Volume 99, Issue 6 Download the whole issue as a pdf (AAUP member login required) or read individual articles below. Features Navigating Troubled Waters at the NLRB By Risa L. Lieberwitz The Ballot Battleground By Sara Kilpatrick The Fight for Retirement Security in California By Jonathan Karpf The Resurgent Interest in Performance-Based Funding for Higher Education By Michael K. McLendon and James C. Hearn A Faculty Voice on the State Coordinating Board By Nancy J. McKenney Book Reviews Online Education and the “Cost Disease” By Henry Reichman Small Fish, Big Pond By Crystal Bartolovich From Heroism to Diversity By Beryl Satter Columns From the Editor: Doing More to Make Ourselves Heard By Brian Turner From the President: Why Is US Higher Education in Decline? By Rudy Fichtenbaum Nota Bene Historic First Contract at University of Oregon By Gwendolyn Bradley Contract Agreement at Wright State By Ezra Deutsch-Feldman AAUP Responds to CCSF Accreditation Loss By Jason Elias Public Directors Named to AAUP Foundation Board By Elona M. Jouben New Volume of Journal of Academic Freedom Bequest Supports Legal Defense Fund By Elona M. Jouben Appeals Court Expands Protections for Academic Speech By Aaron Nisenson Reactivated AAUP Chapter at Penn State By Angela Hewett AAUP Launches Intellectual Property Campaign By Ezra Deutsch-Feldman