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July-August 2024 Newsletter

The National Center hopes that you are having a good and productive summer.

In this newsletter, we provide an update concerning the publication of our 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education. 

The newsletter includes a link to the Call for Proposals for our 2025 annual conference in New York City on March 23-25, 2025, pictures and links to videos from our 2024 annual conference, along with a solicitation for manuscripts for our Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy. 

We introduce two new researchers who will be joining us in the 2024-25 academic year: Professor Rhiannon M. Maton, who will be a visiting scholar, and Toby Irving who will be a part-time research assistant.

The newsletter also includes details about the following representation elections, certifications, revocation of certifications, along with other updates from labor relations agencies:

At Marist College, contingent faculty voted against union representation in a rerun election. In Florida, the Public Employees Relations Commission revoked the certification of SEIU to represent contingent faculty at Valenica College, the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg College, Lake-Sumter State College, Seminole State College, Miami-Dade College, and Broward College.

At the University of Southern California, the UAW was certified to represent a postdoctoral scholars unit and at the University of Montana, Montana Federation of Public Employees, AFT-NEA, was certified to represent a unit of graduate assistants.

In a July decision, the NLRB denied a request for review from a decision dismissing a petition to represent a unit of graduate fellows at the Massachusetts Institution of Technology and the NLRB General Counsel in August issued a memorandum clarifying institutional obligations under the NLRA and FERPA.

At Whatcom Community College, the AFT-Washington was certified to represent a unit of professional staff and there have been newly certified campus police unions at Western Washington University, the University of Dayton, Northwestern University, and Fairfield University. In addition, a representation petition is pending concerning a unit of dining workers and others employed by a private contractor at SUNY Stony Brook.

Lastly, the newsletter includes a job posting for a National Center Development and Fundraising Coordinator position.

Coming Soon

2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts

in Institutions of Higher Education

The National Center is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of our 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in institutions of Higher Education. It will include data, analysis, and links to contracts for hundreds of collective bargaining relationships from around the country involving faculty, chairs, postdoctoral scholars, graduate assistants, and undergraduate student employees. The 2024 Directory is the culmination of over two years of research by a team of faculty, doctoral and master's degree students, and Hunter College graduates.

Join the Campaign for an Interactive Collective Bargaining Website

Join the National Center's campaign to fund a permanent interactive website that will provide access to the National Center's database of information and contracts concerning all academic collective bargaining relationships listed in the forthcoming 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education.

Donations for the campaign will allow us to build and maintain the website and to employ graduate students to maintain the website and regularly update our database including copies of first and successor contracts and information about new collective bargaining relationships.

Call for Proposals for 2025 National Center Annual Conference

The National Center has issued a Call for Proposals for our 52nd annual conference that will take place on March 23-25, 2025 in New York City. The theme of the conference will be New Developments and Training in Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

We welcome proposals for diverse panels or interactive workshops that include both labor and administrator representatives to discuss subjects relevant to higher education and the professions including unionization, collective bargaining, and labor relations. We strongly encourage proposals that include newer and diverse scholars, administrators, and labor representatives. Proposals are due on or before August 30, 2024.

National Center Welcomes Visiting Scholar Rhiannon M. Maton

The National Center is pleased to welcome Rhiannon M. Maton, Associate Professor of Foundations and Social Advocacy at the State University of New York at Cortland, as a visiting scholar for the 2024-25 academic year.

Dr. Maton is a qualitative researcher whose primary area of research focuses on teachers’ work and unions in preK-16 public education in the U.S. and Canada. Her research is informed both by her experiences teaching in preK-16 public and private schools and universities and her elected union leadership work in several public education systems in the U.S. and Canada.

Dr. Maton recently served as Co-Chair of the Teachers’ Work/Teachers Unions Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and is a Co-Editor for Routledge’s Critical Perspectives on Teaching and Teachers’ Work book series. Dr. Maton has been awarded a range of awards and distinctions, most recently including the 2023 Di Nardo and Waring Outstanding Achievement in Research Award in the SUNY system. Her work appears in a range of journals and book volumes, including Gender, Work and Organization, the Journal of Educational Change, and Radical Teacher. Her bio and published articles may be found here. Dr. Maton is thrilled to join the team at the National Center, and looks forward to collaborating with fellow researchers and practitioners on higher education collective bargaining scholarship, with a particular focus on community college unions.

