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2011-12-05 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for December 5, 2011.

2011-11-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for November 7, 2011.

2011-10-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for October 3, 2011.

2011-09-12 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for September 12, 2011.

2011-08-01 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 1, 2011.

Two-Tiered Faculty Systems And Organizational Outcomes, Pamela S. Tolbert

Pamela S Tolbert

[Excerpt] In this chapter, I present a case study of a department at a large research university in which the use of non-tenured faculty increased dramatically over three decades. I begin by examining the historical sources of the expansion. I describe the arrangements that were implemented to resolve these problems. These arrangements exemplify many of the “best management practices” for non-tenure-track faculty mentioned earlier. Based on discussions with non-tenure-track and tenure-track department members and university administrators, I assess the effectiveness of these employment arrangements in resolving problems and the general consequences for the department of having a large contingent of …

2011-07-11 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for July 11, 2011.

Institutional Environments And Resource Dependence: Sources Of Administrative Structure In Institutions Of Higher Education, Pamela S. Tolbert

Pamela S Tolbert

Two theoretical perspectives are combined to explain the pattern of administrative offices in public and private institutions of higher education. The first perspective, resource dependence, is used to show that the need to ensure a stable flow of resources from external sources of support partially determines administrative differentiation. The second perspective, institutionalization, emphasizes the common understandings and social definitions of organizational behavior and structure considered appropriate and nonproblematic and suggests conditions under which dependency will and will not predict the number of administrative offices that manage funding relations. The results of the analyses indicate that dependence on nontraditional sources of …

2011-06-06 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for June 6, 2011.

Unionization Among College Faculty - 1996, Richard W. Hurd, Amy Foerster

Richard W Hurd

[Excerpt] Unionization among college and university faculty continued its slow but steady increase in 1995. Academic unions now represent 246,207 professors, a growth of 3,986 (1.65 percent) from that reported in last year’s NCSCBHEP's Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents in Institutions of Higher Education. We can now report 504 bargaining agents on 1,115 campuses throughout the United States. These increases can be attributed to three sources. First, unions won 4 out of 4 collective bargaining elections during 1995 to determine new bargaining agents. Second, some existing bargaining units grew in size as institutions hired additional faculty. Third, the …

Non-Faculty Unionization At Institutions Of Higher Education, Richard W. Hurd

Richard W Hurd

[Excerpt] The decade of the 1980's was a difficult one for the labor movement as membership and bargaining power declined for most unions in most industries. Higher education, however, provided a much more congenial environment. Faculty unionization expanded slowly but steadily at public sector institutions, although these gains were partially offset by private sector membership losses in the wake of the Yeshiva decision. In addition, there was a flurry of organizing activity among non-faculty employees, particularly clerical workers. The clerical worker organizing of the 1980's resulted in many highly visible successes for the labor movement. Particularly noteworthy were NLRB election …

The Unionization Of Clerical Workers At Large U.S. Universities And Colleges, Richard W. Hurd, Gregory Woodhead

Richard W Hurd

[Excerpt] The unionization of clerical workers on college campuses is steadily increasing and becoming the subject of greater scrutiny. The National Center has long been interested in this facet of unionization and when we learned of the work of Professor Hurd in this area we expressed an interest in publishing his research. This article presents Hurd's and Woodhead's research on college and university clerical unionization.

The Unionization Of Clerical, Technical, And Professional Employees In Higher Education: Threat Or Opportunity, Richard W. Hurd

Richard W Hurd

[Excerpt] Union organizing among non-teaching white collar employees of colleges and universities persists. To the discomfort of many university administrators, high visibility union successes at Yale, Columbia, Harvard, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Illinois were not isolated instances but part of a trend.

Professional, technical, and clerical employees' desire for a more effective voice, has combined with the economic insecurity associated with stubborn budgetary pressures, to encourage these workers to pursue union representation. Unions have responded to this opportunity with enthusiasm, experimenting with innovative organizing and bargaining strategies in the relatively open environment offered by institutions of …

2011-05-02 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for May 2, 2011

2011-04-04 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for April 4, 2011.

2011-03-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for March 7, 2011.

2011-02-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for February 2, 2011.

2011-01-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for January 3, 2011.