The 10 most-cited articles in Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, 2019

Minimum-wage labor is no longer confined to sectors once associated with low-skill occupations. In college classrooms across the United States, we are witness to the rise of a “gig-economy” among faculty positions where highly skilled work is being completed by part-time workers known commonly as adjuncts. Despite performing highly-skilled work, adjuncts are compensated at the levels of low-skilled workers. Lack of access to benefits, capricious contract agreements, and a general sense of feeling dispensable are common themes to the adjunct experience. The aim of this paper is to address the concerns of adjuncts and suggest some workable solutions to their contingent situation. As a resident of the Midwest and member of the adjunct labor movement in this part of the country, my primary focus for discussion will be the Saint Louis region. I argue that the most effective way for adjuncts to address their precarious labor arrangements is to tap into the power of organized labor. Universities and colleges in the Saint Louis area have seen a dramatic surge in adjunct activism that has…

Social Exclusion: The State of State U for Black Students

Research Questions:• What is the purpose of Student Surveys of Teaching?• Who are they for?• How are they delivered?• How is the data collected?• How and with whom is the data shared?• Are they effective measures of teaching?• What do they actually measure?• Why are they used so extensively?2

Salary compression has been an issue in higher education for almost four decades, during which a diverse literature on the topic has accumulated. Perhaps because of the absence of a compilation and review of this literature, administrations and collective bargaining agents commonly develop their own methods for identifying and rectifying salary compression on each campus. Most responses are short-term and do not prevent the problem from recurring. We review the literature concerning salary compression in higher education, then summarize our approach to correcting salary structure and preventing future compression.

At one time, Title IX of the federal Higher Education Act was read only as requiring equal opportunity for female athletes in universities’ varsity sports programs. In 2011 the U.S. Department of Education announced a radically expanded reading of the law to include sexual misconduct. This has resulted in a proliferation of litigation against the universities. Since 2011, more than 150 lawsuits have been filed against colleges and universities involving claims of due-process violations during the course of Title IX investigations and proceedings related to sexual assault allegations. In the two decades preceding that year, only 15 such lawsuits were filed against universities.

Adjunct faculty: Who they are and what is their experience?

Structural/Organizational Determinants of Variations in Women Attaining the Full Professorship at Research Universities