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UO, other schools get building bonanza.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: UO, other schools get building bonanza.(Higher Education)(The campus construction budget, the state's largest, will fund nearly 50 projects)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

Legislators laid the foundation for a statewide campus building boom Wednesday by approving one of the largest university construction budgets in state history.

The legislation will fund almost 50 university and community college projects ranging from plumbing and wiring upgrades to major academic buildings. Altogether, the projects will cost a little more than $600 million using a mix of state-funded bonds, gifts and other funding.

The University of Oregon will get $50 million in state construction funding, a record amount. In addition, the legislation allows the UO to proceed with $49 million more in self-funded projects.

Oregon University System officials said the budget rivals the spending plans of the 1960s, a high-water mark for university construction as campuses scrambled to accommodate a record bulge in enrollment fed by...



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