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NEWS: Board of Trustees approves tuition increase 4 • FORUM: SHS team offers tips on enriching sex 14 • NEWS: OSU updates brewery 6

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Join Corvallis Mayor for Peace Biff Traber to plant a Green Legacy Hiroshima Peace Tree, grown from a tree that survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The Peace Tree will be dedicated to Oregon Hiroshima survivor Dr. Hideko Tamura Snider.

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The OSUsed Store is open for its weekly afternoon public sale today. Merchandise includes used furniture (desks, file cabinets, tables, chairs, bookcases, etc.), computers and computer accessories, office supplies, bicycles, household items, and much more.

NYJAH GOBERT | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Fourth-years Quinn Schmidt and Larissa Hitzman, majoring in food technology and science, are installing new fermenters and cleaning them up before they are used in practice.

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JAYCEE KALAMA | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK The Oregon State University Board of Trustees approved tuition increases for in- and out-of-state students for 2020 during a meeting in the Memorial Union Horizon room on April 5.

OSU Board of Trustees approves tuition increase Presidential search, legislative outcomes also discussed at Friday meeting

By LILLIAN NOMIE News Contributor and JAYCEE KALAMA News Reporter The Oregon State University Board of Trustees approved an increase in in-state and out-ofstate tuition for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The board approved an increase of 4.29 percent for in-state undergraduates and 3.81 percent for out-of-state undergraduates, an increase of $405 and $1080 respectively for full-time students.

The proposed rates assume a combination of revenue from tuition increases, enrollment growth and expense reductions are the core components for a balanced budget for 2020.

The Finance & Administration committee forecasts the university will face a cost increase of $34.7 million for the fiscal year of 2020, and the recommended plan would increase revenue and reductions enough to break even.

The increase in tuition is projected to increase revenue by $14.7 million, and it is expected to make up about 42% of the needed revenue and reductions for fiscal year 2020. The expense reductions are estimated to make up another 36.6% needed for the balanced budget. These two components combined offset about 78% of expected cost increases.

State funding is expected to increase revenue by $2.8 million, only 8 percent of the revenue or reduction items needed to keep up with projected 2020 expenditures. The remaining 22 percent needed to balance the 2020 budget is estimated to come from enrollment growth and other funds.

Presidential Search Zach Smith, from the Board of Directors, and Suzanne Teer, an executive search consultant in Witt/Kieffer’s Education Practice, will be part of the search to determine who will take over OSU President Ed Ray’s position. Ray announced last month he plans on stepping down as president in June 2020.

According to Smith, the most important part of the search is to engage all of the stakeholders in the process.

“We have talked about coming back to multiple sites on campus to have conversation with students, faculty, staff and community members to see what they want to see in the next president,” Smith said.

In late April and early May, the Presidential Search Committee and Witt/Kieffer Team will host listening sessions with university and community members to communicate what characteristics they desire to see in OSU’s next president. Based on the community’s input, the Witt/Kieffer Team will submit a draft leadership profile, recruitment and advertising strategies and input from the PSC to the Board of Trustees for review. Once the Board of Trustees finalizes the profile the recruitment and candidate evaluation begins.

The next phase of national recruiting, screening and interviewing of candidates will be completed by the PSC during summer and fall. They will select semi-finalists for more interviews and further reference checks. The committee will then prepare a report for the board chair, who will then determine the candidates that will be presented to the Board.

By early winter, the candidates who moved forward to the second round will be interviewed by group of university and community voters and the Board of Trustees. A survey with feedback from the constituents will then be reviewed by the Board of Trustees. The Board will then rank the candidates in a public session and consult with the Governor.

“Making sure we have a diverse committee with different representative views and different views on religion and ethnicity and other diversities is very important to me,” Smith said.

Following the interviews and negotiations, the Board of Trustees will vote to appoint the new president.

Legislative Outcomes Approaching 2 p.m., about five hours into

the meeting and 25 minutes ahead of schedule, the board of Trustees shifted their conversation to the next topic; legislative updates. Gabrielle Serra, associate director of federal relations and Jock Mills, director of government relations, led the conversation, with Serra beginning the discussion with research initiatives.

