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Senate approves bill requiring institutional emails, vacancy timelines and student representatives for community college boards
Summary
SB 15-37 requires community college board members to have institutional email addresses posted online, gives boards 90 days to fill vacancies or cedes appointment to county commissioners, and creates a non-voting student representative selected by student governments; the measure passed on final reading.
The Oregon Senate on Feb. 18 passed Senate Bill 15-37, a measure aimed at strengthening governance and public access for community college boards.
Senator Frederick presented the bill and said it accomplishes three basic reforms: requiring colleges to provide institutional email addresses for board members that are posted on the college website; clarifying the board process and timeline for filling vacancies (90 days, with county commission appointment if the board…
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