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 >