About the Faculty Bargaining Unit

The United Academics of Ohio University (UAOU) represents approximately 800 eligible Ohio University faculty members in matters related to the terms and conditions of employment.

Who is represented?

The bargaining unit includes:

• Full-time Tenured or Tenure-Track faculty 
• Full-time, Non-Tenure Track instructional faculty
• Full-time, Non-Tenure Track Clinic Faculty (Clinical Professor, Associate Clinical Professor, and Assistant Clinical Professor) 

Who is not included?

The bargaining unit does not include certain employees, including:

• Faculty in the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine 
• Faculty in the College of Health Sciences and Professions (except for full-time faculty in the Department of Social Work, Department of Social and Public Health, and Department of Interdisciplinary Health Studies) 
• All part-time faculty, visiting faculty, instructors, special appointments, adjuncts, librarians 
• Faculty participating in an early retirement program 
• All supervisors and management-level employees 
• All ranks of presidents, all ranks of provosts, all ranks of deans, all school-level directors, all department chairs, all administrators 
• All faculty holding multiple appointments in which one appointment is also an excluded category, and all other employees.