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Workshop: Can't We All Just Get Along?, Kimberly Anderson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Can't We All Just Get Along? discusses differences between generations in learning styles and experiences.

Annual Legal Update, Aaron Nisenson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This was a tumultuous year in the field of higher education collective bargaining, with many of the key issues yet to be resolved. The National Labor Relations Board was quite active in the area of academic bargaining in the private sector. In May and June of 2012, the NLRB invited extensive briefing in cases addressing two issues of vital importance to the academic community: whether faculty members are employees who are covered by the National Labor Relations Act (and can therefore unionize) or whether they are managers excluded from coverage (Point Park University, infra at pg. 26); and whether graduate …

Annual Legal Update, Nicholas Digiovanni Jr., Esq.

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

DiGiovanni's Annual Legal Update focuses on recent developments at the National Labor Relations Board and the impact of same on colleges and universities.

Perspectives On Improving The Working Conditions Of Ntt Faculty, Maria Maisto

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Perspectives on Improving the Working Conditions of NTT Faculty discusses issues in working conditions for NTT (non-tenure track) faculty.

Workshop: Addressing The Heart Of A Grievance, Jacquelyn Lloyd, Howard Parish

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Workshop: Addressing the Heart of a Grievance focuses on issues of grievance and arbitration in collective bargaining.

Labor And Employment Relations Association: Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty Unions In Private Higher Education & Graduate Student Organizing Following The Nlrb Decision In The Nyu Case, Michael T. Loconto

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This handout packet includes "'Metro' Unionizing Strategy is Viewed as a Means to Empower Adjunct Faculty" by Peter Schmidt (originally published in the Chronicle of Higher Education), "NLRB to review whether graduate assistants can unionize at private universities" by Scott Jaschik (originally published in Inside Higher Ed) and "Brown University and International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW AFL-CIO, Petitioner" from the NLRB No. 42.

'Metro' Unionizing Strategy Is Viewed as a Means to

Empower Adjunct Faculty

Alliances, Trustees, And Presidents, Leo Welch

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Leo Welch, chairman of the Board of Trustees at Eastern Illinois University, addresses the issue of academic freedom and the alliance this issue created among the Board, EIU administration, and EIU faculty.

New World Of Healthcare Benefits: Summary Of The Challenges And Opportunities Presented By State Health Exchanges, Lawrence Singer

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

NEW WORLD OF HEALTHCARE BENEFITS: Summary of the Challenges and Opportunities Presented by State Health Exchanges explores the impact of the Affordable Care Act on health care and state funding.

Post-Confrontational Stage: Changing Internal Dialogue And External Perception, Cindy Oliver

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This handout encompasses the thoughts of Cindy Oliver, panelist and panel chair.

Compensation Models For Teaching Distance Ed Courses, Joe Rizzo

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Handout is the distance education agreement of the Massachusetts Community College.

Inching—Or Sliding—Towards Charter Universities: What Price "Freedom"?, Patrick Mclaughlin

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Inching - or Sliding - Towards Charter Universities: What Price "Freedom"? examines the issue of reduced state funding of public institutions.

University Devolution: How And Why American Research Universities Are Becoming Even More Tribal, John Aubrey Douglass

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

In the wake of the Cold War, America's research universities became increasingly characterized by a tribal mentality among schools and departments, and disciplines. The surge in research funding, and the tremendous growth rate among the major public universities in particular, fostered the idea of the "multiversity": universities become less communal and less aware of their collective purpose.

Workshop: Interest-Based Bargaining, Tim Fitzgerald

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This workshop introduces interest-based bargaining.

Challenges For Adjuncts Who Negotiate Contracts: The Mccc/Bhe Distance Education Agreement On Campus, Joe Rizzo

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Challenges for Adjuncts who Negotiate Contracts: The MCCC/BHE Distance Education Agreement on Campus discusses compensation for adjunct faculty for distance education courses.

Digital Higher Education: How We Have Gotten To Where We Are Tells Us A Lot About Where We’Re Headed, Martin Kich

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This handout discusses four phenomena in online education—online for-profit institutions, Western Governors University, MOOCs, and for-profit “educational providers” such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill and their smaller imitators such as Academic Partnerships. Understanding the connections between these phenomena is as important, I think, as understanding them individually. I will talk about them in a sequence that will, I think, suggest where we are now and where we are going in terms of both online education and the core issues confronting our academic institutions, in particular public colleges and universities, and our faculty unions.

