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Education subcommittee acknowledges apprenticeship report on higher-education capital projects
Summary
The Oregon Education Subcommittee on Ways and Means acknowledged a Higher Education Coordinating Commission report on apprenticeship utilization for state-funded higher-education capital projects and agreed to carry the report to the full committee after members discussed participation levels, rural challenges and how the data are used.
The Education Subcommittee of the Oregon Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee on May 22 acknowledged receipt of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s annual apprenticeship report covering apprenticeship, minority, women and veteran participation on higher-education capital projects funded with state general obligation bond proceeds.
The report, presented to the subcommittee by John Wyckoff of the Oregon Community College Association and Kevin Neely of the Oregon Council of Presidents, documents participation on eligible projects (those receiving at least $8,000,000 of state bond funds or otherwise subject to the reporting requirement) and shows a mix of results across community college and public university projects. “These reports reflect about 263,000 apprenticeship hours,” Kevin Neely said, citing the university-sector totals.
Committee members said the report matters because it provides a factual record of who is participating on state-funded capital projects and where gaps remain. “We needed to find out…
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