With National Adjunct Walkout Day a month away, interest grows, and it is prompting discussions among faculty leaders. But many supporters feel the need to back the effort in ways other than walking off the job.
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Please join us for the tenure-related faculty caucus tomorrow, Tuesday Jan. 27, noon-1pm, Smith 298.
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The UW System could face a budget cut resulting in $300 million in lost revenue – although the number is still uncertain – as well as sweeping changes that might imperil the engrained traditions of shared governance and tenure.
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On February 28, 1967, Gov. Ronald Reagan spoke of "certain intellectual luxuries that perhaps we could do without." Here's why liberal education has never recovered.
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Our Executive Council, with extra effort by Leanne Serbulo, has put together a comprehensive report on summer session.
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University of Oregon officials say they are "in communication" with whoever is harboring 22,000 pages of records that UO leaders contend were released unlawfully because they contain confidential information.
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Arizona State, facing criticism, agrees to pay more to some composition instructors assigned extra sections. But the university refuses to back down on courseloads that violate disciplinary standards.
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Winter caucus meetings start next Tuesday for the Tenure Related Faculty
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New book argues that benefits of fostering better relationships between academics and policy makers in international affairs are underestimated.
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Tenure caucus and PSU Faculty Senate Post-Tenure Review
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University of Oregon officials have placed two employees on leave after the "unlawful release" of 22,000 pages of records from the president's office, including confidential information on faculty, staff and students.
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How to measure impact and value.
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Portland State University's move last month to create an armed police force brings the campus in line with national trend
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The strike has ended, but concerns about attempts to undermine shared governance have not.
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The professoriate needs to refocus on students or face extinction.
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Terrorist attacks in Paris have resurrected a free speech battle between a scholar and Yale U. Press, which removed cartoons about Muhammad from her book
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Administrative Law Judge found the Universities threat to cut off email access to faculty members on strike was unlawful.
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You will be seeing the second Cost of Living Adjustment and the Comparator Increase (for instructional and research faculty only) added to your paycheck.
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Legal fight at University of Kansas over emails from a professor who has received funding from the Koch brothers sets off a debate about undue influence and academic freedom.
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Oregon would seriously consider taking part in the "bold" and "intriguing" proposal for free community college tuition that President Obama is floating in the days leading up to his State of the Union address, Oregon higher education chief Ben Cannon said Friday.
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