President’s Column: national political crisis? We seize state-level opportunities
by José Padín, President The locus of sane policy-making for education is decisively moving to the states. A good case for this can be made at a time when national government seems in disarray. Here in Oregon, AAUP-Oregon is incredibly active in the legislative session in Salem, looking after the interests of college students, faculty, the academic class, public higher education more generally. In just over a month, we’ve reviewed over 1,500 bills, identified over 100 that impact us, and offered legislative testimony on a few. The issues we’ve acted on, or are under review, are quite varied; from…
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