On Feb. 15, Federal Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations legislation was completed and enacted into law. As a part of the FFY 2019 appropriations cycle, Oregon State pursued funding objectives for OSU’s education, research and extended missions.

In collaboration with the Oregon congressional delegation, congressional committees and federal agencies, OSU has achieved and secured a handful of priority outcomes.

Serra explained the National Science Foundation is their top priority for success, in terms of research conducted at OSU. OSU is working with the NSF to plan and build a third Regional Class Research Vessel after securing funding.

As part of maritime robotics research, the Office of Naval Research has invested $15 million, with up to $7 million going toward OSU research. Additionally, although not secured yet, OSU and the University of Washington are collaborating on a Navy Energy R&D for wave energy research, and working with the University of Kentucky to secure funding for a hemp research program.

“We are working with the University of Kentucky under OSU’s leadership for the nation’s first industrial hemp manufacturing research program, in collaboration with USDA Agricultural Resource Service, of course. We’re in a good spot to keep looking to move forward with those initiatives and see real success in bringing home directive funding to OSU’s research community,” Serra said. “That’s, of course, in parallel with the competitive research that our faculty are pursuing on an ongoing basis.”

After Serra, Mills stepped in to discuss tax packages and house bills in the Oregon Senate in which OSU is involved. House Bill

3038, a food security and work study expansion bill, is anticipated to expand access for food security. This bill will be decided on this upcoming Monday.

“We are pursuing a bill that will expand work study programs, meaning, if you are a participant in work study, you become eligible for food stamps for SNAP. We are working with Western Oregon University on a program that will expand work study that would enable us to see whether or not or how that would affect student’s ability gain access to those benefits,” Mills said.

Other Business President Ed Ray spoke out about large cuts being made to OSU funding by legislators and his concerns as to what the effects of those cuts are on students, beyond dollar amounts.

“We need to remind the legislature that we are doing this because we care deeply about our students’ success and the burden this puts on them,” Ray said. “You (the legislature) are making it increasingly impossible for us to continue on this path. We need you, the legislature, to step up and meet your obligations to the young people of this state.”

President Ray went on discuss the steps the Board of Trustees needs to make, in order to have their voice heard by the legislature, and how he thinks they need to be clearer about the impacts of budget cuts.

“We need the particulars on where the $20 million is going into. If you just say $20 million, it sounds like you’re sitting on it and you took it out of the bank. Well, no. If it’s 35 tenure professors and 40 classified staff and maybe two programs being cut down, that has a lot more meaning than a dollar value,” Ray said.

Ray called it the barod’s “one shot” to have center stage to say what’s frustrating them. He explained to the board members even if it will never get them anywhere, at least they put a stake in the ground about ‘here’s where we are and if you don’t like what the Hell we do next year, at least don’t be surprised.’

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COURTESY OF TYLER HUD SON, CIRE & PROPULSION LAB (Left) Tree-scale test to collect embers in trays filled with water and on pieces of fire resistant fabric. The fraction of total hot embers is determined by char marks from hot embers left on the fabric.

COURTESY OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, TYLER HUD SON, CI RE & PROPULSI ON LAB A frame from infrared data collected at The Nature Conservancy Post.

Each small object is an ember. Tyler Hudson’s goal in research was to collect information about the size and number of embers generated during a wildland fire scenario.

Wildfire research team receives $2.1 million grant

By MORGAN MAWN News Contributor A new Oregon State University wildfire research team has received a $2.1 million grant to study the differences in combustion of live and dried fuels, and is hoping to help further wildfire prevention causes.

Past wildfire research at OSU focused on understanding the ember generation characteristics of different species of tree. These previous studies used dried fuels while completing their experiments, but many wildfires burn in areas full of live fuels. For this reason, the upcoming research team will attempt to supplement the previous work by exploring the different characteristics of burning live fuels,

which includes living trees, versus dried fuels, which includes dead or dry foliage. This new research team will be led by David Blunck, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, who was awarded the $2.1 million US Department of Defense grant in February.

