Article 1 - Recognition and Bargaining Unit Description

Section 1. Pursuant to the Certification of Representative, issued by the National Labor Relations Board in Case No. 01-RC-148228 the University hereby recognizes the Union as the sole and exclusive collective bargaining representative of all full-time and regular part-time core faculty and tenured faculty employed by Lesley University at its Cambridge, Massachusetts campuses, including faculty with titles of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, and University Professor.

Excluded are all other employees, National Faculty, Deans, Associate Deans, Provost, adjunct faculty, coaches, all Division Directors and Director of Field Placement in the Graduate School of Education, all Chairs in the Lesley University College of Art and Design, all Division Leaders in the College of Liberal Arts, the following classifications in the Graduate School of Arts and Social Science: Division Director (Division of Expressive Therapies), Division Director (Division of Counseling and Psychology, Program Director-MFA Writing, Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Directors of Field Training, Supervisor of Academic Affairs, and Associate Director of Academic Affairs, and Associate Director of Expressive Therapies, and all managers, confidential employees, guards and supervisors as defined in the Act.

Section 2. Whenever “Unit Core Faculty" is used in this Agreement it shall refer to bargaining unit employees, unless otherwise specified.