Eight case studies of dynamics of campus governance indicate that effectiveness of academic senates depends on structure, culture, and administrative posture toward faculty involvement in institutional decision making. Colleges included one private and one public university, two state colleges recently named universities, two private comprehensive…

An examination of the structure of academic governance at six unionized four-year institutions--two public universities, two state colleges, and two private liberal arts colleges--shows that faculty unionization is one contextual factor, of many such factors, that affects change in the formal and informal decision-making structure. (Author/JMD)