It's hard to offer meaningful advising to new students before they arrive on campus. But Sewanee says it can be done, with professors making key decisions. read more >

Of late, higher education is abuzz with the question, “Will Oregon Be the First State with a College Trust Fund?” For those who care about college affordability in the long term, there are plenty of reasons to hope not. read more >

A flood of recent lawsuits and government enforcement actions accuse employers across the country of violating laws regulating employee pay. read more >

Performance and cost efficiency concerns have taken center stage in discussions about the funding and oversight of public universities in recent years. read more >

Here is a link to Poorer by Degrees, a new short documentary by Jennifer Shuberth, a former faculty member at Portland State University read more >

Two bills passed in the Oregon Legislature last year were not a breach of contract with government employees because they cut benefits under the Public Employees Retirement System that were never written into contracts at all, according to the brief the State of Oregon filed before the Oregon Supreme Court earlier this week. read more >

If T.S. Eliot had become a tenured professor, he would never have insisted April was the cruelest month. As those of us in the liberal arts know, it is August. read more >

Remember Oregon’s “Pay It Forward” plan? Students would attend college with no upfront tuition charges and instead pay a small share of their earnings after they left school for about 20 years. In essence the plan was a new way to channel revenue to higher education. read more >

According to an April report by the American Association of University Professors, women who are full professors at the UI make 85.3 percent of what men do in the same position. read more >

It's been over a decade since anyone made much of an effort to come up with an answer. With Vitae's new project, Academic JobTracker, we'll take a stab at doing that. read more >

Oregon State University's is Oregon's best big research university, ranking No. 78 nationally, according to rankings of colleges by Washington Monthly that the magazine claims is "aren't ridiculous" like many other rankings. read more >

Four faculty members see much more than a teachable moment in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man and the violence that followed. read more >

On July 28, Oregon Health & Science University announced a $100 million contribution from an anonymous donor. read more >

We are the stoop laborers of higher education: adjunct professors. read more >

To protest the withdrawal of a job offer to the controversial professor, at least two speakers have canceled engagements. read more >

A new national organization, Faculty Against Rape, or FAR, aims to help professors obtain resources on campus sexual assault and to build a sense of community and protection among like-minded peers (FAR’s website tagline is “Protect your academic freedom”). read more >

TODAY’S education reformers believe that schools are broken and that business can supply the remedy. read more >

An academic at the University of Macau says that he believes that his contract was not renewed because of his political activism, raising concerns about academic freedom in the Chinese territory. read more >

Oregon's attention-getting proposal to offer students tuition-free college if they agree to repay a small portion of their earnings for years afterward got the official thumbs down from Oregon's higher education board this week. read more >

The Rev. C. Kevin Gillespie, president of Saint Joseph's University for the last two years, has announced plans to step down in June. read more >