The newsletter includes an announcement concerning a December higher education history book event being organized by the National Center and the Roosevelt House Institute Public Policy Institute. It also reports on the results of recent higher education representation elections, new representation filings, administrative agency decisions, and pending legislation concerning college scholarship athletes. Lastly, we provide video highlights from our 2021 annual conference, links to articles from the current volume of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, and information about other higher education scholarship.

The National Center's 49th annual labor-management conference will be taking place on April 11-13, 2022 in New York City. It will be a hybrid conference, which will permit in-person and virtual options for panelists and attendees. Registration and hotel information will be announced in the near future.

The theme of the 2022 conference will be The State of Collective Bargaining and Higher Education.

Below is a sample of the confirmed panels and panelists for next year's conference.

Additional confirmed panels and panelists will be announced in future newsletters and our website.

Panel: The Future of Higher Education with Arthur Levine, Distinguished Scholar of Higher Education, Steinhardt Institute of Higher Education Policy, New York University and author of The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future (2021), Ann Kirschner, University Professor at the City University of New York, and Faculty Fellow at the Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center, Adrianna Kezar, Endowed Professor and Dean's Professor of Leadership, USC, Director of the Pullias Center, and Director Delphi Project, and Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Moderator.

Panel: Federal Funding Inequality and Higher Education Politics and Policy-Making with Adam Harris, staff writer at the Atlantic, National Fellow at New America, and author of The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--and How to Set Them Right (2021), Rebecca S. Natow, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, Hofstra University and author of the forthcoming Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector and Sosanya Jones, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Howard University, Moderator.

Panel: Becoming JEDI: Labor-Management Strategy to Challenge Racism on Campus and Stem Community College Enrollment Decline with Courtney Brewer, Professor of Psychology; Executive Vice President, Faculty Association Suffolk Community College, Christina Vargas, Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX Coordinator, Suffolk County Community College; board member, ERASE Racism NY, Patty Munsch, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs, Suffolk County Community College, Jennifer Browne, Associate Dean for Curriculum Development, Suffolk County Community College, Lauren Liburd, Specialist, SCCC Foundation; Co-Chair Achieving the Dream Committee, Cynthia Eaton, Professor of English; Secretary, Faculty Association Suffolk Community College, Moderator.

Panel: Achieving Pay Parity for Part-Time Faculty in Community Colleges with Sandra Weese, Organizing Director, California Federation of Teachers, Ron McKinley, Vice Chancellor of Human Resources and Employee Relations, Peralta Community College District, Dyana Delfin-Polk, Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees, and Jennifer Shanoski, President, Peralta Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1603, Moderator.

Panel: Collective Bargaining and Shared Governance: Findings from the 2021 AAUP Shared Governance Survey with Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Timothy Reese Cain, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Georgia, and Hans-Joerg Tiede, Director of Research, American Association of University Professors.

Panel: An Update from the NLRB and Public Sector Labor Relations Agencies on Higher Education Issues with Mark Gaston Pearce, Executive Director, Workers’ Rights Institute, Georgetown University Law School, and former National Labor Relations Board Chairman; J. Felix De La Torre, General Counsel, California Public Employment Relations Board; Ellen Maureen Strizak, General Counsel, Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board; and Jennifer Abruzzo, General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board (invited).

Panel: Faculty Unionization and Collective Bargaining in the Philippines: Similarities and Differences: with Benjamin Velasco, Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines, School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Rene Luis Tadle, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas and Lead Convenor, Council of Teachers and Staff of Colleges and Universities of the Philippines, Gerardo L. Blanco

Associate Professor, Higher Education; Academic Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, and Ashwini Sukthankar, Secretary/Treasurer, International Commission for Labor Rights (panel in formation).

We strongly encourage administrators and labor representatives to respond to the National Center's survey, which is aimed at collecting current information about all collective bargaining units and contracts in higher education involving faculty, administrators, postdoctoral scholars, and student workers. The data will be used for a new directory of collective bargaining relationships and other scholarship.

We reemphasize the importance of timely responses from individuals with direct knowledge of bargaining unit compositions, sizes, and agreements are essential for ensuring that our database is current and comprehensive. The survey will take about 15 minutes to complete. Any identifying individual information will be kept confidential and will be used only to follow up if clarification of responses is necessary.

Please complete and submit a survey response to ensure that data relating to your institution or bargaining unit are included.

