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HSJI 2024: We’re off to a running start
I say my favorite refrain so often that I’m afraid it’s becoming trite. What’s that I hear? Did someone mention The Oregonian’s High School Journalism Institute?. “Best week of the year!” I’ll surely butt in. Well, here we are again. And on day two,...
OHSU’s postdoc researchers reach impasse
A unit of about 250 postdoctoral researchers represented by Oregon AFSCME on July 11 announced an impasse in bargaining over a first contract with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). The two sides have been negotiating since September 2023. OHSU has refused to offer raises of any amount, saying that the researchers already paid according to a federal formula for projects funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Once the two sides submitted formal final offers on July 12, a 30-day cooling off period began. After that, under Oregon’s public employee collective bargaining law, the postdoctoral researchers could strike.
$52.8M school improvement project wrapping up
Construction of a new learning center and gymnasium is nearing completion at the Washington Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth (CDHY) campus in Vancouver, Washington. The $52.8 million project is the second phase of a campus revitalization effort. In the first phase, crews removed a classroom building and three older maintenance buildings. In the current phase, workers are constructing the 35,000-square-foot, L-shaped Divine Academic Building – including administrative space, innovative classrooms and a media center – as well as the 15,000-square-foot Hunter Physical Education Building. Also, the work includes the addition of a covered walkway connecting the academic and gymnasium wings, an outdoor exercise yard, and a parking area.
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