“I suggest that the project is worth the funding because we expect that results can be used to improve models used by fire managers,” Blunck said.

Blunck’s team aims to discern the differences between live fuel and dried fuel fires to further their understanding of the beginning and spreading of wildfires and expand upon the findings of previous wildfire research. Previous research completed at OSU had a focus on ember gen-

eration in wildfire models, but only considered dried fuels.

Tyler Hudson, a member of a previous wildfire research team, said his work focused on ember generation with dried fuels during fires. According to Hudson, understanding embers is critical due to the nature of how fires can spread. Embers from the fires can be carried by the wind onto other materials thus spreading the fire.

Most studies of ember generation calculated the number of embers produced, but Hudson and his team measured the number of hot embers, embers capable of igniting a fire, produced by each species of tree. Hudson said their work will be able to help improve fire models due to a better understanding of how many embers

should be generated for each tree in a fire model. With better fire models, predicting the movement and behavior of a wildfire will be more accurate and possibly diminish the effects of the fire.

“Wildland fires have a significant impact on the community every summer,” Hudson said.

Jacob Strittholt, second-year fermentation major and former volunteer firefighter, saw the impact of wildfires on the environment directly while firefighting. Strittholt witnessed the destructive nature of these fires in many ways, such as seeing a whole valley of homes burn down in a night, numerous deer skeletons strewn on the ground and even a burned bear running through the streets.

“They were very destructive. It looked like a nuke went off,” Strittholt said.

While Hudson and the other team members did find helpful conclusions that will aid in preventing events such as those witnessed

by Strittholt, there were some gaps within their research that the new research team aims to fill.

Specifically, there is more to be understood about the differences in combustion characteristics of live and dead fuels.

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Students on the street: Thoughts on recommended per-credit tuition increase

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Not great, I take out loans to pay for my college, so that just adds on top of it, and I don’t really see the point. I guess they’re not really telling us where that money is going so that’s kind of annoying.

I’m actually kind of shocked because here we pay for a lot of things and don’t necessarily get the most out of our money and so I feel like our tuition should be going down, not up.

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Honestly, kind of sucks. Can’t sugar coat that.

Because I pay my own college tuition, and I don’t know how much further FAFSA is going to go. It’s a little tough.

I mean, that’s probably about what inflation is, maybe a little bit more, so, really not too bad.

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I think they should be accounting for the cost, but, it doesn’t feel like that big of a change.

Honestly college is expensive as it is, it doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, but I don’t appreciate it.

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I do not appreciate that I have to pay eight dollars more (per credit).

It’s such an insignificant amount of money I don’t think anyone’s really going to care that much.

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Eight dollars (per credit) might not seem like a lot but when you’re taking that many credits it definitely adds up.

Yeah, I don’t feel very good about it. Especially, it’ll add up quite a lot.

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NYJAH GOBERT | ORANGE MED IA NETWORK Senior Quinn Schmidt, also manager of the pilot plant facility, cleans out the fermenters after their prior use and before more beer can undergo the fermentation process in them.

OSU brewery uses donation to modernize equipment

By ALEXIS CAMPBELL News Contributor In March, Oregon State University’s new brewery celebrated its first year in operation after being fully upgraded in 2018.

A $1 million donation in 2015 from Carlos Alvarez, chairman and chief executive officer of beer corporation The Gambrinus Company, allowed OSU’s brewery to completely modernize its equipment last year. With increased automation, the equipment is now more similar to those used by larger breweries.

OSU is home to one of the nation’s few fermentation science programs, where students are learning the chemistry behind fermented products, such as beer and wine as well as getting hands-on experience in creating them and working in a brewery.

Thomas Shellhammer is the Nor’Wester Professor of Fermentation science at OSU, an endowed position. According to Shellhammer, the original brewery installed in 1996 was a small “pub-style” brewery. Now, students can learn on the type of automated equipment that they would find in large-scale breweries.

