Resources

At USF

• USF graduate assistants are represented by UFF-Graduate Assistants United
• USF police are represented by the Police Benevolent Association
• USF staff are represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a fellow AFL-CIO affiliate
• The USF-Polytechnic site and its Faculty Senate
• The USF-Saint Petersburg site and its Faculty Senate
• The USF-Sarasota-Manatee site and its Faculty Senate
• The USF-Tampa site and its Faculty Senate; also USF-Tampa Health Sciences Center
• The USF Human Resources page on Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations

Elsewhere

• Academic Info is a hub, with a concentration on distance learning.
• The American Association for University Professors publishes a an academic journal called Academe.
• The American Federation of Teachers maintains several publications, most notably their quarterly American Educator, and their higher education journal, On Campus.
• The American Labor Studies Center provides educational materials on labor history and labor issues.
• The Martin P. Catherwood Llibrary for Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations has a subject guide on Industrial Relations Overview of the U.S. There is also a page of subject guides; see also their research portal.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education has some pieces availabe for non-subscribers.
• The Florida Center for Public Policy and Leadership maintains an E-news digest of news on public affairs, including higher education, in Florida.
• The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education defends the freedom of expression for faculty and students.
• The “Humanities and Social Science” site H-Net is “an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web.” One of their subsidiary sites is H-Adjunct, a “network for adjunct, part-time and temporary faculty at universities, colleges and community colleges.”
• Inside Higher Ed covers higher education news, and is open to all.
• The Institute for Industrial Relations at the University of California is a multi-disciplinary program on labor and employment relations.
• The International Labor Organization was founded in 1919 as part of the package of the Treaty of Versailles, and incorporated into the United Nations Organization in 1946.
• Jobs with Justice is a coalition of groups of labor activists.
• The The Labor Heritage Foundation “works to strengthen the labor movement through the use of music and the arts.”
• The international news page LabourStart, “Where trade unionists start their day on the net.”
• The National Center for Education Statistics is “the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.”
• The National Education Association maintains several publications, most notably their flagship NEA Today, their Higher Education Advocate, and their journal, Thought and Action.
• The State of Florida maintains a site for finding salaries of state and university employees, called Florida Has a Right to Know (how underpaid we are)
• The AFL-CIO community affiliate, Working America, reviews issues on “building a better future for Working Families.
• The Workplace Collective runs a “journal for academic labor” called Workplace.
• Workplace Fairness has news and issues, information and tips.