for Offsite Services will play a key role program development. Initially, UO Library staff will make at least two site visits a year to COCC Library. Personnel from administration, reference, collection development, and technical services will be invited to participate in collaborative planning discussions.

One particular strength of our proposal is to bring online the latest and fastest internet capacity for this extended educational enterprise. The University of Oregon will build on its national leadership in Internet2 and in networking technology to build this electronic service capacity.

Key UO network and computer center staff have met with key COCC networking staff, and agreed that the Central Oregon campus would be best served with on-site management by COCC staff, with consulting available from UO staff. Costs for this, including an additional staff person on the COCC campus, are included in the budget, Table 4. Network access will be a seamless interface to all students of COCC and UO/Central Oregon, as well as all faculty and staff.

Economies of scale are possible in Central Oregon by aggregating traffic from COCC, the University building, and the OPEN network (Oregon Public Education Network — K-12). An aggregation of data traffic and pooled financial resources would permit us to lease a DS3 circuit between Eugene and Bend, to be shared by the educational public sector. Details of this must be worked out between COCC, OPEN and the Educational Service Districts in Central Oregon, but given the potential savings to all concerned, this should not be difficult to bring quickly to fruition.

Central Oregon is well served by Bend Cable Company, which has 140 miles of fiber to cover Bend, Redmond and Sisters. Bend Cable is successfully delivering data services with cable modems to its region, and we anticipate negotiating a favorable rate for this service for users associated with UO/Central Oregon. This company also provides the schools with affordable loop connections between sites in the region connected to their facility. We have had discussions with Bend Cable to construct an OWEN hub at its data center facility. They have adequate space and suitable infrastructure to provide OWEN with good co-location facilities. This would permit the development of the first "east of the mountains" point of presence for the network that serves all K-12, higher education, and State agencies in Oregon. Again, by aggregating this demand with that of Bend Cable, further economies can be attained. A letter of Intent has been signed with Bend Cable, describing our planned cooperation.

The University of Oregon is one of the founding members of Internet2, a partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet. The primary goals of Internet2 are to:

• · Create a leading edge network capability for the national research community

• · Enable revolutionary Internet applications

• · Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader community

Recently Internet2 has opened the doors to smaller institutions to become "Sponsored Participants" with the organization. The UO already has sponsored Western Oregon University, Eastern Oregon University, Southern Oregon University, and Oregon Institute of Technology. Additionally, UO plans to sponsor all of K-12 as participants early in 2001. As a part of UO/Central Oregon, we would sponsor COCC as a participant in Internet2.

In summary, UO’s leadership position in networking, combined with the excellent staff at COCC and our agreement with Bend Cable, will allow us to provide a level of quality and access in networking on the UO/Central Oregon and COCC campus that is equal to that in Eugene, or indeed anywhere in Oregon, at a very modest cost.