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October Update: United Academics of University of Oregon

by Nathan Whalen, Executive Vice President, UAUO At the University of Oregon, members of United Academics are beginning another school year, excited as always to meet incoming students, but also aware of the challenges that we face in the near future. We are pleased with the decision of the Board of Trustees at the end of the last school year to reduce the projected tuition increase by more than a third, to 6.56 percent as a result of the $70 million allocated to higher education by the Oregon Legislature.Though this figure still represents a steep hike for our student body, it…

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Racial Justice Work Group

by Ashley Bromley, Executive Director At our 2016 Annual Member Meeting, AAUP-Oregon members set the centering of racial justice work as a primary goal of our union. Since that time, we have begun to build a racial justice working group. We intend for this working group to come together to evaluate issues around recruitment, retention, overwork, and under-compensation of faculty of color and make recommendations for contract language, policies, support structures, and other initiatives that our local unions and advocacy chapters can undertake to correct these inequities. In order to successfully engage in this work, we need representation from each…

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