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UO: Salary Data Puts University Last Among Peers

  May 18, 2016     2763 Views     Comments Off on UO: Salary Data Puts University Last Among Peers  

by Michael Dreiling, President, United Academics The latest AAUP salary survey is out and tenure-track faculty salaries at UO remain dead last when compared to our AAU peers. This is not, of course, the first time we have ranked last, but it is disappointing to see us fall further behind. The UO has eight designated AAU peers, schools we compare ourselves to and compete with: UC-Santa Barbara, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, and the University of Washington. Our comparators achieved substantial salary increases, while tenure-track faculty…

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OSU: next steps in taking on budget priorities

  May 18, 2016     1848 Views     Comments Off on OSU: next steps in taking on budget priorities  

by Tony Vogt, OSU-AAUP activist AAUP-OSU, in conjunction with the The Alliance for a Socially Just University, recently organized a Q & A with Howard Bunsis (via google hang-out) as a follow-up to his visit to OSU in February. The Q & A was attended by 25 or more students, faculty, classified staff, and organizers. Howard was great - he spoke with us for an hour from Michigan, on the evening (as it turns out) of his wife's birthday (but they'd already celebrated). We had Howard's slides up and running on another screen so that as folks posed questions, he…

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