Until the spring 2006 semester, years of collegial relations between the faculty and the administration contributed to Quinnipiac University's prestige, helping it to a secure a place on U.S. News and World Reports' list of the nation's best institutions of higher education. This past spring, Quinnipiac president John Lahey, exploiting a loophole in federal labor law, stripped professors of their right to collective bargaining and busted their union. Effectively declaring war on the university's professors, Lahey repudiated Quinnipiac's more than thirty-year history of negotiating with its faculty and permitting professors a democratic say in the decisions shaping their professional lives.

No institution of higher learning is improved when the status of its faculty is diminished. By denying professors their fundamental rights and provoking a bitter labor dispute, Lahey has jeopardized the collegial environment that has made Quinnipiac such a great place to work and to learn. But it doesn't have to be this way. Tell President Lahey to keep Quinnipiac great by abandoning his program of union-busting and by restoring the rights of the faculty.

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