The National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities are no strangers to the political crosshairs. And it came as little surprise to many scholars that President Trump would propose to eliminate them in his first budget. read more >

It’s still a ban. It’s still exclusionary. It’s still aimed at Muslim-majority countries. And it still has a chilling effect on academic freedom and the movement of people and ideas. read more >

Interested in attending the Cornell University Worker Institute? read more >

The Supreme Court rejected the Jarvis Appeal which threatened collective bargaining in the public sector read more >

AAUP Membership is more important than ever read more >

additional dates added to give testimony to the Joint Ways and Means committee about the 2015-17 budget read more >

A Better Oregon has revised its platform and is now in complete alignment with the mission and Values of PSU-AAUP read more >

Post Measure 97: Oregon university presidents seek 'minimum' increase of $100M for higher ed read more >

Chronicle of Higher Ed reports on how 3 professors use trigger warnings read more >

The ruling overturns one from 2004 that said graduate students who served as teaching or research assistants were still students, and not subject to union rights for which workers are entitled. read more >

Unfortunately, the news media and other observers often overlook the fact that student debt is a problem with a color and class element, writes Mark Huelsman. read more >

"There are more school security officers than counselors in four of the 10 biggest school districts in the country. And whereas spending on corrections increased by 324 percent between 1979 and 2013, that on education rose just 107 percent during the same time." read more >

Bernie Sanders’s idea has made its way into Hillary Clinton’s education plan, but private schools are pushing back. read more >

"Colleges and universities are like businesses that can be improved by hiring administrators who adopt business practices and act like CEOs." read more >

“This story is everywhere. Worse than pepper spray. It will fade away, but not for a while. And based on our track record, it's a sure thing we will do more stupid stuff as we try to put it behind us.” read more >

"Free tuition" is a simple promise that some researchers, like Sara Goldrick-Rab now at Temple University, believe would motivate more working class students to dream of college and actually make it through. read more >

Even as long-neglected maintenance threatens to further escalate the price of higher education, universities continue to borrow and spend record amounts on new buildings. read more >

“We took the strike-authorization vote. When are we going to fight, if not now?” read more >

“Students’ backgrounds tended to shape what they got out of the course. For minority students, the dialogue did little to reframe their thinking. It did, though, give them an opportunity to trade perspectives and bond with other students, in a room where others looked like them. But for many white students, hearing about their classmates’ experiences upended their assumptions.” read more >

“College leaders could and should be doing far more to promote the use of free, openly licensed materials, to prevent publishers from treating students ‘like walking cash registers.’” read more >