National Center Welcomes Research Assistant Toby Irving

The National Center is pleased to welcome Toby Irving as a part-time research assistant for the 2024-25 academic year.

Ms. Irving is a researcher, educator, and consultant based in New York City. She promotes and develops worker-centered organizational policies for nonprofits and is a trainer with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. Her graduate research at the CUNY Graduate Center spanned a number of different issues including labor and policing, subsequently working on the latter at CUNY's Institute for State and Local Governance and publishing in Metropolitics. She holds an MA in political science and teaches as an adjunct at Baruch College.

Submit Articles to the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy is a publication of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online periodical advancing research and scholarly thought related to collective bargaining in higher education, and making relevant and pragmatic peer-reviewed research readily accessible.

The Journal is now accepting submissions for Volume 16 to be published in March 2025. Our authors customarily include college and university faculty and administrators, scholars, graduate students, union activists and leaders, and others interested in collective bargaining in higher education.

Our Journal editors are particularly interested in submissions for Volume 16 dealing with the following subjects: artificial intelligence and collective bargaining; social justice issues as negotiable subjects; Title IX compliance in the context of legal challenges; graduate and undergraduate student unionization and bargaining; ombudsperson offices co-existing or conflicting with academic labor; and other important issues in today’s fast-changing and growing campus collective bargaining world.

Please see the Aims & Scope page for more information or contact the editors with any questions on possible submissions.

Journal editors are Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona, Karen Stubaus, National Center Visiting Scholar and former Vice President for Academic Affairs at Rutgers University, and Jacob Apkarian, York College, City University of New York. It is supported in part by a generous contribution from TIAA and is hosted by the institutional repository of Eastern Illinois University, The Keep, a service of EIU's Booth Library.

Volume 15 of the Journal, which was published earlier this year, was titled "Learning From and Building on Collective Bargaining's Foundations and Experience." Below are links to articles that appeared in that volume:

Op-Ed

Collective Bargaining Among Undergraduate Students by Daniel J. Julius and Nicholas DiGiovanni Jr.

Articles

The Persistence of Separate and Unequal: Debunking Myths of the Market in Bargaining for Faculty Gender Salary Equity by Johanna E. Foster and Jen McGovern

The Role of the Chief Negotiator in Academic Collective Bargaining by Nicholas DiGiovanni Jr.

The 50 Year History of Collective Bargaining at Hofstra University by Herman A. Berliner, Peter C. Daniel, Bernard J. Firestone, Estelle S. Gellman, Elizabeth J. Ploran, and Liora P. Schmelkin

Analyzing the Upward Trend in Academic Unionization: Drivers and Influences

by Andrea Clemons

Practitioner Perspectives

TAUP's 50-Year Collective Bargaining Story by Arthur Hochner

Some Thoughts of Faculty Strikes by Margaret E. Winters and William Connellan

Marist College: Contingent Faculty Vote Against SEIU Representation

Marist College, NLRB Case No. 03-RC-127374

On July18, 2024, the NLRB tallied the ballots in a rerun election involving a representation petition filed by SEIU seeking to represent a unit of 549 contingent faculty at Marist College, which is located in New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. The tally demonstrated that the faculty voted 184-173 against representation.

The following is the at-issue bargaining unit:

All adjunct faculty* employed by the Employer who teach undergraduate and/or graduate level courses, who teach in the classroom and/or online, and who teach courses at either the Employer’s Poughkeepsie, New York campus or its Fishkill, New York campus, and Student Teaching Supervisors; but excluding all other faculty, tenured and tenure eligible faculty, full-time faculty and faculty who only teach in the classroom at locations other than the Poughkeepsie Campus or the Fishkill Campus, administrators, coaches, librarians, directors, managers, guards, supervisors and professional employees as defined in the Act, and all other employees whether or not they have teaching responsibilities. *The parties agree that for purposes of this election, to be eligible to vote the employees must have taught at least one credit hour in any given semester in the twelve months preceding the eligibility date.

The recent rerun election was the fourth since 2014 in which the Marist College contingent faculty rejected union representation.