Follow this link to the Survey: Take the Survey

Or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact the National Center's research team at: ncscbint1@hunter.cuny.edu

University of Pittsburgh, PLRB Case No. PERA-R-19-2-W

On October 19, 2021, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board tallied the ballots in a representation case filed by USW to represent a combined bargaining unit of 3,355 full time and regular part-time tenured faculty, non-tenure track faculty and librarians at the University of Pittsburgh.

The tally of ballots demonstrated that 1,511 voted in favor of USW representation, and 612 voted against. Once USW is certified, the bargaining unit at the University of Pittsburgh will be the largest new faculty unit in at least a decade.

The following is the composition of the combined unit at the University of Pittsburgh:

Antioch University, Case No: 19-RC-284405

The following is the unit sought by SEIU in its new petition:

Included: (To be included in existing professional unit) All full-time and regular part-time faculty employed by Antioch University at all locations, including core, teaching, clinical, public service, research, administrative, affiliate, and adjunct faculty.

Excluded: Administrators, deans, clinic managers, non-faculty staff, non-administrative staff who are not compensated additionally for teaching, and all other employees, guards, managers, and supervisors as defined in the Act.

Bates College, Case No.: 01-RC-284384

Maine Service Employee Association, SEIU Local 1989 filed a petition on October 8, 2021 seeking to represent a bargaining unit of 652 non-tenure track faculty and all staff at Bates College in Maine. The proposed combined unit that would include faculty and non-professional staff is relatively rare in higher education.

The following is the proposed bargaining unit sought by Maine Service Employee Association, SEIU Local 1989 at Bates College:

Included: All non-tenure and non-tenure track faculty and all staff not excluded below.

Excluded: All managers, tenured and tenure track faculty, confidential employees, guards and supervisors.

Maryland Institute College of Art, Case No: 05-RC-284943

Included: All full-time faculty employed by the Employer, whose address is 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, Maryland 21217.

Excluded: All other employees, office clerical employees, temporary employees that would be excluded in accordance with NLRB case law, confidential employees, associate deans, managerial employees, and supervisors as defined in the Act.

Since 2014, SEIU Local 500 has represented a unit of MICA part-time faculty including all those teaching at least one class, workshop, or seminar; and including all part-time faculty teaching in the School for Professional and Continuing Studies.

Keene State College, NH PELRB Case No. E-0191-4

On October 5, 2021, New Hampshire Public Employee Labor Relations Board Hearing Officer Karina A. Lange issued a decision and order denying a petition by the Keene State College Directors and Supervisors Association, NEA-NH, seeking to add a new position of Accreditation and Assessment Officer to an existing bargaining unit.

In her decision, the Hearing Officer sustained the objection raised by Keene State College that Accreditation and Assessment Officer is a confidential employee under New Hampshire's public sector collective bargaining law because the employee will be involved in labor negotiations on behalf of the college and will be advising the college president and the provost on policies, assessment, budget preparation, and program elimination. In addition, the Hearing Officer quoted from the job description, which states that the position "as it relates to the Provost & VP of Academic Affairs, President, Cabinet and Deans must maintain a high level of confidentiality and advising of program change needs as the position is integral in formulating, determining and effectuating management policies that may impact labor or personnel relations." Lastly, the Hearing Officer referenced the fact that the employee would have access to personnel files, complaints, student evaluations and reports about bargaining unit members.

Delaware State University, DPERB ULP Charge No. 21-05-1267

On October 15, 2021, Delaware Public Employment Relations Board Executive Director Deborah L. Murray-Sheppard issued a determination finding that there was probable cause to support the unfair labor practice charge filed by the Delaware State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) that accused the university of diverting AAUP bargaining unit work by offering virtual courses, unilaterally establishing wage rates and salaries for the 2021 Summer Session, and/or failing or refusing to provide AAUP with requested information. The Executive Director found that the pleadings raised questions of fact and law requiring a full evidentiary record and the arguments of the parties.