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“We have thoroughly modernized our brewing operations in the last 18 months,” Shellhammer said.

In brewing, grain is mashed to create a liquid, called “wort,” which contains the sugars that will be fermented. According to Shellhammer, all steps of wort production such as milling, mashing, boiling, and oxygenation are now automated.

Another benefit of the upgrades is that they provide a safer setting. The cleaning process is automated, creating a sanitary environment for students as well as faculty working in the brewery.

Upgrades to the brewery are still ongoing, with a more modernized cellar as well as 20 new fermentation tanks currently in the process of being installed.

Jacob Strittholt, a second-year Fermentation Science major, joined the major during fall term. Although Strittholt has mainly taken chemistry, biology and food sanitation courses, he is looking forward to spending more time in

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NYJAH GOBERT | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Seniors Quinn Schmidt and Larissa Hitzman, majoring in food technology and science, work to properly install new fermenters to be used in practice.

BREWERY, Continued from page 6 OSU’s brewery, with all its new technology.

“I’m really looking forward to a chance to get to work in the brewery, it’s a very nice facility that would be great to learn in,” Strittholt said via email.

Although the Food Science and Technology major dates back to 1918, the fermentation science option was created in 1996. In 2001, there were only two universities in the United States with a brewing focus. According to Shellhammer, the program has three to four times as many students now and three more faculty members.

“That interest mirrors the growth of the craft brewing industry in the US,” Shellhammer said.

With an increased interest in brewing, Shellhammer has seen more students who have misconceptions about the industry.

“It’s not homebrewing, it’s making beer on a commercial, industrial scale,” Shellhamer said. “Every day, day after day. Dealing with the problems that come with trying to keep a brewery running and making the beer consistently high quality.”

Shellhammer said that most students who graduate in the program will go on to work at one of thousands of craft breweries in Oregon.

A smaller number of students move out of state to work at large breweries such as AnheuserBusch that do not exist in Oregon.

According to Strittholt, he hopes to find work locally.

“I’m hoping to work at a local brewery like Block 15 or something similar, but definitely

We’re teaching students about the different types of sensory tests that a quality department would use to evaluate changes in raw materials or defects.

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something local. I’d love to actually work on brewing beer but something like brewing analysis and quality control would be great too,” Strittholt said via email.

The major is built on science, with students analyzing beer from a chemical, microbiological, physical, and sensory perspective. Students must also learn about sensory testing of beer such as appearance and aroma. These assessments can help them in the future to determine the quality of materials or potential defects.

“We’re teaching students about the different types of sensory tests that a quality department would use to evaluate changes in raw materials or defects,” Shellhammer said.

In the future, OSU’s brewery is set to continue expanding by moving into a planned fermentation science research center.

NYJAH GOBERT | ORANGE MED I A NETWORK Senior majoring in food science and technology, Quinn Schmidt is pushing acid for 90 minutes at a time into the new fermenters cleaning out any impurities, oils or residue before any beer goes inside.

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onths after Associated Students of Oregon State University were unable to take a unified, public stance on Measure 105, a new Oregon State Senate resolution aims to give student governments greater freedom of speech.

Senate Bill 731, created in January, retains many aspects of the current law such as disallowing student governments to take a public stance against political candidates.

However, it would specifically allow them to take positions on initiatives and ballot measures - actions that do not use student fees.

In the weeks leading up to the 2018 elections, a proposed joint resolution would have allowed ASOSU to release a statement in opposition to Ballot Measure 105, an initiative to repeal Oregon’s sanctuary state status. Under this law, state agencies are limited in what resources they can use to apprehend people whose only violation is being an illegal immigrant.

Students with their name on the resolution were informed that the Office of General Counsel advised against moving forward with it. They were told the consequences could include civil lawsuits and a $1000 fine, and the university would not defend them.

Kylie Boenisch, ASOSU vice president-elect and senator, became aware of the resolution a few days before it was set to be voted on. She learned about the potential legal issues hours before the meeting.

