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UO: contract non-renewals

by Michael Dreiling, President, United Academics of the University of Oregon At the UO, a "strategic realignment" of resources now underway just resulted in contract non-renewals for 79 non-tenure track faculty, concentrated in the Humanities. The details were announced by the administration just days before the arrival of the UO Board of Trustees for their quarterly meeting.  The Register-Guard published an Op-Ed by United Academics leaders. See below. Faculty cuts jeopardize value of the university  By Cristina Calhoon, Michael Dreiling and Karen McPherson For The Register-Guard During February’s legislative session, the University of Oregon’s top lobbying priority was to increase…

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OSU: organizing around the budget

by Tony Vogt, activist, OSU-AAUP The OSU advocacy chapter, along with The Alliance for a Socially Just University and Allied Students for Another Politics, organized a public presentation by Howard Bunsis on February 24, titled "The OSU Budget: Breaking the Black Box." The presentation was very well attended (a number of people who were unable to find seats stood in the back for the entire talk). Howard generously made the slides from his talk widely available afterwards, and they are posted on both our own website - along with a video of the talk - and also on the sites…

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