Talk of a faculty strike was everywhere. Posters of an impending strike were taped to walls in the restrooms and on the entrance doors to various buildings, and in other unauthorized locations. Something was about to happen. The posturing was over and the message from professors was clear. Pay us a decent and livable wage, with better contract security, or we will strike. read more >

The state Board of Higher Education on Friday appointed Roy Saigo as interim president of Southern Oregon University, the Ashland-based school that’s cutting academic programs because of budget woes. read more >

In the rush to online education, faculty members have been signing contracts that abrogate the ownership of their classes, erode their collective interests, and threaten the quality of higher education. No standard (let alone best) practice has yet emerged, and faculty members are largely in the dark about what is at stake. read more >

Conversations about what we need to know about higher education, both to rate college and university performance and to provide information to prospective students and their parents, leave one word largely unspoken: faculty. read more >

The First Amendment protects government employees from retaliation for giving truthful testimony that was not part of their job responsibilities, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday. read more >

Gov. John Kitzhaber proudly wrote of PEBB’s success in controlling costs while offering new options that transform the way healthcare is delivered, aligning the health plan for public employees closer to Oregon’s managed care revolution for Medicaid. read more >

Southern Oregon president leaves for Washington job. Southern Oregon University President Mary Cullinan announced Monday she is leaving June 30 to become president of Eastern Washington University. read more >

Amid the public-relations back and forth over Starbucks’s new partnership with Arizona State University’s online degree program, an online comment caught our eye read more >

The University of Oregon's Faculty Senate says it has approved a statement on academic freedom that is one of the strongest in the country. read more >

Massive Open Online Courses Make College Degrees More Affordable. Does That Make Them a Threat to Campus Life? read more >

We made significant progress yesterday in interim bargaining over salaries for the new non-tenure track faculty/researcher ranks. PSU administration accepted our proposed salary minimums and outlined the procedures they will follow as faculty re-rank into the newly adopted titles read more >

Here are a few important announcements as academic year 13-14 comes to a close read more >

This member update includes: Update on Bargaining New Ranks, Executive Council adopts revisions to PSU-AAUP Bylaws, Welcome Emily Wiant, new PSU-AAUP Office Coordinator, PSU administration grants remedy on TSUSP Guideline contractual grievance; Association avoids arbitration costs, Agreement reached with administration on revisions to PSU Consensual Relations Policy, Agreement reached with administration on revisions to the PSU Acceptable Use Policy read more >

On Thursday, June 5th, the two teams met for a second bargaining session to negotiate the effects of the implementation of the revision to the University Promotion and Tenure Guidelines, and to set salaries for the new fixed-term faculty rates. read more >

Raises are finally here! The first 2.5% COLA increase (retroactive to Feb 1, 2014 for 9 month employees and Jan.1, 2014 for 12 month employees) will be distributed in our May paychecks. According to HR, you will be paid your new COLA adjusted rate for this pay period (4/16/14---5/15/14) and will receive your retroactive pay in a separate line item in this month's check. read more >

BREAKING NEWS: Interim bargaining for Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) is now scheduled for Friday, May 30 at 9:00 a.m.!!!!! Please be in touch with Leanne Serbulo, VP of Collective Bargaining, if you have any questions. read more >

You are getting this message from the Steering Committee of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education because you have attended CFHE events or expressed support for the principles of CFHE. As you know, the goal of CFHE member organizations has been to change the national conversation about higher education by including more voices in the debate, especially those of faculty, staff, students, parents, and others from the communities surrounding our campuses. Toward that end, CFHE has authored research and working papers on a variety of topics and is actively looking for additional ways to reach out beyond just the ranks of faculty and staff. We are writing to ask our supporters for help in getting the word out about a new project, a short video based on a series of working papers we recently released. read more >

At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington research group. read more >

Our new contract was ratified on the very day we were prepared to strike. We can take pride in our efforts and there are so many people to thank, including all of you. Please follow the link below the bargaining update to the 13-15 Collective Bargaining Agreement and remember...our work is never finished. We have to remain strong and keep ourselves at the ready for our next steps. read more >

The finalized Collective Bargaining Agreement for 2013-2015 has been released read more >