The professors’ association also votes to censure Felician College, the University of Southern Maine, and the University of Texas’ Cancer Center. read more >

AAUP BARGAINING on Family-Friendly Policies and SEIU Rally read more >

Should faculty members be concerned if administrators check references who were not supplied by job candidates? read more >

Portland State University police officers armed with guns will begin patrolling the campus July 1, as the result of a PSU Board of Trustees vote Thursday. read more >

Mission creep in public higher education has always worried me, and the worries seem to increase with every passing day. read more >

From 2000 to 2012, U.S. government spending increased by 32 percent, while state spending fell by 37 percent read more >

Michael Schill, the University of Oregon's incoming president, will be the highest-paid academic chief executive in the state when he starts work July 1. read more >

We finally finished ground rules! read more >

Oregon's much-discussed "Pay It Forward" tuition repayment program still isn't ready to launch, a House panel said this week. read more >

The strike by child care workers is the latest in a series of work actions that is putting Germany on track to have the most days lost to labor action in nearly a decade. read more >

The Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday, June 11th from noon to 5pm at University Place. The agenda is big, and there are two points that you need to know about read more >

One Board member needed for the Public Employees Retirement Board (PERS) read more >

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who began building a national profile four years ago by sharply cutting collective bargaining rights for most government workers, has turned his sights to a different element of the public sector: state universities. read more >

Faculty members say the university system's Board of Regents missed an opportunity to ask that the legislature abandon controversial changes to tenure and shared governance. read more >

Seven Oregon public institutions press for a $755 million two-year budget read more >

Strike Debt PDX holds student debtors' assembly on Park Blocks read more >

The American Association of University Professors called the proposal "a direct attack on higher education as a public good." Here’s a guide to the dispute. read more >

The presidents of Oregon universities are pledging to limit tuition hikes if the Legislature agrees to boost higher education funding over the next two years. read more >

We do believe in professionalism, and we believe that our profession has been deprofessionalized by our own sometimes well-meaning but nonetheless misguided practices. read more >

Get more involved if you’re unhappy with the way things are run read more >