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President’s Column: Faculty, Academic Professionals, and Students Moving United Towards a New Shared Vision

  May 18, 2016     1611 Views     Comments Off on President’s Column: Faculty, Academic Professionals, and Students Moving United Towards a New Shared Vision  

  by José Padín, President, AAUP-Oregon   University budgets that reflect the values we profess as educators.   Universities, administrations, and Boards of Trustees accountable to the values on which public higher education is founded, and to its stakeholders — students, citizens, faculty, and professional student support staff.   A statewide concerted movement of faculty, staff, and students for racial justice at our universities — not diversity public relations, but justice.   These three priorities, and rich ideas for steps to achieve them, were handed to the elected leadership of our Oregon AAUP by members — volunteer member-leaders, faculty and…

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2016 AAUP-OR Annual Meeting: celebrating progress and mapping the road ahead

  May 18, 2016     2003 Views     Comments Off on 2016 AAUP-OR Annual Meeting: celebrating progress and mapping the road ahead  

    by Margaret Butler, Executive Director Faculty activists from around the state gathered at University Place Hotel at Portland State on April 23rd to share ideas, build relationships, and unite around an exciting common agenda.   Our Movement’s Work the Last 12 Months, Directions for the Future: We started the day with a plenary panel outlining what had been accomplished on goals articulated at our 2015 annual meeting. Various leaders reported on the work on our priorities—the Board of Trustees Relations Task Force, the committee focused on university spending priorities and how to increase the amount spent on university…

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