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Urgent Request to Protect Academic Freedom

March 20, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues, We write to you with an urgent request to take action and protect academic freedom as a standard and criterion for accreditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), the largest single accreditation body in the region. Inexplicably, the latest draft of accreditation standards from the NWCCU removes all references to academic freedom and to institutional bodies and practices of shared governance such as university senates, faculty vote and voice, and tenure (see the proposal and compare to current standards here). The strong emphasis on centralized authority and the implicit erasure of faculty participation in decision-taking is new and it…

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President’s Column: Fall Welcome

Dear colleagues across Oregon: I hope this reaches you well. Since I last reached out to you, we were celebrating the organizing victories of United Academics of OSU and the Oregon Tech AAUP collective bargaining chapter – all in the midst of the awful, precedent turning Supreme Court decision and ongoing attacks on science, education, and unions. Since then, AAUP and AAUP-Oregon staff have been working vigorously with these new chapters/locals as they prepare to begin bargaining their first contracts and formally organize their union structures and bylaws. Meanwhile, GEU members and leaders are working to enforce their new contract with…

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