PSU-AAUP works with Legislative Council and Us over -2 amendment to SB 214; post-doctoral scholars
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Executive Council Endorses Positions on Nine Bills
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EC adopted positions of 4 bills
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Want to attend Summer School and Learn about Labor August 4-6, 2017 at UO?
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Update on SB 214
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Sign the petition against Right to Shirk in Oregon
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AAUP Oregon News
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on 2/23 the EC took positions on 5 bills
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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.
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Oregon's Higher Education Funding Woes Continue Unabated
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
By Ramin Farahmandpur
as appeared in SPEAKOUT
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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
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“Nobody cared about the buildings,” Sullivan said. “Nobody took ownership.”
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
July 13, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
"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."
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
June 06, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
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.
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
May 19, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
“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.”
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
May 17, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
“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.”
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OTHER LABOR NEWS
May 02, 2016 / PSU-AAUP
New University of Oregon president prioritizes the hiring of tenure-track faculty and academics over athletics.
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“The protests had succeeded in generating a dialogue between the administration and the disillusioned educators.”
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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.”
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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
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