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 >

The University of Oregon may release results of an investigation as soon as this week into the release of confidential information from the school's archives. read more >

The American Association of University Professors is urging the University of North Carolina system’s governing board to reject a working group’s recommendation to close an independent center on poverty issues. read more >

A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he's right? read more >

Article 18 Labor/Management Task Force proposal approved by PSU-AAUP EC, update on Family Friendly Task Force, and Speaker Series read more >

Without changes, the university’s standing will keep sinking read more >

Like many Americans, I’ve been wary of labor unions...I was wrong. read more >

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