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New Year, New YOUnion: Get involved today!

For us here at AAUP-Oregon, this week is the true beginning of 2023. At campuses across Oregon, professors, instructors, graduate employees, and professional faculty are back at their worksites to serve the mission of their respective institutions. Meanwhile, Oregon's 2023 legislative session is just around the corner, and AAUP-Oregon's Legislative Committee will soon begin reviewing bills to identify our state conference's legislative priorities. Undoubtedly, our legislative work is vital to protecting the rights and freedoms that we enjoy as higher education workers here in Oregon, and we must remain vigilant to prevent the overtly political project to weaken tenure protections…

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Rest, recuperate, and re-energize for 2023!

As this term comes to an end, I wanted to congratulate you on making it through another challenging year. Working in higher education can be tough; it takes strength and dedication to do what we do, and I hope you can look back at this year with pride at what you have accomplished personally and what we have accomplished collectively. The election season was particularly challenging this year given the political rhetoric focused on limiting academic freedom to discuss significant issues in our society that are required to build a lasting multi-cultural democracy.  Our conditions in Oregon are thankfully better thanks…

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