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 >

Portland lawyer Jill Gibson has, as she'd promised, filed another initiative petition to make Oregon a "right to work" state, at least for public employees. read more >

Ought faculty and academic professionals feel a strong sense of civic responsibility on account of the nature of our work? What is the basis for such a sense of duty? Academic freedom. read more >

A federal jury has awarded $755,000 to a former public-safety officer at the University of Oregon after determining that his supervisors at the institution retaliated against him for blowing the whistle on mismanagement and a juvenile culture in the campus’s police department. read more >

In states with strong unions, the standard of living for all workers, not just union members, is raised. And those improved standards aren’t just limited to wages and benefits: States with strong unions also have safer workplaces. read more >

The sponsor of a proposed ballot measure aimed at making union dues voluntary for public employees may well drop the initiative after receiving a politically unpalatable ballot title. read more >

The U. of Oregon’s big brand masks its fragile standing read more >

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 >