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The California Faculty Association: Keeping Racial And Economic Justice At The Forefront, Jennifer Eagan

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Remarks made at the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions California Conference at California State University, Long Beach, CA on December 6, 2019.

Strong Fusion Of Social Unionism And Normative Contract Negotiations: A Square Peg In A Round Hole?, Barry Miller

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This paper considers a recent strike at York University in Toronto, Canada by three units of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3903, representing teaching assistants, contract or adjunct faculty and graduate assistants. The consideration of the strike has a two-fold purpose: The first is to situate it within the concept of social unionism, illustrating how this concept assists in understanding the strike beyond its strictly local and sector context. The second purpose is to consider how the strike reflects back on social unionism. In this regard, the paper considers challenges that can arise from the fusion of normative …

Examining The Employment Profile Of Institutions Under The Mission-Driven Classification System And The Impact Of Collective Bargaining, Louis Shedd, Stephen G. Katsinas, Nathaniel Bray

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The focus of this study is an analysis of institutions, salary expenditures, employment categories (full-time professors by academic rank), and number and average pay of full-time faculty. Our new mission-driven classification system provides the framework for the analysis and specifically presents the data by both the presence or lack of a collective bargaining agreement. The goal of this paper is to illustrate differences in monetary compensation of full time faculty using the mission-driven classification system (as opposed to the Carnegie Classification) and to see the impact of the presence or lack of collective bargaining agreements. We argue that the Carnegie …

Maintaining Peer-Based Faculty Evaluation: A Case Study Involving Student Surveys Of Teaching, Laura Murphy, Leah M. Akins

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Bargaining regarding faculty evaluation is challenging in an environment in which administrators throughout higher education have successfully imposed corporate-style forms of evaluation and supervision that many have come to accept as normal, despite their incompatibility with principles of academic freedom and peer-review. Student surveys of teaching are increasingly central to this management strategy, despite the growing body of evidence indicating bias against historically marginalized groups in student survey results. This paper presents a case study of contract negotiations undertaken in 2016 at Dutchess Community College (SUNY) in Poughkeepsie, New York. During these negotiations the college administration sought to expand the …

Does A Prolonged Faculty Strike In Higher Education Affect Student Achievement In First Year General Education Courses?, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Christine R. Junker, Mark Cubberley

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The effect of faculty strikes in higher education on student achievement is vastly understudied yet has broad implications for discerning potential consequences of labor disputes in academia. Research in this area is understandably difficult, however, as work stoppages in higher education are uncommon, unplanned, and typically brief, which precludes much of the comparative data needed to assess impacts on students. In the spring semester of 2019,WrightStateUniversityexperienced a nearly three-week faculty work stoppage as a result of failed contract negotiations. In this study, end-of-course grades for six undergraduate first-year courses taught prior to and during Spring 2019 by the same instructors …

Labor Unions And Equal Pay For Faculty: A Longitudinal Study Of Gender Pay Gaps In A Unionized Institutional Context, Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, Laurel Smith-Doerr, Henry Renski, Laras Sekarasih

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Previous single university studies of gender equity in faculty salaries conducted at both private and public universities in the U.S. have consistently found significant within-job gender gaps in pay. This study presents data from a less common labor context for faculty: a strongly unionized campus. Using data on all faculty at a large public university 2003-2015, three kinds of multivariate analyses are conducted: OLS multivariate regressions that include controls for race, field, and rank; Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition models to identify the explained and unexplained portions of the gender gap; and innovative longitudinal models for wage growth trajectories to examine the change …

A Different Set Of Rules? Nlrb Proposed Rule Making And Student Worker Unionization Rights, William A. Herbert, Joseph Van Der Naald

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This article presents data, precedent, and empirical evidence relevant to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposal to issue a new rule to exclude graduate assistants and other student employees from coverage under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The analysis in three parts. First, the authors show through an analysis of information from other federal agencies that the adoption of the proposed NLRB rule would exclude over 81,000 graduate assistants on private campuses from the right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. Second, the article presents a legal history from the past half-century about unionization of student employees …

2020-03-16 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 16, 2020.

