SB 214-2, the bill enabling post-doctoral scholars be employees without employer contributions to PERS, will take effect January 1, 2018. PSU-AAUP issued a request to PSU to decide to implement the bill and to commence bargaining read more >

The Bridge Funding Program is a pilot program created in an LOA in the 2015-19 CBA. The Program aims to provide funding for salaries and benefits for NTTF researchers on soft money who will experience a gaps between external funding contracts to keep them employed. Deadline for the new application window is Septebmer 1, 2017. read more >

New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse -- both in level of offense and prevalence of repeat offenders -- than many believe. read more >

PSU-AAUP Negotiating Team and Administration will meet in early August to modify the Donated Sick Leave Bank Benefit read more >

New Special Call required for Donated Sick Leave Bank. Donate now please read more >

Faculty who are supervisors can now organize but are still expected to teach, do research and other scholarly pursuits can organize read more >

The University notifed PSU-AAUP of its intention to modify, reduce or eliminate the free streetcar benefit. read more >

In a victory for academic freedom, the administration of Trinity College in Connecticut acknowledged today that Professor Johnny Williams’s social media posts “were protected by academic freedom and did not violate Trinity College policies.” read more >

PSU preserves the free parking benefit for emeritus faculty who are "volunteering," but announced it would charge regular fees to emertus faculty who are employed read more >

We received a response to our information request about those aspects of the implementation plan that appear to be negotiable. read more >

The faculty members have been subjected to intrusive public records requests for e-mails related to their climate-science research. read more >

The latest enrollment drive was successful, but the sick leave bank is still very much in trouble read more >

National Right to Work Committee filed an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking to have agency fee ruled unconstitutional for public-sector employees read more >

The SBA Class Size Task Force has made recommendations for class size changes that fall within PSU-AAUP's mandatory scope of bargaining. read more >

PSU-AAUP and the University have reached agreement on a new better definition of academic freedom. Article 12 will be modified to reflect new definition and to be consistent with new Board of Trustee policy on Role of President, Faculty, Shared Governance and Academic Freedom. read more >

In conjunction with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the AAUP is seeking information from any faculty members who have had their cell phones or other electronic devices searched by US border patrol officers at the nation’s borders while traveling internationally read more >

JPH faculty travel to/from OHSU now has a process that can be implemented read more >

This is not the first time there have been substantive issues with the position placement of AAUP members. The history and the significance of the issues demand that PSU-AAUP formally protest the lack of objectivity and the inadequacy of the desk audits and other HR rocesses that were used to justify decisions that had significant impact on AAUP members. read more >

Agreeement reached to recapture unspent and unallocated FDC Funds after expiration of FDC grants read more >

The Faculty Equity Workgroup has been working on the salary increase since October 2016 read more >