CURRENT ISSUES:
UIC Non-Tenure-Track contract (and addendum)
Union coalition lawsuit (We Are One Illinois) challenging the pension-slashing SB1.
More analysis of the We Are One Illinois lawsuit.
Update from UICUF Local 6456: Faculty Union Responds to the UIC Provost on the State of Contract Negotiations.
Mechanics of Higher Ed Unionism (and what a union can do for Engineering faculty)
Response to College of Engineering Executive Committee message about faculty unionization
Finances of the University of Illinois
Equity for Tenure Stream Women at UIIUC
Diversity: Students, Faculty, and the Work to be Done
AAUP Demolition of Anti-Union Article in Chronicle of Higher Education
Report on Panel on Shared Governance
OLDER LINKS:
Video of an Academic Senate Meeting discussing the pros and cons of collective bargaining.
Transcript of the Pro (Randy McCarthy, Mathematics) and Con (Nick Burbules) arguments.
Tim Cain’s research on the subject of faculty unions for the IPRH blog.
Pensions
We recommend your first stop be the Illinois Retirement Security Initiative (IRSI) website. They are a project on our state pensions under the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability.
Illinois state employee unions coordinate their pension action through the We Are One Illinois coalition.
Overview of Illinois State pensions from Sunshine Review.
David O. Johnston on public pensions – they are deferred employee compensation, not a gift from the taxpayer.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
New Faculty Majority: An Organization that advocates for adjunct and contingent faculty nationally.
Collective bargaining
How events in Wisconsin converted Professor Stanley Fish to faculty unions.
Salaries
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports national survey findings that pay in public universities is flat lining while private universities’ salaries climb. To read, click here.
Shared governance
University of Louisiana page with several articles on shared governance.
American Association of University Professors (AAUP) statements on shared governance.
Chronicle of Higher Education article by philosophy professor John Lachs (Vanderbilt).
Campus Faculty Association 