Considers the development and experience of the state faculty senate as a means for the local faculty senates to operate at the state level influencing state policy and providing a communication link that represents the interests of its member schools. (JT)

How the Michigan Association of Higher Education became the collective bargaining agent for the faculty of Central Michigan University. (IR)

Contract clauses on tenure, promotion, salaries, faculty workload, and retrenchment are compared with the national stances of the American Federation of Teachers, American Association of University Professors, and the National Education Association. Conclusion is that national organizational positions are not reliable predictors of individual…

Presents a case study of events leading to the collective bargaining representation election at Syracuse University in an effort to describe the complex situation facing a university administration which must assess unionization impact on the institution, including the possibility that opposition to it may support the collective bargaining effort.…

Incidents of five types of student involvement in the negotiation and administration of faculty or nonfaculty union contracts are examined: consultation-observation and end-run, coalition, tripartite, and collective bargaining. Conclusions are that no one appropriate type of student involvement has emerged; thus legislative structuring of student…

Reports a survey of every unionized college and university in the nation on the impact of faculty collective bargaining on traditional processes of academic governance, particularly faculty senates. One of several conclusions: the degree of threat that unions constitute depends on past history of the senate, legal framework, administrator role,…

Academic senates remain an important feature of higher education governance even though they have been criticized as being ineffective. Senates are examined from the perspective of alternative organizational models, and it is suggested that the functions of the senate are best understood by considering colleges as symbolic systems. (Author/MLW)

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)