The Article 22 provisional plan (including layoff notices) will be revealed in mid-April. Nothing is more important in this moment than telling your Faculty Senators where you stand on the Cudd administration budget plan and showing up to the Faculty Senate meeting on April 6th. We need you, your students, and your community to be there if we’re going to move the administration to pause PIVOT to partner on fighting for funding. Our presence and engagement with the President and administration will be more effective if more of us are in the room, and it’s up to us to build this event to match the power of our concerns so that it can reach beyond the room to the campus community, journalists, and wider publicity.
Please attend both the Board of Trustees rally and Senate in person, wearing PSU-AAUP red. Questions to an administrator are due to Richard Beyler, Secretary to the Faculty, two weeks before each Senate meeting (this coming Monday for the April 6th Senate meeting).
Board of Trustees rally
Urban Plaza
Fri Apr 3, 9:00 AM RSVP link
Faculty Senate
April 6th, 3:00-5:00pm
Cramer Hall 53 – RSVP link
Want to get more involved than that in stopping program elimination and fighting for funding? You can join the Grievance, Organizing, Comms, and Legislative and Political Action committee here.
Earlier this term we focused on advocating for PSU and public higher education in Oregon for the legislature’s short session. Now, the Legislative and Political Action Committee is building our capacity for building stronger advocacy relationships with legislators and other elected officials in the state. First, we recently developed a candidate questionnaire to help assess candidates’ alignment with our priorities as workers and union members; this questionnaire will be an important tool for educating candidates on our needs and allowing us to make informed endorsements when appropriate. Second, we have begun a campaign to solicit letters of support from elected officials in Oregon to help stop the cuts ahead of the April 3 Board of Trustees meeting. If building political power for our union sounds interesting to you, feel free to join the committee to support our work going into spring term!