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In this Issue: President's Column by José Padin Supporting A Better Oregon by Margaret Butler In the News: Race on Campus, Research on Trustees Chapter Reports: PSU-AAUP by Pam Miller United Academics at UO by Michael Dreiling
View MoreWorrisome Year, Yet Optimism Reigns by José Padîn, President 2015 has been a year of stark contradictions; it leaves behind plenty that is worrisome, and yet we can feel legitimate optimism about the role of AAUP, in Oregon and nationally. We are living, on the one hand, in a moment of deepening economic polarization and an unprecedented polarization between a multicultural, cosmopolitan United States of America and a fear-fueled, dystopian, romantic impulse to “restore” the lost glories of the United States of America as a nation of “whites”. Movements of students, teachers, university faculty, workers, faith communities, black civil society,…
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