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That’s in the future. “I can’t say Maybe many years in the future, according to peo- that we’re ple who are trying to about to change the way students pay for their college edu- fundamentally cation in the state. change the “I can’t say that we’re way we pay about to fundamentally change the way we pay for college. for college,” says state We’re Rep. Michael Dembrow, a Northeast Portland Dem- initiating a ocrat who co-sponsored pathway that legislation this year to create a “Pay It Forward” I hope will college funding plan. land it at that “We’re initiating a path- point.” way that I hope will land it at that point.” — State Rep. The state is still “a few Michael Dembrow years away” from chang- ing the way college stu- dents pay for their educa- tion, Dembrow says. “It could be changing,” says Jason Gettel, a PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP policy analyst for the Oregon Center for Pub- Portland Community College students lined up on the first day of school in September at the Sylvania campus bookstore. Oregon lawmakers are working lic Policy in Silverton, who has studied the on plans that could change the way students pay for their college educations. Pay It Forward legislation. “But that’s quite far down the road.” would work: Oregon college graduates who (according to 2011 statistics), proposals to 2012 to more than $1 trillion. At the same Mountain of debt earn about $30,000 a year would pay 3 percent ease the financial burden have been getting a time, budget reductions during the past two of their annual income, based on an analysis lot of attention from some lawmakers. During decades have prompted states to cut funding Pay It Forward is the brainchild of the Eco- by the Oregon Center for Public Policy. That the 2013 legislative session, state Treasurer for higher education. Oregon’s financing of nomic Opportunity Institute in Seattle. Ore- would end up being about $75 a month for an Ted Wheeler proposed using a $500 million higher education dropped from a peak of $856 gon’s proposal — part of House Bill 3472 in estimated two dozen years. investment to create the Oregon Opportunity million in 2000 to $626 million in 2010. In 1990, the 2013 session — is one of several similar Students earning two-year degrees would Initiative, which would expand grants to Or- Oregon spent about $6,700 in tax dollars for tuition payment changes proposed by the in- pay 1.5 percent of their annual income, ac- egon high school seniors attending college. each college student. In 2010, that amount stitute in legislatures in California, Vermont cording to the proposal’s analysis. The proposal was in committee when the dropped to about $4,000 per student. and New York. With Oregon college students amassing an Legislature adjourned. Here’s how the Pay It Forward program average of $24,626 in debt when they graduate Across the nation, student debt soared in CONTINUED / Page 6 6 NACAC COLLEGE FAIR October 24, 2013 PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP Portland Community College students read in a PCC library at the start of the academic year. A proposed “Pay It Forward” plan could allow students in the future to pay for their education through ONE a percentage of their income, rather than through loans. ■ lines of the pilot program will be presented WORD From page 5 to the 2015 Legislature, which must approve it before universities could adopt the plan. Professors who know your name and have the Since the mid-’80s, college financial aid In addition to Pay It Forward, the commit- has shifted from grants to loans. That has tee will look at possible tuition freezes for highest degrees in their fields. Myriad approaches shuffled the burden of financing college edu- universities so students aren’t hit with big cation to students, who graduate with some- increases as they work toward their degrees. to earning your degree. A spectacular natural times mountains of debt. Western Oregon University has had its setting for a superb educational experience. Western Tuition Promise for several years ‘Promising direction’ that guarantees tuition wouldn’t increase for new students who earn degrees at the Mon- Leaders of the Oregon Working Families mouth school. Party championed the Pay It Forward idea in Because more jobs in the future will re- Salem during the 2013 legislative session. quire some higher education, in 2011 the Or- Party members worked with the anti-pover- egon Legislature adopted the 40-40-20 goal ty group Jubilee Oregon and Portland State for education. Under the goal, by 2025 all Or- University students to promote the Pay it egon adults would have a high school diplo- Forward proposal in the Legislature. ma (or its equivalent), with 40 percent earn- Dembrow joined four other legislators to ing a two-year degree and 40 percent earn- OUTSTANDING co-sponsor HB 3472 that created a pilot pro- ing a four-year degree. People. Programs. Place. gram focusing on new ways to pay college That goal could prompt lawmakers to con- tuition. Members of the Higher Education sider more options for ways students pay for Coordinating Committee are expected to be- their college education.