Northwestern University, NLRB Case No. 13-RC-284411

Included: Northwestern University library staff including those in the position of Administrative Assistant I; Administrative Assistant II; Administrative Assistant III; Business Coordinator; Circulation Services Supervisor; Communications Specialist; Clerk III; Conservation Technician; Curator; Customer Service Representative; Developer; Developer Lead; Developer Senior; Digitization Assistant; Financial Assistant; Librarian; Library Assistant I: Librarian Assistant II; Librarian Assistant III; Library Clerk I; Library Clerk II; Mail Delivery Worker; Senior Developer; Senior Librarian; Systems Administrator; Systems Administrator Senior; Technical Support Specialist; Technical Support Specialist Senior: University Archivist; User Service Representative II; User Services Representative 2.5; User Support Specialist; User Support Specialist Associate; Web and Electronic Communication Specialist; All other non-supervisory, non-guard employees working at Northwestern University's main library.

Excluded: Northwestern University library staff working primarily in the Pritzker (Law School) or Galter (Medical School) libraries; statutory supervisors; statutory guards; student employees; University Press employees; library employees performing work primarily in the foreign State of Quatar; Employees of the Styberg Library located within Northwestern University; all other Northwestern University employees not included in the unit.

University of New Mexico, PELRB No. 307-20

On October 4, 2021 New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board (PERLRB) Hearing Officer Thomas J. Griego issued a report and recommendation concerning the proposed unit graduate assistants sought by UE at the University of New Mexico.

The Hearing Officer concluded that the following unit was appropriate:

Included: all full-time and part-time graduate employees whose primary job is instruction and/or research and who are employed at the Main Campus (Albuquerque), as well as the branch campuses located in Gallup, Taos, Los Alamos, and Valencia, and includes the following positions: a. Graduate Assistant Regular, b. Graduate Assistant Special, c. Project Assistant, d. Research Assistant, e. Teaching Assistant Regular, f. Teaching Assistant Special, g. Teaching Associate.

An election will be scheduled once the New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board finally resolves the appropriateness of the bargaining unit.

Kenyon College, NLRB Case No. 08-RC-284759

On October 18, 2021, the Kenyon Student Workers’ Organizing Committee- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) filed a petition to represent a bargaining unit of 600 hourly paid undergraduate student employees at Kenyon College.

In response to the petition, Kenyon College filed two motions on October 21, 2021 with NLRB Region 8. The first motion seeks an indefinite extension of the NLRB's pre-election deadlines and/or the staying of the petition on the grounds that the proposed wall-to-wall undergraduate student workers raises a threshold NLRB jurisdictional issue and that the college's compliance with the NLRB's pre-election rules would result in a violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”). Kenyon College's second motion seeks the dismissal of the representation petition.

Resolution of Kenyon College's arguments will require the application of the NLRB's 2016 decision in Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, which concluded that graduate and undergraduate students who perform services for a private sector higher education are statutory employees within the meaning of Section 2(3) of the National Labor Relations Act.

Hamilton College, NLRB Case No. 03-RC-281779

On October 22, 2021, Hamilton Student Admission Workers-UFCW Local 1 was certified to represent a student employee bargaining unit at Hamilton College. The certification followed a representation election in which student employees voted 25-20 in favor of union representation.

The following is the newly certified bargaining unit at Hamilton College:

In Northwestern University, 362 NLRB 1350 (2015), a unanimous National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) declined to assert jurisdiction over a representation case involving college scholarship football players at Northwestern University, thereby leaving open the question of the employee status of scholarship college athletes under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

Legislation is now pending in Congress to amend the NLRA to grant college athletes who receive direct compensation, including grant-in-aid, from an institution of higher education the right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. If enacted, the bill would extend the NLRA to cover public institutions of higher education but only with respect to the employment of college athlete employees. Currently, public colleges and universities are exempted from NLRA coverage. Lastly, the bill would permit institutions of higher education within an intercollegiate athletic conference to function as a multi-employer, if consented to by employee representatives.

In related news, on September 29, 2021, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer A. Abruzzo issued a memorandum setting forth the prosecutorial position of the NLRB Office of General Counsel that scholarship athletes at institutions of higher education are employees for purposes of the NLRA with the right to unionize and engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection. It is noteworthy that General Counsel Abruzzo stated in a footnote that “it may be appropriate for the Board to assert jurisdiction over the NCAA and an athletic conference, and to find joint employer status with certain member institutions, even if some of the member schools are state institutions.”

The National Center's virtual May 2021 national conference was a major success. We thank the panelists and moderators who participated in the conference, as well as, all of the attendees.

Below are links to video recordings of conference presentations along with links to panel descriptions, panelists bios, and written materials.

