A bill introduced late last month in the North Carolina General Assembly has set faculties across the state abuzz with a bold suggestion: Require all professors in the University of North Carolina system to teach at least eight courses each academic year. read more >

PSU Administration found to have violated labor law by threatening to disable Faculty email if they went on strike read more >

Just one in four union contracts covering adjunct instructors includes any sort of provision ensuring them some payment when a course assignment is canceled read more >

Just one in four contracts ensures the instructors even a small payment when a course assignment is canceled, an analysis found. read more >

Portland State University violated Oregon labor law last year by threatening to disable email access for unionized faculty members if they went on strike, according to an April 17 ruling by the state Employment Relations Board read more >

Thanks in large part to the activism of our members and allies, the House Finance Committee passed Sub. HB 64 this evening without the language that would have stripped faculty of their collective bargaining rights. read more >

A measure inserted into the new state budget bill that critics call "anti-union" has drawn strong opposition from college faculty at Ohio's public universities. read more >

Wednesday May 6, noon, Park Blocks read more >

Ohio budget bill proposes a ban on full-time-faculty unions at public institutions where professors do nearly anything beyond teaching and research. read more >

AAUP-OR's annual conference will be on April 25th. Registration is free. More information here... read more >

You are eligible for regalia rental reimbursement of $58 per year read more >

University of Chicago’s law school dean begins his tenure July 1 read more >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame. read more >

Faculty link arms and stand between students and riot police on campus read more >

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 >

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 >