After electing to unionize in May, Ithaca College part-time faculty members have identified increased compensation as a major priority heading into negotiations after spending the summer forming a bargaining committee.
The National Labor Relations Board has finalized the date for Ithaca College’s part-time faculty unionization election, which Linda Petrosino, interim provost for educational affairs, detailed in a letter to part-time faculty April 22.
Ithaca College part-time faculty will vote in the coming weeks on whether to unionize, having filed their petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board on April 15.
Ithaca College students have begun to respond in organized ways to the administration’s denial of Faculty Council’s request to expand the resources of the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services.
Not unlike gay marriage rights, part-time faculty unions are sweeping the nation, as The Ithacan also reported March 5 in the article “Part-time faculty across nation move toward unions.”
The Ithacan’s three-part package on unionization on college campuses:
Part One: Colleges weigh-in on value of unions
Part Two: Part-time faculty across the nation move toward unionization
Part Three: Colleges increase use of adjunct faculty as their role evolves
Ithaca College President Tom Rochon’s compensation is greater than presidents from similar colleges.
Ithaca College has continued its campaign to raise funds through an online donation system for United Way, a national network of nonprofit organizations.
Staff and faculty received only a 2.75 percent raise, which fell short of Rochon’s target of 3 percent.
Ithaca College administrators discussed employee benefits, honorary degree nominations and shared governance at the Nov. 11 meeting.
The IRS Form 990 for Ithaca College indicates increases in base compensation values for the college’s key administrators for the 2012–13 fiscal year.
A consultant from the AGB Search visited Ithaca College Sept. 8–9 to collect feedback from the campus community about the qualities they seek in the next provost.
