This paper compares the structure, operation and representative character of academic senates at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, the Pennsylvania State University, and Fresno State College. The first section discusses the organization of the senates at the 4 institutions including senate structures, committee…

This report is a case study of the Academic Senate at The Pennsylvania State University, and is based on the Senate's organization and functioning from 1966 through 1970. In late 1970, the Academic Senate ceased to exist and the new University Faculty Senate was created. Section I of the report discusses authority relations in higher education.…

The empirical basis of this monograph is intensive case studies of faculty participation in the governance of one large multipurpose state college and two large complex state university campuses. The chapters are concerned with faculty oligarchies (who rules and how), faculty-administrative and faculty-trustee relationships, external constraints…

This is 1 of 3 related case studies of faculty in college and university government. The purpose was to investigate: the formal mechanisms and the informal practices of faculty participation in governance; the emergence of oligarchies and the relationships of these "ruling" groups to faculty constituencies and administrative agencies;…

This document contains 3 articles. The first: "Governance in Higher Education: Conflict in the Seventies," by Kenneth P. Mortimer, reviews the realignments of authority now underway, including (1) the challenges to traditional authority relationships from external sources, such as governmental intervention, judicial rulings, statewide coordination…

Workload clauses in 92 collective bargaining contracts provides one basis for predicting future trends and tradeoffs. (Editor)

This document reports on a survey of faculty voting behavior. The survey was months after a second election was held to determine whether or not faculty and support professionals at Temple University would be represented by a collective bargaining agent. The survey focused on the relationship between voting behavior and two potential sources of…

This paper addresses issues of concern to trustees of public, single-campus four-year institutions of higher education. Seven critical issues are listed: (1) enrollment trends are changing--although overall enrollment is increasing, the rate of growth is declining and there has been a shift from four-year and graduate institutions to two-year…