Summary: Faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield have been negotiating for a new contract. Talks have been going on more than a year, and they haven't even started talking about dollars. Kristi Barnwell , an associate professor of history, is vice-president of UIS United Faculty and a participant in negotiations. “Every year, the campus does an analysis of where our wages sit compared to other universities and campuses of similar size and profile, and every year, we come up well below the
