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Willamette AAUP: We are Stronger Together

by Frann Michel, President, Willamette-AAUP   At Willamette University, faculty-student organizing brought the Board of Trustees to the negotiating table:  we are stronger together.   Last summer, 2015, a small number of faculty (both T and NTT) of the College of Liberal Arts at Willamette University had a few meetings with organizers from AAUP-OR and formed an advocacy chapter (http://www.wuaaup.org/). Willamette University is a private institution, consisting of an undergraduate college (about 2000 students, 135 faculty) and graduate schools of Law and Management (about 650 students combined); the Master’s Program in Education closed in 2014, in a process criticized by…

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OSU-AAUP: organizing for economic justice

by Tony Vogt, OSU-AAUP activist AAUP-OSU testified at the Board of Trustees meeting earlier this month, along with student and other union allies. The theme of the meeting was originally "student success," but was changed to "social justice" a week before the Board met. The testimonies all pointed to the fact that one of the hallmarks of social justice should be inclusivity, yet continually rising tuition costs has put a university education beyond the reach of many. More generally, the concerted message to the Board was that there cannot be social justice, including racial and gender justice, without economic justice.…

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