Bend four-year campus faces 2015 budget struggle - TYLER LEEDS, Bend Bulletin

As OSU-Cascades battles a legal challenge to break ground on the first phase of its planned four-year campus, funding for later development may be in danger of being delayed. For every legislative session, the state's public universities and the Higher Education Coordinating Committee work to put together a university capital request prioritization list. Because state money for capital projects is limited, the list offers the Legislature and governor an idea of what projects are most important. University leaders meet to present their "tier one" projects — those they hope to see funded with the greatest urgency — which the Higher Education Coordinating Committee then orders into a prioritized list. When Oregon State University — which oversees OSU-Cascades — submitted its list of projects, funds for the Bend branch ranked below three other projects. http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Bend-four-year-campus-faces-2015-budget-struggle-5711308.php