Teacher Janine Magidman has lived and worked in Seattle for years, but she worries her newer colleagues will be priced out because their salaries haven't kept up with expenses as the tech boom makes the city increasingly unaffordable. read more >

Because higher ed workers have been standing strong together at campuses around the state, our bargaining team has won a contract settlement that features some of the highest cost of living adjustments (COLAs) higher education classified workers have seen in decades. read more >

About 34 percent of Portland teachers who took a recent survey feel their school environment is unsafe, according to the Portland Association of Teachers union. read more >

Nancy Golden, who for two years has overseen public education in Oregon from preschool to college, will retire in two weeks, Gov. Kate Brown announced Monday. read more >

While classified workers say they’re preparing to strike... read more >

Rising cost of pension system will undermine support for state, local government read more >

What happens when social workers grow tired of poor working conditions and poverty wages? At my workplace, we formed a union. read more >

An assistant professor who says she was fired after she told supervisors at Northwest Christian University that she was pregnant out of wedlock filed a $650,000 lawsuit Tuesday against her former employer. read more >

Donors gave more than $214 million to the University of Oregon's $2 billion capital campaign during the fiscal year ended June 30. read more >

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. read more >

A significant bipartisan majority of the 2013 Legislative Assembly voted to enact House Bill 2787, which became known as the “Tuition Equity Act.” read more >

As public campaign opens, giving tops $200 million read more >

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. read more >

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. read more >

Oregon now is poised to follow Tennessee as the second state with a plan on the books to provide free two-year college. read more >

When it comes to higher education, Oregon has a problem. read more >

All seven of Oregon’s public universities are poised to get substantially more state money over the next two years. read more >

Oregon now is poised to follow Tennessee as the second state with a plan on the books to provide free two-year college. read more >

Legislation on community college tuition that's captured the nation's fancy — offering waivers to some needy students as soon as next year — will receive Gov. Kate Brown's signature Friday, the governor's office has announced. read more >

Sylvia Kelley, an experienced academic administrator, will serve as Portland Community College's interim president while trustees conduct a national search for the school's next leader. read more >