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Resist the attacks on higher education! Register now for AAUP-Oregon’s Annual meeting April 29th

Register now for the April 29th AAUP-Oregon Annual Meeting! We will meet at OSU from 9:30 to 3 pm at the LaSells Stewart Conference Center. Come help strategize about how we get to the higher education system we want in Oregon.  Join colleagues from across the state as we celebrate what we've done over the past year, build the relationships we need and have strategic discussions about how to move forward. Our focus this year is resisting the attacks on science, academic freedom and faculty and student rights. Let us know you are coming, choose a lunch and reserve your spot! Register…

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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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