Oregon Tech Trustees appoint Jay Kenton as Interim President, approve involvement with Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center

The full Board unanimously approves Dr. Kenton as Interim President, votes to move forward with university-industry partnership in Scappoose, Ore, and received a project update on the Cornett Engineering Building and the planned Center for Excellence in Engineering and Technology

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.