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AAUP Purdue calls for Purdue to honor commitment to new child care center

The American Association of University Professors – Purdue (West Lafayette) chapter applauds Purdue’s decision to keep the Patty Jischke Early Care and Education Center (PJC) open “indefinitely” during the pandemic. The chapter now calls for Purdue to honor its commitment made in December 2019 to also increasing affordable, high-quality, accessible childcare on campus.  In June […]

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AAUP Purdue rejects threats to shared governance in the era of the pandemic

Solidarity with the University of Evansville and the University of Kansas Over 50 years ago, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) revised and adopted as its core organizational principle the need to defend “shared governance” in institutions of higher education. The central feature of shared governance was the following:  “Shared governance” in higher education […]

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Over 1,100 Purdue folks pushed back on closing campus child care center, and won!

We know it has seemed pretty quiet around this website, but that’s because we’ve busy with organizing on campus! This last week saw Purdue announce that it was going to demolish the Patty Jischke Early Child Education Center, with no plan for providing a new center they had committed to in December 2019 for the […]