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Responses to national events

  Feb 28, 2017     1431 Views     Comments Off on Responses to national events  

by Nancy Eichsteadt, VP for Communications and Public Relations These are strange and troubling times for our country and for Higher Education. The new Trump administration surprised us all with how quickly they decided to roll out their agenda. Each week features a new round of troubling executive orders and appointments that threaten to roll back any recent progress on social justice issues that directly affect campuses. How is Oregon higher ed impacted with the onslaught of changes coming from Washington? Here are a few local stories about what’s happening on campuses in Oregon.   Portland State University PSU declared…

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PERS cuts proposed: take action now

  Feb 28, 2017     2266 Views     Comments Off on PERS cuts proposed: take action now  

by Margaret Butler, Executive Director As I’m sure you have heard in the media, there are many proposals floating in Salem to make changes to PERS. Senate Bills 559 and 560 were heard in the Senate on February 13th, and AAUP-Oregon President José Padín testified for us, along with many, many others from a wide range of organizations.  Read his testimony here. According to the PERS coalition, these bills are extreme, unfair, and illegal. SB 559 proposes changing the way PERS calculates the final annual salary by using a five year average as opposed to the three year average currently…

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