What Is Driving Tuition Higher? Hint: It Is Not Faculty Costs, Howard Bunsis

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

What is Driving Tuition Higher? Hint: It is NOT Faculty Costs demonstrates that faculty salaries are not driving increases in tuition.

Rising Tuition And Diminishing State Funding: An Overview, Rita Kirshstein

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Rising Tuition and Diminishing State Funding: An Overview discusses the beyond-inflation increases in college tuition and the decline of state funding.

Post-Confrontational Collective Bargaining Models Successful Negotiations: Interest-Based Bargaining At Eiu, Jeff Cross

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Interest Based Bargaining at EIU discusses the experience of interest-based bargaining at Eastern Illinois University, from the administration's perspective.

Post-Confrontational Collective Bargaining Models Successful Negotiations: Successful Contracts - Facilitators Useful?, Jonathan Blitz

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Post-Confrontational Collective Bargaining Models Successful Negotiations: Successful Contracts - Facilitators Useful? discusses the experience of interest-based bargaining at Eastern Illinois University.

Post-Confrontational Collective Bargaining Models Successful Negotiations, Ellen Horsch

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Post-Confrontational Collective Bargaining Models discusses the experience of utilizing a lean facilitator at Michigan Technological University.

Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs) And Other Digital Initiatives, Kenneth C. Green

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Forget basketball and March madness. Aside from always pressing financial issues, it is “MOOC madness” that has emerged as the topic du jour at a growing number of American colleges and universities. Indeed, in boardrooms all across the country, people are grappling with what the advent of MOOCs—massive open online courses—means to their institutions.

New Technology And Higher Education Overview, Kenneth C. Green

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

New Technology and Higher Education discusses technology-related challenges facing higher education, including MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Digital Curricular Resources, and more.

Plenary: The Kaiser Permanente Model, John August, Chuck Columbus

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Labor Management Partnership: A strategy for excelling in difficult times discusses the labor-management cooperative relations at Kaiser Permanente.

"Traditional" Faculty: How Can We Help?, Alan Trevithick

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This handout is a blog entry by Dr. Alan Trevithick, originally posted on cryingliberalelite.blogspot.com

Nlra And Religious Colleges: The Application Of "Catholic Bishop" To Higher Education Institutions, Louis Benedict

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This presentation discusses the implications of the 1979 Appellate Court (7th Cir) case NLRB v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago, 440 U.S. 490, on institutions of higher education.

The “Religious” Exemption From Nlrb Jurisdiction, Robin J. Sowards

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

In this paper, I’d like to turn our attention to a particular case that I’m involved in, the organizing drive at Duquesne University, which has followed a pattern similar in some respects to the organizing drives at St. Xavier University in Chicago and Manhattan College here in New York.

The Impact Of Unionization On University Performance: A Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis, Mark K. Cassell

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

In 1968 the union movement in higher education was launched on the CUNY campuses in New York when CUNY held the first academic labor union election on an “integrated, heterogeneous, multi-campus system” (Ladd and Lipset 1973). In the nearly five decades since that historic election, unionization has grown to cover more than a third of all public four-year institutions and 40 percent of faculty at those public institutions (see Figure 1). While unionization is more common at larger institutions, Figure 1 illustrates that even among the smallest public institutions, unionization has increased over time.

Comparing Academic And Non-Academic Salaries: Establishing Homogeneous Groups By Discipline, Educational Credentials, And Job Category, Martin Finkelstein, Kevin Iglesias, Valerie Martin Conley

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This presentation compares academic and non-academic salaries, demonstrating variations by field, sub-field and industry, sector, and career stage. The fields considered are law, biology, psychology, and engineering.

The New Normal? The Changing Context Of Academic Work And Careers, Valerie Martin Conley, Martin J. Finkelstein

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This presentation focuses on changing working conditions for faculty in higher education.

2013 Conference Program

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This document is the program of the 40th annual conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.