The state Board of Higher Education on Friday appointed Roy Saigo as interim president of Southern Oregon University, the Ashland-based school that’s cutting academic programs because of budget woes. read more >

Gov. John Kitzhaber proudly wrote of PEBB’s success in controlling costs while offering new options that transform the way healthcare is delivered, aligning the health plan for public employees closer to Oregon’s managed care revolution for Medicaid. read more >

Southern Oregon president leaves for Washington job. Southern Oregon University President Mary Cullinan announced Monday she is leaving June 30 to become president of Eastern Washington University. read more >

The University of Oregon's Faculty Senate says it has approved a statement on academic freedom that is one of the strongest in the country. read more >

The faculty of Southern Oregon University (SOU) announced the results of a confidence vote of their top three administrators today. The administrators are President Mary Cullinan, Provost James Klein, and Vice President of Finance and Administration Craig Morris. read more >

Margaret Butler, long-time Executive Director of Portland's Jobs with Justice, will start as AAUP-Oregon's first Executive Coordinator on January 21, 2015. read more >

Portland Mercury-- Portland State University’s administration is once again looking to slim down the school’s budget. Needless to say students, faculty and the faculty union aren’t happy. read more >

Details on pay increases at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) were announced in the OIT Faculty Senate on Tuesday, Oct. 1st. read more >

The United Academics of the University of Oregon are happy to announce that their first contract has been overwhelmingly approved! read more >

In a tentative agreement, the new union’s members will get annual raises of about 6% for the next two years read more >

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503 is laying the groundwork for a strike at the Oregon University System (OUS). read more >

Oregon’s largest public employee union announced early this morning it has reached a tentative deal with the state on a two-year contract that would not include unpaid days off, averting a possible strike. read more >

Check out this Oregonian op-ed piece by our own Mary King and U of O's Gordon Lafer! read more >

In Saturday's Oregonian, Betsy Hammond reported that the only members of the higher ed board to vote against another tuition increase this year were the students and WOU faculty member Emily Plec - the only people on the board who really see the impact of continual tuition increases that far outstrip inflation. read more >

EUGENE — Bargainers working on a new faculty contract at the University of Oregon are debating bread and butter issues such as pay and benefits along with questions about who's in charge at the Eugene school. read more >

Supporters of legislation to overhaul how higher education is overseen in Oregon describe the measures as a way to streamline the process and provide better coordination between public colleges and elementary and secondary schools. read more >

More than 780 graduate research and teaching assistants at the Oregon State University are now the proud members of a bargaining unit represented by the Coalition of Graduate Employees/AFT. On March 6, an overwhelming majority of the assistants voted for CGE. read more >

Both the University of Oregon and Portland State University have requested individual institutional boards. Currently the legislation is still being revised and discussed in the state legislature. Oregon State President Ed Ray has asked the legislature to consider OSU and give us the option of having a board. At this point, however, the legislation is too vague and nebulous for the editorial staff to endorse. read more >

Craig Farr of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, joined other financiers for a panel discussion. Union pension money goes into KKR's capital ventures, even as the firm destroys union jobs read more >

Corporations and business groups account for 56% of all lobbying in 2011-12 read more >