Oregon’s oldest public university is looking for solutions on how to tackle a budget deficit and a continuing fall in enrollment. Western Oregon University is facing a $2.2 million deficit, according to its budget plan presented in a board of trustees meeting Wednesday. This comes as the university faces about a decade of enrollment decline, during which WOU shrank by more than one third. That includes a sharp 11.5% decrease in students this fall compared to last year. “One of the things that troubles me, coming in here, is we don’t know exactly what happened,” WOU interim president Jay Kenton said Wednesday.
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