The Middle Class, Democracy and Unions:  Why you can't have one without the others; Featuring Karen Nussbaum of Working America

Alumna profile - Liz Haydu

Amanda Robertson is trying orange as her new favorite color, after four years of green and white at Michigan State. She joined the incoming class at LER this August, and is proud to be one of the newest students on campus at Illinois.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, LER is highlighting some of our amazing and unique alumni. Read on to learn about the Chavarry family, one of our multi-generational School families. 

Professor Michael LeRoy is to receive the LER Alumni Professorship. 

Gentzy Franz, LER master's and doctoral alumnus, and master's instructor, was recently quoted in Money Magazine.

The building expansion continues to move closer to being a reality.

Workers with greater boundary control over their work and personal lives were better at creating a stress buffer to prevent them from falling into a negative rumination trap, says a new study co-written by a trio of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign experts who study occupational stress and employee well-being. From left, labor and employment relations professors YoungAh Park and Yihao Liu, and graduate student Lucille Headrick.

This fall marked the busiest year yet for recruitment activities of all kinds.

Our faculty is continually recognized for their expertise in teaching and research. 

Our faculty is continually recognized for their expertise in teaching and research. 

Feuille Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor Rothbaum was the 6th Director of the then-Institute, named to the position in 1968. He served until 1981, when he was succeeded by  Walter Franke. 

Eden Haycraft has been promoted to Associate Director, Graduate Online Programs, for the School. 

At the end of 2015, LER reworked our Assistant Director for Career and Student Services position to have a special focus on our international population.

These are the alumni who will be participating in the virtual event on 8/24 at 5:30 pm via Zoom. 

When defusing workplace conflict, firms favor alternative dispute resolution practices that align with their underlying strategic bent, says new research co-written by U. of I. labor professor Ryan Lamare.

Conventional wisdom dictates that workers who “lawyer up” in workplace disputes would be more likely to improve their chances at securing a better outcome, but in an alternative dispute resolution context such as arbitration, employers can all but cancel out those positive effects, says a new paper by LER faculty member Ryan Lamare.