Academe

For nearly half a century, the Yeshiva decision has presented legal obstacles—but not insurmountable barriers—to faculty organizing efforts at private colleges and universities.

Despite repeated setbacks, the Nevada Faculty Alliance may be nearing victory in its decades-long fight for full union rights for academic workers in public colleges and universities.

Faculty members in the bluest state without collective bargaining are not waiting for legislative action to organize.

After enduring years of Republican attacks on labor and public higher education, academic workers in the University of Wisconsin system are fighting to restore union rights.

The recent passage of enabling legislation for community college faculty has led to a wave of organizing in Maryland, but the fight for union rights in public four-year institutions continues.

Leaders of the Faculty Alliance of Miami, a new AAUP-AFT union, share lessons from their first year at the bargaining table.

At the bargaining table and on the picket lines, Rutgers unions have been laying the foundation for wall-to-wall organizing.

Faculty senates can do better than follow Robert’s Rules and their dense, complex, rigid, and hierarchical system of order.

In the wake of the crackdown on last spring's student protests, colleges and universities must find a way to resist the pressures pushing them in the direction of discipline, policing, and restrictions on political expression.

Politicized attacks on faculty members who study equity are undermining the production of knowledge.

A peer-mentoring initiative at St. John’s University helped faculty to overcome common barriers to promotion to full professor.

A satirical take on the (in)effectiveness of Robert’s Rules.