Inside Higher Ed: New Impacts Seen for Faculty Unions
Faculties that are unionized have significantly higher percentages of courses taught by tenured or tenure-track faculty members, as opposed to adjuncts, according to research presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. At the same time, colleges that are unionized tend to spend less per student on academic support services, the analysis found.
Officials of the national faculty unions said they did not know of similar research findings. Much of the previous research on faculty unions has focused on the most direct bread and butter issues: wages and benefits. But the authors of the new research — two doctoral students at Vanderbilt University — said that it was important to explore as well questions of how faculty unions affect college issues that relate to the student experience.
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