This webinar will discuss Oregon’s advocacy for increased program funding for our statewide textbook affordability program. Oregon’s state policies will be put in the context of the nation-wide OER State Policy Tracker maintained by SPARC, along with a current analysis of the policies in the tracker. We’ll address some common questions that come up relating to legislation and take direct action relating to Oregon’s 2024 short session.

About our panelists:

• Liliana Diaz, Senior Policy Analyst, Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), works on a diverse range of activities including policy research on higher education-related topics, developing and sustaining relationships with external stakeholders, and conceptualizing and executing short- and long-term collaborative projects with states.
• Nick Keough is the Legislative Director for the Oregon Student Association, and a graduate of Lane Community College and the University of Oregon.
• Casey McCoy-Simmons is an OER Policy and Legislative Analysis Consultant for NCOER and a Ph.D. candidate of higher education at the University of Denver.

This webinar takes place from 12:00-1:00 Pacific time, February 16, 2024.
The session will be recorded and captioned to share later.
We will enable automatic captions in the session. Please let us know about additional accommodations you need to participate in this webinar.

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