February 6, 2004

Tenure Denials Lead to Union Organizing at Carroll College

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

Four controversial tenure denials at Carroll College in Wisconsin have spurred professors there to try to organize a union.

The proposed union, which would represent the 90 full-time faculty members at the private college, would be affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. Organizers will have to overcome the U.S. Supreme Court's 1980 decision involving Yeshiva University, in which the justices ruled that professors held managerial roles and therefore were not covered by

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