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 >

Starting this summer and culminating in the next, the Oregon University System is undergoing radical changes in how they govern the public universities in the state. read more >

As of last Tuesday, the University of Oregon is now officially in the hands of the Board of Trustees. Though the 15 board members have been meeting since January, last Tuesday marked their first official day at the helm. read more >

Colleges selected by institutions as peers show the power players in the world of higher education. read more >

The university targets 10 specific areas in search of excellence. Call it UO 2.0. read more >

A U.S. Supreme Court decision appears to give thousands of Oregon care workers the right to opt out of paying dues to two of the state's major public employee unions. read more >

In a setback for organized labor that could have been much worse, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that certain government-funded employees cannot be required to pay fees to the public sector unions that represent them, a decision that could hurt some unions financially. read more >

Portland dignitaries hailed the new $300 million Collaborative Life Sciences Building that opened in the South Waterfront on Thursday as one that will dramatically change medical education and the neighborhood for the better. read more >

Nearly 70 institutions are collaborating to better assess learning outcomes as part of a new initiative called the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment. read more >

We have a problem with how we define and value the many ways in which faculty members engage with the public read more >

Two bills passed by the Oregon Legislature last year violate both the United States and Oregon constitutions on several counts, according to the first two briefs filed in a case challenging Senate Bills 822 and 861 before the Oregon Supreme Court. read more >