President’s Column: Tax Justice!
by Michael Dreiling, President, AAUP-Oregon Greetings friends and colleagues. The first issue on my mind as new AAUP-Oregon President is tax justice. Our students, our universities, our communities, and our environment all suffer from a gross imbalance in who, and what contributes to our common good in Oregon. Amid relatively good economic times – high corporate profits, low unemployment, modestly rising income – our public universities are seeing cuts to faculty, significant hikes to tuition, and numerous other forms of austerity. This austerity extends to all of Oregon, afflicting children’s health, schools, community services, services for elderly, environmental protection, and much…
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