October 2nd Member Meeting recap and reminder for October Caucus' read more >

What would academe look like without adjuncts? read more >

The public university’s trustees have refused to recognize the Faculty Senate, which administrators have hit with an open-records request. read more >

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley toured several Oregon campuses to hear students talk about the high cost of college — and to promote his proposals to help them. read more >

Internet searches sometimes yield answers to questions that hiring committees are legally forbidden to ask. read more >

PSU-AAUP Member Meeting and Jeff Merkley's Fighting for College Affordability Tour read more >

Administrators increasingly devalue the expertise of their own faculty read more >

We cannot ignore the fact that administrative bloat – the huge growth in the number of administrators and their salaries – is one of the key drivers of college costs. read more >

One in 10 current female students at the University of Oregon indicate they have been raped while attending college, according to a new survey of 982 students released Tuesday by Jennifer Freyd, a professor in the UO's Department of Psychology. read more >

How did this happen? read more >

The competing claims involve who owns and should profit from the assessment created at the university read more >

PSU-AAUP will hold its fall membership meeting on Thursday, October 2 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Native American Center. read more >

After the University of Illinois revoked a job offer to Prof. Steven G. Salaita, a political theorist at Brooklyn College organized a counterattack. read more >

Examples of funny papers are few and far between. That’s a shame, says one scientist. read more >

At least 124 colleges have acquired military equipment through a federal program that transfers military surplus to law-enforcement agencies across the country. read more >

But college loans threaten this traditional, "virtuous circle" of higher education. read more >

The appointment of a state senator to lead Florida State University sparked a firestorm of protest. But not all former legislators bring full-throated ideology to campus. read more >

This story is about how the administration of my university called the campus police on a bunch of professors as if they believed we might riot and how the campus police behaved when they responded to that call. read more >

Fall 2014 Member Newsletter read more >

The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty, according to an analysis of federal figures. read more >