Office of the Registrar

FROM: OSU-Cascades Campus Safety Team

Dear OSU-Cascades Community Members,

The personal safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors to the OSU-Cascades campus is a top priority.  In response to the shooting incident that occurred Sunday night at a Safeway store on Bend’s eastside, I encourage each of you to reaffirm a personal commitment to safety. 

While the OSU-Cascades Campus Safety team and our community first responder partners do all we can to contribute to a safe and secure campus, it is also up to you to take an active and key role in contributing to your and others’ safety. 

Advance personal planning and preparation are two effective ways of responding calmly and effectively in an emergency. Knowing the best response to possible threats is critical to protecting lives. 

These tips and resources can help you be prepared for an emergency:

Where can I find additional emergency resources and information?

Campus emergency procedures can be found on the OSU and OSU-Cascades Emergency Management pages:

osucascades.edu/emergency

emergency.oregonstate.edu/emergency-management/emergency-procedures

How do I stay informed of emergencies occurring on campus?

The campus alert system is the university’s official emergency notification system.  Sign up your cell phone today to receive text message alerts in the event of an emergency or campus closure:

osucascades.edu/emergency/osu-alert-portal

How do I report an emergency?

• First, make sure you are in a safe location and then call 9-1-1.
• Tell the dispatcher exactly where you are, including building name and room number.
• Provide the dispatcher your full name.
• Describe the nature of the emergency as clearly and accurately as possible.
• Do not hang up unless your safety is threatened or told to do so by the dispatcher. 

Where can I learn how to respond during an active shooting incident?

Watch the FBI video demonstrating three response tactics:

youtu.be/TeOdxKozra0

Familiarize yourself with the safety and preparedness procedures:

osucascades.edu/emergency/emergency-procedures/active-shooter

Additional information and resources to help you better prepare before an emergency include:

• Know how to call 9-1-1 from your classroom, office or lab.  Save the Campus Safety number in your cell phone (541-322-3110).
  • Learn about Text to 9-1-1 and sign-up for Deschutes Alerts in Deschutes County:

deschutes.org/911.

• Identify entrances and exits to your office, classrooms and other campus areas that you frequently visit.
• Identify exits that lead outside and away from the building you are in. 
• Be familiar with building signage that identifies evacuation routes and assembly areas.
• Identify the location of fire alarm pull stations and fire extinguishers.
• Identify the location of AEDs and first aid kits.
• Download RAVE Guardian – a free safety app for OSU-Cascades students, staff and faculty:

publicsafety.oregonstate.edu/guardian-app.

• Practice every day situational awareness

• Situational awareness is the ability to identify, process, and understand what is happening around you, while thinking ahead to prevent or mitigate potential safety incidents.

The Campus Safety team is here to assist you.  Please contact us at [email protected] or 541-322-3110 if additional information or resources are needed.

Sincerely, Lanell Garbini, Leader, Campus Safety Team

From: Office of the Interim President

OSU-Cascades Community Members,

As you likely know, on Sunday evening, a gunman opened fire in the Safeway store on the east side of Bend, killing two people and injuring others. While more information will be provided through local law enforcement, it is clear that this shooting immediately affected many who live, work, recreate and study in Central Oregon. We also know that many OSU-Cascades students, faculty and staff, and family members, live near, shop or work at the Safeway store where this senseless and tragic incident occurred.

Oregon State University deplores gun violence and all violence against others.  We are all saddened by the grief that such violence brings to so many. Like you, I am keeping the victims and their families in my heart and thoughts.

OSU and OSU-Cascades care and support leaders, and resources are available to students affected by the tragedy through OSU-Cascades Counseling Services, MySSP (download app, search for OSU-Cascades) and the Student Care Team, or through [email protected].

Community resources are also available to students, as well as employees, through their own personal care providers or through Deschutes County Behavioral Health or the Central Oregon Mental Health Provider Directory. Employee assistance is available through Beyond Benefits.

I have asked Lanell Garbini, who leads our Campus Safety team, to follow this message with a message offering safety information, including steps we can each take to create a safer on-campus environment.

Please support one another during this time.

Sincerely,

Andrew Ketsdever, Interim Vice President

FROM: Oregon's Higher Education Coordinating Commission

Provide feedback on a new website for students and be entered into a raffle for a $100 gift card!