Welcoming Remarks and Announcement with Jennifer J. Raab, Hunter College President, William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director, DeWayne Sheaffer, President, NEA's National Council for Higher Education, Alexandra Matish, Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan, Jeffrey Cross and Gary Rhoades, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.

The Biden Administration: Higher Education and Labor Initiatives with Lynn Pasquerella, President, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Mark Gaston Pearce, Executive Director, Workers Rights, Georgetown University Law School and former National Labor Relations Board Chairman, Damon A. Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO, and Michael Loconto, Founding Principal, Fenway Law, LLC, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios Reading Material

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Best Practices for the Promotion of Collaboration, Equity and Measurable Outcomes with Daniel J. Julius, Visiting Fellow, Yale University, School of Management and Professor of Management, New Jersey City University, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Adrienne E. Eaton, Dean, School of Management and Labor Relations, Distinguished Professor, Labor Studies & Employment Relations Department, Rutgers University, Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and David Lewin, Professor Emeritus, Management and Organizations, UCLA Anderson School of Management. This panel was co-sponsored by the LERA Higher Education Industry Council. Panel Description and Panelist Bios

Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives about the Future with Daniel Greenstein, Chancellor, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, Susan Poser, Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois Chicago, Mildred Garcia, President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and Scott Jaschik, Editor, Inside Higher Ed, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Challenges of the Past Year and Perspectives on the Future of Academic Labor with Rebecca Givan, Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Jamie Martin, President, APSCUF, Justin Tzuanos, NEA Center for Organizing Fellow, NEA Organizational Specialist and Higher Education Team member, Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association, and Gary Rhoades, Professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona, JCBA Co-editor, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

COVID-19 and Its Impact on Academic Women with Karen R. Stubaus, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University, Maria Lund Dahlberg, Study Director, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Eve Higginbotham, Dean of Inclusion and Diversity, University of Pennsylvania, Leslie D. Gonzales, Associate Professor in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Learning Unit in the College of Education, Michigan State University and Juli Wade, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Connecticut. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

COVID-19 and Racial Equity in Higher Education with Amalia Dache, Assistant Professor, Higher Education Division, University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Johnson, Assistant Professor, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University, Henrika McCoy, Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago, and Roseanne Flores, Associate Professor, Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States with Massimo Faggioli Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University and contributing writer to Commonweal magazine, E.J. Dionne, Jr., Washington Post Syndicated Columnist, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Georgetown University Professor, Heidi Schlumpf, Executive Editor, National Catholic Reporter, and Paul Moses, Professor of Journalism, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Moderator. This panel was co-sponsored by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Commonweal Magazine.

Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Universities with Gerald J. Beyer, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Villanova University, Patricia McGuire, President, Trinity Washington University, Discussant, Mary-Antoinette Smith, Professor, English, and Executive Director, National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE), Seattle University, Lily Ryan, Organizer, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University, and Donna Haverty-Stacke, Professor, History, Hunter College, CUNY, Moderator. This panel was co-sponsored by the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and Commonweal Magazine.

Speaking of Dignity: Non-Unionized Adjunct Faculty Teaching at a Catholic Church-Affiliated University with Jacob Bennett, University of New Hampshire, Maria Maisto, New Faculty Majority, James Coppess, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO, and David Marshall, Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law, Dorothy Day Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Social Unionism to Bargaining for the Common Good in Higher Education: Then and Now with Charles Toombs, President, California Faculty Association, Ellen Schrecker, Professor Emerita of American History, Yeshiva University, Andrew Feffer, Professor, History, Union College and author of Bad Faith: Teachers, Liberalism, and the Origins of McCarthyism, Marilyn Sneiderman, Professor and Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, and Malini Cadambi-Daniel, Director for Higher Education, SEIU, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain with Dominic Wells, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Bowling Green State University, author of From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging: How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain (2020), William P. Jones, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, University of Minnesota, President, Labor and Working-Class History Association, Eleni Schirmer, PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison in Educational Policy Studies, and William A. Herbert, National Center Executive Director, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Contingency, On-Line Education and Faculty Strikes in the US and the UK with Mariya Ivancheva, Lecturer in Higher Education Studies at the University of Liverpool, Robert Ovetz, Lecturer, Political Science, San Jose State University, David Harvie, Associate Professor of Finance and Political Economy, University of Leicester, and Alyssa Picard, Director, AFT Higher Education, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Higher Education Legal Update with Henry Morris Jr., Partner, Arent Fox LLP, Monica Barrett, Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Angela Thompson, Associate Director, AFT Legal Department, and Aaron Nisenson, Senior Legal Counsel, AAUP, Panelist and Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Academic Freedom in Collective Bargaining Agreements and Faculty Handbooks with Hans-Joerg Tiede, Director of Research, AAUP, Risa Lieberwitz, General Counsel, AAUP and Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Missy A. Matella, Watkinson Laird Rubenstein, P.C, and Jeffrey Cross, Former Associate VP, Academic Affairs, Eastern Illinois University (Emeritus), Editor, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Shared Governance, Collective Bargaining, and the Future of Online Learning in Light of COVID-19 with Anthony G. Picciano, Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, School of Education, Irene Mulvey, President, AAUP, Joseph McConnell, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP, and Theodore Curry, Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

