In a single-sentence order, the Supreme Court announced that the judgment of a lower court rejecting this effort to defund public sector unions “is affirmed by an equally divided court.”
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"Instructors on the tenure track earned the biggest median salary bump from last year, at 2.2 percent."
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Backlash is mounting against Emory students who protested pro-Trump chalk messages. University's president is under fire for not dismissing them outright.
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AAUP attempts to reframe debate and put focus on due process and the importance of faculty freedom of speech.
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The Executive Council has approved the Tentative Agreement and has referred it to the membership for ratification. You will receive a ratification ballot in your PDX mailbox soon.
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Ron was an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, serving more than 25 years at PSU. He was a beloved teacher of math and science education, as well as a valued colleague throughout the University.
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Chinese students hire imposter “gunmen” to take the SAT, the GRE and other tests.
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On Tuesday evening, after a twelve hour bargaining session, PSU-AAUP and the administration reached an economic settlement!
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According to a news release issued by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the wastes — nearly 2,000 containers of laboratory chemicals and other substances — were unsafely stored and inadequately identified
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“The joke among my friends is that you can be gay at Messiah, just so long as you don’t act gay, or say gay things, or do anything to show you’re gay.”
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People support expanding pre-school for kids, but when it comes to free, public higher education, opinions split along more familiar political lines.
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We spent two days this week, including a Sunday session trying to resolve our outstanding issues and preparing for our Thursday, March 10th economic bargaining session.
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Campus-carry laws, like the one going into effect in Texas, pose a profound threat to free speech.
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When efforts to resolve a federal investigation into how the University of Virginia handled reports of sexual violence began in earnest last spring, campus officials were corresponding with a lawyer in a U.S. Department of Education field office. By the time the case was resolved in September, tense legal wrangling had reached the highest levels of the university, the state, and the federal agency.
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Portland Business Alliance questions constitutionality of the measure
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Conceptual agreement on Individual Professional Development Accounts! But still playing budgetary games…
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The University of Oregon's police chief has abruptly left the post.
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