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Journal of Collective Bargaining in the AcademyVolume 0 NCSCBHEP Proceedings 2007 Article 39April 2007FACE: Faculty And College Excellence - HandoutsLarry GoldAmerican Federation of TeachersFollow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcbaThis Proceedings Material is brought to you for free and open access by The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Collective Bargainingin the Academy by an authorized editor of The Keep. For more information, please contact tabruns@eiu.edu.Recommended CitationGold, Larry (2007) "FACE: Faculty And College Excellence - Handouts," Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy: Vol. 0 , Article39.Available at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba/vol0/iss2/39DISCUSSION ITEMS     1. Promoting “visionary” legislation in tough political times.  2. Winning narrower legislative victories at the same time as you push comprehensive legislation.  3. Addressing the cost issue. 4. Convincing decision makers and the general public that in order to have quality higher education, the public needs to buy a better system for hiring and compensating faculty. 5. Bringing about a broader understanding of the face of faculty (pun intended) and the work they do.   6. Building bridges with others, particularly administrators.  7. Union questions-Potential job loss?     1Gold: FACE: Faculty And College Excellence - HandoutsPublished by The Keep, 2007FACULTY and COLLEGE EXCELLENCE2Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, Vol. 0, Iss. 2 [2007], Art. 39http://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba/vol0/iss2/39    CONFERENCE WORKSHOP  Tuesday, April 17, 10:45am -12:30 pm LEVERAGING BARGAINING POWER THROUGH LEGISLATIVE ACTION  Only thirty percent of the college instructional staff today has tenure or is on the tenure track. Under the pressure of reduced state budgets, and facing a public that is already troubled by higher tuitions, colleges and universities around the country have curtailed full-time tenure track appointments and instead have staffed their classrooms with a huge cohort of part-time/adjunct faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty and graduate employees.  At the same time, contingent faculty members, particularly part-time/adjunct faculty, are paid disproportionately low salaries, receive few if any benefits and often lack the most basic professional supports such as paid office hours.    Unions and management bargain over these issues with each contract and some contracts have achieved very concrete gains for full-time and contingent faculty.  But this is a systemic problem that requires a systemic solution, one that would involve more public investment in academic staffing.  This workshop will describe how the American Federation of Teachers decided to launch a national campaign to bring full pro rata equity to the compensation of contingent faculty and at the same time slowly reverse the erosion in full-time tenure jobs.  The campaign is called FACE, the Faculty and College Excellence Campaign.  On the reverse side of this flyer is a poster that was used in a FACE campaign in Oregon.   Model FACE legislation has been introduced in ten states over the first six months of the Campaign.  The workshop will address the issues that led AFT to begin this effort as well as the successes and challenges faced by the Campaign so far.  Most of the session will be spent in group discussion about the hard issues involved in achieving the Campaign’s goals, including questions about cost, public perceptions and coalition building, especially with administrators.              3Gold: FACE: Faculty And College Excellence - HandoutsPublished by The Keep, 2007

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Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
Volume 0 NCSCBHEP Proceedings 2007 Article 39
April 2007
FACE: Faculty And College Excellence - Handouts
Larry Gold
American Federation of Teachers
Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba
This Proceedings Material is brought to you for free and open access by The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Collective Bargaining
in the Academy by an authorized editor of The Keep. For more information, please contact tabruns@eiu.edu.
Recommended Citation
Gold, Larry (2007) "FACE: Faculty And College Excellence - Handouts," Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy: Vol. 0 , Article
39.
Available at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba/vol0/iss2/39
DISCUSSION ITEMS 
 
 
 
 
1. Promoting “visionary” legislation in tough political times.  
2. Winning narrower legislative victories at the same time as you push 
comprehensive legislation.  
3. Addressing the cost issue. 
4. Convincing decision makers and the general public that in order to 
have quality higher education, the public needs to buy a better system 
for hiring and compensating faculty. 
5. Bringing about a broader understanding of the face of faculty (pun 
intended) and the work they do.   
6. Building bridges with others, particularly administrators.  
7. Union questions-Potential job loss?  
 
  
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FACULTY and COLLEGE EXCELLENCE
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Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy, Vol. 0, Iss. 2 [2007], Art. 39
http://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba/vol0/iss2/39
  
 
 
CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 
 
Tuesday, April 17, 10:45am -12:30 pm 
LEVERAGING BARGAINING POWER THROUGH LEGISLATIVE ACTION 
 
Only thirty percent of the college instructional staff today has tenure or is on the tenure 
track. Under the pressure of reduced state budgets, and facing a public that is already 
troubled by higher tuitions, colleges and universities around the country have curtailed 
full-time tenure track appointments and instead have staffed their classrooms with a 
huge cohort of part-time/adjunct faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty and 
graduate employees.  At the same time, contingent faculty members, particularly part-
time/adjunct faculty, are paid disproportionately low salaries, receive few if any benefits 
and often lack the most basic professional supports such as paid office hours.   
 
Unions and management bargain over these issues with each contract and some 
contracts have achieved very concrete gains for full-time and contingent faculty.  But 
this is a systemic problem that requires a systemic solution, one that would involve 
more public investment in academic staffing.  This workshop will describe how the 
American Federation of Teachers decided to launch a national campaign to bring full 
pro rata equity to the compensation of contingent faculty and at the same time 
slowly reverse the erosion in full-time tenure jobs.  The campaign is called FACE, 
the Faculty and College Excellence Campaign.  On the reverse side of this flyer is a 
poster that was used in a FACE campaign in Oregon.  
 
Model FACE legislation has been introduced in ten states over the first six months of 
the Campaign.  The workshop will address the issues that led AFT to begin this effort 
as well as the successes and challenges faced by the Campaign so far.  Most of the 
session will be spent in group discussion about the hard issues involved in achieving the 
Campaign’s goals, including questions about cost, public perceptions and coalition 
building, especially with administrators.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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