PSU-AAUP
Member Message February 20th, 2015
February 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Article 18 Labor/Management Task Force proposal approved by PSU-AAUP EC, update on Family Friendly Task Force, and Speaker Series read more >
February 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Article 18 Labor/Management Task Force proposal approved by PSU-AAUP EC, update on Family Friendly Task Force, and Speaker Series read more >
February 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Without changes, the university’s standing will keep sinking read more >
February 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Like many Americans, I’ve been wary of labor unions...I was wrong. read more >
February 19, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Please consider giving 1-5 hours of your time to help with communications or events read more >
February 19, 2015 / Phil Lesch
If you can’t support adjuncts out of fairness, then support us out of pure self-interest read more >
February 18, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Students, mascots and education leaders gather at the Capitol to demonstrate for more state support read more >
February 18, 2015 / Phil Lesch
These contingent faculty members now account for about 75 percent of the professoriate, surpassing one million in number. read more >
February 17, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Oregon's chief education officer, Nancy Golden, said Monday she is confident that public education will advance under governor-to-be Kate Brown, given Brown's track record. read more >
February 17, 2015 / Phil Lesch
U. of Denver moves to new titles, a career path and multiyear contracts for those off the tenure track. Could this be a model for other institutions? read more >
February 17, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Department Listening Sessions, Article 18 (Non-Tenure Track Faculty) Labor/Management Task Force Proposal, 2013 SHAC Winter Closure Grievance settled, and Legislative Update read more >
February 16, 2015 / Phil Lesch
As National Adjunct Walkout Day approaches, activists are wondering how to galvanize a collection of workers who drift from campus to campus. read more >
February 13, 2015 / Phil Lesch
At the rally, students demanded increases to higher education budgets including: $755 million for universities, $550 million for community colleges. read more >
February 13, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Full-time professors at Tufts University voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to unionize. read more >
February 12, 2015 / Phil Lesch
A new Labor Board ruling could finally unstick the unionization of professors in the private sector—a project that’s been stalled for 35 years. read more >
February 11, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The decentralized budget model adopted by Oregon has a long history at some elite institutions and often goes by a jargony name: Responsibility Center Management, or RCM. But it's likely to be increasingly familiar. read more >
February 11, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this week released results from a survey it commissioned of faculty attitudes read more >
February 10, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Executive Council adopts Slate of Candidates for 2015 Election read more >
February 10, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Gov. Bruce Rauner, the newly elected Republican who has often criticized public sector unions, took his first step toward curbing their power on Monday by announcing an executive order that would bar unions from requiring all state workers to pay the equivalent of dues. read more >
February 09, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Tuesday Feb. 10th, noon-1pm, Smith 298 read more >
February 09, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Hey legislature, can you spare $1.315 billion? That’s the question that the Oregon Student Association will ask in Salem at its Feb. 12 rally to restore higher education. read more >