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Nan White Professional care a great help in dealing with dementia Aging Happens Inner Peace Column Inner Peace Blog Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED   » Obituaries Photos Videos Blogs NEWS NOW   Drag your braaaaains down Main Street Friday       ...       Our View: Our View       ...       Budget committee members needed       ...       Drag your braaaaains down Main Street Friday       ...       Our View: Our View       ...       Budget committee members needed       ...           OUR VIEW SOU control shifts downstate DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Oct. 1, 2014 @ 12:01 am Posted Oct. 1, 2014 @ 12:01 am »  Social News Southern Oregon University is poised to enter a new chapter in its history next year when a newly appointed local board of trustees takes over responsibility for governing Ashland's regional university. The 12 appointees announced last week are local business and community leaders familiar with SOU, its programs and its mission. A 13th member, Lithia Motors chairman Sid DeBoer, was also appointed but has resigned and will be replaced. A student member will be nominated to fill the 14th seat on the board, and SOU's interim president, Roy Saigo, will be an ex-officio and nonvoting member. SOU joined the other six campuses in the Oregon University System in asking to have its own board. The change in governance started with the University of Oregon and Portland State University, which advocated for self-governance after many years of answering to the state Board of Higher Education. Some of the smaller regional universities initially were wary of moving to institutional boards, but all eventually decided to make the change, as did Oregon State University. Among its new powers, the local board will have the authority to hire and fire the university's president, and to raise tuition when necessary. SOU still will be dependent on the state for a portion of its funding. The new governance structure is not by itself the answer to SOU's financial struggles of recent years, but the new board will be able to run the university free of much of the bureaucracy and top-down management of the statewide board that oversaw all seven campuses at once.  DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Oct. 1, 2014 @ 12:01 am » Comment or view comments   Reader Reaction »  STAY INFORMED   Email NewsLetter   Sign Up Today   Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with DailyTidings.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Alerts Email alerts RSS feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed   Email newsletter   Sign Up Today   Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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