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April 15, 2015 / Phil Lesch
You are eligible for regalia rental reimbursement of $58 per year read more >
April 15, 2015 / Phil Lesch
You are eligible for regalia rental reimbursement of $58 per year read more >
April 15, 2015 / Phil Lesch
University of Chicago’s law school dean begins his tenure July 1 read more >
April 15, 2015 / Phil Lesch
To observe the major forces at play in the education technology sector, one needed only to stand near the marble fountain in the Phoenician Resort lobby this week. read more >
April 13, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Oregon’s public universities will get state funds on the basis of student outcomes rather than enrollment, a state higher-education panel has decided. read more >
April 13, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The "silver lining," says the AAUP’s annual report, is that for the second year in a row, pay rose faster than the rate of inflation. read more >
April 10, 2015 / Phil Lesch
A state higher-education commission passed sweeping reforms Thursday designed to fund public universities based partly on how many Oregonians they graduate, instead of the number they enroll. read more >
April 10, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame. read more >
April 09, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Faculty link arms and stand between students and riot police on campus read more >
April 08, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The American Association of University Professors is standing by its conclusions that the University of Texas’ M.D. Anderson Cancer Center violated widely accepted academic principles in a new report that the center has pre-emptively challenged. read more >
April 07, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Research and teaching stand at the center of our professional work. Investing in teaching and research excellence builds the long-term academic reputation of a university, something that carries far more value to parents, students, and alums than any other type of branding work. read more >
April 07, 2015 / Phil Lesch
If the end result is more excitement, more engagement, and hopefully more learning read more >
April 07, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Members of the American Association of University Professors demonstrate with students against a tuition raise during a recent Board of Trustee vote. read more >
April 06, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Though it feels like we just settled a contract, we’ll start bargaining again in May. Things are a little different this time around. As you may have already heard, we have agreed to use an Interest-Based Bargaining negotiation process. Interest-Based Bargaining (IBB) takes a more collaborative, problem-solving approach to contract negotiations. read more >
April 06, 2015 / Phil Lesch
ONCE upon a time in America, baby boomers paid for college with the money they made from their summer jobs. Then, over the course of the next few decades, public funding for higher education was slashed. read more >
April 03, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Faculty and staff at Massachusetts's Roxbury Community College protest alleged lack of communication and changes pushed by the institution's president and her administration. read more >
April 03, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Upcoming events: Speaker Series, organizer trainings, Spring caucus' and Harvest Share. read more >
April 03, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Former governor drafted legislation before November re-election. read more >
April 02, 2015 / Phil Lesch
A University of Michigan faculty committee accuses the administration of ignoring instructors’ due-process rights in handling complaints of sexual misconduct. read more >
April 01, 2015 / Phil Lesch
A scholar who works with LGBT students fears a "brain drain" if the state doesn’t quickly reverse course on the controversial law. read more >
April 01, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The Portland State Board of Trustees voted 10–2 at the winter term quarterly Board meeting to approve a resolution that outlines a 4.2 percent increase in tuition and fees for resident undergraduates. The increase will take effect Fall 2015. read more >