Dear Student,

We know that it is difficult to find out if and how college courses will transfer to other colleges and universities in Oregon. To address this challenge, the state of Oregon is planning to develop a state website that would help students with transferring college credits between Oregon colleges and universities. This website could also help students with the transfer process in general.  

Please complete this SURVEY to share your student experiences and feedback on the website. The survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. The survey is being sent to students at Oregon community colleges and public universities, and survey results will be combined across all survey respondents. Survey findings will be provided to Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission to understand what kinds of information, resources, and tools should be on this website. Even if you don’t have experiences with transfer, we value your feedback. The survey will be open through the end of August. If you complete the survey, you can provide your name and student email address to enter into a raffle to receive a $100 gift card.

Thank you,

Veronica Dujon, Ph.D. Director, Office of Academic Policy and Authorization, HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMISSION, www.oregon.gov/highered

From: Office of the President

Oregon State University is pleased to announce that beginning with fall term 2022, any enrolled member of a federally recognized Tribal nation will be considered an in-state OSU student for purposes of tuition.

This policy will apply to all new and currently enrolled students for any for-credit course, whether at the undergraduate or graduate level, and as a part of any academic program. Additionally, students who are enrolled members of the Nine Tribes of Oregon may be eligible to enroll in the state of Oregon’s newly announced Oregon Tribal Student Grant Program, which provides assistance up to the cost of attendance at Oregon public and private non-profit colleges and universities.

For more information about these programs, please visit the Admissions Residency website.

Through the Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862, which established land grant universities across the country, the federal government seized – with little or no compensation – nearly 11 million acres of land from 250 sovereign Tribal nations, many of which had historical and customary ties to the western part of what is now the United States. This resulted in displacement, hardship, familial and cultural disruption and destruction, and the denial of educational opportunities for many members of Tribal nations.

In 1868, the Oregon Legislature designated Corvallis College as Oregon’s land grant institution. Soon after, the state of Oregon received 90,000 acres of federal lands — taken from the Klamath, Coos, Lower Umpqua, Siuslaw and Coquille people — to be sold to create an endowment supporting the growth of the new college, which would later become Oregon State University.

OSU acknowledges the impacts the Morrill Land Grant Acts have had on Tribal nations in Oregon and throughout the nation. The university also recognizes that although the lands seized and granted to Oregon to support the university's development are located in present day Oregon, the benefits accruing to OSU under the Morrill Land Grant Acts are inseparable from the negative impacts these acts had on Tribal nations throughout the country.

In Corvallis, OSU is located within the traditional homelands of the Marys River or Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.

In Bend, Oregon State University-Cascades is located within the traditional homelands of the Wasq'u (Wasco) and Tana'nma (Warm Springs) people who legally retain customary hunting, fishing and gathering rights within the region, and who have been stewards of the region since time immemorial. Numu (Northern Paiute) peoples also were forcibly relocated to this region from the area of Lake, Harney, and Malheur counties in Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

Tribal citizens from throughout Oregon and the country represent multiple sovereign nations and are valued, contributing members of the OSU community. This new tuition policy advances OSU’s commitment — in the spirit of self-reflection, learning, reconciliation and partnership — that the university will be of enduring benefit to Tribal nations and their citizens throughout Oregon and the country.

Sincerely,

Becky Johnson, Interim President

From: Associated Students of Oregon State University (Corvallis Students)

Hey, Beavs!

Happy Summer! ASOSU is excited to share more about the opportunity to access incidental fee-funded services over the summer.

Beginning Summer 2022, there is no summer incidental fee for student fee funded services charged to Corvallis campus students registered for summer courses. The summer incidental fee has been absorbed into the fees for Fall, Winter, and Spring terms, which means that summer access to incidental fee-funded services is available for any Corvallis-based, incidental fee-paying student enrolled in Fall, Winter, or Spring terms.  Note that fees for health services and existing building debt service are still charged. So, if you paid the incidental fee in Fall 2021, Winter 2022, and/or Spring 2022, you’re able to access the services and programs available in the summer that are funded by the incidental fee. The Student Facility Improvement Fee will still be charged in the summer to Corvallis campus students registered for summer courses.

