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Wolf Deterrence | Economic Challenges At Private Colleges

<p>An inflatable tube man at a NE Oregon farm.&nbsp;</p>

Suzanne Stone

An inflatable tube man at a NE Oregon farm. 

  

    

Cattle rancher Ted Birdseye tells us about his experience with wolves, both on and off his ranch in Jackson County. He’s one of the first Oregon ranchers to use inflatable tube men — like the ones seen at car lots and other commercial businesses — as scarecrows to keep wolves from coming near farm animals.

    

The Oregon College of Art and Craft recently announced its impending closure, not long after Marylhurst University shut its doors. Other private colleges in the area are experiencing cuts to faculty and freezing enrollment in certain liberal arts majors. We talk with OPB editor Rob Manning and Jon Marcus, higher education editor for The Hechinger Report, about the crisis in liberal arts institutions here and around the country.

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