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EOU, PGE win 2004 Business Education Compact Higher Education Achievement Award Published: June 29, 2004 by C.J. Gish La Grande, Oregon - Eastern Oregon University and Portland General Electric Corporate University were recently awarded the 2004 Business Education Compact Higher Education Achievement Award. "The focused and rigorous learning experiences you have provided students and teachers have inspired educational achievement," said Tamra Busch-Johnson, the Business Education Compact director. "We thank you for making it possible for the BEC to dedicate 20 years of service in creating these partnerships of excellence." EOU's Dory Jackman and PGE's Barbara Hins-Turner will be presented the award at the BEC's Award Dinner on Oct. 19 at the Hilton Hotel Ballroom in Portland. The Higher Education Award criteria states the award recognizes a college or university that operates an ongoing, productive partnership with a company or industrial consortium to increase student achievement, enhance applied learning and prepare Oregon's workforce. EOU and PGE's Corporate University have engaged in a strategic relationship, partnership and collaboration since 1999. The purpose of the collaboration was to develop and improve educational opportunities for the PGE incumbent workers and recruit new personnel to the utility industry. For PGE, the relationship helps replace its aging workforce, which had many employees who would be retiring in the next five to 10 years. One of PGE's goals was to enhance their educational benefits and offer tuition reimbursement funds to encourage their employees to seek higher educational opportunities. EOU has been able to help by offering programs on site at the PGE/Pacificorp/Clackamas Community College Training Center in Wilsonville and online.
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