“I had to decide whether it was more important for me to continue my sponsorship of the resolution, or follow what I was being advised to do to avoid potentially serious,

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personal legal repercussions,” Boenisch said.

Faced with this choice, Boenisch removed her name from the resolution.

“That senate meeting was probably one of the hardest ones I’ve ever attended. We had a lot of folks who were there and really wanted to see the resolution introduced,” Boenisch said.

“They still came to the meeting even though it wasn’t being introduced, and that was one of the most difficult parts because Measure 105 had the potential to impact the well-being of students at OSU.” Aaron Satyanarayana, a second-year ASOSU representative, agreed to cosponsor this resolution. According to Satyanarayana, it was unclear whether or not the resolution was legal.

“The reason why the resolution didn’t even make it to the floor was because there were a lot of concerns and pressure, and in all honesty a lot of confusion on whether the act of a student government taking a stance on a political position is legal or not,” Satyanarayana said.

After every student sponsor removed their name from the resolution due to fear of legal action, Tabitha Pitzer, ASOSU judicial council vice chair and Here To Stay member, a student organization supporting undocumented students, contacted a friend who works for Oregon Senator Sara Gelser.

“Senator Gelser’s office agreed to help us reduce legal ambiguity by potentially seeking a legislative fix during the 2019 legislative session,” Pitzer said via email.

According to this bill, the ASOSU resolution to speak against Measure 105 would have been legal, as it is non-partisan and not connected to a particular politician.

According to Pitzer, ASOSU’s joint resolution

was submitted on behalf of Here to Stay.

As a publicly-funded institution, OSU’s student government by Oregon law cannot promote or oppose political candidates or ballot measures. However, ASOSU may take a stance on legislation and speak on politics.

Adding to the confusion, Western Oregon University’s student government publicly recommended voting no on Measure 105, becoming the first student government in Oregon to take a position on ballot measures.

They faced no consequences.

According to ASOSU General Counsel Rebecca Gose, advising on these potential legal issues was “very difficult” as she knew how important they were to ASOSU. She could not say why Western Oregon University faced no repercussions, as she only advises ASOSU. “I can’t speak to whether Western’s student government violated the law, or if they did, why Western Oregon University did not impose student conduct action or why the secretary of state did not impose sanctions,” Gose said via email. “Both of those options are possible when this law is violated.”

According to Gose, the Office of General Counsel is optimistic about the new legislation.

“We are very hopeful that (the bill) will pass in the legislature this year so that our elected student government officials can take these kinds of positions regarding important ballot measures,” Gose said.

Many student governments have looked to Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s 2015 statement on this issue for guidance. Pitzer said many believe this statement gives student governments the right to political endorsement.

However, the statement has ambiguity creating what OSU’s Office of General Counsel referred

to as a legal gray area. Pitzer said she did not believe students would face any punishment.

“It’s my opinion, and the opinion of many others, that any punishments students would have faced were dependent upon the attorney general saying that students do not have the right to political endorsement but because this is not the opinion of the attorney general, students at OSU would not have faced any negative consequences,” Pitzer said via email.

Satyanarayana said ASOSU should be able to take non-partisan stances as long as they are backed by fact.

“If we take a calculated and data-driven stance on an issue, like the economic impacts on the student body, why isn’t that allowed?”

Satyanarayana said.

SB 731 is sponsored by Oregon senators Gelser and Michael Dembrow. Most recently, after being introduced in Senate, the resolution has been in the Senate Education Committee.

On March 11, a public hearing was held by this committee during which Sienna Kaske, the policy coordinator for Here to Stay, as well as Ryan Maza, assistant director of government relations, testified in favor of SB 731.

On April 8, a work session is scheduled for SB 731 in the Oregon State Capitol. During this session, the contents of the resolution will be decided upon before it moves forward. The bill must pass in the Education committee before it is voted on by the Senate.

According to Pitzer, if the resolution is passed it will clearly state a right students already have.

