Get on the bus to the statehouse

Our colleagues from campuses statewide are rallying at the Statehouse to push the house and senate supermajorities and Governor to not let the Trump impacts of H.R.1 defund PSU and Oregon public higher ed. The nearly $900M HR.1 removed from the state budget is being cited by the Governor as the reason HECC cuts are being made which in turn is the reason Cudd initially cited as the rationale for the latest cuts. It is possible for lawmakers to disconnect Oregon’s tax code from the federal tax code to protect PSU and our public institutions, but it’s going to take all of our voices.

Additionally, there’s over $1B in Oregon’s lottery-funded Education Stability Fund. If untouched, the ESF will grow by a quarter billion dollars by next summer. A piece of the interest would shore up PSU’s finances for the foreseeable future.

We need to create the political will for the statehouse supermajorities and Governor to disconnect from the federal tax code and use ESF funds to shore up PSU. Join coworkers in taking vans courtesy of AFT Oregon from outside Smith Memorial Student Union at 11am. Bring your "stop the cuts," "education stability funds now," "make Phil Knight pay his fair share" signs, and students. The rally will start at 12 noon and we’ll be back at PSU by 3pm.

Thursday, February 05, 12:00 PM-02:00 PM
Location: Oregon State Capitol • 900 Court St NE, Salem, OR 97301 US
RSVP here so AFT Oregon knows how many vans to get us


Tell the top 23 legislators on education funding about the impacts of a decade of cuts at PSU here. We recommend you add verbiage about the impact of understaffing from the last ten years of austerity at PSU, how the Cudd administration’s deepest layoffs in PSU history will impact you, your colleagues, and Oregon’s leading access institution, and change the subject line so emails can’t be filtered by lawmakers’ inboxes.