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President’s Column: end-of-year despair…and much hope

by José Padin, President At a moment when national political developments are cause for pessimism, it is easy to forget we have many things to celebrate this year in Oregon. In 2016 … AAUP-Oregon helped host a very successful annual gathering of the national AAUP in Portland, the Summer Institute, which consists of several days of workshops to strengthen the organizing and successes of local chapters. We were joined this year by a new organizer for the Pacific Northwest region, who has helped us support faculty, academic professionals, and graduate students building new AAUP chapters at five colleges and universities.…

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Willamette University AAUP: working on shared governance

by Frann Michel, President Our first year as a chapter, 2015-16, was a tumultuous one on our campus, but culminated in a Joint Agreement among College of Liberal Arts faculty and the Board of Trustees on Shared Governance, Consultative Decision-Making, and Communication. This year, we have continued to monitor the administration's fulfilment of the terms of the Joint Agreement, as action items come due. Most significantly, the Board of Trustees has rescinded its resolution of last year that had linked CLA faculty numbers to enrollment figures and fixed the faculty at a 10-to-1 ratio, with no more than 80 percent…

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