How can institutions protect themselves while upholding scholars’ freedom of speech? read more >

Despite protest from students, the board votes to bump in-state tuition 3.8 percent and out-of-state 3.7 percent read more >

Contingent faculty members are demanding—and getting—better working conditions read more >

One former adjunct describes a system that's untenable. read more >

To avoid a similar fate, small colleges need to be hard-nosed about what works and what doesn’t, experts say. read more >

The first ever National Adjunct Walkout Day took place last week on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The event aimed to raise awareness of unfair labor practices that adjunct instructors face at universities nationwide. read more >

The average salary for tenured professors at Oregon’s colleges and universities is $30,000 less than their peers across the United States. read more >

Applying for the first time its new standards for weighing whether college faculty members can unionize, the National Labor Relations Board has given the green light to a union election by contingent faculty members at Seattle University. read more >

How an opportunity to hire a tenure-track faculty member went awry read more >

The university system said a reference to the potential "enacting of a de-tenure process" was "inadvertent and incorrect." But faculty members remain leery. read more >

State funding plan overlooks many reasons for attending community colleges read more >

Rate My Professors is a student evaluation site that frustrates many professors, who say that the nonscientific standards leave faculty members open to unfair ratings. read more >

SEIU Rally and National Adjunct Walkout Day read more >

The ballot for the election of councilors to the Executive Council of PSU-AAUP will open Sunday March 1, 2015 at 9am. read more >

Sixteen months after rejecting the idea by a narrow margin, adjunct instructors at Bentley University have overwhelmingly voted to form a union affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. read more >

The workshop will focus on questions brought by attendees, and common areas of contract misinterpretation read more >

It's hard to estimate how many contingent professors left their classrooms. But some who couldn't walk out still found ways to show their support. read more >

A prominent professor uses a disciplinary meeting to discuss his struggles with depression -- and encourages others in academe to talk about mental health issues. read more >

Timing is everything -- and in Salem, it rarely seems to be the time for higher education. We're running out of states beneath us. read more >

National adjunct walkout day is tomorrow: Wednesday, February 25. read more >