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Thanks for proposing such a strong and thoughtful alternative open letter. I hadn¡¯t received Barbara¡¯s response, but I think it looks better with that reordering. </div>
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out by senate leadership? This ask in particular "</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">we ask that the University</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Administration and Board of Trustees allow for more time for the deliberation</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and strategic, intentional planning, so that ALL stakeholders have a</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">clear voice in the process." Though maybe asking for more time defuses the strong argument of protestation of the current draft.</span></p>
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I would also like to suggest the following two additions to your current draft: </div>
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End of Paragraph 4: add after ¡°writ large¡±: </div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Within the AAU we find no precedents or examples of a comparable attempt to dismantle entire programs or departments and dismiss tenured professors. </span></div>
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I would also insert the following clause between the last two ones, after: </div>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.67px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We unconditionally protest the manufactured urgency which is being used to push forward previously unthinkable changes to our University.
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I would add:</div>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.67px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We unconditionally protest the opacity of the budget models under which we labor, their proven inability to serve the central mission of
our campus, the lack of accountability of the administration, and the clear attempts to control and guide our structures of shared governance. </span></p>
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Best,</div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Associate Professor of Spanish | General Editor,
<span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a href="http://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/peripherica/index" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Periph¨¥rica: a Journal of Social, Cultural, and Literary History</a></span> | Co-Editor,
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<p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Romance Languages | School of Global Studies | (541) 513-8706
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 28, 2025 10:58:54 AM<br>
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Thank you, Barbara. I've modified my draft in response to your excellent suggestions. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 28, 2025 7:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eric Corwin <ecorwin@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Senate President <senatepres@uoregon.edu>; Betina Lynn <betina@uoregon.edu>; uosenateexec@lists.uoregon.edu <uosenateexec@lists.uoregon.edu>; uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu <uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu><br>
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Briefly, I suggest that the stirring last paragraph stating our historic governance responsibility for the learning programs be stated first. Then, we could say in the second paragraph, modifying a bit what you have started with,<br>
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In light of this responsibility, we, the members of the University of Oregon Senate, must take issue with the wrongs to our learning system proposed¡.<br>
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The wrongs are not only what are proposed, incalculable threats to our learning mission, but how they are proposed. In a University that prides itself on collaborative governance, there has not been a transparent process to determine what cuts actually need
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Then your letter as follows. <br>
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I also reflect with you that the amount to be cut is in fact what was donated to programs in Global Studies. Might we go back to the donor and ask that the global spirit of the donation be expanded to its actual letter to apply to other programs as well? Our
learning eco system requires programs of every size and kind. We cannot be global unless all the various snd emergent and historic programs are in place.
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The draconian proposals slash verities of thousands of years of accrued knowledge and fought for principles governing higher education. I cannot believe that our UO leadership would want its legacy to be other than preserver of known strategies of excellence.
We are on the threshold of exciting growth, and need all of us, all our ways of thinking and construing the world of ours.
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Thank you everyone, and blessings,<br>
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