Northwestern University

Case Number: 13-RC-396487

Date Filed: 10/06/2026

Status: Open

No. of Employees: 740

Location: Evanston, IL

Region Assigned: Region 13, Chicago, Illinois

Unit Description: Included: All full-time and part-time non-tenure-eligible faculty (including the following titles: Adjunct Lecturers; Adjunct Assistant Professors of Instruction; Adjunct Associate Professors of Instruction; Adjunct Professors of Instruction; Adjunct Assistant Professors; Adjunct Associate Professors; Adjunct Professors; Clinical Assistant Professors; Clinical Associate Professors; Clinical Professors; Artists-in-Residence; Lecturers; Senior Lecturers; Distinguished Senior Lecturers; Visiting Assistant Professors in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professors of Instruction; Associate Professors of Instruction; Professors of Instruction; and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Advisors) employed by Northwestern University who have taught at least one credit bearing course in a degree granting program within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Bienen School of Music, the School of Communication, the School of Education & Social Policy, or the Medill School of Journalism. Excluded: All tenured faculty; tenure-eligible faculty; emeritus faculty; other visiting faculty; research faculty; postdoctoral job classifications; faculty in non-degree granting programs; the Feinberg School of Medicine faculty; the Pritzker Law School faculty; the Kellogg School of Business faculty; the School for Professional Studies faculty; Northwestern in Qatar faculty; all administrators (including deans, directors, provosts, and chairs who may have teaching assignments); other administrators and staff who have teaching assignments; faculty who exclusively teach outside of Illinois; faculty whose wages are paid directly or indirectly by other entities including governments, other academic institutions and other organizations; graduate students; athletic coaches; all other employees employed at the University, including those who teach a class or course and are separately compensated for such teaching but do not hold a title or position in the unit; managers, confidential employees, office clerical employees, and guards and supervisors as defined in the Act.