The National Center is pleased to announce the publication of the 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Higher Education on the scope of higher education unionization involving faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate and undergraduate student employees.  The 2024 Directory includes data and analysis concerning over 900 collective bargaining relationships in higher education through January 1, 2024, and hyperlinks to 813 recent contracts in higher education.

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Advance Praise for the 2024 Directory

The 2024 Directory of Bargaining Agents and Contracts in Institutions of Higher Education is an invaluable resource for the field.  At the Delphi Project, we have found data to be one of the most important levers for change.  Change agents will now have access to data for over 900 collective bargaining relationships and 813 contracts that shed light on ways to improve the working conditions in higher education.  The analysis in the 2024 Directory demonstrates the growth of unions by region, institutional type and employee category.  The growth of non-tenure track faculty, postdocs, academic researchers, graduate and undergraduate students shows how unionization is becoming a tactic of choice for change.

Adrianna Kezar, Professor and Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, University of Southern California
 
This comprehensive and timely report and update on developments in collective bargaining in higher education provides a treasure trove of data and an inventory of contracts that will serve as invaluable resources to researchers and practitioners working in this sector.  Bravo to the army it took to collect, assemble, summarize, and make available all these useful data.

Thomas A. Kochan, Professor Emeritus, MIT Sloan School of Management and Institute for Work and Employment Research
 
The first step towards better labor conditions in academia is knowing the labor conditions of academia. By collecting a broad swath of the collective bargaining agreements that cover academic employees today, the National Center’s 2024 Directory sets us on the right path. The 2024 Directory’s painstakingly gathered yet highly accessible data is an invaluable resource for everyone interested in learning more about employment relationships in academia, from the campus organizer to the scholar of higher education to the parent or legislator.
 
Deepa Das Acevedo, JD, PhD , Associate Professor of Law, Emory University

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The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of New York will hold our 52nd annual national conference on March 23-25, 2025 in New York City.  The theme of the 52nd annual conference will be New Developments and Training in Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

To help celebrate the National Center’s 52nd annual conference, we encourage higher education institutions, unions, law firms, and companies to become a sponsor of our 2025 annual conference. For sponsorship information, click here.

Through a conference sponsorship you will demonstrate support for the National Center’s continuing labor-management mission and research agenda. 

Another important way to celebrate the National Center’s 52nd annual conference and demonstrate support for our mission and research is for your institution, union, law firm, organization or company to place an advertisement in the conference program. For more information on ad placement, click here.

Please email us with any questions at: msavares@hunter.cuny.edu.