HIGHER ED FACULTY
The Last Colony in Shared Governance
May 27, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The history of Medgar Evers College parallels that of many historically black institutions where shared governance has been an elusive goal. read more >
May 27, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The history of Medgar Evers College parallels that of many historically black institutions where shared governance has been an elusive goal. read more >
May 27, 2015 / Phil Lesch
OEIB, we hardly knew ye. read more >
May 26, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Unions and university use interest-based bargaining to start to strike a deal read more >
May 26, 2015 / Phil Lesch
This idiotic political shorthand needs to die, once and for all. read more >
May 26, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The UO Board of Trustees could authorize the university to pursue the proposal at its June 4-5 meeting read more >
May 22, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Early in his third term, Gov. John Kitzhaber created a powerful overarching education board that he pledged would forge dramatic improvements statewide. read more >
May 22, 2015 / Phil Lesch
We have a bargaining update and some other news below. read more >
May 22, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Communication protocols and ground rules read more >
May 21, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Julie Esparza Brown said the district must take a better look at how to improve Oregon's statewide education picture. read more >
May 21, 2015 / Phil Lesch
An analysis of more than 200 court decisions involving faculty members’ First Amendment lawsuits says colleges usually win. read more >
May 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Kerry Ann Rockquemore offers questions for pretenure academics to consider before getting active on controversial topics on social media. read more >
May 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Voters will have a chance to reshape the Portland Public Schools Board of Education read more >
May 19, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Bargaining kicks off with faculty union rally read more >
May 19, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Salam Noor, former assistant superintendent of Oregon and Salem-Keizer schools read more >
May 19, 2015 / Phil Lesch
As colleges expand on the web, a professor who builds a course sometimes must to trust another to teach it. read more >
May 19, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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. read more >
May 19, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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. read more >
May 18, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Establishing ground rules is taking longer than it does in traditional bargaining because we are practicing the IBB steps as we create ground rules. read more >
May 18, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The answer requires us to think about power. read more >
May 18, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Administrations, not department chairs, are responsible for making decisions about the pay of adjunct instructors. And for most, it’s not a priority. read more >