On behalf of the AAUP Collective Bargaining Team, I’m pleased to announce that we reached agreement with PSU administration over salaries for the new Non-Tenure Track Faculty ranks as well as the procedures for re-ranking procedures. read more >

Michael R. Gottfredson has resigned, effective on Thursday, as president of the University of Oregon after two years on the job. read more >

Has the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign unfairly treated a scholar under fire for incendiary tweets? The question is fanning tensions within the AAUP. read more >

Good chants matter. They’re sound bites, which is what the media seeks, so they can really get your message across. And when chants work, they express and embody collective power—so they help make your action work, too. read more >

The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth has been ordered to pay nearly $1.2-million in back pay, damages, and other costs to a professor of English who filed complaints. read more >

Portland State University professors are the No. 7 least accessible in the nation, according to an unscientific survey of 130,000 college students released Monday. read more >

At no U.S. college were students more effusive about their professors than at Reed. read more >

At gathering of adjunct leaders, they are urged to strike for better pay and job security – regardless of whether the law permits them to do so. read more >

The association plans to investigate tenure practices at the U. of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. The center responds: First, explain your authority. read more >

Legislative reforms to public pension benefits, coupled with higher than expected investment returns, have stanched the meteoric rise in required contributions to Oregon's public pension system, the system's actuary says. read more >

When Starbucks announced it would help employees get four-year degrees, media praised the company’s altruism. Few looked at the fine print read more >

The union should approach every meeting of a Labor-Management Committee with the same mindset that it would bring to contract bargaining, never forgetting that management’s goals and the union’s are distinct. read more >

Two of Oregon's largest public employee unions have stopped collecting dues from thousands of home care workers who didn't belong to the union but had been required to help pay the costs of union representation. read more >

Campuses that are family-friendly in name only will be at a disadvantage in hiring, presidents said at a conference on issues of work-life balance. read more >

McCann, a Portland Community College psychology professor, is a local trainer for the Heroic Imagination Project, an international effort whose purpose, according to its founder, is “seeding the earth with heroes.” read more >

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a law that sharply limits the collective-bargaining rights of employees at public colleges and other state agencies. read more >

A bill that would require colleges to report more data about faculty who work off the tenure track may not win approval this session, but it’s raising hopes. read more >

Oregon Health and Science University on Monday announced an anonymous $100 million gift. read more >

New book argues that shared governance is under threat, along with future of American higher education, and professors must take up the fight. read more >

Virtually gone are the days when a majority of professors were full-time and tenured (or at least tenure-eligible), which gave students a remarkable amount of stability, educational continuity and mentorship opportunities. Nowadays, such professors are the minority of college educators. read more >