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President’s column: optimism reigns

Dec 14, 2015 2140 Views Comments Off

Worrisome Year, Yet Optimism Reigns by José Padîn, President 2015 has been a year of stark contradictions; it leaves behind plenty that is worrisome, and yet we can feel legitimate optimism about the role of AAUP, in Oregon and nationally. We are living, on the one hand, in a moment of deepening economic polarization and an unprecedented polarization between a multicultural, cosmopolitan United States of America and a fear-fueled, dystopian, romantic impulse to “restore” the lost glories of the United States of America as a nation of “whites”. Movements of students, teachers, university faculty, workers, faith communities, black civil society,…

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Make corporations pay more!

Dec 14, 2015 2204 Views Comments Off

AAUP-OR supports A Better Oregon by Margaret Butler, Executive Director A Better Oregon is the campaign to end chronic underfunding of education, healthcare and senior services through a modest increase in the minimum tax for large corporations. The AAUP-Oregon Executive Committee made the decision to support the initiative petition because our members are tired of the continued crisis in state funding. If we make the pie bigger, we can increase funding for higher education. Many groups have been in conversation for a long time about the need for reinvestment in education and social services, and after testing many possible ideas…