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CGEU consists of labor unions and organizing drives in the United States and Canada that represent graduate and undergraduate students employed as teachers, tutors, researchers, and administrative staff. This wiki is for the Graduate Employee Movement. Its aim is to foster collaborative online organizing and information sharing.

"Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests." -- from Article 23, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

CGEU Projects ContractWiki – links to every graduate employee union contract in the United States and Canada, plus salary tables and a whole lot more! CGEU Annual Conference The 2010 Conference will be hosted by CWA 1104 at the State University of New York Stony Brook on August 5-8. CGEU listerv Teaching and Research Assistants Collective Bargaining Rights Act (TRACBRA) Sign the TRACBRA petition TRACBRA on Facebook Graduate Student Due Process Rights/Policies CGEU Weblog direct CGEU Logo CGEU on Facebook – join us! Work and Family Issues Image Database Constitution draft committee Constitution Draft Vlogs – (video weblogs) Alumni Network Picket song/chant page Worker/Union-themed Movies Political Action and a side project OnlineOrganizing

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The State of Academic Labor AFT Higher Education Data Center The AFT Higher Education Data Center compiles information that colleges and universities report to the National Center for Education Statistics as part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). The center also provides statistics on the U.S. system of higher education as a whole, as well as information about state budgets collected by the National Association of State Budget Officers. Unionization "Strike Begins at Illinois," InsideHigherEd.com, 11/17/2009 "Strike at Illinois," InsideHigherEd.com, 11/16/2009 Collective Bargaining Toolkit: Taking on the Academic Staffing Crisis, AFT, 2009 "Student Union: At NYU, a More Progressive President Means Less Progressive Labor Policies," American Prospect (web only), 10/8/2009 "New Idea on Grad Students, Unions," InsideHigherEd.com, 4/20/2009 "Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007," by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer (Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2009) "Return of Grad Union Movement," InsideHigherEd.com, 1/28/2009 "An Improper 2004 NLRB Ruling Continues to Have Ramifications Today," Workers Independent News, 9/11/2008 "The Union Impact and Non-Impact," InsideHigherEd.com, 6/3/2008 The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace, edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm, and Andrew Ross (Temple U. Press, 2008) "Beyond the Picket Line: Academic Organizing after the Long NYU Strike" a special issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, v. 14, May 2007 AFL-CIO, UAW Protests Brown Decision at UN, February 26, 2007 The [Un]usual Suspects: Yale's Anti-union Campaign Against Graduate Teachers and Researchers Employment Trends "Conversion of Appointments to the Tenure Track," AAUP Draft Report, 2009 "Seeking Tenure 'Conversion,'" InsideHigherEd.com, 10/28/2009 "Contract Non-Renewal = Dismissal," InsideHigherEd.com, 10/27/2009 "International Campuses on the Rise," InsideHigherEd.com, 9/3/2009 "Hiding Adjuncts from 'U.S. News,'" InsideHigherEd.com, 9/3/2009 "Hiring Women as Full Professors," InsideHigherEd.com, 8/14/2009 "Can You Afford to Be an Adjunct?" InsideHigherEd.com, 6/15/2009 "Tenure's Value . . . to Society," InsideHigherEd.com, 6/8/2009 "'Faring Well' or Disappearing," (women on science faculties) InsideHigherEd.com, 6/4/2009 "'Off-Track Profs,'" InsideHigherEd.com, 5/28/2009 American Academic: The State of the Higher Education Workforce, 1997-2007 "The Disappearing Tenure-Track Job," InsideHigherEd.com, 5/12/2009 "Who's Teaching at American Colleges? Increasingly, Instructors Off the Tenure Track," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/12/2009 "Equity, Ethics, and Adjuncts," InsideHigherEd.com, 5/11/2009 MLA Academic Workforce Advocacy Kit "Standing Still: The Associate Professor Survey," MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, 