“With the passage of SB 731, student governments will likely engage in more dialogue about the world around us and how politics impact our lives,” Pitzer said via email.

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ISIS LOWERY | OREGON STATE GYMNAST In her floor routine, OSU junior gymnast Isis Lowery scored a 9.900 to help the Beavers edge No. 4 Florida for the second-place spot in the NCAA Corvallis Regional Finals. (Photos by Erick Branner)

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ER IC K BR ANNER | ORANGE ME DIA NE TWORK The entire OSU Gymnastics team reacts to Isis Lowery’s floor routine late in the meet.

Beavers move on to NCAA Championship Semi-Finals

By JARRED BIERBRAUER OMN Sports Chief Oregon State Women’s Gymnastics placed second in the NCAA Corvallis Regional Finals meet on Saturday night at Gill Coliseum, earning a trip to nationals.

In the meet, the No. 15 Beavers were able to score 196.900, defeating Boise State and No. 4 Florida, but fell short to No. 5 Denver who racked up a total of 197.375 points to take first.

According to OSU Head Coach Tanya Chaplin, this was only the second time that her team landed all 24 of their routines.

“I am so proud of this team and our staff, they’ve worked so hard this year,” Chaplin said. “I thought they showed a lot of strength, courage, just grit. This was the second day of competition, and they just honed in on what they needed to do and it came out that we are heading to Fort Worth. That’s just incredibly exciting for us.”

Early in the meet, the top-seeded Florida Gators counted a fall on the balance beam, giving the Beavers an opportunity to gain the lead for second place.

Despite already having the home-court advantage, Oregon State also received their regular event rotation, giving them the ability to end the meet on the floor.

After the final transition, Oregon State trailed to Denver by 0.225 points and needed a strong performance on the floor. OSU junior Isis Lowery and sophomore Kaitlyn Yanish both came up big in their routines, earning 9.900’s to knock Florida out of the tournament.

According to Yanish, who was recently named Pac-12 First Team All-Conference, the energy from the crowd helped build the excitement at the end of the meet.

“Honestly, it felt so exciting in there. I feel like we went out and did what we know how to do, and what we do everyday in practice,” Yanish said. “It was so loud in there, I feel like I could barely even hear. It just felt like we were champions right from there. I had no idea that we were going but I just knew that everybody was super excited and I was super excited so it was just a lot of fun.”

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It was so loud in there, I feel like I could barely even hear. It just felt like we were champions right from there. I had no idea that we were going, but I just knew that everybody was super excited and I was super excited, so it was just a lot of fun.

Kaitlyn Yanish Oregon State Gymnast

Three Beavers, including Sabrina Gill, Mariana Colussi-Palaez and Lowery scored 9.900 on the uneven bars. Gill also led the team on the balance beam with a 9.900.

“She (Lowery) really builds up the crowd, and it almost makes it easier for me because the crowd is already super pumped,” Yanish said.

Lowery, who competed in the bars, beam and floor, scored the highest total amount of points for the Beavers with 29.625. Senior Mckenna Singley followed closely with a combined 29.475 points in the vault, beam and floor.

“It was amazing, it makes the energy for us even greater and it makes it more exciting and more fun,” Singley said. “Especially because Beaver Nation is one family and having that that energy, having them cheer us on like that it just gets you excited, it makes you feel so loved.”

The Beavers are one of three Pac-12 teams in the NCAA National Championships, including UCLA and Utah. Oklahoma, Georgia, Michigan State, Denver and LSU are also in the meet.

Oregon State Gymnastics will be performing in the semifinals of the championship meet at Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, April 19. The time of the matchup is to be disclosed.

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Plan to implement history graduate degree gains traction

By JADA KRENING News Reporter

Oregon State University, has roughly 220 students pursuing a bachelor’s degree in history.

Yet, OSU does not offer a graduate program in history for students hoping to continue their education after graduation.

