Considers factors that led to the formation of the Association of Polytechnic Teachers (APT) in England assessing its role as one of some 20 such teachers organizations and concluding it is a retrogressive step not in the collective interests of polytechnic academic staff or English higher education in general. (JT)

The effects of trade union membership on faculty attitude toward university governance are analyzed with attention directed to faculty concepts of the university as an employer. An attempt is made to forecast the inevitable consequences of the growth of academic trade union activity, the factors that influence that growth, and the shift in…