This article examines unionization among college faculty in 1994. Academic unions represented 242,221 professors in 1994, a growth of 3.2 percent over 1993, and there were 502 bargaining agents on 1,075 campuses throughout the United States. This increase can be attributed to three factors: (1) unions won 8 out of 11 collective bargaining…

This directory reports on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in higher education in the United States in 1992. An introductory section examines two conflicting trends characterizing faculty higher education collective bargaining activities during 1992--the number of collective bargaining agents increased to an all time high of 484, but the…

This study examined faculty workload rules in collective bargaining agreements at the 20 largest unionized colleges and universities (all public institutions or systems) to understand if and how labor and management have negotiated faculty workload provisions. It found that in 12 of the 20 agreements, the parties negotiated specific limits on the…

This report presents information on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in public and private institutions of higher education. It begins with a listing of higher education institutions, by state, indicating the bargaining agent representing the regular college faculty, the unit size, date of current agent election, date of initial contract,…

This newsletter theme issue focuses on unionization of graduate student assistants at institutions of higher education. The first article, "Graduate Assistants and Unionization" by Frank R. Annunziato, points out that more than 21,000 graduate student assistants at public sector colleges/universities are represented by unions in eight…

This newsletter theme issue cites statistics indicating that slight growth occurred in the number of faculty members represented for purposes of collective bargaining and in the number of faculty bargaining agents in institutions of higher education in the United States. In text, tabular, and graphic formats, the report offers information on:…

The extent to which collective bargaining, as a model for conflict resolution, has permeated higher education is examined, and extracts from collective bargaining agreements are analyzed to illustrate the unique nature of collective bargaining for this purpose. It is concluded that when a mutually respectful relationship exists between faculty…

This report presents information and statistical data on higher education faculty contracts and bargaining agents in the U.S. The report lists, for each institution of higher education, the bargaining agent, unit size, year current agent was elected, initial contract date, number of campuses, and contract expiration date. The report also lists…

Over the 29-year period from 1966 to 1994, the number of faculty strikes recorded by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions totaled 163. They transpired in 96 two-year and 67 four-year institutions. The vast majority involved faculty members employed at public sector colleges and…

This newsletter presents information about faculty collective bargaining at two-year colleges during 1994. The newsletter indicates the following: (1) two-year colleges accounted for 349 (69%) of the 502 faculty higher education collective bargaining agents; (2) two-year college faculty accounted for 43% of the 242,221 faculty members represented…