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Oregon AG fires back in PERS legal challenge

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 >

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A Fiscal Reckoning for Oregon’s ‘Pay It Forward’

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 >

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Don’t Leave Chants to Chance

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 >

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PCC prof takes heroic imagination around globe

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 >

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A More Nuanced Bill Gates

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 >

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