Filter & Sort
Shift on Grad Unions
NYU offers to permit election on collective bargaining for teaching assistants, but not for research assistants. Move marks shift for university, but union leader says it is based on "arbitrary distinctions."
A Market Approach
Eastern Washington U. and its faculty union agree to base professors' raises on how much above or below the market they are in their disciplines.
Aiming to Organize
AAUP's new head administrator, who comes from a union background, signals a focus on getting more faculty members involved.
'It's My Business'
Cary Nelson warns that MOOCs could lead to erosion of faculty members' intellectual property rights.
Adjunct Win at Religious College
NLRB official, rejecting stance of Pacific Lutheran U., says non-tenure-track faculty members have right to vote on collective bargaining.
Faculty vs. Accreditor
With City College of San Francisco facing possible accreditor-mandated shutdown, faculty unions urge agency to back down, arguing that review was flawed and tainted by conflicts of interest.
Union Democracy for Some?
Some adjuncts are angry over decision by CUNY faculty union to exclude them from voting on resolution about controversial curricular changes.
Opinion
God Bless the Janitors
Wick Sloane recommends a Massachusetts union's trenchant series of reports on the foibles of higher education finance.