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At campuses across the country jackbooted university managers
have trod all over faculty rights for a decade. Shared governance is at best the object of administrative contempt.
Faculty control over the curriculum is whittled away by online degrees designed by bureaucrats. Academic freedom
is simultaneously compromised by policies for e-mail use and campus servers and threatened by continuous rightwing
assaults from outside the university. Independent faculty research in science, engineering, and agriculture is
increasingly undermined by reliance on product-oriented commercial support. Tolerance for "unprofitable"
humanities and social science research is on the wane. And the burgeoning class of contingent faculty without health
care, retirement plans, due process, job security, or true academic freedom makes college teaching a new form of
wage slavery.
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Cary
(2008)
"The Future of Faculty Unionization,"
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy: Vol. 0, Article 10.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58188/1941-8043.1131
Available at:
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/jcba/vol0/iss3/10
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10.58188/1941-8043.1131
