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PSU-AAUP: Welcoming 2017

by José Padin, President Arctic weather visited a foot of snow and ice upon us and the start of classes at PSU has been interrupted for the best part of a week. Happy New Year and best of luck to all of us now scrambling to fit a short ten-week quarter into nine! Some highlights for PSU-AAUP, as we start the year:   University Budgets As we enter a new Oregon legislative session, PSU-AAUP (via our participation in AAUP-Oregon) has joined University Presidents, and a higher education coalition of unions, in a united request for a fair and necessary legislative…

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President’s Column: end-of-year despair…and much hope

by José Padin, President At a moment when national political developments are cause for pessimism, it is easy to forget we have many things to celebrate this year in Oregon. In 2016 … AAUP-Oregon helped host a very successful annual gathering of the national AAUP in Portland, the Summer Institute, which consists of several days of workshops to strengthen the organizing and successes of local chapters. We were joined this year by a new organizer for the Pacific Northwest region, who has helped us support faculty, academic professionals, and graduate students building new AAUP chapters at five colleges and universities.…

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