Academe recently caught up with Pam Miller, the chapter’s president, and Phil Lesch, executive director of PSU-AAUP, to discuss the contract negotiations and the chapter’s continuous work to engage its faculty.
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Bernard Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont and long-shot candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, introduced a bill on Tuesday that would make attending all four-year public colleges free.
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Establishing ground rules is taking longer than it does in traditional bargaining because we are practicing the IBB steps as we create ground rules.
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The answer requires us to think about power.
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Administrations, not department chairs, are responsible for making decisions about the pay of adjunct instructors. And for most, it’s not a priority.
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PSU-AAUP endorsement update
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The presidents of Oregon's seven public universities urged Gov. Kate Brown and the Legislature Thursday to devote some of an increased amount of money in May's state revenue forecast to post-secondary education.
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After decades of deteriorating conditions, adjunct organizing is the best route to meaningful improvement in the quality of higher education.
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New book proposes teaching-intensive tenure track to address what it calls the "real" crisis in the humanities.
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Students at the protest said they were demanding more money to be put toward higher education funding, as revenue forecasts improved.
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What happens when scholars discuss potentially controversial ideas outside the "bubbles" of their disciplines and academe?
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Bargaining updates on IBB training and ground rules
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This week the governor and state legislative leaders will receive a forecast of how much money Oregon will have to fund many important programs and services in our state during the next two years.
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The professors’ association says both the public university and the Roman Catholic college trampled faculty rights in making unnecessary job cuts.
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Labor Notes Troublemakers School is coming to Portland!
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How unequal stipends foster an unequal education
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After years of disinvestment in higher education, Oregon’s economic recovery has finally made it possible to boost state funding for our universities. But it turns out that apportioning the gain from reinvestment can be even more challenging than rationing the pain of disinvestment.
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The director of Yeshiva College’s writing program refused to preside over cutbacks in full-time teaching positions.
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Will HECC's decision to adopt a formula that pays universities and community colleges for the number of degrees it produces actually improve the state's college graduation rates?
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When a Polk State professor found himself accused of being anti-Christian, the college's leaders answered back -- and said he was entitled to academic freedom.
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