OTHER LABOR NEWS
National Adjunct Walkout Day Planned
October 06, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
What would academe look like without adjuncts? read more >
October 06, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
What would academe look like without adjuncts? read more >
October 06, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The public university’s trustees have refused to recognize the Faculty Senate, which administrators have hit with an open-records request. read more >
October 03, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley toured several Oregon campuses to hear students talk about the high cost of college — and to promote his proposals to help them. read more >
October 03, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Internet searches sometimes yield answers to questions that hiring committees are legally forbidden to ask. read more >
October 03, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
PSU-AAUP Member Meeting and Jeff Merkley's Fighting for College Affordability Tour read more >
October 02, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Administrators increasingly devalue the expertise of their own faculty read more >
October 02, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
We cannot ignore the fact that administrative bloat – the huge growth in the number of administrators and their salaries – is one of the key drivers of college costs. read more >
October 02, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
One in 10 current female students at the University of Oregon indicate they have been raped while attending college, according to a new survey of 982 students released Tuesday by Jennifer Freyd, a professor in the UO's Department of Psychology. read more >
September 30, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
How did this happen? read more >
September 30, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The competing claims involve who owns and should profit from the assessment created at the university read more >
September 29, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
PSU-AAUP will hold its fall membership meeting on Thursday, October 2 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Native American Center. read more >
September 29, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
After the University of Illinois revoked a job offer to Prof. Steven G. Salaita, a political theorist at Brooklyn College organized a counterattack. read more >
September 29, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Examples of funny papers are few and far between. That’s a shame, says one scientist. read more >
September 26, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
At least 124 colleges have acquired military equipment through a federal program that transfers military surplus to law-enforcement agencies across the country. read more >
September 26, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
But college loans threaten this traditional, "virtuous circle" of higher education. read more >
September 25, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The appointment of a state senator to lead Florida State University sparked a firestorm of protest. But not all former legislators bring full-throated ideology to campus. read more >
September 25, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
This story is about how the administration of my university called the campus police on a bunch of professors as if they believed we might riot and how the campus police behaved when they responded to that call. read more >
September 25, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Fall 2014 Member Newsletter read more >
September 24, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty, according to an analysis of federal figures. read more >
September 23, 2014 / PSU-AAUP
Humanities Ph.D.s are daring to enjoy their “regular” jobs, and the definition of academic success is changing. Sort of. read more >