The board of Oregon's public pension fund voted Friday to reduce its key actuarial assumption – the system's assumed earnings rate - from 7.75 percent to 7.5 percent to reflect lower expected returns from its investments. read more >

Twenty-two-hundred University of Connecticut graduate assistants (GAs) won a first contract that features big economic gains as well as social justice provisions affecting international students, transgender workers, and women. read more >

When news broke that the Supreme Court would hear Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, headlines instantly projected the worst, calling it “The Supreme Court Case That Could Decimate American Public Sector Unionism,” “An Existential Threat,” and even “The End of Public-Employee Unions?” read more >

What if my classes don’t run and I can’t make rent? read more >

A significant bipartisan majority of the 2013 Legislative Assembly voted to enact House Bill 2787, which became known as the “Tuition Equity Act.” read more >

An Ohio prosecutor calls for U of Cincinnati police force to be disbanded after an officer is indicted for murder. But would the city's police force be able to handle law enforcement on campus? read more >

Over the summer and spilling into next year, Portland State’s campus is getting a facelift through the implementation of several capital projects. read more >

As public campaign opens, giving tops $200 million read more >

Layoffs continued at the university for a second day as 161 employees are being let go. read more >

The court would determine whether public sector unions could continue to collect so-called “fair share” or “agency” fees. read more >

The budget is a major step forward, but it gets Oregon from being one of the bottom five states in higher ed support to somewhere in the bottom 10. read more >

Stephen L. Chew writes that current approaches -- for awards or tenure and promotion -- are based too much on passion or student enjoyment and not enough on actual learning. read more >

Portland State University plans to reduce its planned tuition increase using additional state funding approved by the Oregon Legislature. read more >

The University of Oregon has achieved an ambitious goal set by the University Senate to bring total faculty salary and benefits in line with average faculty compensation at similar top public research universities. read more >

Oregon now is poised to follow Tennessee as the second state with a plan on the books to provide free two-year college. read more >

Is “freelance academic” the right term? read more >

The first public university system in the country to voluntarily raise the minimum wage as high as $15 an hour read more >

When it comes to higher education, Oregon has a problem. read more >

California court rejects a public university's findings of sexual assault by a male student. Some say case points to tensions over due process at many institutions. read more >

LSU professor Teresa Buchanan says she was dismissed in a 'witchhunt' over her occasional use of profanity in the classroom. read more >