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<p class="MsoNormal">Some of you may be interested in this recent audit about community colleges from the Oregon Secretary of State’s office. The full audit is linked at the bottom of the press release.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Buzzy Nielsen, MPP, MSI (he/him/his)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%">buzzy.nielsen@slo.oregon.gov | 971-375-3486<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Oregon Secretary of State <Oregon.SOS@public.govdelivery.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 19, 2022 10:06 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NIELSEN Buzzy * SLO <Buzzy.NIELSEN@slo.oregon.gov><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Audit: Oregon must pay closer attention to its struggling community colleges<o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">SHEMIA FAGAN</span></strong>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Audit: Oregon must pay closer attention to its struggling community colleges</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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the report</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="gdp" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">SALEM, OR — Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) and state leaders must focus more urgently on student performance at community
colleges, student support, and the colleges’ financial stability amid persistent enrollment declines, according to an audit released today by the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“Education helped me break the cycle of poverty in my family,” said Secretary Fagan. “Our community colleges are important gateways for students from lower-income
families, for older and rural students, for working parents, for workers needing retraining. They are also crucial for Oregon’s economy. State leaders need to focus on them now more than ever.” </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The audit found improvements in key areas since HECC began overseeing Oregon’s 17 community colleges in 2015, including improved student performance and
increased financial aid for students. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Auditors also found substantial deficits. Oregon’s community college student performance still lags behind other states and equity gaps in student performance
persist. Accountability, effective public reporting of student results, and use of data to drive improvement are all limited. Crucial student support services are inadequately monitored and supported. State financial aid still has substantial gaps and an inequitable
design. Monitoring of college stability is minimal, despite declining finances and enrollment drops that outpace the nation. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The audit includes five recommendations to HECC. It also recommends that the Governor and Legislature provide HECC with greater direction and authority,
and that state leaders increase HECC and college staff in key areas as needed to help address the substantial risks the colleges face. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As a coordinating agency with limited statutory authority, HECC cannot force colleges to make operational changes. Locally elected college boards are responsible
for college operations. Instead, HECC’s role includes monitoring the system’s performance, reporting quality information on how the system is doing, and working with the colleges and state leaders to address problems that arise. HECC can take steps to improve
in this role immediately, but also needs stronger support from state leaders to be more effective in spotlighting problems and providing solutions. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">HECC is the statewide agency over community colleges, public universities and private colleges. The audit focused on its role with community colleges and
their roughly 125,000 for-credit students. The state spent $700 million in the 2021-23 biennium to support community college operations. For 2023-25, HECC is requesting substantial increases in community college operations and financial aid funding. It is
also requesting additional funding to help colleges and universities better serve students from underserved groups, such as students from low-income families, first-generation college students, and students from historically underserved races and ethnicities. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Read the full audit, “Oregon Must Improve Community College Performance, Student Support, and Sustainability Amid Persistent Enrollment Declines,” on the
Secretary of State website: <a href="https://sos.oregon.gov/audits/Documents/2022-35.pdf">https://sos.oregon.gov/audits/Documents/2022-35.pdf</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About Secretary Shemia Fagan</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Pronunciation: shuh-MEE-uh (rhymes with “Maria”) FAY-gen (rhymes with “Megan”)</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Shemia Fagan is Oregon’s 28th Secretary of State. She grew up in small Oregon towns, Dufur and The Dalles, and was raised by her single dad and two
older brothers. Her public service began on her local school board. She was later elected to the Oregon House of Representatives, then to the Oregon State Senate. Secretary Fagan was a civil rights attorney before being elected to Secretary of State in 2020.
She stays busy keeping up with her young children, teaching her dog not to jump on people and being a fanatic for women’s basketball.</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About Oregon SOS</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Oregon Secretary of State is one of three constitutional offices created at statehood. Oregon’s Secretary of State is Oregon’s chief elections
officer, chief auditor, chief archivist, and oversees business and nonprofit filings. The Secretary of State also serves as one of three members of the State Land Board and as the chair of the Oregon Sustainability Board. Under Article V, Section 8a of the
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