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on 2/23 the EC took positions on 5 bills read more >

This legislative session we are seeing another significant attack on active Public employees, with many bills that would significantly alter retirement benefits for current employees. read more >

Oregon's Higher Education Funding Woes Continue Unabated Wednesday, January 11, 2017 By Ramin Farahmandpur as appeared in SPEAKOUT read more >

Representatives of the Better Oregon coalition came together the week of the election and decided that we would stay together for the long haul. - See more at: http://www.aauporegon.org/a-better-oregon-coalition-to-continue/#sthash.gREFJppf.dpuf read more >

“Nobody cared about the buildings,” Sullivan said. “Nobody took ownership.” read more >

"While each school's board of trustees has the authority to hire and fire the presidents and holds public meetings, the presidential council doesn't intend to open its doors to the general public." read more >

In 2016, Oregon saw an 8.8 percent increase from a year earlier in the number of students who completed the application. Oregon also leads the nation in the percent increase in submitted-but-incomplete applications, according to an analysis from the National College Access Network. read more >

“In 2014, Oregon, with a population of 3.9 million, had total state expenditures of $7.9 billion; it spent $347 million on higher education, less than half of the $885 million it spent on corrections.” read more >

“Low-achieving, high-income students are able to go to college much easier than high-achieving, low-income students,” Scott said. “If our democracy is going to mean anything, we have to make opportunities available to everybody.” read more >

New University of Oregon president prioritizes the hiring of tenure-track faculty and academics over athletics. read more >

“The protests had succeeded in generating a dialogue between the administration and the disillusioned educators.” read more >

In a single-sentence order, the Supreme Court announced that the judgment of a lower court rejecting this effort to defund public sector unions “is affirmed by an equally divided court.” read more >

According to a news release issued by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the wastes — nearly 2,000 containers of laboratory chemicals and other substances — were unsafely stored and inadequately identified read more >

The University of Oregon's police chief has abruptly left the post. read more >

Raising tuition every year has become a higher-education rite of passage, almost as predictable as graduation ceremonies. read more >

Out-of-state residents accounted for nearly one-third of the degrees and certificates awarded at Oregon's seven public universities during the 2014-15 school year, according to new figures released by a state agency Friday. read more >

On Monday, February 1st, members delivered a letter to PSU President Wim Wiewel introducing themselves and asking him to pledge to not interfere in any way in the formation of their union. They've already spoken to hundreds of grad employees on campus, and it’s clear that organizing a union is the right way forward. read more >

Oregon slashed per-student spending on higher education more than all but one other state between 2000 and 2014, according to a new national study. read more >