Proclamation
Governor John A. Kitzhaber
Oregon

Whereas: Campus Equity Week is a week-long, multi-organizational,
grassroots effort to increase the public's awareness of the issues facing both full-time and part-time faculty in community colleges and universities; and

Whereas: Campus Equity Week is designed to educate our campus communities, the public and policy makers about these issues and the quality of education; and

Whereas: Oregon's academic faculty will be participating along with
thousands of others in all fifty states and Canada seeking recognition of the array of issues being faced by full-time and part-time faculty in our nation's colleges and universities; and

Whereas: Campus Equity Week seeks the adoption of labor policies
and standards that encourage fairness and dignity for all members of the campus community; and

Whereas: Campus Equity Week is part of a growing movement among
working people from all walks of life seeking to address the issues of contingent work; and

Whereas: Campus Equity Week marks the first time faculty from all
of the major faculty unions, associations and disciplinary organizations
from the US and Canada have joined together for an international campaign to promote faculty activism.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, John A. Kitzhaber, Governor of the State of Oregon,
hereby proclaim October 28 through November 3, 2001 to be CAMPUS EQUITY WEEK in Oregon and encourage all citizens to join in this observance.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and cause the Great Seal of the State of Oregon to be affixed. Done at the Capitol in the City of Salem in the State of Oregon on this day, October 23, 2001.

John A. Kitzhaber, Governor

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