In response to the COVID-19 crisis, school districts worked quickly to roll out distance learning plans in the spring. Sometimes these plans impinged upon or were directly in conflict with provisions found in collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) negotiated between teachers' unions and district administration. In this brief, we unpack how urban…

Act 10, the 2011 legislative ruling in Wisconsin that reduced public-sector unions' collective bargaining power, provides a descriptive case study to examine what happens to teachers when collective bargaining disappears. Analysis of interviews with social studies teachers (n = 26) from a stratified random sample of 13 districts shows that the…

Massive Open Online Courses ("MOOCs") are free, online courses offered by institutions of higher education to individual users across the world, and in the vast majority of cases, without any admissions criteria. MOOCs are popular with individuals because they offer unprecedented, free access to the best institutions in the world that…

The recommendations of the "Bradley Review" of higher education in Australia identified a clear need for examination of the academic labour market and the limited attractiveness of academia as a profession. Reasons for the lack of attractiveness include increased academic workloads, as evidenced by larger class sizes and staff-student…

Workload clauses in 92 collective bargaining contracts provides one basis for predicting future trends and tradeoffs. (Editor)

This document is a formal contract between the Gogebic Community College Board of Trustees and the Michigan Association of Higher Education, Gogebic Community College District. Contract articles cover recognition, bargaining, rights of the board of trustees, instructor rights, employment policies and practices, vacancy qualifications, leaves,…

Teachers as a group are dependent upon the community for the conditions of their profession. The current unrest among teachers is indicative of a need for a "Bill of Rights' for this group. (CK)

This agreement was made and entered into as of April 9, 1974 by and between Monmouth College, West Long Branch, New Jersey; and the Faculty Association of Monmouth College, a corporation of the state of New Jersey. The agreement is in effect until June 30, 1976. Articles of the agreement include sections covering: academic rank; equal employment;…

Articles of this agreement cover: definitions and construction, recognition of the council, nondiscrimination, salary, fringe benefits, leaves of absence, faculty workload, working conditions, calendars and schedules, departmental governance, college governance, campus governance, university commission and financial exigency, security of…

This document describes the contract agreement made on February 7, 1975 by and between the Board of Trustees of Jamestown College and the Jamestown College Education Association. The contract contains articles describing the agreed to: duration and redefinition of the contract, workload and curriculum, salary schedule, faculty benefits, and due…

This agreement between the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Board of Trustees and the Kalamazoo Valley Community College Faculty Association covers the period 1971-1973. Articles cover recognition, responsibilities and privileges of association, employment conditions, working conditions, professional compensation, grievance procedure, and other…

Contract clauses on tenure, promotion, salaries, faculty workload, and retrenchment are compared with the national stances of the American Federation of Teachers, American Association of University Professors, and the National Education Association. Conclusion is that national organizational positions are not reliable predictors of individual…

Most faculty collective bargaining agreements now require supplemental compensation for the performance of any duty that is in addition to what is defined as the normal teaching load for college faculty. Virtually all agreements state very clearly what a basic faculty load is, and all other services are thus defined or designated as overload or…

This agreement is in effect from September 19, 1974 until July 1, 1975. Articles of the agreement cover: academic freedom, selection of deans, annual review of faculty, leaves of absence, faculty load, grievance procedures, salaries, fringe benefits, and faculty appointments. Appendixes include sections covering salaries, fringe benefits, summer…