The values that undergird higher education as a guarantor of human dignity and enlightenment are under a special intensity of attack, argues Robert Weisbuch, while we in academe seem preoccupied with the little stuff. read more >

"The foundation is devoting funds that could have gone directly to support students. That $375,000 amounts to 12 percent of the $3.2 million that the foundation handed out in scholarships for the entire 2014-2015 year. It's also more than a fifth of what the foundation gave in faculty and staff compensation for that same year." read more >

In order to graduate, students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will soon be required to take a class in an American minority culture, The News-Gazette reports. read more >

New University of Oregon president prioritizes the hiring of tenure-track faculty and academics over athletics. read more >

The chancellor of the University of California at Davis, Linda P.B. Katehi, was placed on administrative leave on Wednesday night, pending an investigation of information that “raises serious questions” about whether she may have violated university policies, according to a statement from the office of the president of the University of California system. read more >

Summary of changes to the newly ratified contract. read more >

Students and community members gathered in Parkway North at the Smith Memorial Student Union to hear thoughts on race in higher education from a panel of five that included students and community activists. read more >

“The protests had succeeded in generating a dialogue between the administration and the disillusioned educators.” read more >

Students working to force the resignation of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign face critics using the language of social justice to attack them. read more >

"We came to make them uncomfortable," PSU sophomore Olivia Pace said. Pace said activists had been alerted to the pro-Trump meeting by a Facebook group, and had immediately decided to interrupt it. read more >

The Portland State University foundation is upping the ante in its support for a proposed payroll tax on metro business owners that has already rankled some local business leaders. read more >

Jeff Selingo’s There Is Life After College places too much emphasis on vocational education and not enough on the virtues of the liberal arts. read more >

The financial struggle of public research institutions may be a matter of choice—not necessity, as public leaders say. read more >

These days, it seems, protest is less about debate and more about disruption. Citizens have yelled at Portland city commissioners, taken over a wildlife refuge and stormed through the state capitol building in Salem to make their positions known. read more >

Work at a regional public university? You'll earn more at a unionized, large urban institution, according to new analysis of faculty salaries. read more >

"Unionized instructors at larger suburban institutions earn an average of about $40,000, or 50 percent, more than their nonunionized peers at midsize rural institutions, the study found." read more >

"A campaign to tax businesses for student scholarships and faculty salaries at Portland State University got a boost with a recent $100,000 donation." read more >

In a single-sentence order, the Supreme Court announced that the judgment of a lower court rejecting this effort to defund public sector unions “is affirmed by an equally divided court.” read more >

"Instructors on the tenure track earned the biggest median salary bump from last year, at 2.2 percent." read more >

Backlash is mounting against Emory students who protested pro-Trump chalk messages. University's president is under fire for not dismissing them outright. read more >