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Central Michigan U Faculty Union Rejects Administration's "Final" Contract Offer

After the Central Michigan University administration made one last contract offer to the Faculty Association, the union rejected it.

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The Saginaw News

'Emergency' Decree Worries College Faculty Union

The decision to declare a financial emergency at community and technical colleges is drawing concern from the union that represents faculty at the schools.

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AP via The Seattle Times

Univ. Of Calif Reaches Labor Deal With Its Largest Union

The labor union representing the largest organized group of University of California employees has ratified its new contract overwhelmingly, raising hopes for a period of labor peace at the university system and its hospitals, officials said Monday.

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The Los Angeles Times

More Southern Illinois U-Carbondale Professors Threaten Strike

Illinois' budget woes have placed heavy constrictions on the state's higher education system, putting professors' contracts in jeopardy and portending layoffs.

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Riverfront Times

Rutgers University Students Protest Pay Freeze For Campus Workers

Five months after Rutgers University undergraduates staged a two-day sit in to protest tuition hikes, students returned to the campus administration building in New Brunswick today to stage another protest.

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The Star-Ledger

Union At Madison Area Technical College Looks For Options

The leaders of the Madison Area Technical College Part-Time Teachers' Union are proposing to dissolve the union, creating in its place a private corporation that would contract with the college to provide instructors and administrative functions.

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Wisconsin State Journal

College Union Workers Object To ‘Bonuses’

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system union workers say this is not the time to pay top officials bonuses and high salaries.

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Grand Forks Herald

Discord in Wisconsin and Ohio

Feature
Ron Schachter
University Business, Sept 2011

At some public universities, giving collective bargaining rights to faculty has become part of the shared governance equation. That equation changed this past winter in Wisconsin and Ohio, as newly-elected governors and state legislatures enacted laws cutting the benefits of all public employees—university faculty among them—and eliminated most collective bargaining rights.

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Academic Leadership
Employee Morale
Unions

What Ever Happened to Shared Governance?

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Twenty-first century challenges are threatening a bastion of faculty power and pride.
Ron Schachter
University Business, Sept 2011

The idea that faculty members are uniquely qualified to determine the direction, standards, and practices of the institutions at which they teach and do research has been a tenet in higher education. At many colleges and universities, the faculty has almost sole responsibility for hiring, promoting, and granting tenure to its own.

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Academic Leadership
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