The university I have served as president since 2007, a master’s comprehensive university with a majority of the undergraduates in a traditional residential experience, has just under 12,000 students and approximately 2,000 faculty and staff members. Five out of six faculty and staff members are either in a collective bargaining unit or in the state universities civil service system, with some of those individuals in both. I had previously served as dean of faculties and as vice provost at a much larger university in which neither faculty nor staff were in a union or a civil service system. During the interview process for my current position, I was asked about my experience with unions. Upon my answer of none, except for a couple of summer...
An established faculty union affects the administration of an academic institution. To examine how i...
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Collective bargaining at its idealist core promises to “love, honor and respect till death do us par...
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Campus administrators and union leaders are well aware of the numerous problems created by multiple ...
Academic collective bargaining, like all collective bargaining, presupposes conflicts between goals ...
An established faculty union affects the administration of an academic institution. To examine how i...
As faculty collective bargaining reaches the half-century mark, the authors take a critical look at ...
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain insight into the perspectives of experienced ...
College and university leaders should to continue to honor collectively negotiated agreements mainta...
The author, a member of the 2013-2014 American Council on Education Fellows Class, offers observatio...
The authors provide a perspective, as scholars and practitioners, of the organizational, demographic...
[Excerpt] No discussion of governance in higher education would be complete without a consideration ...
Collective bargaining at its idealist core promises to “love, honor and respect till death do us par...
The act of unionization creates a sense of unity among faculty, however, it also creates an adversar...
The Congressional Record, August 1985, provides a revealing perspective held by Albert Shanker, form...
Many public college and university faculties have unionized since public employees gained the right ...
An evaluative research survey involving 694 faculty members with an academic appointment in Oregon\u...
An analytical review of an observer and participant in the changes that have occurred on the campuse...
Campus administrators and union leaders are well aware of the numerous problems created by multiple ...
Academic collective bargaining, like all collective bargaining, presupposes conflicts between goals ...
An established faculty union affects the administration of an academic institution. To examine how i...
As faculty collective bargaining reaches the half-century mark, the authors take a critical look at ...
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to gain insight into the perspectives of experienced ...