On their campus set amid the idyllic northwestern woodlands, graduate students at the University of Oregon stepped out of their classrooms and onto a historic picket line...
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In a significant win for labor unions, federal regulators ruled Thursday that employers can't prevent their workers from using company email to organize and discuss their working conditions outside of work.
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Union advocates applauded two decisions by the National Labor Relations Board last week, one of which protects the right of employees using work email for union communications.
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Board Passes Resolution for an Armed Police Force on the PSU Campus and U of O GTFF reach a Tentative Agreement after an 8 day Strike
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An effort to increase the representation of women on the faculty and among doctoral students at the University of Michigan’s business school is showing results
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Over the strong objections of many students and three-fourths of the tenure-track faculty, Portland State University's new board of trustees voted Thursday to create an armed campus police force.
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Two universities have dedicated millions of dollars to foster educational change. But the impact of those efforts goes beyond the financial.
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The tentative contract agreement creates a $150,000 leave fund
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Some states are picking up the tab for community college tuition, and Oregon could be next.
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Let's walk the picket line here in Portland to support the UO GTFF Strike and KUMBAYA Rally on Park Blocks on Thursday December 11th.
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For a rising generation of administrators in higher education, the heart of education is innovative technology -- and faculty get in the way.
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Mediation resumes this morning
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Guns on our campus and UO GTFF continues to strike!
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By failing to reach a contract with its teaching fellows, UO goes back on its pledge to help all students
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Shirley Ann Jackson of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute earned $7,143,312 in 2012, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s ranking of salaries at private colleges
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First signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 as part of his Great Society campaign, the Higher Education Act’s original purpose was to solidify and expand the federal government’s involvement in higher education policy.
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The two sides end 11 1/2 hours of mediation without an agreement
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Hundreds of graduate student instructors at the University of Oregon exchanged teaching for picketing Tuesday as part of a strike over stalled negotiations on health benefits.
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A Republican state legislator in Wisconsin said Tuesday that he planned to introduce a right-to-work bill.
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A committee found the professor guilty of misconduct serious enough to render him unfit to remain on the faculty.
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