Valencia College: SEIU's Certification Revoked under New Florida Law

Valencia College, FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-051

On July 29, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 1,299 part-time teaching faculty and part-time instructors employed by Valencia College. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time faculty since July 2, 2021, when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

The recent certification revocation at Valencia College was premised on changes made to Florida's public sector collective bargaining law in 2023. Among those changes is a requirement that a certified union submit to FPERC, with a registration renewal application, the following information: the number of bargaining unit employees who are eligible for representation; the number of bargaining unit employees who have submitted signed membership authorization forms without a subsequent revocation; the number of bargaining unit employees who paid union dues; and the number of bargaining unit employees who did not pay dues to the employee organization.

Under the 2023 amendments, if the registration renewal application shows that less than 60% of the bargaining unit employees have not submitted membership authorization forms without subsequent revocation and paid union dues during the prior registration period, the union's certification will be automatically revoked if the union does not file a petition for recertification with FPERC within 30 days after filing for registration renewal.

These legal changes has led to the revocation of certifications of SEIU to represent thousands of other contingent faculty at seven additional Florida institutions, which are described below.

Hillsborough Comm. College: SEIU's Certification Revoked

Hillsborough Community College, FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-050

On July 30, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 1,006 part-time adjunct faculty employed by Hillsborough Community College. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time adjunct faculty at Hillsborough Community College since December 9, 2016, when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

University of South Florida: SEIU's Certification Revoked

University of South Florida, FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-049

On July 29, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 893 part-time adjunct faculty employed by the University of South Florida. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time faculty since March 29, 2018 when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

St. Petersburg College: SEIU's Certification Revoked

St. Petersburg College, FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-048

On July 29, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 869 part-time adjunct faculty employed by St. Petersburg College. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time faculty since November 7, 2019, when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

Lake-Sumter College: SEIU's Certification Revoked

Lake-Sumter State College, FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-047

On July 29, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 138 part-time adjunct instructors employed by Lake-Sumter State College. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time faculty since May 16, 2019, when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

Seminole State College: SEIU's Certification Revoked

Seminole State College , FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-046

On July 30, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 517 part-time adjunct faculty employed by Seminole State College. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time faculty since November 1, 2018, when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

Miami-Dade College: SEIU's Certification Revoked

Miami-Dade College, FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-045

On July 30, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 2,790 part-time adjunct at Miami-Dade College. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time faculty since April 12, 2019, when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

Broward College: SEIU's Certification Revoked

Broward College, FPERC Case No.CQ-2024-044

On July 30, 2024, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission (FPERC) issued an order revoking SEIU's certification as the exclusive representative of a unit of approximately 1,699, part-time, non-tenure-track adjunct faculty employed by Broward College. The revocation was ordered because SEIU failed to file a timely petition for recertification with FPERC. Before the revocation, SEIU had represented the part-time faculty since January 3, 2018, when FPERC certified it as the exclusive representative following a representation election.

USC: UAW Certified to Represent Unit of Postdoctoral Scholars

University of Southern California, NLRB Case No. 31-RC-341893

On July 2, 2025, the NLRB certified USC Researchers and Fellows United – UAW to represent a bargaining unit of 472 postdoctoral scholars employed by the University of Southern California. The certification followed an election in which the postdoctoral scholars voted 200-15 in favor of representation by USC Researchers and Fellows United – UAW.

The following is a description of the new postdoctoral scholars bargaining unit at the University of Southern California:

Included: All Postdoctoral Scholars employed by the University of Southern California including Postdoctoral Scholar—Research Associate; Postdoctoral Scholar—Fellowship Trainee; and Postdoctoral Scholar—Teaching Fellow.

Excluded: All Postdoctoral Scholar–Visiting Fellow, and all other employees, guards and supervisors as defined in the Act.

MIT: NLRB Denies Review of Dismissal of UE Graduate Fellow Petition

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NLRB Case No. 01-RC-304042

On July 17, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision denying a Request for Review by United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) from a March 13, 2013 decision and order by NLRB Region 1 Director Laura Sacks dismissing UE’s petition seeking to represent a unit of graduate fellows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 

Region 1 Director Sachs dismissed the petition on the grounds that the graduate fellows did not meet the common law definition to be a statutory employee under Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) because as a whole they “do not perform work controlled by the Employer in exchange for compensation. Rather, they perform research (or, occasionally, teach) to further their own academic purposes and are provided with funding to do so regardless of whether their activities also benefit the Employer.”

