Academy for Academic Personnel Administration
Fall 2003
Round Table Report
1. Institution Information
Name of Institution/System: University of San Francisco
Name of Individuals Responding: Donna Davis and David Philpott
Title of Individual Responding: General Counsel
2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Full-time faculty and librarians
n = 300
Bargaining Agent: AFT
Date of First Contract: 1976
Number of Succeeding Contracts: 8
2b. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Part-time faculty
n = 500
Bargaining Agent: AFT
Date of First Contract: 1986
Number of Succeeding Contracts: 5
2c. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Associated Law Professors
Bargaining Agent: Independent
Date of First Contract: 1978
Number of Succeeding Contracts: 3
3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):
No changes. Bargaining to take place in 2004-05.
4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)
None
5. Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):
Increasing health care costs, accounting treatment of early retirement obligations as a bar to program implementation.