Please refer to the website of each incidental fee-funded program to learn about the services that can be accessed in the summer term:

• Associated Students of Oregon State University (ASOSU)
• Department of Recreational Sports (DRS)
• Basic Needs Center (BNC)
• Family Resource Center (FRC)
• Student Experiences & Engagement (SEE)
• Intercollegiate Athletics (IA)
• Memorial Union (MU)

Again, any student who paid the Corvallis campus incidental fee at least one term during the 2021-2022 school year (even if you graduated this year!) can have access to the above services.

If you have any questions about access to incidental fee-funded services, reach out to Student Fee Committee Chair Joe Page at [email protected].

Go Beavs!

Matteo Paola, ASOSU President; Joe Page, Student Fee Committee Chair

From: Office of the President

Dear OSU Community Members,

I write to provide you an update following Thursday’s surprising and disappointing news that USC and UCLA plan to leave the Pac-12 Conference.

OSU strongly believes in the continuing strength of the Pac-12 as a conference of champions made up of globally recognized Tier 1 research universities. Oregon State University also remains committed to engaging in the highest level of intercollegiate competition nationally.

As a result of USC and UCLA’s decision, the Pac-12 Board of Directors met this morning and authorized the conference to explore all options for league expansion. At that meeting, the 10 member university presidents and chancellors indicated they remain committed to a shared mission of academic and athletic excellence on behalf of student-athletes.

I continue to meet daily with Provost and Executive Vice President Ed Feser, Vice President and Athletics Director Scott Barnes and other university leaders to discuss and evaluate these changing Pac-12 Conference circumstances. As well, Scott Barnes and I continue to regularly engage with Pac-12 leadership.

The strength and momentum of Oregon State in teaching, research, public engagement and athletic competition is profound and continues. That strength is amplified by the many examples of academic collaboration that occur among Pac-12 member universities in addition to athletic competition.

I will share updates with the university community as more information is available.

Sincerely,

Becky Johnson, Interim President

From: Office of the President

Dear OSU Faculty, Staff and Students,

In the coming days or weeks, we expect the U.S. Supreme Court to issue an opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

This case concerns the constitutionality of a state of Mississippi law that significantly restricts access to abortion. A draft Supreme Court opinion in this case was leaked earlier this spring, resulting in widespread speculation about the eventual outcome of the case and its potential effects on access to abortion and other reproductive care services across America.

Oregon State University is an educational institution committed to teaching, research, and community outreach and engagement. The university promotes economic, social, cultural and environmental progress for the people of Oregon, the nation and the world. This mission is accomplished in significant part by the contributions of OSU faculty who pursue research and produce evidence-based insights into the many contemporary issues that impact university community members, Oregonians and those we serve beyond this state.

OSU will approach the outcome in the Dobbs case consistent with its mission – by contributing to learning through rigorous scholarship, research-based evidence and facts, enabling discussion and providing community service. Faculty members in colleges throughout the university contribute to our knowledge of the many issues surrounding this case, including in areas of public health, history, political science, women and gender studies, religious studies, psychology, queer studies, ethnic studies, public policy and other social sciences.

As we near fall term, we will invite the OSU community to join OSU faculty experts for educational and engagement opportunities to learn more about the Dobbs case, the issues involved, and how the outcome will impact OSU community members in Oregon and beyond the state. 

If the Supreme Court’s eventual opinion in this case is similar to the earlier leaked draft or otherwise changes the federal landscape regarding access to abortion, we understand that this will impact some OSU community members. While the court’s decision does not impact access to health care services in Oregon, we recognize that approximately one half of OSU’s students are from other states and countries. If you are a student who has questions about access to health care services, you may contact Student Health Services at 541-737-2724. Employees may direct their questions regarding access to services to Beyond Benefits at 1-855-327-4722 or to their own personal health care providers.

In historic moments such as this, higher education institutions like OSU play important roles by providing research-based information and enabling community conversation. We encourage you to engage in learning, ask questions and think critically about this important matter.

Sincerely,

Becky Johnson, Interim President

From: ASOSU to Corvallis Students

Fellow students,

The Associated Students of Oregon State University (ASOSU) is your recognized student government and is hiring for the 2022-2023 academic year! We welcome and strongly encourage all eligible students to apply.

These paid positions allow students to gain professional skills and experiences while working to make OSU a better and more inclusive institution.

ASOSU is hiring for the following positions. Applications are due Monday, June 27th, 2022, at 11:59 p.m.

