This is an historical and comparative paper that examines the importance of women's educational organizations across time and space and the deliberative attempts of individual members to advocate for the expansion of their professional knowledge, expertise and reach. Specifically, the historical spotlight is turned on the International Federation…

Every discipline has its own specialized language, its membership rites, its secret handshake. In its most benign and neutral definition, jargon signifies "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group." More often, however, the jingly word that Chaucer used to describe "the inarticulate utterance of birds" takes…

Scholarly groups have long served as hubs of academic life and the embodiments of their disciplines, but they face uncertain and divergent futures. Some disciplinary associations are struggling to remain relevant and financially viable as demographic and technological changes threaten their traditional sources of revenue. The core of their…

This report describes agencies (established by government) and organizations (established by others) that dealt exclusively with postsecondary education in British Columbia, Canada and which had at least one professional employee and/or were separate legal entities. Of the fifty groups described since 1960, about two dozen existed in 2012. The…

In the early 1990s, a small group of dedicated two-year college English faculty, led by Helon Raines, began the fight for the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), a professional organization that would give two-year college English faculty across the nation a respected identity and voice within the National Council of Teachers of English…

The organization, history, and goals of the Association of Optometric Educators are highlighted. (JMF)

Quotes from founding members of the American Association of University Professors concerning the formation of an association of university professors are presented. (MLW)

AAUP Constitution as revised at the 58th Annual Meeting. (HS)

The Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE) is a non-profit professional association committed to improvement of educational opportunities for Americans of Mexican ancestry. It is an association for educators, researchers, administrators, and students in higher education. The 1985 directory lists the 226 association members,…

Some 175 Black professors have established the National Congress of Black Faculty to deal with issues such as the recruitment and retention of Black faculty and the problems Black faculty members encounter in trying to undertake or publish research. (MLW)

Members of the AAUP's staff, acting on behalf of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, communicate during the course of each year with administrations under censure. A summary of developments at institutions on the list of Censured Administrations is presented. (Author/MLW)

Discusses the development of the National Association for Women in Education. Former incarnations include the National Association of Deans of Women (1916-1956), the National Association of Women Deans and Counselors (1956-1973), and the National Association of/for Women Deans, Administrators and Counselors (1973-1991). The association is…

The findings of two case studies of "no agent" victories in faculty representation elections are reported: Albion College, a small, private, co-educational, church-related college, and Michigan State University, a multi-missioned public university, first member of the Big Ten to have faculty representation elections. (JT)

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)