[2] Becky Johnson, the first person whose appointment to a state Commission was subject to Senate approval, served on the Board from 1962 - 1975.
[3] Former Governor of Oregon Neil Goldschmidt was appointed and selected as the board's president in January 2004,[4] but the Senate confirmation process that approved his appointment also led to revelations of a decades-old sex scandal.
[5] Governor Ted Kulongoski took the unusual step of assuming the board presidency following Goldschmidt's resignation.
[6] The most recent addition to the Board was Jim Francesconi, former Portland City Councillor and mayoral candidate.
[11] Most of the authorizations and programs of those two agencies were assumed by the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission, which was formed in 2011 and expanded by the legislature in 2013 when independent boards were established for Oregon State University, University of Oregon, and Portland State University.