Faculty Union Seeks Agreement With U. of Massachusetts on Distance Courses

Article in Chronicle: 'INCENTIVES,' NOT 'COERCION'.

Snippet:

• A faculty union wants to create a collective-bargaining agreement with the University of Massachusetts system to make sure its professors aren't overworked or underpaid when they venture into distance education. ...
  
  ... Administrators are willing to keep distance-education assignments voluntary for professors, and to let faculty members retain ownership and control of courses, just as the union wants. ...
  
  "I see this more as a process that's going to dismiss some of the misunderstanding and myths surrounding distance education," Mr. Messelaar says. "A lot of times the faculty don't understand the pedagogical issues surrounding online learning."
  
  ... Mr. Story also wants to make sure that faculty members are not subject to electronic surveillance by the administration. ...

 

This might even be a valid argument if one of their masters degrees was not in ethnomusicology.

 

Oops, I apologize. it is the University of Maryland that offers that degree.

 

"Oops, I apologize. it is the University of Maryland that offers that degree."

Actually the University of Maryland University College offers that degree. The University of Maryland per se does not.