The UO’s efforts to raise its academic profile and bolster its financial resources were featured in both national and local news stories this week.

The Chronicle of Higher Education published a story Monday that probes the UO’s efforts to maintain and grow its undergraduate and graduate programs in the face of a steep decline in state support for higher education. It describes the tradeoffs the UO had to make to balance the loss of state funding since 1990 and its ambitious plan, under the leadership of new UO President Michael Schill, to enhance academics through its $2 billion giving campaign.

The Register-Guard also ran an editorial on the efforts by Schill, who arrived this summer with plans to raise the university’s national academic profile, to bring in 80 to 100 new tenure-track faculty over the next four years and maintain access and affordability for Oregon students.

To read the full stories, see “An Academic Profile at Risk” in the Chronicle of Higher Education and “Schill’s academic focus” in The Register-Guard.