A letter sent to President Wiewel last week on behalf of 25 Department Chairs at PSU. They simply state that quality public higher education is their top priority and that the highly skilled and superb faculty of PSU would be almost impossible to replace during a strike. read more >

Funders begin to bring the heat to Wiewel for failure to settle a fair contract. A family that funds a trust for the PSU Library filed a letter to Pres Wiewel in support of AAUP. read more >

New Offer Fails to Meet PSU-AAUP Student-Centered Priorities Portland, OR: Spring term began today at Portland State University with the possibility of a faculty strike still looming. The faculty union, the PSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors (PSU-AAUP), and the Administration continue to be significantly apart after a year of negotiations. read more >

GOOD NEWS: Eight hundred people participating in a Strike Authorization Vote, 94% voting to authorize, changed the dynamic at the table. BAD NEWS: The Admin Offer Still - Guts Protections for the P & T Guidelines and Unwritten Work Policies - Fails to Provide an Advancement Path for APs - Leaves Too Many Fixed-term Faculty in Short-Term Contracts - Rejects Better Planning for Academic Quality - Fails to Keep 90% of us whole with respect to inflation, for academic year - Allows all Summer Session Budget and Pay Cuts - Refuses Bigger Promotion Raises - Etc, Etc, Etc read more >

The newest letter of support is from AFSCME Local 2505 read more >

More than 60 AAUP members attended a Spring Break Strike training. read more >

News: Update on Mediation read more >

On Austerity Chopping Block, Students & Faculty Occupy University Facing mass lay-offs and program slashes, University of Southern Maine faculty and students demand 'human right to education' read more >

News 1. Nearly 800 PSU-AAUP Members Participated in Strike Authorization Vote - 94% Voted YES 2. Admin Response: SPIN + Questionable Threats - More Coming! 3. What Might we Gain by Striking, or Coming Close to a Strike? 4. A Plan to Win! read more >

PSU Faculty and APs made history, today and yesterday, turning out in huge numbers to authorize the PSU-AAUP Bargaining Team to call a strike if they see no other way to obtain a decent contract. read more >

The faculty of Southern Oregon University (SOU) announced the results of a confidence vote of their top three administrators today. The administrators are President Mary Cullinan, Provost James Klein, and Vice President of Finance and Administration Craig Morris. read more >

The AAUP Bargaining team has submitted our Last, Best and Final Offer the the PSU Administration on Monday, March 3, 2014. read more >

BOISE, Idaho — To the chief counsel of the Idaho State Legislature: In light of the bill permitting guns on our state’s college and university campuses, which is likely to be approved by the state House of Representatives in the coming days, I have a matter of practical concern that I hope you can help with: When may I shoot a student? read more >

OUTRAGEOUSLY FABULOUS INFO PICKET & WALKOUT!!! "Best PSU Rally EVER!!!!" in the words of Margaret Butler, an expert on rallies and PSU, as the long-time Exec Director of Portland's Jobs with Justice and daughter of beloved PSU Librarian, Kenneth Butler. 350 PSU Faculty and APs stayed out in the cold rain to picket and rally on Thursday, carrying signs and chanting, "Who is PSU? We are PSU!" read more >

Portland, OR: The American Association of University Professors of Portland State University (PSU-AAUP) rallied today for a fair contract that defends quality, affordable higher education. Nearly 1000 people attended the rally, including students who organized a class walkout, community members, and other campus workers. Faculty declared impasse on Monday after 10 months of stalled negotiations with the Administration, allowing for a potential strike in the Spring term if no agreement is reached. read more >

Hundreds of teachers, students and other supporters picketed the University of Illinois’ at Chicago campus Tuesday as part of a two-day strike called by UIC United Faculty, the union representing more than 1,100 tenured and nontenured faculty members. read more >

PSU-AAUP to Formally Declare Impasse on Monday, Feb 24th Monday morning, we'll send a Declaration of Impasse to Oregon's Employment Relations Board. We'll announce it to the press, and invite them to our Info Picket and Rally on Thursday, Feb 27th, 11 - 1. read more >

The PSU Admin decided to play hardball with us this year, creating a crisis atmosphere with talk of a $15m "structural deficit" and elimination of 20% of programs by following DIckeson's program prioritization model, while pushing to strip entire articles - and big sections of others- from the contract. Although the Admin two months later reduced the $15m to $7.5M, and recently stated that only half that need come from academic budgets, academic units are still supposed to - Come up with 6% budget cut scenarios, and - Teach Summer Session with one-third the budgets available when Summer Session was independent, while "producing as much SCH" as ever. read more >

New England Center for Investigative Reporting 2/6/2014 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 >

NEWS: Point-by-Point Refutation of PSU Admin's Weak, Jan 30th Response to PSU-AAUP's Open Letter Outlining Our Reasons for Skepticism of the Admin Case for a $15 Million "Structural Deficit." read more >