Spring 2025 meetings
Join us at our monthly meetings! We meet on Zoom. If you need the 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. Here are our upcoming meetings this semester (all at 4-5:30 pm). Feb. 18th - Board meeting March 4th - Chapter meeting March 18th - Board meeting April 1st - Chapter meeting April 15th - Board meeting April 22nd - Chapter meeting |
Stop SB1!
UPDATE: An opponent hearing date/time has been set: Tuesday, Feb. 11th at 2pm. Find more information on the bill and on testifying here.
See our chapter president Pranav Jani's Columbus Dispatch op-ed on the bill here. ....... Senate Bill 83 (SB83) is now back in the new legislative session, as SB1. It's also back concurrently in the House, as HB6. Find a quick description at the Ohio Conference AAUP's blog here. Read OCAAUP's full breakdown of the bill here. Opponent testimony significantly affected the outcome of SB83. Your testimony can be either written or in person; the length is about three minutes in oral form. Numbers of testimony matter. (See below.) Encourage friends and community members to testify as well! Get the word out on social media and elsewhere. AAUP-Ohio State has been working hard, since 2022-23 with SB83, to fight the legislature's attacks on higher education. We 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.) On January 29, 2025, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a piece on SB1, with perspectives from AAUP-Ohio State president Pranav Jani and Ohio Conference AAUP executive director Sara Kilpatrick. Read the article here. Follow us on social media, along with Ohio Conference AAUP and Honesty for Ohio Education, to continue to stay informed. |
AAUP-Ohio State Action on the Chase Center
Update: On January 23rd, the OSU Senate voted "no" to approving the Chase Center.
See News and Events Archive page here to learn more about our action leading up to this major vote of no-confidence. See AAUP-Ohio State's prior statement on "WHY WE SAY NO" here. Find Columbus Dispatch coverage of the OSU Senate vote here. |
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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 increasing political intrusion into what you teach and research? Do you want to ensure academic freedom and integrity and students' right to a high-quality education?
If you're not already a member, please consider joining us here! (Renew your membership at the same link.)
Any questions? Write us at [email protected].
If you're not already a member, please consider joining us here! (Renew your membership at the same link.)
Any questions? Write us at [email protected].