OSU's Senate Faculty Council Supports OSU Marion's Right to Vote on Unionization
On Tuesday, July 19th, Ohio State University's Faculty Council--the governing faculty body in the Ohio State University's Senate--overwhelmingly (with 83% in favor) approved a resolution supporting OSU Marion's right to vote on unionization. OSU Marion had sought the Faculty Council's support because OSU and its legal team are currently obstructing Marion's right to proceed to a vote. Read the Faculty Council's resolution here.

Along with other Columbus and Central Ohio labor organizations, AAUP-OSU stands in solidarity with OSU Marion's efforts to unionize. Read the solidarity statement here.

Statement Supporting Dr. Angela Bryant
Recent articles published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Lantern, Columbus NBC affiliate Channel 4, and the Columbus Dispatch have brought to light Dr. Angela Bryant’s efforts to be reinstated as a tenured faculty member at Ohio State. 

AAUP-Ohio State continues to stand in strong support of Dr. Bryant's reinstatement as a tenured faculty member. The university administration inappropriately accepted a brief resignation email sent while Dr. Bryant was experiencing a mental health crisis, and her efforts to be reinstated have been denied. Throughout, AAUP-Ohio State has been working with Dr. Bryant, together with appropriate bodies in the University Senate. We agree with the statements supporting Dr. Bryant’s case from the Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (CAFR) and the Senate’s Hearing Committee of the University Senate. To accept an informal resignation email, written under personal duress, is a violation of due process and faculty rights. It flies in the face of the culture of caring and concern for mental health that we have been promoting and practicing at the university.
 ––The Executive Board of the AAUP chapter at The Ohio State University

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Transparent OSU
One of our priorities is to educate about OSU's budget and other important issues. We consolidate data and make it accessible because we believe information is essential to collective action. Our most recent page, Rising Wealth, Declining Academic Investment (2021), looks at OSU's finances coming out of last academic year and its changed academic performance and standing in recent years. 

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AAUP-OSU & the REASON Project
AAUP-OSU is honored to be working with the REASON Project, part of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to ensure that students from historically underrepresented groups have equal access to admission and educational opportunity at OSU. The Reason Project is a coalition-building initiative that actively seeks out academic and community perspectives to advance its mission. Read more about the Ohio focus by scrolling to the bottom of their page.

Save Ohio Higher Ed
In 2020, our AAUP chapter co-founded Save Ohio Higher Ed (SOHE). This group aims to preserve higher education as a public good for all Ohioans and ensure fair practices for faculty, staff, and students. Working with other AAUP chapters, students, public policy experts, and K-12 advocates, SOHE holds regular online forums on important current issues and builds coalitions towards action.  Find descriptions and recordings of past forums on the SOHE page.  

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