The Future of Graduate Assistant Unionization with Ken Lang, Director of Organizing, UAW, Peter MacKinnon, SEIU Local 509 President and Chair, Higher Education Council, Kavitha Iyengar, Graduate Assistant Union President, UAW 2865, University of California, Shukura Umi, Executive Vice President, United Campus Workers, and Joseph van der Naald, Graduate Student Researcher, Program in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Principles and Practices for Effective Negotiations with Kathy Sheffield, Director of Representation and Bargaining, California Faculty Association, Barry Miller, Senior Policy Advisor on Labour Relations, Office of the Provost, York University, Deborah Williams, Johnson County Community College Faculty Association, Judi Burgess, Esq., Director of Labor Relations, Boston University, and Elena Cacavas, Esq., Cacavas ADR, LLC, Moderator. Panel Description and Panelists Bios

Preparing and Presenting Grievances in Arbitration with Letitia F. Silas, Executive Director of Systemwide Labor Relations, University of California, E. Kevin Young, Associate Director for System-wide Labor Relations, University of California, Tara Singer-Blumberg Labor Relations Specialist, New York State United Teachers National Center Executive Director William A. Herbert, and Homer C. La Rue, Labor Arbitrator, Mediator, and Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Panelist and Moderator.

The National Center has published the latest volume of the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, on the theme Beyond Getting Back to the New/Old “Normal." We thank the Journal's co-editors Jeffrey Cross and Gary Rhoades for their tireless work.

Post-Pandemic Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: An Irresistible Force Meeting and Immovable Object? James Ottavio Castagnera

Online Learning, COVID-19, and the Future of the Academy: Implications for Faculty Governance and Collective Bargaining Anthony Picciano

The Gig Academy: Naming the Problem and Identifying Solutions Daniel T. Scott and Adrianna J. Kezar

Working in Coalition, and Wall-to-Wall: The New Progressive Normal Gary Rhoades

The Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online periodical, the purpose of which is to advance research and scholarly thought related to academic collective bargaining and to make relevant and pragmatic peer-reviewed research readily accessible to practitioners and to scholars in the field.

We encourage scholars and practitioners in the fields of collective bargaining, labor relations, and labor history to submit articles for potential publication in future volumes.

The Journal is supported, in part, by a generous contribution from TIAA and is hosted by the institutional repository of Eastern Illinois University.

In November, Routlege will be publishing a new book titled Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Best Practices for Promoting Collaboration, Equity, and Measurable Outcomes. The book contains contributions from a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, and advocates, many of whom have been active in National Center programs and activities. The book provides an overview of the contemporary landscape and practical advice concerning collective bargaining and labor relations in higher education.

Routledge is offering a 20% discount. Use this discount code at checkout: code AET21

The National Center's downloadable study, 2020 Supplementary Directory of New Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education, includes important findings and data for scholars and practitioners interested in collective bargaining in higher education.

The study analyzes data regarding new bargaining units, bargaining agents, and contracts in higher education for the period 2013-2019. It includes a listing of all new bargaining relationships concerning faculty, department chairs, librarians, postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, and/or graduate student employees.

Unlike prior directories, the 2020 Supplementary Directory includes a detailed unit composition description for each new unit as well as hyperlinks to the most recent contract for each new unit. This information is aimed at enhancing future research and avoiding confusion over unit composition, particularly when faculty units include other titles.