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2016 AAUP-OR Annual Meeting: celebrating progress and mapping the road ahead

    by Margaret Butler, Executive Director Faculty activists from around the state gathered at University Place Hotel at Portland State on April 23rd to share ideas, build relationships, and unite around an exciting common agenda.   Our Movement’s Work the Last 12 Months, Directions for the Future: We started the day with a plenary panel outlining what had been accomplished on goals articulated at our 2015 annual meeting. Various leaders reported on the work on our priorities—the Board of Trustees Relations Task Force, the committee focused on university spending priorities and how to increase the amount spent on university…

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UO: Salary Data Puts University Last Among Peers

by Michael Dreiling, President, United Academics The latest AAUP salary survey is out and tenure-track faculty salaries at UO remain dead last when compared to our AAU peers. This is not, of course, the first time we have ranked last, but it is disappointing to see us fall further behind. The UO has eight designated AAU peers, schools we compare ourselves to and compete with: UC-Santa Barbara, the University of Colorado-Boulder, Indiana University-Bloomington, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Virginia, and the University of Washington. Our comparators achieved substantial salary increases, while tenure-track faculty…

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