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FACE Collective Bargaining Toolkit
Looking to put academic staffing issues front and center at the bargaining table? From assessing your local's structure to saying thank you, the toolkit covers all of the basics for designing a powerful campaign that can help your members achieve a more equitable academic staffing structure through negotiations, lay the groundwork for taking FACE beyond the bargaining table, and in the process, strengthen your union.
Download the toolkit (pdf, 1.17 MB)
Stronger Together is a new program to help faculty and staff work together to build the union’s power and solidarity to ensure that the academic workforce is built on stable, secure jobs and the concept of equal pay for equal work. This brochure sets forth the basic principles that have been developed over the past year in dialogue with union leaders and rank-and-file members around the country. AFT is working with locals around the country to develop Stronger Together programs at the local level. Download the brochure (pdf, 562 KB)
Just Ask! is part of AFT’s Faculty and College Excellence (FACE) campaign to address the academic staffing crisis in higher education. The Just Ask! program targets parents and students who are in the process of choosing a college or university. As part of their decision-making process we recommend asking four questions about who is teaching undergraduate classes at an institution and how well those faculty members are treated. You can download the brochure (pdf, 337 KB) or visit the Just Ask! page on the FACE Web site for more information.
Our most recent reports:
American Academic: The State of the Higher Education Workforce 1997-2007 (pdf, 2.0 MB)
Using the most recent ten years of federal data, American Academic examines the state of the higher education workforce in the United States. This report, which will be an annual report produced by AFT Higher Education, documents the troubling trend of relying more and more on contingent faculty in higher education who are underpaid and undersuported.
Reversing Course: The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward (pdf, 3.5 MB)
This report documents, for the first time, higher education's continuing reliance on underpaid contingent faculty at the level of numbers of courses and students taught and includes an interactive Excel model that allows unions, institutions and states to calculate what it would cost to reverse the trend.
Download the report | Download the model
Academic Freedom in the 21st-Century College and University (pdf, 1.2 MB)
A response to ongoing political attacks on higher education faculty and staff as well as the increasing reliance on contingent faculty who have little or no academic freedom protections.
Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Professional Staff (pdf, 860 KB)
AFT's quality standards for the employment of professional staff. The report provides guidelines for improving the economic and professional working conditions of professional staff.
Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Full-Time Nontenure-Track Faculty (pdf, 512 KB)
AFT’s quality standards for the employment of full-time nontenure-track faculty. The report provides guidelines for improving the economic and professional working conditions of full-time nontenure-track faculty.
Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Graduate Employees (pdf, 517 KB)
AFT’s quality standards for the employment of graduate employees. The report provides guidelines for improving the economic and professional working conditions of graduate employees.
Student Persistence in College: More than Counting Caps and Gowns (pdf, 3 MB)
This report sorts fact from fiction about student persistence in college. It debunks myths and puts forward ideas that policymakers, particularly federal policymakers, can use to make a constructive contribution to student success in college.
Fairness & Equity: Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty (pdf, 448 KB)
AFT’s quality standards for the employment of part-time/adjunct faculty in colleges and universities. The report outlines a coordinated program to improve the financial and professional circumstances of part-time/adjunct faculty.
