Linn-Benton Community College

Dr. Greg Hamann Greg Hamann , president of Linn-Benton Community College, has been appointed to serve a four-year term on the state Quality Education Commission . Hamann’s appointment by Governor John Kitzhaber makes him the first person on the commission who works outside of the K-12 education system. Created in 2001 with a primary focus on K-12, the non-partisan commission is expanding its work to include pre-kindergarten through public higher education. “This appointment is a recognition not just of my efforts and contributions, but of those of the entire LBCC community,” said Hamann. The commission’s task is to refine and validate the state’s Quality Education Model (QEM), which was developed in 1999 to establish research-based connections between resources devoted to schools and levels of student achievement, and to guide efforts to adequately fund Oregon schools.  The work of the commission includes evaluating educational best practices and determining the level of fundi...

OSU President Ed Ray, left, and LBCC President Greg Hamann sign a Memorandom of Understanding to implement the Reverse Transfer agreement, the first of its kind in the state. LBCC and Oregon State University took the first steps today to implement a program to award transfer students with a “reverse transfer” associate’s degree. The program, known as the Reverse Transfer Degree program , will allow students who are dually-enrolled through the LBCC/OSU Degree Partnership program to be awarded an associate’s degree from LBCC, even though they did not finish their degree here. Here’s how it works: Say you’re an LBCC student taking classes at both institutions, and you decide that you have enough LBCC credits to fully attend OSU. You accomplished what you set out to do at LBCC, but you did not actually “finish” your two-year degree. Academic advisors at OSU and LBCC will carefully track your progress, and when you have met the requirements for an LBCC associate degree...