Julie Esparza Brown said the district must take a better look at how to improve Oregon's statewide education picture. read more >

An analysis of more than 200 court decisions involving faculty members’ First Amendment lawsuits says colleges usually win. read more >

Kerry Ann Rockquemore offers questions for pretenure academics to consider before getting active on controversial topics on social media. read more >

Voters will have a chance to reshape the Portland Public Schools Board of Education read more >

Bargaining kicks off with faculty union rally read more >

Salam Noor, former assistant superintendent of Oregon and Salem-Keizer schools read more >

As colleges expand on the web, a professor who builds a course sometimes must to trust another to teach it. read more >

Academe recently caught up with Pam Miller, the chapter’s president, and Phil Lesch, executive director of PSU-AAUP, to discuss the contract negotiations and the chapter’s continuous work to engage its faculty. read more >

Bernard Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont and long-shot candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would make attending all four-year public colleges free. read more >

Establishing ground rules is taking longer than it does in traditional bargaining because we are practicing the IBB steps as we create ground rules. read more >

The answer requires us to think about power. read more >

Administrations, not department chairs, are responsible for making decisions about the pay of adjunct instructors. And for most, it’s not a priority. read more >

PSU-AAUP endorsement update read more >

The presidents of Oregon's seven public universities urged Gov. Kate Brown and the Legislature Thursday to devote some of an increased amount of money in May's state revenue forecast to post-secondary education. read more >

After decades of deteriorating conditions, adjunct organizing is the best route to meaningful improvement in the quality of higher education. read more >

New book proposes teaching-intensive tenure track to address what it calls the "real" crisis in the humanities. read more >

Students at the protest said they were demanding more money to be put toward higher education funding, as revenue forecasts improved. read more >

What happens when scholars discuss potentially controversial ideas outside the "bubbles" of their disciplines and academe? read more >

Bargaining updates on IBB training and ground rules read more >

This week the governor and state legislative leaders will receive a forecast of how much money Oregon will have to fund many important programs and services in our state during the next two years. read more >