In denying UE’s Request for Review, the NLRB Board affirmed the Region 1 Director’s decision without prejudice to UE filing a petition seeking to represent particular a subset of graduate fellows that do satisfy the common-law standard to be a statutory employee under the NLRA.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: New NLRB Guidance Memo

On August 6, 2024, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer A. Abruzzo issued Memorandum GC 24-06 to clarify the obligations of private colleges and universities to disclose information under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The memorandum calls for a three-step process aimed at balancing and accommodating the duties of institutions to provide requested information to a collective bargaining representative and to protect education records or personally identifiable information about individual student employees under FERPA. In addition, General Counsel Abruzzo has issued a model student employee consent form to help effectuate the accommodation process under the NLRB and FERPA.

Univ. of Montana: AFT-NEA State Affiliate Certified to Represent GSE Unit

University of Montana, Unit Determination No. 2024DRS00167

On June 25, 2024, the Montana Department of Labor and Industry Board of Personnel Appeals certified, following a card check, the Montana Federation of Public Employees AFT-NEA as the exclusive representative of a bargaining unit of 451 University of Montana graduate research assistants and graduate teaching assistants.

Whatcom Comm. Coll.: AFT Certified to Represent of Professional Unit

Whatcom Community College, WPERC Case No. 137767-E-24

On July 23, 2024, Washington Public Employment Relations Commission Executive Director Michael P. Selllars issued an interim certification, following an election, to AFT-Washington to represent the following bargaining unit at the Whatcom Community College:



All professional staff employees referenced by RCW 41.56.021 working at Whatcom Community College, excluding supervisors, confidential employees, employees referenced in RCW 41.56.021(1).

The case has been remanded to resolve the issue of eligibility of certain employees to be included in the bargaining unit.

SUNY Stony Brook: Faculty Student Association d/b/a Auxiliary Services Association Files Representation Petition

Faculty Student Association SUNY at Stony Brook University d/b/a Auxiliary Services Association, NLRB Case No. 29-RM-347203

On July 29, 2024, Faculty Student Association SUNY at Stony Brook University d/b/a Auxiliary Services Association filed petition concerning a question of representation by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East with respect to the following proposed bargaining unit:

Included: All full-time and regular part-time, non-supervisory and non-professional food service, laundry, and dietary employees employed by Faculty Student Association SUNY at Stony Brook University (dba Auxiliary Services Association) at its 100 Patriots Road, Stony Brook, New York 11790 location, including food service workers, cooks, diet clerks and laundry aides.



Excluded: All Dieticians, Lead Laundry Aides, Retail Leads, Sous Chefs, IT employees, Food Service Workers (BOCES), and all other employees, casual or temporary employees, professional employees, supervisors, managers, confidential employees, guards and other individuals working at Faculty Student Association SUNY at Stony Brook University (dba Auxiliary Services Association).

Western Washington University: Police Guild Certified to Represent Unit

Western Washington University, WPERC Case No. 139028-E-24

On July 23, 2024, Washington Public Employment Relations Commission Executive Director Michael P. Sellars certified the Western Washington University Police Guild, following a card check, to represent the following bargaining unit at Western Washington University:

All nonsupervisory uniformed personnel employed by Western Washington University, excluding the Chief of Police, Deputy Chiefs, Sergeants, confidential employees, and all other employees.

Univ. of Dayton: Union Certified to Represent Pubic Safety Dispatchers

University of Dayton, NLRB Case No. 09-RC-343668

On July 29, 2024, the NLRB certified the University of Dayton Communications Officers Association to represent a bargaining unit of 7 University of Dayton public safety dispatchers following a representation election.

The following is the new public safety unit at the University of Dayton:

All full-time and regular part-time Public Safety Dispatchers employed by the Employer at its facility located at 300 College Park, Dayton, Ohio, excluding all other employees, office clericals, guards, and supervisors as defined in the National Labor Relations Act.

Northwestern University: Union Certified to Represent Police Officers

Northwestern University, NLRB Case No. 13-RC-344486

On July 23, 2024, the Illinois Council of Police was certified to represent a unit of full-time and regular part-time police officers employed by Northwestern University The certification followed a representation election in which the police officers voted unanimously for representation by the Illinois Council of Police.