The Analytics Managers Ultimate Guide For Working With Universities, Robert J. Mcgrath

Faculty Publications

The challenges organizations are having related to finding (and retaining) deep analytical talent did not materialize out of thin air…or overnight. Analytics and Data science – and the role of the analytics professional – has evolved over the last several decades and has been fueled by our ability to capture and process increasingly larger and more complex variations of data and our desire to gain increasingly granular insights to fuel innovation and creativity. While many organizations recognize that a partnership with a university can be a resource to many of these challenges, the best way to start a conversation with …

2020-03-13 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 13, 2020.

2020-03-13 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

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Undergraduate Curriculum Committee meeting minutes for March 13, 2020.

2020-March-12-Pollinator Plant Community Research, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (March 12, 2020) – East Tennessee State University’s Dr. Gerardo Arceo-Gomez is taking his research on the organization of flowering plant communities a step further with the aid of a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The project, titled “Uncovering the mechanisms driving co-flowering community assembly: Integrating flowering and floral trait distribution patterns via a novel use of network analysis,” has been funded for a three-year grant totaling $699,700.

“The overarching question that we’re trying to get at is, ‘How are plant communities organized in nature?’” said Arceo-Gomez, an assistant professor in the ETSU Department of Biological …

2020-March-12-Socon Champions, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

ETSU punches ticket to Big Dance

The top-seeded Buccaneers defeated the seventh-seeded Wofford  Terriers 72-58 in Monday’s Southern Conference Championship at the Harrah’s Cherokee Center Asheville. The Bucs became the fourth team in the 100-year history of the SoCon to reach the 30-win mark after improving to 30-4 on the season. The Blue and Gold join Wofford (30-5, 2018-19), North Carolina (30-5, 1945-46) and North Carolina State (30-7, 1950-51) as the only teams to accomplish the feat. In addition, the Bucs’ eight SoCon tournament championships are now tied with North Carolina for the fourth-most in league history.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (March …

2020-03-12 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the Office of the President to the faculty, staff and students on March 12, 2020.

Cyberbullying Among University Students: The Kenyan Experience, Joshua R A Ndiege, Gabriel Okello, Patrick K. Wamuyu

The African Journal of Information Systems

Although considerable literature has grown around cyberbullying, there are still only limited studies on this within developing economies, especially African countries. In particular, studies on cyberbullying in Africa have failed to have a direct focus on the prevalence of this phenomenon among students in universities. Not only does cyberbullying have an emotional-social impact, it has ramifications on the learning process as well. This subject remains of utmost relevance within academia, and a number of institutions continue to grapple with its impact. The study reported here is an exploratory investigation of 396 students from one of the private universities within Nairobi, …

2020-March-11-Kingsport Alliance For Continued Learning, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

NOTE: The Kingsport Alliance for Continued Learning spring classes described in this news release have been cancelled due to the new coronavirus. 

KINGSPORT (March 11, 2020) – Beginning Tuesday, March 17, the Kingsport Alliance for Continued Learning (KACL) will offer a series of informal classes this spring through a partnership with East Tennessee State University at Kingsport.

The non-credit courses with no homework, grades or tests are open to anyone. Classes will continue through Friday, April 24, and most will be held at the Kingsport Center for Higher Education, 300 W. Market St., aside from three field trips. The cost …

Parent/Guardian Experience: How Schools Can Improve The Parent Experience And How That Leads To Positive Outcomes., Wesley H. Walters

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Parent/Guardian eXperience: How creating an awesome Parent/guardian experience can lead to increased parent participation, and how parent participation leads to success of the student & the overall success of the school. The goal of this presentation is to engage parents in their child’s school experience by building a genuine connection with the school and a positive parent experience.

