Ah, the RG supports increasing the cost to Oregon students.  They say education opens the door to opportunity and success.  Yet, we are okay in increasing the costs to be borne by the young and their often struggling families.  But one can look at this another way.  Top rank research has limited positive impact on undergraduate education yet the faculty necessary to carry it out cost big bucks.  Is it worth matching or chasing the highest most competitive salaries in the land?  Do Oregon students benefit more from affordable education or faculty who demand Harvard level salaries?  UO can never make the top ranks.  There are many reasons for this including the decades of incompetent management.  But more fundamentally, except for Mr. Knight (thank you sir), UO has no foundation of powerful backers.  Research could create high tech spin offs, but for years UO has strangled such opportunity by claiming all the productive work of its faculty on or off campus.  Wage freeze, all levels.