Promoting Quality Higher Education– An Investment in Oregon’s Future
January 29, 2014 / Phil Lesch
Adjuncts are over-worked, underpaid and have little job security. It's an injustice, and it hurts higher education read more >
January 29, 2014 / Phil Lesch
Just today, Jan 27th, we finished our 5th day-long mediation session, and can tell you that mediation - in the form prescribed by Oregon's Employment Relations Board - is an EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING exercise of communicating through a third party with no experience or knowledge of the University. read more >
January 27, 2014 / Phil Lesch
Friday, 1/24/14 Over 100 students, faculty, and academic professionals of the Portland State community gathered for a presentation on the budget by Howard Bunsis, Professor of Accounting and Chair, National AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress. read more >
January 21, 2014 / Phil Lesch
On January 20, The PSU Vanguard ran an article titled “Strikes on the Horizon?” gathers local unions and student organizations to discuss potential strike read more >
January 20, 2014 / Phil Lesch
News: Will We Have to Strike? Current Status of Bargaining read more >
January 19, 2014 / Phil Lesch
A Recent New York Times Article discusses the working life of Adjunct Professors read more >
January 17, 2014 / Phil Lesch
We are resorting to a provocative ad in the Vanguard because we haven’t been able to obtain answers to our questions about the apparently flawed case for a structural deficit in PSU’s budget, despite weeks of asking in multiple forums. President Wiewel has been calling for big academic cuts for Fall 2014, asserting a structural deficit of $15 million, including recently at the City Club on Dec. 13th. The case presented for a structural deficit is questionable, based on * Figures that differ from those reported by the Oregon State Board of Higher Ed, and * A budget that fails to prioritize academics, spending too much on administration and “auxiliaries.” read more >
January 17, 2014 / Phil Lesch
Margaret Butler, long-time Executive Director of Portland's Jobs with Justice, will start as AAUP-Oregon's first Executive Coordinator on January 21, 2015. read more >
January 12, 2014 / Phil Lesch
Why Run a Provocative Ad in the Vanguard? Because we're not getting any answers, after weeks of asking. On Tuesday, Jan 14, we're running a provocative, full-page ad in the Vanguard, with an overview of the reasons that the PSU-AAUP is skeptical of the "structural deficit" in PSU's budget, and the case for serious cuts to the budgets of academic units. read more >
January 06, 2014 / Phil Lesch
What's Going On at PSU? 2013 Felt Like a Series of Crises Created to Shift Spending from Academics, Undermine Faculty Power & AAUP read more >