The state is also sabotaging its goal of ensuring that 40 percent of all adult Oregonians have a bachelor's degree or higher by 2025 read more >

The PSU-AAUP Communications Committee is seeking energetic members to serve on the committee. read more >

The AAUP report shows that spending for athletics at four-year public universities increased from 2004 to 2011 by approximately 24.8 percent. read more >

Oregon could soon make history by allowing the state to sell bonds to set up an endowment with bonds sold to help provide financial aid for college students read more >

This message today focuses on our Board of Trustees read more >

In the Middle East and beyond, academics face a growing threat read more >

An appeals panel held that the First Amendment gave an adjunct the right to speak out about alleged mistreatment despite having been asked to praise her college. read more >

In a time of Ebola hysteria, research on the undead helps us better understand how such diseases spread. read more >

ASPSU met last Monday for a senate meeting that included a presentation on the possibility of the university transitioning to a sworn and armed police force. read more >

When a college class goes low-tech, students should be delighted, not disappointed. read more >

Inside Higher Ed's survey finds professors are skeptical that online courses can produce outcomes equivalent to those of face-to-face classes, let alone surpass them. read more >

Years of budget cuts in K-12 education have given Oregon one of the shortest school years in the country. read more >

The Graduate School of Education at Portland State received a $1.2 million grant in late September for its American Indian Teaching Program. read more >

GTFs, or graduate teaching fellows, are grad students who instruct in undergraduate courses. Federation President Joe Henry said the union is requesting a pay raise and paid leave. read more >

Adjuncts at Tufts say their first union contract, which includes significant pay and job security gains and a right to be interviewed for full-time positions, could be a model for new unions in negotiations elsewhere. read more >

State legislators across the country are regulating campus culture, and in those decisions they are tying the hands of university officials, threatening academic freedom, and, ultimately, diluting the education of students. read more >

The union for graduate students who help teach undergraduate courses at the University of Oregon is threatening to strike in a dispute with the administration over pay and leave. read more >

Two unions in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system have disavowed a reorganization effort, in the latest case of faculty suspicion of consulting firms. read more >

Education may be a key issue in several states’ elections this fall, but referendums related to higher education are thin this political season. read more >

Are faculty well-positioned to mentor students? What do we tell them? read more >