Oregon's much-discussed "Pay It Forward" tuition repayment program still isn't ready to launch, a House panel said this week.
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The strike by child care workers is the latest in a series of work actions that is putting Germany on track to have the most days lost to labor action in nearly a decade.
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The Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday, June 11th from noon to 5pm at University Place. The agenda is big, and there are two points that you need to know about
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One Board member needed for the Public Employees Retirement Board (PERS)
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Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who began building a national profile four years ago by sharply cutting collective bargaining rights for most government workers, has turned his sights to a different element of the public sector: state universities.
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Faculty members say the university system's Board of Regents missed an opportunity to ask that the legislature abandon controversial changes to tenure and shared governance.
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Seven Oregon public institutions press for a $755 million two-year budget
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Strike Debt PDX holds student debtors' assembly on Park Blocks
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The American Association of University Professors called the proposal "a direct attack on higher education as a public good." Here’s a guide to the dispute.
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The presidents of Oregon universities are pledging to limit tuition hikes if the Legislature agrees to boost higher education funding over the next two years.
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We do believe in professionalism, and we believe that our profession has been deprofessionalized by our own sometimes well-meaning but nonetheless misguided practices.
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Get more involved if you’re unhappy with the way things are run
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Robert Dickeson has run afoul of faculty advocates by urging colleges not to let professors’ tenure protections hinder the scrapping of weak academic programs.
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A key legislative panel has endorsed measures that would limit the faculty’s role in decision making.
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