This report concerns actions taken by the administration of Spalding University to terminate the appointment of tenured professor of social work Erlene Grise-Owens after she criticized the administration's handling of an incident involving a student who brought a gun to a campus parking lot. The social work school's chair immediately alerted…

This report concerns actions taken by the administration of University of Nebraska-Lincoln to suspend lecturer, Courtney Lawton from her teaching responsibilities--initially, for stated safety concerns. Lawton is a sixth-year doctoral student with a part-time appointment as lecturer for the 2017-18 academic year. She received threats after a video…

This reflective essay, which is both autobiographical and historical in nature, is framed by answering the questions posed by the editors regarding my work: What values inform it, how I actually do it, and why do I do it? Quite simply, I am writing to encourage social change for all queer people, be it merely the little corner of my own social…

The unionization of instructional workers is a central feature of U.S. higher education, with more than a quarter of those teaching college classes covered by collectively bargained contracts. Though dated, the best existing numbers indicate that more than 430,000 faculty members, graduate students, and related personnel are in bargaining units;…

This paper examines the processes of tenure denial and appeal from the standpoint of the author, who has been the Grievance Chair at Carleton University since 2000. The focus is on the ways that the grievance process as textually mediated provides for regulation and control over the forms of interaction between appellants and senior…

Billy Gillispie, like many college basketball coaches, was hired--and fired--in a hurry. But the contract negotiations that dragged on for nearly two years while he coached the University of Kentucky's men's basketball team showed little of the same urgency that defined his entrance and exit. Mr. Gillispie worked for Kentucky under a memorandum of…

At the 1986 Wyoming Conference on English, a group of graduate students and part-time and tenure-line faculty formulated a statement known as the Wyoming Resolution, a rallying cry to improve composition teachers' pay, benefits, and working conditions. Adopted by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in 1987, the Wyoming…

Reviews three Massachusetts court cases involving nontenured teachers that helped delineate the scope of an arbitrator's authority. (Author/IRT)

This document presents the agreement between the Cumberland County College Board of Trustees and the Cumberland County College Faculty Association. Articles of the agreement cover recognition; negotiation procedure; association rights and responsibilities; conditions of employment; faculty benefits; salaries; compensation for graduate work;…

Draft statement developed by a joint task force of the National Society of Professors and the National Faculty Association of Community and Junior Colleges in consultation with the NEA office of General Counsel, NEA Higher Education, and NEA Programs for Human and Civil Rights. (Editor/CB)

Presented in this document is the agreement between the Board of Junior College District No. 532 County of Lake and State of Illinois and the College of Lake County Local United Professions Association for the period from 1972-73. Covered in the articles of agreement are sections on negotiation procedures, leaves of absence, school calendar, use…

Explores the aspects of campus collective bargaining -- issues, causes favoring unionization, benefits to be gained, and results to date. (Author)

This agreement was made and entered into as of April 9, 1974 by and between Monmouth College, West Long Branch, New Jersey; and the Faculty Association of Monmouth College, a corporation of the state of New Jersey. The agreement is in effect until June 30, 1976. Articles of the agreement include sections covering: academic rank; equal employment;…

AAUP-supported guidelines for presenting sex discrimination claims are discussed. Consideration is given to: direct evidence of sex discrimination; unequal application of standards; general deficiencies in procedure; processing of the complaint itself by AAUP; and formal investigation. (LBH)