Spring 2025 meetings
Join us at our monthly meetings! We meet both in person (Denney Hall 214) and on Zoom for chapter meetings. If you need the Zoom link, email Pranav Jani at [email protected] or Katey Borland at [email protected].

Also feel free to join our board meetings, if you'd like: we're throwing our doors open so that you can be involved in setting our goals for the year. (Note: board meetings are Zoom only.) Here are our upcoming meetings this semester (all at 4-5:30 pm).

Feb. 4th - Chapter meeting
Feb. 18th - Board meeting
March 4th - Chapter meeting
March 18th - Board meeting
April 1st - Chapter meeting
April 15th - Board meeting
April 22nd - Chapter meeting

**In January: Action on the Chase Center**
(1) Read our statement on the upcoming OSU University Senate Vote on the Chase Center explaining WHY WE SAY "NO."

(2) Contact your OSU Senate representative with your viewpoint (by January 23rd).

(3) Attend the OSU University Senate Vote on the Chase Center on Thursday, January 23rd, 3:30-5PM.

This meeting is open to *all* OSU faculty, students, and staff.

There are two options for attendance:
in person: Saxbe Auditorium, Drinko Hall (Moritz Law bldg., just south of the Union)
online: Zoom link here.

Contact the Senate recording secretary, Ivy Hammond, at [email protected] with any questions.

What's the Chase Center? How has AAUP-Ohio State Responded?
For a quick overview, see our FAQ / Fact Sheet.

In spring 2023, the Ohio legislature's SB 117 mandated the establishment of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, among other centers at other colleges in Ohio. The stated aim of these centers is to fix the lack of "intellectual diversity" in Ohio's colleges. Cosponsored by Sen. Jerry Cirino--the same legislator who sponsored SB83--SB 117 goes hand in hand with SB 83: it's a clear attempt by the legislature to flout academic freedom and to control what gets researched and taught in Ohio.

Here's some of what we've been doing around SB 117 / the Chase Center:
  • Our June 2023 statement here highlights the main problems with the center (lack of institutional fit, duplication, imposition, lack of accountability, likelihood of failure, and outsider influence).
  • In October 2024, our chapter president, Pranav Jani, appeared on WOSU's "All Sides with Anna Staver" to speak about the center and SB 117. This piece included Jerry Cirino and incoming Chase Center director Lee Strang. Listen here.
  • In November 2024, in preparation for OSU Senate discussion of the bill in Autumn and early Spring of this academic year, we ran some calculations and considered requirements for fiscal, curricular, and hiring responsibility -- see here.
  • On January 9, 2025, we held a Town Hall to get people up to speed on the Chase Center and to weigh the question of AAUP-OSU action relative to the upcoming OSU Senate vote (to be held January 23, 2025).
  • On January 18, 2025, we released a statement (also linked above) on why we say "no" to the Chase Center.

JOIN! Advocate for Fairness, Equity, and a Strong University
Are you a new faculty member? Or, have you been here a while and think it's time to protect your rights as a university employee? Are you concerned about students' rights to a great education in Ohio?

If you're not already a member, please consider joining us! We also welcome collaboration with OSU students and staff or public groups who share our values and goals. 

​Any questions? Write us at [email protected]. ​

AAUP-Ohio State's Work to Stop SB83 - now SB1
January 2025: SB83 is now back in the new legislative session, as SB1.

Starting in the 2022-23 school year, AAUP-Ohio State worked hard to counter SB 83, a legislative bill designed to profoundly alter education at Ohio's 14 universities and 23 colleges. SB83 would have severely limited free speech, undermined values of outreach and inclusion, threatened tenure and academic freedom, and introduced authoritarian standards into education at OSU. AAUP-Ohio State and our partner groups had a profound effect in turning out OVER 500 OPPONENT written/oral testimonies - as opposed to 5-10 (accounts vary) proponent testimonies - that helped to defeat SB83. (See more about the turnout here and here.)

We plan to continue this fight with SB1.  Watch for our emails to membership for updates on what's going on at the statehouse and how you can continue to resist this new wave of legislative assault on Ohio colleges and universities.

Follow us on social media, along with Ohio Conference AAUP and Honesty for Ohio Education, for the latest news and perspective.

See AAUP-Ohio State president Pranav Jani's op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch here.

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