OTHER LABOR NEWS
‘Fair share’ fight continues
October 26, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Portland lawyer Jill Gibson has, as she'd promised, filed another initiative petition to make Oregon a "right to work" state, at least for public employees. read more >
October 26, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Portland lawyer Jill Gibson has, as she'd promised, filed another initiative petition to make Oregon a "right to work" state, at least for public employees. read more >
October 23, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Professors and graduate students must navigate all kinds of tricky topics in their relationships. Dissertation deadlines, Ph.D. career paths, and the occasional lapse in research ethics are just a few examples. Now add to that list graduate-student unionization. Or at least that’s what Harvard administrators think. read more >
October 22, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Ought faculty and academic professionals feel a strong sense of civic responsibility on account of the nature of our work? What is the basis for such a sense of duty? Academic freedom. read more >
October 22, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The University of Florida on Wednesday announced that it is terminating a huge 11-year deal for Pearson to build and manage the university's online programs. read more >
October 20, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
“The little things are what’s really important” in making transgender students feel welcome on campus. read more >
October 15, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
On August 1, 2016 — exactly 50 years after a student named Charles Whitman climbed into the University of Texas tower and shot 46 people, killing 14 of them — a new law on concealed firearms will take effect here. Already, emotions are exploding. read more >
October 14, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Good news from yesterday’s bargaining session… read more >
October 14, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
After years of preaching “disruptive innovation” for higher education, one of the most visible proponents of the theory is going to try a little disrupting of his own. read more >
October 09, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
“To them it’s all about minimizing costs and churning out graduates -- they don’t really care what those graduates can or cannot do.” read more >
October 07, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
We completed our bargaining over non-tenure track instructional faculty (NTTF). We have now conceptually agreed upon all of the details of a new system of continuous employment for our instructional NTTF. read more >
October 07, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Louisiana State University’s Faculty Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to censure three top administrators there over their dismissal of a tenured professor accused of creating a hostile environment in the classroom with obscene language and sexually explicit jokes. read more >
October 05, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Good news! We had a very productive session on Friday October 2nd. We continued to hammer out the details of improving job security for non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) by providing continuous (rather than short-term) appointments. Our union and the administration reached conceptual agreement around many points, including the question of how evaluations will work for non-tenure track instructors in the years after they receive a continuous appointment. read more >
October 05, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
We met for an early and short bargaining session yesterday. Our team went into the session hoping that we could resolve our outstanding issues around the evaluation and transition of non-tenure track faculty members (NTTF) into a continuous appointment system. read more >
October 05, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A philosophy professor who died earlier this year was making so little money at age 61 he lived in a room in a dilapidated boardinghouse. The story of Dave Heller is focusing attention on the plight of the temp college teacher. read more >
October 02, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
Three years after their nine-day strike that humiliated Emanuel and won national headlines for the idea of teachers fighting for students, the new attack on pay and pensions is angering teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians. Members have been demoralized by Emanuel’s school closings and layoffs that have left schools with bare-bones staff. read more >
October 01, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
For nearly three decades, the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance had counseled Congress and the Education Department on student-aid issues. read more >
September 30, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
State schools with the highest-paid presidents seem to be offsetting their administrative bloat with cheaper labor. read more >
September 29, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
The first time David Rosenfield went up for tenure, in the late 1970s, an academic career lay before him. The second time, 30 years later, he was trying to reclaim it. read more >
September 25, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
A federal jury has awarded $755,000 to a former public-safety officer at the University of Oregon after determining that his supervisors at the institution retaliated against him for blowing the whistle on mismanagement and a juvenile culture in the campus’s police department. read more >
September 25, 2015 / PSU-AAUP
We have a strong interest in providing real, meaningful job security for our NTTF. It’s not enough to simply change the title of one’s appointment and call it secure when the conditions of employment remain insecure. read more >