Bureaucracy and pricey campus amenities push up costs, former Labor secretary Robert Reich says. read more >

If Oregon enacts a program to give free community college to some or many young adults who want it, it wouldn't actually be free for students. read more >

The search for a new president of the University of Oregon will be a marked departure for the school, conducted largely in private and run largely by the chairman of the new board of trustees. read more >

As the University of Oregon begins to look for its sixth president in seven years, faculty and staff union leaders say they are being blocked from having much say in the new search. read more >

The UO governing board gives its chairman, and others, broad search roles read more >

In St. Louis and around the country, professors and students grapple with the lessons of Ferguson. read more >

It looks like Americans may not be getting as much return on their investment as they could be. read more >

Universities across the country have begun experimenting with open textbooks read more >

Textbook giants are now teaching classes. read more >

Many students do not learn critical-thinking skills in college, and they’re suffering in the job market, a new study finds. read more >

Of late, higher education is abuzz with the question, “Will Oregon Be the First State with a College Trust Fund?” For those who care about college affordability in the long term, there are plenty of reasons to hope not. read more >

Two bills passed in the Oregon Legislature last year were not a breach of contract with government employees because they cut benefits under the Public Employees Retirement System that were never written into contracts at all, according to the brief the State of Oregon filed before the Oregon Supreme Court earlier this week. read more >

Remember Oregon’s “Pay It Forward” plan? Students would attend college with no upfront tuition charges and instead pay a small share of their earnings after they left school for about 20 years. In essence the plan was a new way to channel revenue to higher education. read more >

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 >