A petition was recently sponsored by the United Academics of Oregon State University — OSU’s faculty union — to reinstate three tenured professors from a College of Health program.
The professors, Roberta Riportella, Deborah John and Siew Sun Wong, were told of their impending termination from the Family and Community Health Program in August with their contracts scheduled to be terminated August 2026.
The petition — addressed to Oregon State University President Jayathi Murthy, OSU Provost Roy Haggerty and the OSU Board of Trustees — calls for the reversal of the three professors’ termination and for the university to reaffirm its “commitment to shared governance, academic freedom, and tenure protections.”…