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AAUP-Oregon News April 2015

In This Issue AAUP-Oregon Conference Saturday April 25th President's Column by José Padin In the News Chapter Updates: United Academics at University of Oregon Portland State University-AAUP AAUP-Oregon State University   AAUP-Oregon Conference Saturday April 25th Towards Student-Centered, Educator-Led, Debt-Free Higher Education Register NOW! by Margaret Butler, Executive Director Come strategize with colleagues from around the state!  There is so much opportunity to make our voices heard.  The last five years have seen faculty organize as never before.  Our state conference is a place to build the relationships and create the strategies to move us forward towards a higher education system that…

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The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much 

This Sunday New York Times column by Paul Campos explains that the real cost driver of higher education is increasing numbers of highly paid administrators. BOULDER, Colo. — ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. These radical cuts forced universities to raise tuition year after year, which in turn forced the millennial generation to take on crushing educational debt loads, and everyone lived unhappily ever after.  Read more 

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