People support expanding pre-school for kids, but when it comes to free, public higher education, opinions split along more familiar political lines. read more >

We spent two days this week, including a Sunday session trying to resolve our outstanding issues and preparing for our Thursday, March 10th economic bargaining session. read more >

Campus-carry laws, like the one going into effect in Texas, pose a profound threat to free speech. read more >

When efforts to resolve a federal investigation into how the University of Virginia handled reports of sexual violence began in earnest last spring, campus officials were corresponding with a lawyer in a U.S. Department of Education field office. By the time the case was resolved in September, tense legal wrangling had reached the highest levels of the university, the state, and the federal agency. read more >

Portland Business Alliance questions constitutionality of the measure read more >

Conceptual agreement on Individual Professional Development Accounts! But still playing budgetary games… read more >

The University of Oregon's police chief has abruptly left the post. read more >

Carolyn Stefanco, president of the College of Saint Rose, cut 23 faculty positions and 12 academic programs. She won a prize for her efforts. read more >

Two public colleges in Illinois announced additional belt-tightening measures this week as they enter their ninth month without state funding due to a budget impasse in the legislature. read more >

In our Friday, February 19th bargaining session, we reached a tentative agreement on AP Workload and Terms of Employment issues. Those of you who have been closely following this negotiation know that we’ve spent hours going back and forth with the administrative team about what full-time employment means for academic professionals. read more >

Raising tuition every year has become a higher-education rite of passage, almost as predictable as graduation ceremonies. read more >

Yes, we dodged a bullet—for now. But any union that takes the Supreme Court shakeup as a cue to go back to business as usual will be making a big mistake. read more >

You don’t need to be a person of color to mentor a colleague of color, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore, but you do need to rethink what it means to be a mentor. read more >

Balance. It’s a delicate, yet crucial part of bargaining. In a bargaining unit like ours that is made-up of diverse constituencies, we strive to find balance in the gains we make for each group. read more >

Sometimes I think the hardest part of teaching is balancing between what students want, and what they need. read more >

Justice's death may not change outcome on affirmative action, which he opposed. His record includes key votes and dissents on issues of black colleges, hate speech, single-sex public higher education and church-state line. read more >

Today’s college freshmen are more likely to participate in a student-led protest than each of the nearly five decades of classes that preceded them. read more >

Out-of-state residents accounted for nearly one-third of the degrees and certificates awarded at Oregon's seven public universities during the 2014-15 school year, according to new figures released by a state agency Friday. read more >

"We were able to predict college success by watching a video just as well as we did with transcripts and test scores." read more >

We had a number of outstanding AP issues (workload, scheduling, weather closures and terms of employment) left to discuss, but we had already generated possible solutions to many of these issues in previous sessions. We started the day off by looking at the options that were currently on the table. After we went over these options, we went into a caucus to consider them. read more >