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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--OCTOBER 1, 2020
'University of Oklahoma AAUP chapter describes crisis of safety, governance, and academic freedom; issues demands to ensure the well-being of university employees'
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--DECEMBER 1, 2020
'Following the lack of response to their earlier “Declaration on Academic Freedom and Worker Health and Safety,” OU AAUP chapter requests meetings'
'Mandatory Vaccinations and Face-to-Face Classes in Fall 2021'
'On OU’s Phase IV COVID-19 Requirements in Fall 2021'
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--AUGUST 16, 2021
'University of Oklahoma AAUP Chapter Publishes Open Letter to University Decision-Makers with Legal Analysis of State Statutes by Law Faculty; Issues Demands to Ensure Worker and Student Health and Safety'
Endorsement of “Days of Action” and the Open Letter by the University of Oklahoma, Student Government Association
OU-AAUP PRESS RELEASE--OCTOBER 27, 2021
'University of Oklahoma, AAUP Calls On University of Oklahoma to Immediately Implement September 9, 2021, US Presidential Executive Order for COVID-19 Protections'
OU-AAUP PRESS RELEASE--NOVEMBER 1, 2021
'University of Oklahoma (OU), American Association of University Professors Welcomes OU Administration Requiring Mandatory Vaccines for Faculty, Staff, and Student Workers'
PRESS RELEASE--JANUARY 11, 2022
'University of Oklahoma Needs to Move Immediately to Permanent Masking and Many More Online Courses'
OU-AAUP PRESS RELEASE--FEBRUARY 6, 2023
'The University of Oklahoma, American Association of University Professors (OU-AAUP) chapter congratulates Norman Oklahoma State Representative, Jacob Rosecrants for filing House Bill 1031, known as the Restoration of Sanity in Education Act or the ROSE bill.'
PRESS RELEASE - UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, AAUP--May 28, 2024
'The University of Oklahoma (OU) has gone too far in dismantling decades of hard-won Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts.'
PRESS RELEASE - UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, AAUP--JUNE 19, 2025
'On June 17, 2025, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in the case of BERT v. Drummond, in which the University of Oklahoma Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (OU-AAUP) is a plaintiff...that the higher education gender and race provisions of Oklahoma HB 1775 do not apply to public higher education in Oklahoma, including at The University of Oklahoma (OU)."
'From the very outset, Oklahoma House Bill 1775 (HB 1775), due to its vagueness, was a deliberate attempt to censor scientifically based coverage of race and gender topics taught in OU and public college and university classrooms throughout Oklahoma. This attempt to censor classroom discussion ran contrary to the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, as well as the 1970 Interpretive Comments of the American Association of University Professors, which the OU Board of Regents has officially adopted in the OU Faculty Handbook. '
'OU-AAUP is sponsoring a virtual talk on Friday, September 12 at 10 AM, by Professor Isaac Kamala, on the right-wing effort to remake American higher education, including immediately at OU and how we can mobilize, organize, and fight back.'
OU-AAUP PRESS RELEASE--DECEMBER 8, 2025
'OU Chapter of AAUP Calls for OU Publicly to Oppose Harassment and Support Mel Curth's Academic Freedom'
PRESS RELEASE–OU AAUP--March 16, 2026
'Statement on Ending Tenure in Oklahoma'
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