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Unionization and the Development of Policies for Non-Tenure Track Faculty: A Comparative Study of Research Universities
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
  • Karen Halverson Cross, John Marshall Law School
Abstract

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 administrative acts towards a NTT faculty member. The findings identify potential advantages as well as limitations of NTT faculty unionization.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.58188/1941-8043.1733
Citation Information
Karen Halverson Cross. "Unionization and the Development of Policies for Non-Tenure Track Faculty: A Comparative Study of Research Universities"
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/karen_cross/39/