Promoting Quality Higher Education– An Investment in Oregon’s Future
July 27, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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 >
July 27, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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 >
July 24, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Portland State University plans to reduce its planned tuition increase using additional state funding approved by the Oregon Legislature. read more >
July 24, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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 >
July 24, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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 >
July 24, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Is “freelance academic” the right term? read more >
July 23, 2015 / Phil Lesch
The first public university system in the country to voluntarily raise the minimum wage as high as $15 an hour read more >
July 23, 2015 / Phil Lesch
When it comes to higher education, Oregon has a problem. read more >
July 23, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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 >
July 22, 2015 / Phil Lesch
LSU professor Teresa Buchanan says she was dismissed in a 'witchhunt' over her occasional use of profanity in the classroom. read more >
July 22, 2015 / Phil Lesch
All seven of Oregon’s public universities are poised to get substantially more state money over the next two years. read more >
July 21, 2015 / Phil Lesch
In the 2015-2017 AAUP contract, we’ll establish a Sick Leave Bank read more >
July 21, 2015 / Phil Lesch
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 >
July 21, 2015 / Phil Lesch
With all the pressures facing higher education these days, it’s not getting any easier. read more >
July 20, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Wisconsin’s decision to eliminate tenure protections is just latest tremor in the collapse of academic ideals read more >
July 17, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Legislation on community college tuition that's captured the nation's fancy — offering waivers to some needy students as soon as next year — will receive Gov. Kate Brown's signature Friday, the governor's office has announced. read more >
July 17, 2015 / Phil Lesch
Sylvia Kelley, an experienced academic administrator, will serve as Portland Community College's interim president while trustees conduct a national search for the school's next leader. read more >