OTHER LABOR NEWS
Troubling Developments at Oregon
January 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The strike has ended, but concerns about attempts to undermine shared governance have not. read more >
January 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The strike has ended, but concerns about attempts to undermine shared governance have not. read more >
January 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The professoriate needs to refocus on students or face extinction. read more >
January 15, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Terrorist attacks in Paris have resurrected a free speech battle between a scholar and Yale U. Press, which removed cartoons about Muhammad from her book read more >
January 14, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Administrative Law Judge found the Universities threat to cut off email access to faculty members on strike was unlawful. read more >
January 14, 2015 / Phil Lesch
You will be seeing the second Cost of Living Adjustment and the Comparator Increase (for instructional and research faculty only) added to your paycheck. read more >
January 14, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Legal fight at University of Kansas over emails from a professor who has received funding from the Koch brothers sets off a debate about undue influence and academic freedom. read more >
January 13, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Oregon would seriously consider taking part in the "bold" and "intriguing" proposal for free community college tuition that President Obama is floating in the days leading up to his State of the Union address, Oregon higher education chief Ben Cannon said Friday. read more >
January 13, 2015 / Phil Lesch
A statement from the union called the arbitrator's ruling "historic," and said many other adjuncts could benefit over time. read more >
January 09, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The search for common ground. read more >
January 08, 2015 / Phil Lesch
An outstanding new book provides a road map for truly effective teaching with technology read more >
January 07, 2015 / Phil Lesch
AAUP Save the Date: Thursday February 12th, 2015 and Winter Term Caucus Luncheons read more >
January 07, 2015 / Phil Lesch
If you don’t manage your online presence, you are allowing search engines to create it for you read more >
January 06, 2015 / Phil Lesch
William Bowen and Eugene Tobin are wrong that final decision-making authority should be kept out of the hands of faculty members, write Dan Ryan and Sara Goldrick-Rab. read more >
January 06, 2015 / Phil Lesch
For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar. read more >
January 05, 2015 / Phil Lesch
It handicaps the union and strengthens the corporation. read more >
January 05, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling last week that could clear the way for much more unionization of faculty members at private colleges and universities. read more >