($16/hour up to 20 hours a week)

• Chief of Staff
• Diversity and Inclusion Director
• Policy Director
• Public Relations Director
   

Applications for the following positions are due Friday, July 8th, 2022, at 11:59 p.m.
 

($15.50/hour up to 15 hours a week)

• Women & Gender Advocacy Coordinator
• Environmental Sustainability Coordinator
• Veteran & Nontraditional Student Advocacy Coordinator
• Marketing & Web Development Coordinator
• International and Cultural Advocacy Coordinator
• Local & Legislative Policy Coordinator
• Graduate Affairs Coordinator
• LGBTQ+ Advocacy Coordinator
• Accessibility & Wellness Coordinator

More information on these positions and applications for Judicial Council, Faculty Senate, and ASOSU Congress is available here.

• Subscribe to our Newsletter and check the Job Board and ASOSU’s social media (@asosugov) for additional opportunities that will be posted later this summer! 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

Best,

Matteo Paola, ASOSU President; Sierra Young, ASOSU Vice President

From: Office of the Registrar - Graduation

To: PhD students who have registered to participate in Commencement

(Temporary Posting for Commencement Purposes)

Instructions for PhD Graduates

◄Forward these instructions to your escort►

Processional Line Up

• Graduates, immediately upon arriving for processional, check in with the lead PhD Marshal and pick up your processional card. They will be positioned near the PhD banner at the starting point for the line-up.
• Graduates, line up for procession in assigned order (according to the number on your processional card distributed) It is critical to remain in the assigned order to ensure graduates receive the correct diploma.
• Escorts line up NEXT TO graduates and process in a parallel line.
• Follow your Graduate Marshal’s lead during processional. 
• After entering the stadium, the two lines of graduates and escorts complete the seating process sequentially. Graduates sit next to escorts in the assigned order. 

Ceremony

• Escorts hood the graduates when instructed to do so by President Johnson.
  • There will be sufficient time for escorts to move to any additional graduates to hood them, if necessary. Escorts with multiple graduates cannot reorder the seating order to sit next to all of their students.
• When PhD diploma distribution begins, the lineup will happen under the guidance of the lead PhD Marshal.

Diploma distribution

• Graduates will move toward the stage and have a photo taken on their way to the ramp.
• Graduate stops at the edge of the stage and waits until their name is called to cross the stage.
• Graduate moves toward President Johnson and receives their diploma from her.
• Graduate continues crossing the stage and exits the stage using the ramp. (The escort has been pacing in front of the stage and following their graduate to meet them on the other side of the stage.)
• Graduate now meets escort and has a photo taken together.
• Graduates can either return to their seat or choose to leave the stadium (there are no additional requirements of PhD students at this time).
• Escorts with additional graduates wait at the photo station for photos with their other graduates.

• A small bag, with snacks, sunscreen, sunglasses, and extra water 
  • There will be one water bottle under your chair 
• Remember to have all your regalia, including cap, gown, and tassel 
  • Regalia is required for participation in the ceremony
  • The OSU Beaver Store will open at 8 a.m. on Commencement Day
• Remember that alcohol and other drugs are prohibited on campus  
• Commencement will occur rain or shine and it looks like rain!
  • Umbrellas are not permitted in Reser Stadium so prepare your attire accordingly

• CEOAS, Engineering, Forestry: Line up on 26th Street near Dixon
• Agricultural Sciences: Line up at the corner of 26th and Jefferson Way 
• PHHS + Science: Line up across from the Women's Building in the Memorial Union Quad
• Liberal Arts + Business: Line up near the corner of SW Waldo Way and Jefferson Way between the SEC and the Valley Library 
• Master's: Line up on the Valley Library Quad near the Clock Tower and Pioneer Place
• PhD's: Line up on Jefferson Way near the Kerr Administration Building 

• Commencement Marshals dressed in faculty regalia will be there to help guide graduates and pass out commencement cards. 
• KEEP YOUR CARD; it is your pass to the ceremony, photographs, and diploma/case. If you have your phone, take a picture of your card as a backup only – DO NOT LOSE YOUR CARD!
• An information tent is located in the MU Quad to help answer questions and give directions. 
• Signs and maps will be posted throughout the processional route to help you find the correct location for your lineup.
• Be prepared to process up to three miles and have moments of waiting as thousands of graduates will be participating. 
• Restrooms will be available in the Memorial Union. There will be some portable restrooms along the processional route and on the field but lines can be long so it is recommended to use the restroom before joining the lineup. 