Consequently, Nicole von Germeten, the director of the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, along with Associate Professor Stacey Smith and SHPR Head Advisor David Bishop, have strived to create a master’s degree in history at OSU. Germeten said in a survey presented to undergraduate students to gauge interest in the potential master’s program, 120 people responded, with eighteen students stating they would apply for the program in fall 2020 if it became available.

Germeten has been a key factor in the effort to implement a master’s of history at OSU. As the director of SHPR, Germeten has been responsible for writing most of the proposal for the potential program. In addition, she has received support from her fellow history faculty, including Associate Professor of History Marisa Chappell, Professor of History Paul Kopperman, Associate Professor Stacey Smith and SHPR Head Advisor David Bishop.

Germeten said the process of creating a new graduate program is complex, but so far, she has completed a number of required steps, including getting the dean’s signature on the proposal and having the proposal reviewed by external reviewers, which include history and

graduate department directors from Clemson University, University of California Santa Cruz and California State University Long Beach.

These external reviewers emphasized the strength of the current history staff at OSU in their report, stating that “the committee feels strongly that the faculty are highly qualified and accomplished,” and “faculty size and range of expertise is fantastic.” OSU currently has about 27 professors in the history department, all of which have doctorate degrees.

Germeten said only a few more smaller, internal steps are needed before officially submitting the proposal.

Currently, OSU offers a graduate program in the history of science, which differs from the field of general history and more steadily aligns with OSU’s STEM focus. The proposed history master’s program will consist of two tracks in addition to the history of science field, including U.S. and local citizenship and global empires and wars. “[The program] really does have a theme of people giving back, the citizens of this state contextualizing our state, contextualizing our economy, the racial makeup of our state, the history of science in our state, the use of technology in our state, why certain industries have been prominent in our state historically, like logging, and why that’s no longer,” Germeten said. “All this contextualization is so important.”

Chappell also stressed the importance of the potential program, stating that a graduate

degree could help OSU better understand its own history, and could bring historical perspective to students across campus.

“We are in an era in the United States when we desperately need broader understanding of the past in order to understand our current moment,” Chappell said via email.

Germeten said the graduate program is something the history faculty has wanted since the 1970s. In fact, an effort to create and implement a similar graduate program was brought forth in 1999 and shot down in 2003, largely because it required a number of new staff to be hired. Germeten said this is not the case this time around, since OSU already has the staff and capacity to implement the program.

As a result, Germeten questions why a master’s program in history has not been implemented at OSU since.

“It’s not some strange, niche program. It is a very popular, broad, democratic-type program. So what is the problem in this state that we don’t have it, at our largest public institution?” Germeten said.

Moreover, in addition to being the largest public institution in the state with no master’s program in history, OSU also remains the only large land-grant institution in the United States that does not have a history master’s degree.

“Many Oregonians, including a significant proportion of undergraduate history majors at OSU, would like to proceed to graduate work in this field and to do so here,” Kopperman

said via email.

In every state, about 12.5 percent of students with bachelor’s degrees in history will obtain their master’s in history. Yet, in Oregon, only four percent of students with bachelor’s degrees in history go on to attend graduate school in the subject. Germeten emphasized that this number is problematic, especially when considering Oregon’s high school graduation rate, which is among the lowest in the country.

Geremeten believes a master’s program in history at OSU could better equip future teachers to teach students at the high school level, which could help improve Oregon’s high school graduation rate.

“I’m not saying that a history master’s degree is going to solve all our problems, but it is not going to hurt, and it’s going to give high school teachers a little bit better education,” Germeten said.

In addition to education, potential career options for graduate students of history include local government, public policy, journalism and business, to name a few.

“This program will train historians to go into our public school classrooms, journalism and other media, politics and policy, and a whole range of other fields where their historical skills and knowledge will contribute to a richer, more nuanced, and more constructive conversation about our shared problems,” Chappell said via email.

Germeten hopes to see the new master’s program implemented by fall 2020.

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YAYS & NAYS The Barometer lists OSU’s favorite and least favorite things this week.

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of tuition that will take place in the next school year • NAY to having wet socks all day because of puddles

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