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House Passes GOP Tax Plan
November 17, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Plan targets large endowments of private colleges and eliminates many deductions benefiting student loan borrowers and graduate students. read more >
November 17, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Plan targets large endowments of private colleges and eliminates many deductions benefiting student loan borrowers and graduate students. read more >
November 15, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
In the treacherous world of finance, where investors confront biased advice, hidden costs and onerous fees, one investment giant seems to stand apart read more >
November 15, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Non-tenure-track faculty members - adjuncts, full-timers and potdoctoral fellows - at Fordham University voted 16-to-1 to form a union read more >
November 09, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The Wright State University AAUP chapter, the faculty union representing full-time faculty at WSU, has adopted an amendment read more >
November 09, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
As protests unfolded at universities across the Northeast, graduate students seeking union recognition face an NLRB that might no longer be sympathetic to their cause. read more >
November 06, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Republicans in Congress released their proposed overhaul of the nation's tax laws on Thursday read more >
November 06, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Republican tax plan would cut off key source of borrowing and impose new taxes on wealthy institutions. Some see historic shift in view of elite universities from a public good worthy of sheltering from taxes to a source of funds for government. read more >
November 03, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Neither Penn State nor Johns Hopkins’s Peabody Institute enjoyed particularly strong shared governance within the last decade. Recent reform efforts hold promise. read more >
October 31, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Could postdoc unions be the next big thing in collective bargaining among academics? Recent filing at University of Washington could be beginning of a new round of organizing. read more >
October 25, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
As public colleges become the staging grounds of a national battle over speech and security, campus leaders have searched for ways read more >
October 25, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The Board of Directors of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges released a statement reminding trustees of the importance of shared governance. read more >
October 23, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
A series of recent actions taken by Governor Scott Walker, the Wisconsin state legislature, and the University of Wisconsin read more >
October 23, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
University of Chicago graduate employees voted decisively and overwhelmingly for union recognition read more >
October 23, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
WASHINGTON -- The Education Department has rescinded 72 policy documents read more >
October 18, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
MADISON, WISCONSIN--Last week, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a policy to suspend and expel students who protest read more >
October 18, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The Drexel University administration's unilateral suspension of George Ciccariello-Maher read more >
October 12, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
Get ready for Campus Equity Week! read more >
October 03, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
When officials at the University of Utah learned in late August that a student group had invited Ben Shapiro, a fiery conservative commentator, to speak on campus read more >
October 03, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
The Supreme Court justices returned to the bench Monday ready to argue read more >
October 02, 2017 / PSU-AAUP
(CNN) - President Donald Trump, a loud and persistent critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) read more >