PART-TIME FACULTY AND THE APPROPRIATE BARGAINING UNIT IN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES

JOYCE SWOFFORD

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DOI: 10.2190/WX1W-HN35-YJ9T-E3UM

Abstract

Part time-faculty participation in bargaining units has been the focus of several labor board cases in which lack of a clear and exact definition of academic community of interest has resulted in apparently subjective decisions. This research attempts to standardize unit determination involving part-time faculty by identifying measurable criteria. Based on data collected from 83.7 percent of all two-year unionized colleges, an operational definition of community of interest was derived. Discriminant analysis was used to produce a "checklist" composed of twenty variables which, with an 88 percent degree of accuracy, discriminates those who have community of interest from those who do not.

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