April 30, 1999

Contact Gaye Vandermyn (541) 346-3133

WHAT University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer will speak to the Oregon Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (OrACRAO) about the growing importance of higher education in new and challenging times.

WHEN Noon—1:30 p.m. Monday, May 3

[Frohnmayer will speak at approximately 12:45 p.m.]

WHERE Mt. Summit Room, Inn of the Seventh Mountain, 18575 S.W. Century Dr., Bend

In his speech to the OrACRAO, Frohnmayer will discuss the critical role higher education plays in preparing students to meet the challenges of the new millennium.

"The future our students face will include new challenges and opportunities we can only imagine," says Frohnmayer. "One certainty is that continuing education will enable them to better meet these challenges and help them continue along their successful paths."

OrACRAO is comprised of registrars and admissions officers from Oregon’s public and private four-year and two-year institutions of higher education.

A native Oregonian, Frohnmayer is the 15th president of the University of Oregon, the state’s 123-year-old center for liberal arts, science and professional studies. He assumed the presidency on July 1, 1994.

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