Letter of Agreement to continue the Task Force on Academic Quality, Letter of Agreement to create a Standing Committee on Work/Life Balance, and Creation of a Sick Leave Bank
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Donors gave more than $214 million to the University of Oregon's $2 billion capital campaign during the fiscal year ended June 30.
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Forget credit hours—in a quest to cut costs, universities are simply asking students to prove their mastery of a subject.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
July 31, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The board of Oregon's public pension fund voted Friday to reduce its key actuarial assumption – the system's assumed earnings rate - from 7.75 percent to 7.5 percent to reflect lower expected returns from its investments.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 31, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Twenty-two-hundred University of Connecticut graduate assistants (GAs) won a first contract that features big economic gains as well as social justice provisions affecting international students, transgender workers, and women.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 31, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
When news broke that the Supreme Court would hear Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, headlines instantly projected the worst, calling it “The Supreme Court Case That Could Decimate American Public Sector Unionism,” “An Existential Threat,” and even “The End of Public-Employee Unions?”
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 31, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
What if my classes don’t run and I can’t make rent?
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
July 30, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A significant bipartisan majority of the 2013 Legislative Assembly voted to enact House Bill 2787, which became known as the “Tuition Equity Act.”
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 30, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
An Ohio prosecutor calls for U of Cincinnati police force to be disbanded after an officer is indicted for murder. But would the city's police force be able to handle law enforcement on campus?
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PSU-AAUP
July 29, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Over the summer and spilling into next year, Portland State’s campus is getting a facelift through the implementation of several capital projects.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
July 29, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
As public campaign opens, giving tops $200 million
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 29, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Layoffs continued at the university for a second day as 161 employees are being let go.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 28, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The court would determine whether public sector unions could continue to collect so-called “fair share” or “agency” fees.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
July 27, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The budget is a major step forward, but it gets Oregon from being one of the bottom five states in higher ed support to somewhere in the bottom 10.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 27, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Stephen L. Chew writes that current approaches -- for awards or tenure and promotion -- are based too much on passion or student enjoyment and not enough on actual learning.
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PSU-AAUP
July 24, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Portland State University plans to reduce its planned tuition increase using additional state funding approved by the Oregon Legislature.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
July 24, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The University of Oregon has achieved an ambitious goal set by the University Senate to bring total faculty salary and benefits in line with average faculty compensation at similar top public research universities.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
July 24, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Oregon now is poised to follow Tennessee as the second state with a plan on the books to provide free two-year college.
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 24, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Is “freelance academic” the right term?
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HIGHER ED FACULTY
July 23, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The first public university system in the country to voluntarily raise the minimum wage as high as $15 an hour
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