Recent Coverage on the Oregon Compact & Union Power @ the UO
Over the past month, United Academics has enjoyed some great public coverage of our efforts to strengthen the University of Oregon and advance a new vision for higher education. Firstly, …
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Solidarity Spotlight: UO Library Workers Hit Hard by September 2025 Layoffs
Photos: UO students working with archive librarians in UO’s Special Collections. Credit: Jack LiuText: Authored by UA Library Stewards — The University of Oregon administration’s recent decision to rescind proposed …
COMPARE: How do UO’s cuts stack up against other universities facing hardship?
UO leaders are justifying planned cuts by pointing to a national trend of budget shortfalls at US universities. However, despite UO’s own website listing 21 examples of other universities facing budgetary challenges, none …
Article 25 Grievance Filed!
This entry is a reproduction of the original announcement in the UA newsletter, Duck and Cover. On Friday, August 22, United Academics filed a grievance asserting that the administration’s announced plan …
How Administrators Manipulate Budgets to Create Fake Deficits
Much of this information is from an article in the student newspaper, the Daily Emerald. The administration is claiming a deficit because out-of-state enrollment did not meet targets. Let’s look …
A Choice to Move Resources from the Mission
The Education and General, or simply E&G budget, is the “bucket” of money which goes to the core mission of the university. This is funded by tuition and state funding. …
Eroding Competitiveness
The University of Oregon is a member of the American Association of Universities (AAU), a consortium of highly ranked research universities. These are our peers, the institutions with which we …