For Many Public-College Presidents, Homes Don't Count in Pay Packages read more >

PSU-AAUP Bargaining and News read more >

The Oregon legislature is considering two bills that would give universities more authority and decision-making power. read more >

The American Association of University Professors has sharply criticized New York University’s treatment of faculty members on its campus in Florence, Italy, declaring that adjunct professors there saw abrupt pay cuts and three longtime studio-arts professors were terminated, allegedly for trying to help form a faculty union. read more >

Supporters of legislation to overhaul how higher education is overseen in Oregon describe the measures as a way to streamline the process and provide better coordination between public colleges and elementary and secondary schools. read more >

The California Federation of Teachers and its affiliate representing faculty members at the City College of San Francisco have filed a complaint with the accreditor of that state's community colleges, accusing that organization of having conflicts of interest and of violating federal and state laws. read more >

Administration questions "governance" issues in the contract read more >

Let's all reply to Vice Provost Carol Mack's message to us about last week's bargaining session! read more >

Tenured and tenure-track faculty members at Montana State University at Bozeman have taken the unusual step of scrapping their collective-bargaining unit, marking a major setback for the union that organizes instructors at that state's public colleges. read more >

Last month the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at New York University passed a vote of no confidence in the university’s president, John Sexton. read more >

In Hoover, Ala., ProctorU employees monitor students taking tests online. The American Council on Education has recommended that colleges provide credit for several MOOCs proctored by the company. read more >

Earlier this year Capella University and the new College for America began enrolling hundreds of students in academic programs without courses, teaching professors, grades, deadlines or credit hour requirements, but with a path to genuine college credit. read more >

After months of wooing and under close scrutiny, edX was rejected this week by Amherst College amid faculty concerns about the online course provider's business plans and impact on student learning... read more >

The gap in what students are expected to know between high school and college is often thought to be vast. A newly released survey quantifies just how wide it is. read more >

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A national labor union that has made strides in organizing adjunct instructors in Washington, D.C., and its Maryland suburbs is starting a similar regional campaign in Boston and is planning one in Los Angeles, too... read more >

To make it easier for students to earn college credits in online courses, government regulation of such classes should be streamlined across state boundaries and better consumer protection rules enacted, a national commission said Thursday... read more >

Mehaffy?s powerpoint declares that “Technology changes everything” but history tells a much different story about people making choices in real time. read more >

An unusual new study of the effects of faculty unionization on public universities—rather than on just faculty members themselves—reaches the controversial conclusion that such institutions generally become more efficient and effective when their professors form collective-bargaining units. read more >

Michigan’s public institutions scrambled to approve new faculty contracts before March 28, when the state’s right-to-work law goes into effect. In the rush to ratify a contract two years in the making, faculty members at Grand Rapids Community College have accepted a deal that freezes their pay for two years and grants raises based on their performance only. read more >