Oregon State University's is Oregon's best big research university, ranking No. 78 nationally, according to rankings of colleges by Washington Monthly that the magazine claims is "aren't ridiculous" like many other rankings. read more >

On July 28, Oregon Health & Science University announced a $100 million contribution from an anonymous donor. read more >

Oregon's attention-getting proposal to offer students tuition-free college if they agree to repay a small portion of their earnings for years afterward got the official thumbs down from Oregon's higher education board this week. read more >

The state should create a retirement fund available to all employed Oregonians that can follow people as they change jobs read more >

Oregon's overarching education board, handpicked by Gov. John Kitzhaber to try to overcome the state's educational mediocrity, on Tuesday sized up where the board stands after three years in operation -- and expressed a lot of discontent. read more >

UO’s Gottfredson gets $940,000 on the way out read more >

Until the Oregon State Board of Higher Education slipped quietly out of existence this summer, Matt Donegan spent five years on it, the last three as chairman. read more >

Michael R. Gottfredson’s resignation may have caught some off guard. But his tenure demonstrates recurring issues. read more >

Michael R. Gottfredson has resigned, effective on Thursday, as president of the University of Oregon after two years on the job. read more >

Good chants matter. They’re sound bites, which is what the media seeks, so they can really get your message across. And when chants work, they express and embody collective power—so they help make your action work, too. read more >

At no U.S. college were students more effusive about their professors than at Reed. read more >

Legislative reforms to public pension benefits, coupled with higher than expected investment returns, have stanched the meteoric rise in required contributions to Oregon's public pension system, the system's actuary says. read more >

Two of Oregon's largest public employee unions have stopped collecting dues from thousands of home care workers who didn't belong to the union but had been required to help pay the costs of union representation. read more >

McCann, a Portland Community College psychology professor, is a local trainer for the Heroic Imagination Project, an international effort whose purpose, according to its founder, is “seeding the earth with heroes.” read more >

Oregon Health and Science University on Monday announced an anonymous $100 million gift. read more >

It is ironic, says Bill Gates, that academic institutions are so good at studying the world around them but not themselves. read more >

There is possibly no issue more dear to state workers than the Public Employees Retirement System. read more >

Now that gay marriage is recognized in their state, faculty members and other employees within the University of Minnesota system with same-sex partners no longer need access to domestic partner benefits. Right? read more >

Catherine Dyck, current vice chancellor of Finance & Administration for OUS, was appointed as acting chancellor and chief financial officer by a unanimous vote. read more >

The union representing the Oregon Education Association's staff workers is suing the OEA for violating federal labor law. read more >