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 >

The state should create a retirement fund available to all employed Oregonians that can follow people as they change jobs read more >

Another school year is about to start, and parents will soon be packing their teenagers up for college. But do they know who’s teaching their kids? read more >

An Iranian mathematician is the first woman ever to receive a Fields Medal, often considered to be mathematics’ equivalent of the Nobel Prize. read more >

Oregon's overarching education board, handpicked by Gov. John Kitzhaber to try to overcome the state's educational mediocrity, on Tuesday sized up where the board stands after three years in operation -- and expressed a lot of discontent. read more >

The 2014 American Association of University Professors Bulletin is here. read more >

Professors Complain of Undersupported Sabbaticals, Inadequate Staffing read more >