2020-03-09 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message issued by the President to the faculty and staff on March 9, 2020.

2020-March-06-Dp Culp Student Center Reopens, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (March 6, 2020) – Standing in front of a crowd gathered to celebrate the reopening of the D.P. Culp Student Center, Aamir Shaikh said he knew this would be one of the highlights of his tenure as president of the Student Government Association at East Tennessee State University.

“One of the things about ETSU I value most is that students truly have a voice on this campus. This is a place where students are encouraged to bring forward their ideas, and this is a place where students are encouraged to dream.”

In …

2020-March-06-Reconstructing Neanderthals, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (March 6, 2020) – What did our ancient ancestors really look like?

Ever since the first skull of a Neanderthal was discovered over 150 years ago, anthropologists and artists have been working together to recreate the appearance and habits of our extinct relatives.  Paleoanthropological reconstruction is one of the most demanding and potentially contentious fields within paleoart, requiring painstaking attention to anatomical detail and an awareness of the social and cultural implications of portraying extinct hominins.

For over three decades, world-renowned paleoartist Mauricio Antón has worked with leading paleoanthropologists, sometimes creating the first reconstructions of specimens and even …

The Hr Connection, Georgia Southern University

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Small But Mighty: How A Team Of Four Administers A Robust Library Publishing Program, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

A team of four people administers the UNL institutional repository (https://digitalcommons.unl.edu), which is one of the largest (109,000-plus full text items) and most-accessed (over 62,000,000 downloads) in the United States. The team also administers a robust library publishing program with over 80 scholarly monographs and 12 peer-reviewed journals. A recent focus of the program has been open educational resources, partnering with scholars to identify or create free online learning objects.

This talk will include details about how such a small team accomplishes so much. Staffing, task assignment, workflow, author relations, reader relations, education, administration, policy generation, platform management, …

2020-March-05-Etsu Entrepreneurs Club, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (March 5, 2020) — The Entrepreneurs’ Club at East Tennessee State University will welcome guest speaker Dr. Audrey Depelteau at its meeting on Monday, March 9, at 5 p.m. in Sam Wilson Hall, Room 334.

She will present “Transforming the Future through Innovation,” a soup-to-nuts presentation that will highlight the ETSU Innovation Lab’s multi-faceted endeavors and its role in the entrepreneurial community.           

According to Depelteau “directing the Innovation Lab is an entrepreneurial endeavor where every day is a walk in the unknown, facing novel opportunities and challenges, consulting with a diverse group of individuals, creating newly in the …

2020-03-05 Grant Implementation Ad Hoc Committee, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

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Faculty Senate establishment of a Ad Hoc Committee on Grant Implementation submitted on March 5, 2020.

2020-03-05 Faculty Resolution, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Resolution on the efficiencies of faculty performance reporting and the promotion of the reputation of MSU through faculty scholarly and creative activities submitted on March 5, 2020.

2020-03-05 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from March 5, 2020.

2020-03-05 First Year Seminar Committee Membership, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

First Year Seminar Committee organizational structure statement and purpose submitted on March 5, 2020.

2020-03-05 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

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Faculty Senate newsletter from March 5, 2020.

2020-March-04-Etsu Earns Nd Place In National Analytics Case Competition, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (March 4, 2020) – East Tennessee State University students representing three disciplines – business, computer science and mathematics – showcased their talent and teamwork during the first-ever National Analytics Case Competition held at Elon University last month. Their performance earned 2^nd place out of 10 other participating schools.

The national competition, sponsored by HanesBrands, challenged graduate and undergraduate students with real world scenarios based on the Champion Brand to test their analytics skills. Members of the ETSU team are Aaron Barlow, a native of Knoxville studying computing with a concentration in information technology; Dawson Maddox of Chattanooga, …

2020-03-04 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message sent to the staff and faculty by the Office of the President on March 4, 2020.