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Research Panel: Assigned Leaders In Unionized Environments - Strategies For Change In Academic Libraries, Adriene Lim

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Book Session: Kim Tolley, Ed., Professors In The Gig Economy: Unionizing Adjunct Faculty In America, Kim Tolley

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Employee Retirement Plans And Alleged Breaches Of Fiduciary Obligations (Cle), Allie Rivera

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Employee Retirement Plans And Alleged Breaches Of Fiduciary Obligations (Cle), Steve Kronheim

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Employee Retirement Plans And Alleged Breaches Of Fiduciary Obligations (Cle), Mark Brossman

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Academic Freedom In Trying Times (Cle), Frederick Schaffer

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Academic Freedom In Trying Times (Cle), Risa Lieberwitz

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Research Panel: Examining The Employment Profile Of Institutions Under The Mission-Driven Classification System And The Impact Of Collective Bargaining, Nathaniel Bray

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Financialization Of Higher Education: Interest Swaps And Their Consequences, Aman Banerji

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Adjunct Faculty: Recently Negotiated First Contracts At Private Institutions, Robin Sowards

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Research Panel: Wage Discrimination At Universities And Professional Schools, Ken Thornicroft

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Can An Ombuds Help Resolve Conflicts & Improve Labor-Management Relationships?, Sarah Miller Espinoza

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Preparing, Presenting, And Defending At Arbitration, Maureen Seidel

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Organizing And Negotiating For Academic Labor

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

"Which form will your negotiations take?"

Workshop: Training On Organizing And Negotiating For Academic Labor, Scott Phillipson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Organizing And Negotiating For Academic Labor, Mickey Gallagher

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Organizing And Negotiating For Academic Labor, Mickey Gallagher

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Organizing And Negotiating For Academic Labor, Deborah Williams

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Bargaining Over Health Insurance In Higher Education, Joel Solomon

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Effective Lobbying For Higher Education, Ken Mash

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Training On Effective Lobbying For Higher Education, Barbara Berreski

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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2018 Conference Schedule

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Locating Sociological Concepts In Business Games, Dylan Kissane, Helen Roux-Fontaine

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This article describes one strategy for demonstrating the value of sociological concepts to business students by adopting a transversal approach to a business game at a French-American business school. This strategy proved effective in allowing a social science professor to demonstrate the practical implications of two concepts – gender and race – to undergraduate students while simultaneously allowing an international management professor to demonstrate how cross-cultural teams should be managed in order to work effectively. This article firstly explains the Ecotonas business game; secondly, it explains the crucial debriefing process for the business game and demonstrates how sociological concepts can …

Competition And Concentration In Banking Sector: Evidence From Bangladesh, Junnatun Naym

2018 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity – Documents

Abstract

Considering the significance of competition and concentration in pricing, efficiency, productivity and stability of banking sector, this paper has explored the competitive behavior and concentration level in the banking sector of Bangladesh considering 20 commercial banks for the period of 2004-2013. The level of competition has been tested using the Panzar and Rosse model while the level of concentration has been analyzed using concentration indices and the Herfindahl-Hirschman indices in terms of assets, loans, and deposits. The findings point to a non-concentrated market with monopolistic competition in the banking sector of Bangladesh. This paper contributes to the understanding of …

The Impact Of Real Interest Rate On Real Exchange Rate: Empirical Evidence From Japan, Tomiwa Shodipe

2018 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity – Documents

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of real interest rate on the real exchange rate in Japan using Two Stage Least Square econometric techniques. The two instruments used are money supply and gross domestic product growth rates. The result provides support for the theoretical and empirical evidences of positive relationship between real interest rate and real exchange rate in Japan. The estimation also shows that there is positive relation between trade and Japanese Yen over the period considered in the study. In light of these findings, the study suggests the adoption of fiscal macroeconomic policy instruments that are capable of …

The Accidental Academic: Reflections On 50 Years In Academic Collective Bargaining, William Connellan

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Little did I know that when I started a career as a newspaper reporter that I would have a 50-year academic career with academic labor relations as a central part.

Unionization And The Development Of Policies For Non-Tenure Track Faculty: A Comparative Study Of Research Universities, Karen Halverson Cross

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This paper examines how policies at several research universities support and professionalize their full-time, non-tenure track (NTT) instructional faculty, and considers the influence of NTT faculty unions on policy development at these institutions. Faculty handbooks, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), and other policy documents at a few institutions with and without CBAs were analyzed for the presence of institutional, NTT faculty-supportive policies. One unionized and one non-unionized institution were selected as sites for interviews with faculty and administrators. The paper finds CBAs to be a significant source of NTT faculty-supportive policies, and the union to provide important procedural safeguards against arbitrary …

Contracts With Community College Adjunct Faculty Members And Potential Supplemental Benefits To Increase Satisfaction, Kimberly Ann Page

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

ABSTRACT

As state funding to community colleges has fluctuated, many community colleges have hired more adjunct faculty (Desrochers & Hurlburt, 2014).

This qualitative research explored supplemental benefits, which could be included in adjunct faculty contracts with community colleges in order to promote workplace satisfaction, without causing stress on budgets. Adjunct faculty who realize greater job satisfaction are more beneficial to their institutions because they promote student learning and retention (CCCSE, 2014b; Hollenshead, 2010; Jacoby, 2006).

The descriptive study included three phases: record reviews, interviews with key informants and elite informants, and a reflective questionnaire. New England was selected as the …

The History Books Tell It? Collective Bargaining In Higher Education In The 1940s, William A. Herbert

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This article presents a history of unionization and collective bargaining in higher education during and just after World War II, decades before the establishment of statutory frameworks for labor representation. It examines the collective bargaining program adopted by the University of Illinois in 1945, along with contracts negotiated at other institutions, which demonstrated support for employee self-organization. It will also presents counter-examples of institutions using the courts and congressional investigators to defeat unionization efforts. . Lastly, the article will examine the role of United Public Workers of America (UPWA) and its predecessor unions in organizing and negotiating on behalf of …

Anti-Intellectualism, Corporatization, And The University, Henry Reichman

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Anti-intellectual pressures on colleges and universities are not only external; they are generated by colleges and universities themselves. The corporatization agenda, seen in calls to run universities "more like businesses," has produced a managerial approach to education that is fundamentally hostile to free intellectual endeavor. The idea that higher education is not about the common good, but about individual improvement is a major source of anti-intellectualism. The appropriate response to an overly "practical" vision of education, however, is not to retreat into an ivory tower. The clash of ideas cannot always be clean and civil; it must sometimes be messy …