Autumn 2024 meetings
Join us at our monthly chapter-wide 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. Here are our remaining meetings this semester.

11/20 - Board meeting (Zoom)
12/4 - Chapter meeting (hybrid: Zoom + Denney Hall 311)

AAUP-Ohio State Speaks Out about the SB 117 / Chase Center
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. Coming out of the state higher education committee -- chaired by Sen. Jerry Cirino -- 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.

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 #StopSB83
Since the 2022-23 school year, AAUP-Ohio State has been working hard to counter Ohio legislature's SS 83 (and the accompanying HB151), which would profoundly alter education at Ohio's 14 universities and 23 colleges. If passed into law, this bill would severely limit free speech, undermine values of outreach and inclusion, threaten tenure and academic freedom, and introduce authoritarian standards into education at OSU.

AAUP-Ohio State and our partner groups have had a profound effect in turning out testimonies and fighting this bill. We've had significant victories, and we'll continue with our advocacy. Watch for our emails to membership for updates on what's going on at the statehouse and how you can continue to fight back.

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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