The following is the new police bargaining unit at Northwestern University:

Included: All full-time and regular part-time certified Police Officers who are employed by the Employer at its campuses currently located at and around 211 E. Superior Street, Chicago, Illinois and 1201 Davis Street, Evanston, Illinois.

Excluded: All other employees, non-sworn security personnel, Sergeants, Lieutenants, Chief of Police, confidential employees, office clerical employees, managerial employees, professional employees and supervisors as defined in the Act.

Fairfield University: Union Certified to Represent Patrol Officers

Fairfield University, NLRB Case No. 01-RC-344345

On July 26, 2024, the NLRB certified the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America to represent a bargaining unit of patrol officers employed by Fairfield University. The certification followed an election in which the patrol officers voted 14-0 in favor of representation by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.

The following is a description of the new police unit at Fairfield University:

All full-time and regular part-time patrol officers employed by the Employer at 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, Connecticut but excluding all parking officers, clerical employees, and supervisors as defined in the Act.

Below are pictures and links to videos of panels, presenters, staff, and volunteers from our 2024 annual conference, which was held on March 17-19, 2024.in New York City.

We thank Alexandra Lacey of Persuasion Pictures for recording and producing the videos from the annual conference.

Higher Education Leadership Panel with (l-r) Rick Schaffer, former CUNY General Counsel, Ann Kirschner, Hunter College Interim President, Daniel Greenstein, PASSHE Chancellor and Catharine Bond Hill, Ithaka S+R, Managing Director.

Keynote Speaker:

Thomas A. Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management.

Navigating Generative AI in Higher Education Panel with (l-r) Kyle Arnone, AFT Collective Bargaining Director, Amanda Blair, Fisher & Philips LLP, and Tony Picciano, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center.

Contingent Faculty Job Security Facilitated Session with (l-r) Theodore Curry, Michigan State University Professor Emeritus, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Mia McIver, UCLA Lecturer; UC-AFT Local 1474 former President and Benjamin Superfine, University of Illinois Chicago Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Relations.

Labor-Management Cooperation in Reversing Contingency Panel with (l-r) Melissa Sortman, Michigan State University Director of Faculty and Academic Staff Affairs, Heather Pierce, Rutgers University Adjunct Faculty Member, Carla Katz, Rutgers University, NTT Faculty Member and Kim O'Halloran, Rutgers University VP of Academic Planning & Administration.

Collective Bargaining and Library Personnel in Higher Education Panel with (l-r) Ahsan Ali, Tufts University Labor Relations Director, Kelly McElroy, United Academics of Oregon State, AAUP/AFT Local 9609, Meredith Kahn, LEO AFT-MI 6244, Campus Chair, (GLAM), Adriene Lim, University of Maryland - College Park Dean of Libraries and Consuella Askew, Rutgers University, VP for University Libraries.

Graduate Student Representation Election Outcomes Panel with (l-r) Jacob Apkarian, York College Associate Professor, Kathy Collins, Huron Consulting Group, Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona Professor and 

Nick DiGiovanni, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP.

Collective Bargaining and Museums with (l-r) Michael Loconto, Loconto ADR, Trish Jeffers, Guggenheim Museum Amanda Tobin Ripley, Ohio State Graduate Teaching Associate, Donna Gustafson, Rutgers University, Maida Rosenstein, UAW Local 2110 and Halcyone Schiller, AFSCME DC 47.

Higher Ed Vaccine Mandates in Canada and the US with (l-r) Larry Savage and Alison Braley-Rattai, Brock University.

Trustees’ Perspectives on Collective Bargaining Panel with (l-r) Paul Brown, University of Michigan Board of Regents, Todd Regis, Central Michigan University Trustee, Susan Solomon, City College of San Francisco Trustee and Kenneth Mash, APSCUF President.

Book Discussion: Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom with (l-r) Charles Toombs, CFA President, Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita, Yeshiva University, Helena Worthen, labor educator, retired, University of Illinois, and Jennifer Ruth, Portland State University Professor.

Resident and Fellow Unionization: State Medical Schools with (l-r) Sara Slinn, York University, David Dashefsky, CIR-SEIU, Wade Baughman, University of Michigan, Michael Kelly, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Cindy Hamra, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Banks Evans, University of Washington Labor Relations.

