View full letter in Google Docs here: https://tinyurl.com/2020PSULetter

Add your name here: https://tinyurl.com/Sign-2020PSULetter

(Optional) Add your own message here:

Advising and Career Services

Departmental Research Administrator

Research and Instruction Librarian

Senior Research Associate

Advising and Career Services

Mathematics and Statistics

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Academic and Career Advisor

Director of Undergraduate Programs

Assistant Professor of Russian

Department of World Languages and Literatures

PSU has built a sizable rainy day fund. Well, guess what? It's raining today.

Director, Recruitment & Retention

College of Urban and Public Affairs

Reasonable COLA increases in a new contract shouldn't be a heavy lift--it's fair and the right thing to do-- and this is a top priority of bargaining for many AAUP members including myself.

International Student and Scholar Services

I worked very hard including retooling the classes for our on line success. And continue to do so. I would like a recognition of this effort in a 3% raise per year.

Senior Instructor II of Spanish

World Languages and Literatures

Fair pay is also a racial equity issue and now is the time for the board to step up and put money behind the words that claim support for our Black, Indigenous and other People of Color (BIPOC) who work for the university. Overall, 22.7% of PSU employees experienced housing insecurity and 16.5% experienced food insecurity in 2019 - before the pandemic. These rates were TWICE that for BIPOC employees. BIPOC employees are more likely to be academic professionals and non-tenure track employees. No university should have food and housing insecurity rates this high. You can, and should, do better.

Undergraduate Admissions

Assistant Professor of Practice/Field Specialist

Challenge Program Coordinator (Program Administrator 2)

Dean's Office - Challenge Program/CLAS

Advising & Career Services

Urban Studies and Planning

Please prioritize the 2020 cost of living increase; COVID has presented many financial challenges to my family and I need the increase to stay up the rising costs of living in the metro area.

Assistant Professor of Social Work Practice

Family budgets are under tremendous stress. Please remember that some of our PSU employees are supporting entire families on their salaries. Please make every effort to ensure that our work at PSU is economically sustainable. I have been a PSU faculty for 20 years. This year for the first time it occurred to me that I might have to leave my employment at PSU for economic reasons. Thankfully I have passed through that juncture for now and I hope to never face that choice again.

Student Organization Advisor

Office of Academic Innovation

Transportation Data Program Administrator

Transportation Research and Education Center

Advising and Career Services

Advising & Career Services

International & Global Studies

Assistant Professor of Practice

Transfer Admissions Counselor

Associate Professor of Practice,

Academic and Career Advisor

Assistant Professor of Practice

College of Ed - Department of Special Education

Assistant Professor of Hebrew

World Languages and Literatures

Some people think that at the end of the story of the boy who cried "wolf" the wolf came and ate his sheep but the original ending was that the people of the village (who kept coming for the aid of the one who kept crying "wolf" for no reason) eventually lost their crops because they focused on the non existent danger. The boy got a good pension plan out of it but if he felt bad for the rest of his life. He was ashamed to know that his success was based on exploiting others.

Training Systems Specialist (AP)

Please do not take away our COLAs!

Departmental Research Administrator

Sponsored Projects Administration

Center for Japanese Studies and Center for Geography Education in Oregon

Academic and Career Advisor

I have been working at PSU for 10 years now. Working with PSU students has been a pleasure and working with such wonderful colleagues has been quite a privilege. But I have always felt undervalued in terms of my pay. I have always had to have at least two jobs during my 10 years at PSU in order to make ends meet and provide for my family. It would be such a nice change to have my chosen career be able to pay me an equitable wage or at least have a clear path to making a higher wage while still doing the work that I love. PSU has never done this for academic professionals like me.

Research Program Administrator

Advising and Career Services

Marketing and Communications Manager

Departmental Research Administrator

International and Global Studies/CUPA

Cost of living adjustments are critical to lower-paid instructor and staff positions especially since families are struggling due to the pandemic. PSU's own survey showed a shockingly high percentage of employees are experiencing housing insecurity.

As an AP, COLAs are the only wage increase I receive. I love PSU and our students. I am an alumna and have been working here for nearly 10 years. PSU is home! However, without consistent COLA increases it is getting harder and harder to support my family as costs skyrocket in the metro area.

Criminology and Criminal justice

University Studies/Environmental Science & Management

Administrative Coordinator

Regional Research Institute (School of Social Work)

Adjunct pay is embarrassingly low for many. I have been lucky enough to take PSU classes from instructors who are top-notch professionals basically teaching for love of their field, but this is not sustainable or fair, and they soon leave for other opportunities. PSU won't reach its potential without pay equity.

Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Departmental Research Administrator

Sponsored Projects Administration

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Mental Health Promotion Specialist