4/27/2009 "'Still Standing' as Associate Profs," InsideHigherEd.com, 4/27/2009 "End the University as We Know It," NYTimes.com, 4/27/2009 "More Drivel from the New York Times," How the University Works, 4/27/2009 "What I Wish I'd Known About Tenure," IndsideHigherEd.com, 3/27/2009 "Creating a National Voice for Adjuncts," InsideHigherEd.com, 2/23/2009 "Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go," Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/30/2009 "Rejecting the Academic Fast Track," InsideHigherEd.com, 1/15/2009 "Reversing Course: The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward," AFT Report "New Form of Adjunct Abuse," InsideHigherEd.com, 9/11/2008 "The Truly Interdisciplinary Search," InsideHigherEd.com, 9/5/2008 "The Last Professors," InsideHigherEd.com, 6/11/2008 "The Seniority Pay Cut," InsideHigherEd.com, 4/9/2008 "Pushing for Job Conversions," InsideHigherEd.com, 3/6/2008 How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation, by Marc Bousquet (NYU Press, 2008) "The Dangerous Wealth of the Ivy League," Business Week, 11/29/2007 "Decline In Tenure Track Raises Concerns," New York Times, 11/20/2007 AAUP Contingent Faculty Index 2006 -- analysis of the impact of contingent labor and institution-specific data on over 2,600 colleges and universities. Casual Nation -- The American system of higher education faces an unprecedented crisis: half of all college teachers work for inadequte pay and benefits and have no institutional voice. Casualized Penn: Where did the Professors Go? -- Heavy Reliance on Casual Teaching Labor at the University of Pennsylvania Trends in Faculty Status, 1975-2003 (AAUP) Key Trends in Higher Education (AFT) 2004 COCAL Reports on Contingent Faculty The (Un)changing Face of the Ivy League AAUP Annual Faculty Salary Survey NEW! On the Brink: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2008-09 Where are the Priorities? The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2007-08 Financial Inequality in Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2006–07 The Devaluing of Higher Education: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2005-06 Graduate School "Money, Mentors, and Love," InsideHigherEd.com, 9/1/2009 "Top Ph.D. Programs, Shrinking," InsideHigherEd.com, 5/13/2009 "Managing Large Writing Projects," InsideHigherEd.com, 4/24/2009 "So You Want to be a Professor," Wall Street Journal, 4/23/2009 "When Dreams Collide with Reality," InsideHigherEd.com, 4/17/2009 "Poor, Even by Grad Student Standards," InsideHigherEd.com, 7/7/2008 "In Graduate Schools, Boost for Minorities," InsideHigherEd.com, 11/30/2007 Graduate Education: the Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation -- Council of Graduate Schools The Responsive Ph.D.: Innovations in U.S. Doctoral Education -- Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation "Response to the 'Responsive Ph.D.'" The Graduate Assistant Survey: 2006 Report (University of Maryland) "Is Graduate School a Cult?" Chronicle of Higher Eduction, 6/28/2004 "So You Want to go to Grad School," Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/3/2003 "Deprogramming from the Academic Cult," Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/9/1999 "Embittered by a Bleak Job Market, Graduate Students Take On the MLA," Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/18/1998 Work and Family Issues Why Graduate Students Reject the Fast Track: A Study of Thousands of Doctoral Students Shows that They Want Balanced Lives Do Babies Matter: The Effect of Family Formation on the Life Long Careers of Academic Men and Women, Part I Do Babies Matter: The Effect of Family Formation on the Life Long Careers of Academic Men and Women, Part II Graduate Student Parents: The Underserved Minority Baby Blue: Parents and Their Families in the Yale Graduate School Media and Journals Academe Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor The Chronicle of Higher Education InsideHigherEd.com AFT On Campus Weblogs HowtheUniversityWorks.com, a weblog with video National Labor Relations Board Decisions SUNY Decision (2008) SUNY Decision (2007) CUNY Decision (2007) Brown Decision (2004) NYU Decision (2000)

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