Data for the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources "CUPA-HR's" "Administrators in Higher Education Salary Survey" were collected November 1, 2016-February 5, 2017. The survey was conducted entirely online through Surveys Online, CUPA-HR's data collection and reporting system. For this year's…

This 15th annual report of faculty salaries by rank and discipline surveyed 544 private colleges and universities, including those offering theological studies and religious vocations. Data were collected for 55 disciplines. For the current year the report notes an average annual increase in salaries of 2.50 percent. In addition, the report…

A recent report indicates that at public colleges and universities, business and management professors receive the highest salaries. At private institutions, engineering faculty remain the highest paid. Lowest-paid faculty remain the same. Collective bargaining affected pay raises. Private and public institution average salaries are tabulated, by…

This report outlines the process involved in establishing a faculty union at the English Language Institute at the American University in Washington, D.C. The English Language Institute Faculty Association (ELIFA) is one of the few units to be certified at a private university since the 1980 Yeshiva Supreme Court decision. During the beginning…

Assesses the impact of unionization of faculties on the average salary and compensation of faculty members in four-year colleges and universities generally and in public and private institutions separately. Concludes that collective bargaining is more effective in public institutions and that factors such as institutional prestige, size, and…

Presented is the directory of faculty contracts and bargaining agents in institutions of higher education, which as of December 31, 1980 consisted of 427 faculty unions who are certified as recognized bargaining agents, with more than 359 collective bargaining agreements in effect. Approximately 68 of these agents have either chosen not to…

Unionization as a significant issue on campuses is discussed. Four variables are seen as contributing to the rapid rise of unionism on campuses: economic, structural, legal, and the events of the 1960s. Topics discussed include faculty salaries, governance, tenure, faculty/administrator relationship, public and private institutions and unions, and…

Results of a study of salary and compensation methodology utilized in academic collective bargaining agreements are presented. Attention was focused on 207 agreements in effect at 134 two-year colleges and 73 four-year colleges. Six structural components of salary were assessed: a payment method, salary structure, faculty typology, chairperson's…

The collective bargaining agreement between Adelphi University administration and the Adelphi University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) covering the period September 1, 1987-August 31, 1990 is presented. Items covered in the agreement include: unit recognition, exchange of information between AAUP and the…

Collective bargaining in higher education can no longer be characterized as a truly new phenomenon. Presently, one out of every four faculty and professional staff, or approximately 120,000 individuals (two-thirds of whom work in four-year colleges), are members of a labor organization. The literature on the topic has evolved from anecdotal…

The collective bargaining agreement between Bard College and the 60-member Bard College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors for the period June 1, 1984-June 1, 1985 is presented. Items covered in the agreement include: recognition of the unit, faculty notice of termination, tenure, adequate cause for dismissal, hearings on…

The agreement covers contract management, chapter rights, college governance, academic freedom, faculty status, terms of appointment, reappointment and tenure, dismissal for cause, grievance procedure, arbitration, leaves of absence, salaries, fringe benefits, working conditions, workload, retrenchment, part-time faculty, faculty in the veterans'…

The seventh annual bibliography on collective bargaining in higher education is a selective survey of the literature of the field as it relates to faculty and nonfaculty in public and private colleges and universities. It is primarily a source of current references for 1978 but also includes pre-1978 references of particular interest at this time…

Collective bargaining in higher education and a few other fields is examined in 21 papers from a 1986 conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. After an introduction by Joel M. Douglas, the academic collective bargaining system is reexamined in four papers. Additional papers…

The collective bargaining agreement between Bard College and the Bard College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) covering 1986-1987 is presented. Items covered in the agreement are: unit recognition, faculty notice of reappointment, tenure, adequate cause for dismissal, hearings, financial exigency, other…