About Us
Together we can make change happen
Our great state and nation have huge challenges - from global warming to the escalating cost of health care, from the cost of college to the anemic job market.
On all of these issues and more, narrow powerful interests spend enormous resources to influence public decisions.
Our colleges were established in large part to promote solutions to these problems (check out UO’s mission statement).
In turn, OSPIRG was established by students to animate the University’s mission – to research problems, educate the public and advocate for solutions. We do this by combining the energy of students with the expertise and continuity of a professional staff of advocates and organizers who work both on and off campus to advocate for the public.
Over the last thirty-five years, OSPIRG has helped students become an important and credible voice to Oregon’s opinion-leaders and decision-makers.
Learn more about the students and staff who lead OSPIRG.
Internships
Work on important issues, learn valuable skills, get hands-on experience, and make a difference.
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OSPIRG Statewide Vice-Chair and SOU Chapter Chair, Tommy Letchworth, with State Senator Alan Bates after their panel discussing how to reduce the influence of money in politics. -
Lane Community College student Bill Shook works to ban plastic water bottles on campus. -
Students at Southern Oregon University gather petitions to reduce plastic bag usage in the city of Ashland. -
University of Oregon students and staff remind their peers to turn in their ballots on election day. -
University of Oregon students with Oregon Attorney General John Kroger. -
Fast Trains ARE Cool. -
Students volunteer at a local garden for the National Hunger Cleanup. -
Southern Oregon University campaign coordinators presenting their campaigns at the fall 2011 kickoff meeting. -
Students campaign for High Speed Rail. -
ASUO President Ben Eckstein speaks at the UO kickoff meeting. -
UO Chapter Chair, Charles Denson, interviewed by the local news regarding the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. -
Plastic Bag Monster fights the UO Ducks. Go Ducks! -
Katie Taylor speaking at the Lane Community College kickoff meeting. -
Students travel to Washington D.C. -
Fall 2011 Board of Directors. -
We collect petition signatures - lots of them! -
Power Shift West 2009 organizers with State Representative Jefferson Smith. -
Power Shift West 2011 keynote address. -
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