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President’s Column: Let 1000 Flowers Bloom

by José Padín, President, AAUP-Oregon Spring in the Pacific Northwest is a glorious time. Nature’s miraculous return to life, after months of latency, cannot but inspire thoughts of gratitude. Coming into full bloom also, for us — the members of AAUP-Oregon — are signs that our work the last year is bearing some wonderful fruit. PSU-AAUP and United Academics bargained strong, forward-looking, collective bargaining agreements for faculty and academic professionals at PSU and UO. These new collective bargaining agreements bode well for the future of quality, equity, and retention of talent in Oregon. The OSU-AAUP chapter has set an example…

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OSU-AAUP: continuing to organize

by Tony Vogt, activist, OSU-AAUP The advocacy chapter of AAUP-OSU, in collaboration with The Alliance for a Socially Just University and Allied Students for Another Politics, is planning a follow up Q & A session with Howard Bunsis (who will join us via skype) sometime in May, followed the next week by a "mock Board meeting," the details of which we are presently fleshing out with our collaborators. We are also considering how to respond to what we consider a lukewarm (at best) set of responses by the Administration to the problems of NTT faculty as highlighted through a joint…

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