What happens when social workers grow tired of poor working conditions and poverty wages? At my workplace, we formed a union. read more >

In search of full-time fairness read more >

Federal judge, in victory for Steven Salaita, refuses to dismiss lawsuit charging U. of Illinois with violating his free speech and contract rights. read more >

An assistant professor who says she was fired after she told supervisors at Northwest Christian University that she was pregnant out of wedlock filed a $650,000 lawsuit Tuesday against her former employer. read more >

A faculty member wondered why her students were always late. So she asked them. read more >

Portland State University is taking the unusual step of reducing a planned tuition increase, saving each full-time in-state undergraduate student $90. read more >

Duquesne U. adjuncts are angry over what they see as a thinly-veiled threat not to rehire those colleagues involved in a long-running union drive. read more >

Letter of Agreement to continue the Task Force on Academic Quality, Letter of Agreement to create a Standing Committee on Work/Life Balance, and Creation of a Sick Leave Bank read more >

Donors gave more than $214 million to the University of Oregon's $2 billion capital campaign during the fiscal year ended June 30. read more >

Forget credit hours—in a quest to cut costs, universities are simply asking students to prove their mastery of a subject. read more >

The board of Oregon's public pension fund voted Friday to reduce its key actuarial assumption – the system's assumed earnings rate - from 7.75 percent to 7.5 percent to reflect lower expected returns from its investments. read more >

Twenty-two-hundred University of Connecticut graduate assistants (GAs) won a first contract that features big economic gains as well as social justice provisions affecting international students, transgender workers, and women. read more >

When news broke that the Supreme Court would hear Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, headlines instantly projected the worst, calling it “The Supreme Court Case That Could Decimate American Public Sector Unionism,” “An Existential Threat,” and even “The End of Public-Employee Unions?” read more >

What if my classes don’t run and I can’t make rent? read more >

A significant bipartisan majority of the 2013 Legislative Assembly voted to enact House Bill 2787, which became known as the “Tuition Equity Act.” read more >

An Ohio prosecutor calls for U of Cincinnati police force to be disbanded after an officer is indicted for murder. But would the city's police force be able to handle law enforcement on campus? read more >

Over the summer and spilling into next year, Portland State’s campus is getting a facelift through the implementation of several capital projects. read more >

As public campaign opens, giving tops $200 million read more >

Layoffs continued at the university for a second day as 161 employees are being let go. read more >

The court would determine whether public sector unions could continue to collect so-called “fair share” or “agency” fees. read more >