This paper considers noncredit instruction in the California Community College System. It identifies three related concepts: a state need for increased levels of education that noncredit instruction is well placed to supply, several changes that begin to facilitate that response, and additional changes that are needed to ensure success. The…

Outlines the principal features of the Public Community College Act providing statutory tenure for faculty members in community college districts in Illnois after three consecutive years of satisfactory service. Briefly summarizes the responses to the bill of the governor and community college faculty members. (AYC)

Reviews the history of the development and beginnings of universities in the United States in relation to the question of whether university faculty members are to be considered management employees not entitled to bargain collectively with the administration. Discusses this history in relation to the court litigation at Yeshiva State University…

The Supreme Court decision in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) v. Yeshiva University is discussed, along with a test for determining "managerial employees." In this case, the court held that full-time faculty at nonprofit, private, higher education institutions are managerial employees, where their recommendations are normally…

In 1977, the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations confronted the question of defining what constitutes part-time status for college teachers. A brief on a case concerning a lecturer at the University of Connecticut reveals the difficulty in measuring faculty workload. (MLW)

Reviews the 12-year history of negotiations concerning governance in institutions of higher education in New York since passage of the Taylor Law. (IRT)

Academic freedom is invoked as both an individual freedom and an institutional bulwark. "Parate v. Isibor," recently decided by the Sixth Circuit, illustrates many of the problems that the concept causes litigants and courts. The unfortunate compromise resolution trivializes the principles ostensibly protected by academic freedom. (MLF)

The official AAUP Statement on Collective Bargaining, a revision of the statement adopted in 1973, is presented as prepared by the Association's Committee N on Representation of Economic and Professional Interests in Consultation with the Collective Bargaining Congress. Policy for collective bargain chapters is outlined. (LB)

Judicial interference with National Labor Relations Board decision making by the Supreme Court is reviewed. The merits of the Yeshiva decision and the particular significance of the Court's interference with the National Labor Relations Board definition of "managerial" are assessed. (AVAIL: University of Akron School of Law, Akron, Ohio…

The impact of the Supreme Court Decision, "National Labor Relations Board versus Yeshiva University," on collective bargaining at colleges and universities is considered. The basic thrust of the majority decision is that faculty are not under the umbrella of the National Labor Relations Act and that administration may refuse to negotiate…

Summarizes the case of "Winkes vs. Brown University" and interprets its significance in the controversy over whether granting salary increases to women faculty under affirmative action constitutes reverse discrimination against male faculty. (JW)

Traces the legal history of Central Michigan University's involvement in court cases regarding the scope of bargaining and union security and the impact of these two issues on institutional planning, governance, and union power. (MLF)

A controversy over whether university faculty are "employees" within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act is discussed. The U.S. Supreme Court in NLRB v. Yeshiva University ruled that faculty members are "managers." (Available from: Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, $4.00) (Author/MLW)

Legal issues regarding faculty relationships with their employers are reviewed. Regulation by individual agreement and by collective agreement are discussed, and a national agreement that would rely on self-regulation is proposed. (Journal availibility: Univ. of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA 52242.) (MSE)

Faculty who criticize their academic employers have attempted to expand the doctrine of academic freedom to insulate themselves from institutional retribution. Examination of a number of court decisions discloses that most faculty lose their challenges. Advises faculty to examine their claims and personal vulnerability before bringing suit. (MLF)