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 >

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 >