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President’s Column: Strange Times and We Need Strong Academic Unions

  Nov 17, 2016     2181 Views     Comments Off on President’s Column: Strange Times and We Need Strong Academic Unions  

  by José Padín, President The unimagined has happened.   Because national leadership has aided and abetted growing privilege, widening inequality, and deepening economic insecurity, popular anger with the course of our country united in rejecting business as usual in politics.   Yet, the popular anger fragmented in a dangerous way in the elections that just took place.   Too many Americans felt alienated, and they stayed at home on election day.   Too many others were drawn in by the appeal of mean-spirited hatred of imaginary monsters conjured up by a presidential demagogue. Mexicans, he said, are all criminals…

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United Academics: Campus Climate, Racial Justice, Academic Freedom

  Nov 17, 2016     1653 Views     Comments Off on United Academics: Campus Climate, Racial Justice, Academic Freedom  

 by Michael Dreiling, President, UAUO At the UO, we’ve had the unfortunate opportunity of witnessing poor role-modeling. First, a professor donned blackface at a Halloween party and then was mimicked on campus by a group of white teens. Then, there was the election and its aftermath of hate crimes, including vicious racist threats to students of color at the UO. Our local is in sync with the rest of the higher education labor movement in confronting bigotry of all types and I am proud to point our members to the recent issue of Academe for some timely reflection on campus activism against…

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