Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Labor unions are in the news a lot these days. And it’s fair to say that conditions in higher education are ripe for a level of labor activism not seen in recent decades. And the number of petitions filed for new labor elections grew by more than 50 percent from the previous year.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Harvard University lecturers, postdoctoral researchers and other non-tenure-track academic workers launched a unionization campaign Monday. Harvard Academic Workers–UAW is trying to organize about 6,000 such employees across Harvard's three main campuses, the prospective union said in a news release.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses as America’s next union battleground. Or are concerns publicized by a sensationalist press overblown, consisting of relatively isolated issues that are far less general than we think? Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6 percent in 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the announcement, the union faculty and staff voted no confidence in the state college chancellor, Grewal and others in leadership earlier this week, according to WCAX. But the next day, a local news headline blared, “Vermont State University to Close Libraries, Downgrade Sports Programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Data-Driven Analysis of Needs and Equity Issues: Leverage data analytics to understand and address the needs of the student population, particularly focusing on areas of inequity. This plan should be developed with input from a diverse group of stakeholders, including alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and community partners.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: In January 2022, Bates College employees voted on forming a union that would include non-tenure-track faculty, dining employees, custodians and others. The college’s appeal to the National Labor Relations Board, coupled with a Trump-era NLRB rule, kept the filled-out ballots from being counted.

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