Education

The Oregon State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved spending nearly $277 million on seven remodeling, renovation and new construction projects on the university’s Corvallis and Bend campuses. The projects include construction of a second academic building at OSU-Cascades; renovation of Cordley Hall, the university’s largest teaching and research building; remodeling of a recently

Three times a year, students at Skyline High School break from their traditional academic courses and dive deep into something entirely new that often involves experiences outside of the classroom and outside of students’ comfort zones, according to Principal Mike Franklin. Starting Monday, Skyline students will engage in one of six Intersessions: Bikes and Bend;

Central Oregon Community College says its art and design students have an incredible new educational opportunity, thanks to a recent transfer agreement between COCC and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. COCC students who transfer to PNCA are now able to receive a scholarship of $20,000 per year, guaranteed for up to three years, for

Jared Charney Cohen and Savannah Kane don’t share any classes, they don’t go to the same school — in fact, they’ve never met each other. Yet the two Bend teens share something in common that most fellow students do not. They both aced the American College Testing test. But neither of them studied for it.

The Central Oregon Community College Foundation announced Tuesday that it has received a major gift of $1 million, a bequest that will be used to establish an endowed fund to provide scholarship assistance for generations of COCC students to come. The donor, John Overbay, a lifelong Bend resident, civic leader and retired business owner, was