• Speeches and remarks 
• Presentation and Conferral of Degrees 
  • Doctoral and Masters students will be invited to stand and have their degrees conferred.  
  • Undergraduate students will be invited to stand with their college and have their degrees conferred. 
• Doctoral graduates’ names are read as they cross the stage and receive their diplomas/cases. Their photos will be taken before returning to their seats. 

• Find the line for your college and pay attention to which line is for your alpha-split.
• Have your picture taken with the first photographer. 
• Next, scan, and hand off your card at the scanning station. It is critical that you have your physical card.

• Shake hands with a dean from your college. You won’t pose, but someone will be snapping a photo.

• The dean will have an empty diploma case for the photo – this is not your diploma.

• Students will need to meet their dean before lining up for their diploma/case.

• Line up towards the back of the tent that has your alpha split to receive your diploma/case. The tent staff will have your diploma/case ready for you. 

• Double degree students will go to the tent of the college they processed with to receive both of their diplomas/cases.
• Most graduates leave the field after receiving their diploma/case. 
• Remember to take your personal belongings with you. 

• Every student who RSVP’d for Commencement will receive a diploma case.
• Students with no outstanding graduation requirements, and with sufficient preliminary grades, will receive their actual diploma in the case.
• Students who have already received their diploma or who still have graduation requirements to complete will have a letter in the diploma case.

• Alcohol and other drugs are prohibited on campus
• Celebrate responsibly before, during, and after the event
• Be mindful of individual and interpersonal safety and remember we are all celebrating together

• Bring snacks and extra water
• Bring all your regalia
• Wear appropriate attire
  • Sunglasses
  • Sunscreen
  • Weather appropriate clothing
  • Comfortable shoes
• Find your marshal
• Do not lose your card – take a picture of it just in case
• Restrooms are available but it is recommended to use the restroom before the lineup
• Keep your personal belongings with you and take them when you leave

• Speeches and remarks
• Presentation and Conferral of Degrees
• Closing Remarks

• Go to your college’s distribution area for photos and your diploma/case

From: the Office of the President

Dear OSU Community Members,

Oregon State University is actively engaged in efforts to contribute to a more sustainable future by achieving carbon neutrality throughout the university.

Achieving carbon neutrality within OSU’s operations and activities supports the university’s mission; is in keeping with OSU’s global leadership in climate science teaching, research and community engagement; and contributes to the goals of Strategic Plan 4.0: “Transformation, Excellence and Impact.” The university recognizes the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on the environment and is committed as a 21st-century R1 university to eliminate its own carbon contributions. We will do this in tangible, transparent and effective ways while also contributing to climate science teaching and research that will serve the health of the planet.

The university has adopted OSU’s Path to Carbon Neutrality to guide our carbon reduction strategies going forward. This plan has been informed by significant engagement throughout the university community, including with faculty, staff and students, and by benchmarking with peer universities nationally. The plan includes a set of nine actions, including prioritizing energy efficiency; emphasizing on-site renewable energy production and the use of off-site renewable energy; reducing and eliminating the use of natural gas over time; promoting sustainable transportation options, including local commuting and reduced university-related air travel; and prioritizing direct emissions as much as possible while also evaluating carbon offset potential from university lands.

Although this plan prioritizes action on the Corvallis campus, a commitment to carbon reduction is being acted on and supported university-wide. For example, in developing the OSU-Cascades campus, we have committed to net zero goals for energy, water usage and waste management. The university’s Path to Carbon Neutrality is in alignment with objectives of the Faculty Senate Carbon Commitment Committee. Meanwhile, student leaders and clubs in Corvallis and Bend are actively engaged in many sustainability endeavors.

However, much more remains to be done. 

Implementing the Path’s nine actions will be a dynamic and continual effort that will be regularly updated and measured. Success will require university funds to continue to be identified and committed, and for each of us to be engaged.

I am confident that through this plan and our own individual actions, as well as through faculty research and scholarship, OSU will achieve its carbon neutrality goals and continue to be a climate science leader within Oregon and beyond. Please join me and others engaged in this essential work.

