A measure inserted into the new state budget bill that critics call "anti-union" has drawn strong opposition from college faculty at Ohio's public universities.
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Wednesday May 6, noon, Park Blocks
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Ohio budget bill proposes a ban on full-time-faculty unions at public institutions where professors do nearly anything beyond teaching and research.
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AAUP-OR's annual conference will be on April 25th. Registration is free. More information here...
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You are eligible for regalia rental reimbursement of $58 per year
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University of Chicago’s law school dean begins his tenure July 1
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To observe the major forces at play in the education technology sector, one needed only to stand near the marble fountain in the Phoenician Resort lobby this week.
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Oregon’s public universities will get state funds on the basis of student outcomes rather than enrollment, a state higher-education panel has decided.
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The "silver lining," says the AAUP’s annual report, is that for the second year in a row, pay rose faster than the rate of inflation.
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A state higher-education commission passed sweeping reforms Thursday designed to fund public universities based partly on how many Oregonians they graduate, instead of the number they enroll.
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Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame.
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Faculty link arms and stand between students and riot police on campus
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The American Association of University Professors is standing by its conclusions that the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center violated widely accepted academic principles in a new report that the center has pre-emptively challenged.
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Research and teaching stand at the center of our professional work. Investing in teaching and research excellence builds the long-term academic reputation of a university, something that carries far more value to parents, students, and alums than any other type of branding work.
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If the end result is more excitement, more engagement, and hopefully more learning
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Members of the American Association of University Professors demonstrate with students against a tuition raise during a recent Board of Trustee vote.
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Though it feels like we just settled a contract, we’ll start bargaining again in May. Things are a little different this time around. As you may have already heard, we have agreed to use an Interest-Based Bargaining negotiation process. Interest-Based Bargaining (IBB) takes a more collaborative, problem-solving approach to contract negotiations.
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ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed.
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Faculty and staff at Massachusetts's Roxbury Community College protest alleged lack of communication and changes pushed by the institution's president and her administration.
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Upcoming events: Speaker Series, organizer trainings, Spring caucus' and Harvest Share.
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