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The Economic Price of Colleges’ Failures
September 03, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Many students do not learn critical-thinking skills in college, and they’re suffering in the job market, a new study finds. read more >
September 03, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Many students do not learn critical-thinking skills in college, and they’re suffering in the job market, a new study finds. read more >
September 02, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 29, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 28, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 26, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 25, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
On July 28, Oregon Health & Science University announced a $100 million contribution from an anonymous donor. read more >
August 18, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 15, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The state should create a retirement fund available to all employed Oregonians that can follow people as they change jobs read more >
August 14, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 12, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
UO’s Gottfredson gets $940,000 on the way out read more >
August 11, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 08, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Michael R. Gottfredson’s resignation may have caught some off guard. But his tenure demonstrates recurring issues. read more >
August 07, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Michael R. Gottfredson has resigned, effective on Thursday, as president of the University of Oregon after two years on the job. read more >
August 06, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 05, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
At no U.S. college were students more effusive about their professors than at Reed. read more >
August 04, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
August 01, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
July 31, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
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 >
July 29, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Oregon Health and Science University on Monday announced an anonymous $100 million gift. read more >
July 23, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
It is ironic, says Bill Gates, that academic institutions are so good at studying the world around them but not themselves. read more >