Conclusion of the Report Summary:

The U.S. economy is experiencing its worst contraction in twenty-six years. President Obama has characterized the current economic situation as a “continuing disaster.” Although higher education has sometimes benefited from minor economic downturns that raise college enrollments without producing substantial declines in other sources of revenue, the current situation is an economic “tsunami” for academia.

Academia is a low-lying island amid the current economic turbulence. Yet even in this difficult situation, spending priorities must reflect our institutional mission to provide a societal benefit. Like the larger economy, we are on the brink, and it will be critically important for faculty members to participate fully in the difficult budget decisions to come. They must insist on full access to information, and take a critical look at claims about the need for immediate actions that will result in further demands on already strained human resources. Decisions about salaries, reductions in faculty positions and academic programs, and changes in the employment conditions of contingent faculty will affect the quality of the education we can offer for years to come, and we must ensure that the choices we make are good ones.

Click on AAUP 2008-09 Report to visit the AAUP website and download the full report.

AAUP publishes an annual report on the profession. The entire report can be accessed online at this link.

This retrospective from 1997-2007 tracks the growth of contingent faculty, professional staff, and administrators and the decline of full-time tenure-related faculty. You can download the report as a pdf file here .

The blog has pages on: the 38% administration expense claim, administrator pay questions, administrator salaries spreadsheets, Bend program, Frohnmayer salary and perks, furlough meeting claims, golden parachute contracts, newspapers pieces, and the Portland campus cost.

Click on UO Matters to visit this site.

The faculty at SOU are unionized. They are unaffiliated with any national labor union. You can find their website here.

Click here to go to a page of AAUP Collective Bargaining Chapters together with links to the chapter websites.

OSU has an active chapter of AAUP. They too are looking into organizing non-classified staff into a collective bargaining unit. Click here to visit their site.

Click here to visit the website of the PSU Chapter of AAUP. The PSU chapter is a collective bargaining chapter.

Visit the PSU-AAUP Labor blog here.