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History
Efforts to unionize faculty at South Dakota State University and across South Dakota occurred throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Early attempts by the American Association of University Professors and the South Dakota Higher Education Faculty Association were ultimately unsuccessful but contributed to the establishment of the Council of Higher Education (COHE).
In 1978, the South Dakota Board of Regents officially recognized COHE as the exclusive representative of the collective bargaining unit for higher education faculty. COHE is authorized to negotiate matters related to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, grievance procedures, and other terms and conditions of employment.
The bargaining unit represented by COHE includes full-time and regular part-time instructional and research faculty at public colleges and universities, the Agricultural Experiment Station, Cooperative Extension Service, Auxiliary Services, the South Dakota School for the Visually Handicapped, and the South Dakota School for the Deaf. Supervisory personnel are excluded from the unit.
Excluded from the bargaining unit are faculty at the Medical School, Law School, and Institute of Atmospheric Sciences; as well as deans, directors, department chairpersons and heads, principals, superintendents, program managers, supervisory and managerial staff, emeritus faculty, teaching and research assistants, clinical faculty, county agents, county home economists, and ROTC personnel.