National Center Volunteers and Staff (l-r) Amy Jeu, Hunter College , Kim Middleton, CUNY Central, Greg and Winnie Johnson, National Center Staff.

National Center Staff with

(l-r) Michelle Savarese, National Center Administrator and Nancy Hanks, National Center Conference Coordinator.

Keynote Presentation by Thomas A. Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management, Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management with an introduction by Adrienne Eaton, Dean, Office of the Dean and Distinguished Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University.

Panel: Navigating Generative AI in Higher Education: Implications for Collective Bargaining, Pedagogy, and Research with Kyle Arnone, AFT Collective Bargaining Center, Anthony G. Picciano, Professor, Hunter College, School of Education and CUNY Graduate Center, Amanda M. Blair, Associate, Fisher & Phillips LLP, and Rob Weill, AFT Director of Policy, Research and Field Services, Panelist and Moderator.

Book Discussion: Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History with Gwendolyn Alker, Associate Arts Professor, Department of Drama, New York University, Joe T. Berry, Ph.D., City College of San Francisco and University of Illinois (retired), COCAL, HELU, Anne McLeer, Director of Higher Education and Strategic Planning, SEIU Local 500, Gary Rhoades, Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, Commentator, and Eric Fure-Slocum, Associate Professor of History (Emeritus), co-editor of Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education, Moderator.

Panel: Best Practices in Collective Negotiations with Pamela Silverblatt, Senior Counsel, Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC, John Gross, Ingerman Smith LLP, Frederick Floss, Professor, Economics and Finance, and Co-Director, Center for Economic Education, SUNY Buffalo State University, Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, NYSUT, and Scott M. Sommer, Commissioner, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Moderator.

Panel: Best Practices in Arbitration with Homer LaRue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor, Howard University Law School, Marlene Gold, Labor Arbitrator, Mark Gaston Pearce, Labor Arbitrator, Visiting Professor and Executive Director, Workers’ Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law School, and Katie Rosen, Labor Arbitrator. Co-sponsored by the National Academy of Arbitrators.

Book Discussion: The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College with Robin G. Isserles, Author, The Costs of Completion: Student Success in Community College, Professor of Sociology, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, and Grievance Counselor for Full-time Faculty, PSC BMCC Chapter, Christine Mangino, President, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, President, Faculty Association of California Community Colleges, Colena Sesanker, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Gateway Community College, CT, Member of Board of Regents of CSCU, and Jennifer Shanoski, Chemistry, Merritt College, Oakland California, Moderator.

Panel: Trustees’ Perspectives on Collective Bargaining with Susan Solomon, City College of San Francisco Trustee, Todd J. Regis, Central Michigan University Trustee, Paul Brown, University of Michigan Board of Regents, and Kenneth M. Mash, President, APSCUF, Moderator.

Panel: Bargaining Issues For Classified, Clerical, and Other Campus Staff with Sarah Wofford, AFT Vice President, Oregon School Employees Association, Christine O'Connell, President, Union of Rutgers Administrators AFT Local 1766, Rainah Chambliss, Co-President of the Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia, and Andre’ Poplar, Vice Chancellor – Human Resources and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice, Oakland Community College – District, Moderator.

Title: Development and Fundraising Coordinator Position

Organization: The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions is a CUNY labor-management center that researches unionization and collective bargaining in higher education, holds an annual national conference, and a biennial regional workshop. Detailed information about the National Center, is available on our website: http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/ncscbhep  

Job title: Development and Fundraising Coordinator 

Description of position: Under the direct supervision of the Administrator and and the Executive Director, the Fundraising Coordinator will facilitate the Center’s annual fundraising campaign related to the annual conference with ad sales in the conference program along with the solicitation of potential sponsors.  

Start Date: September – October 1, 2024; campaign begins November 1, 2024. 

Hours per Week: 7-10 with reduced schedule during summer. 

Requirements: Preference is for candidates with experience in institutional fundraising in higher education or other non-profit organizations. Labor organizing or political canvassing backgrounds are beneficial backgrounds for the position. Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel and Google Sheets is necessary.  

Salary: $38.00 per hour 

Location: Hunter College, East Building and/or remote option after in-person training. 

Submit Electronic Applications by August 26, 2024 to: Michelle Savarese, National Center Administrator, msavares@hunter.cuny.edu. Applications accepted until position filled. 

Documents requested: cover letter and c.v.