OICA has maintained a Fact Book (FB) since 1986. In hard-copy format it is a loose-leaf book divided into 12 chapters. In 2004 we converted the entire publication to this website. Those wishing a hard-copy version can print each of the 12 chapters and bind them locally.

The FB is not publicized and is not visible to public search engines. It is maintained for the use of the OICA office and OICA member institutions and for sharing among a select number of policy analysts in sister organizations in Oregon and around the country. Sometimes certain pages from the FB are distributed in public venues -- but always with careful forethought about the audience and about the potential for misinterpretation. In nearly 20 years of publication, we are unaware of any incidents where the information has been used to harm or publicly embarrass any institutions, but to reduce the exposure to such activity OICA does from time to time change the private web address of the FB.

All of the information amassed in the FB is derived from public sources or from special surveys conducted by the OICA office. None of it is, in itself, secret or proprietary, but much of it is presented in comparative format (schools-to-schools or states-to-states) and all of it is open to interpretation and potentially hurtful if it is not understood and explained in its full context. It is also subject to occasional typos; we go to great pains to double-check entries, but mistakes sometimes slip in.

Consequently, those who choose to engage this Fact Book data are asked to be careful that it be treated as a helpful source of background information, nearly always in need of verification and corroboration from other sources.

So, here is the Fact Book. And here are a few useage pointers:

• We suggest users print out an entire book (each chapter can be printed out in its entirety) and put it in a three-ring binder with at least a 2-inch spine.
• We also offer an on-line pdf kit of the front cover and spine inserts. A complete hard-version kit, including stiff chapter tab pages, will be mailed to you if requested.
• Fact Book pages are dated in the upper left-hand corner. When you want to use a page, you can check below to see if there is a more recent version available for printing from this website.
• The pagination used is "chapter-section-page", with each chapter being broken into as many as 9 sections and then each Section consisting of multiple items -- most of one page, but some longer.
• All pages in the FB are available from OICA in their original non-pdf format. Those formats are usually Wordperfect (textual material), Lotus 123 (spreadsheet material) or Lotus Freelance (graphic material.) Occasionally there may be a scanned page. The textual and spreadsheet material can be converted to MSWord and Excel before sending to you, but there will be inevitably some loss of format.
• All Section 9 material -- in any Chapter -- is reserved for interstate comparison information.

Chapter 1. Pre-College (print whole chapter)

Chapter 2. General Overviews (print whole chapter)

Chapter 3. Enrollments (print whole chapter)

Chapter 4. Faculty & Staff (print whole chapter)

Chapter 5. Outcomes (print whole chapter)

Chapter 6. Institutional Fiscals (print whole chapter)

Chapter 7-01. stdnt. finances -- Pricing (print whole chapter)

Chapter 7-02. stdnt.ances -- Overview of All Aid (print whole chpt.)

Chapter 7-03. stdnt. finances -- State Aid (print whole chpt.)

Chptr 7-09. stdnt finan. -- Other States' Aid(print whole chpt.)

Chptr 8. Stdnt Finan. -- State H. Ed. Funding (print whole chpt.)

Page	Type	Title	Last Updated	File Size
8-1-2	Pie	State & Local Taxes Supporting H. Ed. -- 2007-09 Biennium	2007, Oct	1 pg
8-1-4	Table	Total State & Local Tax Support in Oregon -- Since 1971	2006, Jan	2 pgs
8-1-6	Pies	State $s to Bach.& Grad. Programs vs. Enrollment and Deg. Output	2008, Aug	1 pg
8-1-7	Lines	Per-Student State Support	2007, Oct	1 pg
8-1-9	Lines	St. Tax $ Per Degree ($ Inv. each yr. Divided by Deg. Gen.)	2008, Aug	1 pg
8-3-9	Bar	Appropriations of State Tax Funds for Higher Education	2007, Feb	13 pgs
8-7-1	Mixed	Clinton's Proposed Tax Credit Extenstions	2000, Feb	4 pgs
8-8-1	Mixed	Prisoner Costs (scan of H.Ed. Oppor.)	1999, Nov	2 pgs
8-8-4	Text	Oregonian, 12/96 , "Defrost Tuition Freeze"	1996, Dec	1 pg
8-8-12	Text	Oregonian editorial, 7/02, "Unchain Oregon's universities"	2002, Jul	1 pg
8-9-1	Table	State Costs for Postsecondary Education	2006, Jul	1 pg
8-9-3	Table	State & Local $s To H. Ed. -- FY ' 05 -- per Capita and per $1,000 Income	2006, Jun	1 pg
8-9-4	Table	State & Local $s To Public H. Ed. per FTE -- FY ' 05	2006, Jul	1 pg
8-9-8	Table	State $s per Upper Division Degrees, by Sector	2006, Jul	1 pg
8-9-9	Bar	State $s per Upper Division Degrees, by Sector, 1999	2006, Jul	1 pg
8-9-10	Line	State $s per Upper Division Degrees, by Sector	2006, Jul	1 pg
8-9-12	Scatter	Relation of $s per Degree to FTE Enroll. in Private Sector	2003, Sep	1 pg

Chptr 9. -- Talking Points (print whole chpt.)

Page	Type	Title	Last Updated	File Size
	Mixed	Summer, 2004 -- 8 Points, including Flat Grant point	2004, Jun	1 pg
	Mixed	Three sheets of Fact and Myth	2003, Jun	3 pgs
	Cartoon	Ice Cream Cartoon	1998, Jan	1 pg
	Cartoon	Keep It Cheap Cartoon	1989, May	1 pg
	Scatter	Low Tuition Relation to Access	2003, Sep	1 pg