These resources -- papers, articles, websites, staff summaries, data, etc. -- are culled from staff research, personal communications, or sent by members of OPAS committees or other interested parties. To submit a resource, please email it to Jo Oshiro. She can also be reached at 503.725.2910.

Once resources are posted, it may take 24-48 hours for Google's webspiders to find and index them.

To search the table, use your browser's Edit - Find function (<Ctrl-F>). Keywords have been added to help find appropriate entries. Some keywords of particular interest: student-friendly, newsletter, ...

Committee meeting notes are not posted on this list, but are available on committee webpages.

AddDate: The date the resource was added to the table, not the date of the article, etc.

Category: Current categories are:

• Articles from paper and web-based magazines and newspapers, including professional magazines such as IEEE Spectrum.
• Research Papers from juried journals.
• Programs are examples of programs and best practices.
• Staff Papers are summaries of staff research into specific topics or statements of policy and direction. Research may be based on personal communication, meetings, or publications
• Working Papers are drafts or discussion records of non-OPAS entities such as the State Board of Higher Education.
• Web are webpages, which may not point to the home page of the website in question. Most specific webpublished articles are downloaded to the OPAS site as pdf files, however, so that they are preserved as published and their content is easily google-searchable.
• Standards are educational standards for the creation of curricula.
• Publications are books, brochures, forms, and pamphlets available to the general public.
• Data are collections of quantitative data.

Committees: denotes the OPAS (sub)committee in which this resource was first discussed, or is particularly relevant to, in the judgement of OPAS staff. Forgive us our errors and feel free to suggest changes and additions. Committees are:

• ACSW - Alignment and Coordination: System-Wide
• ACCC - Alignment and Coordination: Curricular and Co-curricular
• CPTH - Career Pathways
• DIVR - Diversity
• IPD - Instructional Professional Development
• MKTC - Marketing Engineering and Applied Science Careers
• SCC - Standards, Courses, and Curricula
• SAMR - Student Success: Access, Motivation, Retention
• Steer - The OPAS Initiative Steering Committee

Committee rosters, missions, meeting notes, and agendas are not kept on the Master Resources List. They are available on the committee webpages.

Steering committee working papers are available via the Master Resources List.

Author/Pub: the last name of the primary author and the publisher.

Title and Link: Click here to access the resource. Copies of papers and articles are stored locally on the OPAS website to avoid losing them to webchanges out of our control. Many of them, when printed, will contain references to the originating website.

Comments: From the person submitting the resource (keep them short, please!) or posting staff. We will try to be illuminating rather than obfuscating.