Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed: Search for Common Ground - Kaustuv Basu, Inside Higher Ed

It sometimes seems that university administrators and faculty members inhabit different worlds. And that's even true at the one national conference each year devoted to bringing together faculty union leaders with the administrators they face across the negotiating table, the annual meeting organized by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College of the City University of New York. The backdrop for this year's conference was a continuation of deep budget cuts at many institutions -- and new data showing a notable increase over the last five years in the numbers of faculty members in unions.