Oregon Tech Board of Trustees approve 9% tuition increase; will lower if state funding higher than current legislative proposals

With helpful engagement from students, Oregon Tech Board of Trustees approved a 9% tuition increase, with the caveat that it will be decreased by 1% for every $20 million more given to public universities above the Co-chairs of Ways and Means budget

Oregon Tech quietly offers free tuition to Umpqua shooting survivors

In the months following the state's deadliest mass shooting in modern times, Oregon Institute of Technology President Chris Maples quietly set up a new scholarship program. Starting this fall, OIT will waive tuition for any Umpqua Community College student who was in one of four classes in Snyder Hall on Oct. 1 when a gunman killed 10 people, including himself, and wounded 8 others.