Five days before a campus-wide walkout was set to occur, adjunct faculty at Northeastern University reached a contract settlement with university administrators on Wednesday.

The settlement involves a three-year agreement with Northeastern administrators that will provide improvements in compensation and course stability. Additionally, the settlement is subject to a vote for ratification from affected Northeastern faculty, according to a press release from Service Employees International Union Local 509, which is also representing adjunct and contract faculty at Brandeis.

The University’s non-tenure track faculty voted to join SEIU Local 509 on Dec. 18, creating a bargaining unit that will work closely with the administration in the coming months.

According to its website, SEIU Local 509 also is involved in unionization efforts at Bentley University, Lesley University, Boston University and Tufts University.

The settlement at Northeastern, which is set to affect more than 900 instructors at the school, will improve per-course pay, course stability, intra-faculty inclusion and access to funding for adjunct faculty members, according to the press release.

The settlement comes after a 19-month unionization effort for Northeastern adjunct faculty, who voted to join SEIU Local 509 in May of 2014. “When this process began, I had doubts about what could be accomplished through collective bargaining. But negotiations over this contract changed my views completely,” engineering technology instructor Elliot Chikofsky was quoted in the press release as saying. “Adjunct faculty now have a real seat at the table on issues like course schedules and curriculum planning. We can finally contribute and be recognized for those contributions.”

—Abby Patkin