Together, we can take the right actions for each other, as well as for future generations and the planet.

Sincerely, Becky Johnson, Interim President

From: Office of the Board of Trustees

Dear Members of the OSU Community,

Join me in welcoming Dr. Jayathi Murthy as the 16th president of Oregon State University.

This morning, the university’s Board of Trustees concluded a national search for OSU’s next president by selecting Dr. Murthy, a national leader in higher education engineering teaching, research and service, and advancing diversity equity and inclusion. I hope you join me in celebrating her appointment and learning more about her from this news release.

Dr. Murthy has served as the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science since January 2016, and previously worked at several other top engineering universities and in the private sector.

Dr. Murthy will take office on Sept. 9 and brings significant experience in working to advance inclusive excellence and expand higher education access and success for all students. She is a committed and engaged collaborator and communicator among students, faculty and staff.

As OSU’s president Dr. Murthy will advance teaching, research, creative scholarship and the university’s extension and engagement mission. She will help further the university’s contributions and impact across Oregon, the nation and globally.

On behalf of all members of OSU’s Board of Trustees, I thank each of you for your contributions to OSU and for your involvement in the important process to help select the university’s next president.

Sincerely,

Kirk Schueler, Chair, OSU Board of Trustees

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• Picture snippet showing the items within the Commencement section: Commencement, Grad Info, Accommodations
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• The text reads: Check Out the Commencement Section of the OSU Mobile App!

Office of the Registrar, [email protected]

From: Office of Institutional Diversity

Good afternoon,

I am honored to share with you the 2022 State of Diversity at Oregon State University Address website. 

This year’s State of Diversity address features interviews with OSU community members advancing the university's inclusive excellence mission through innovative teaching, research and engagement.

To honor and recognize the efforts of all OSU community members working for equity and justice, we invite you to a reception this afternoon for refreshments, brief remarks and an opportunity to build and strengthen relationships. Please join us June 7, 4 to 5 p.m. in the Memorial Union, Horizon Room.

With gratitude,

Scott A. Vignos, J.D., Interim Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer

From: Office of Institutional Diversity

Dear OSU Community Members,

I write to inform you that at least one Oregon State University student on the Corvallis campus was sent threatening, racist messages via text on Thursday evening, June 2. These messages were sent from an unknown phone number and included threats to damage the Lonnie B. Harris Black Cultural Center (LBHBCC). While we don’t currently have evidence that the student or the center are in imminent danger, these messages are extremely concerning and wholly unacceptable.

I want to be very clear – threats like this damage and harm the entire university community. The university will do everything in its power to hold accountable those who are responsible for these threats. We will not tolerate racist incidents like this, and individuals who engage in such conduct are not welcome at OSU. We will continue to work to create a university where every community member feels safe and valued. Anything less is inexcusable.

It is especially painful that these threats come on the heels of other recent racist incidents, like the mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., which was motivated by white supremacist ideology. These incidents have particularly impacted members of the Black community and members of other communities of color. The accumulation of grief resulting from these incidents takes a terrible toll, especially on students who also are managing the demands of classes and final exams. We cannot and will not accept this as the status quo.

OSU’s Department of Public Safety has moved quickly to open an investigation into these threats. DPS staff are actively investigating, have increased patrols around the LBHBCC and are available for any needs that may arise. DPS is also in contact with state and federal law enforcement agencies to aid in the investigation. Please contact DPS directly 541-737-3010 to share any information you may have regarding this or related incidents.

We also are prioritizing the safety and support of the student who received these messages and the wider LBHBCC community.

Students seeking support and community are encouraged to visit the Dr. Lawrence Griggs Black and Indigenous Student Success Center in the Memorial Union, room MU61. The Griggs Center will be staffed today and next Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mental health and wellness resources are available for students on the Corvallis campus through Counseling and Psychological Services and may be reached 24 hours a day by calling 541-737-2131. Counseling services at the OSU-Cascades campus are available by emailing [email protected]. Faculty and staff seeking support may contact Beyond Benefits or the Office of Institutional Diversity at 541-737-1063.

In closing, I ask that each of us determine what we can do to continually confront racism in our communities. There are multiple opportunities at Oregon State University to learn and act. This work must involve us all working in solidarity.

Sincerely,

Scott A. Vignos, J.D., Interim Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer