This article examines how teacher collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), teacher salaries, and class sizes changed during the Great Recession. Using a district-level data set of California teacher CBAs that includes measures of subarea contract strength and salaries from 2005-2006 and 2011-2012 tied to district-level longitudinal data, we…

For both proponents and critics alike, among the most salient features of charter schooling today is their freedom from collective bargaining agreements that shape staffing and work rules and limit school administrators' discretion. This is changing in some states where a small but growing number of charter schools are unionized. How collective…

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;…

Based on a study conducted by Rutgers University, this article provides information on community college faculty bargaining in New Jersey with respect to negotiating structures, teacher salaries, scope of negotiations, contract administration, and governance agreements. After introductory material outlining the history of collective bargaining in…

Recommendations are set forth in language suitable for institutional use. Derived from earlier AAUP statements on faculty personnel policy, they include terms of appointment, probationary appointment, termination and dismissal procedures, governing board action, other sanctions, terminal salary or notice, protection against discrimination,…

A case study tracing failed efforts by Georgetown University (District of Columbia) administrators to require tenured professors at the medical center to fund most of their own salaries notes that despite faculty support by two grievance committees, faculty were forced to sue. Ultimately, an out-of-court settlement was reached. (DB)