This publication reviews the history of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), which in 1997 celebrated its 25th anniversary, commemorating the 1972 merger of the institution's Legislative Conference and the United Federation of College Teachers, two previously rival unions. The first chapter covers the…

Presents a fictionalized account of a young professor's attempt to make a name for himself in academic circles. (TO)

Discusses the calculus of role, organizational and status considerations that account for the origins of faculty discontent. (Author/RK)

Social work faculties must be more flexible to respond to the ever changing environment. (Editor)

Diagnoses the abrogationists'' or those faculty members who habitually deprecate the college administration, other faculty members, and the calibre of the students. (DS)

A shift is expected to take place in academic administration where faculty organizations will press for faculty involvement in governance. (HS)

Reviews factors influencing rise of faculty unions on college campuses, including low pay, faculty frustration toward increasingly centralized management in state systems, trustees insensitive to educational ideals, women's and minority rights, and the rising egalitarianism in society at large. (SK)

Describes how the University of Akron's board of trustees reacted to a newly formed union by substantially reducing the faculty's decision-making role. (EV)

Explores negative effects on academic expertise and the academic freedom of faculty when governing boards and administrators look to the corporate world for organizational models. (EV)

Reviews the report "Do Charter Schools Measure Up? The Charter School Experiment After 10 Years" created by the American Federation of Teachers. Argues that rather than being serious research, the report is an indictment against charter schools for the purpose of retaining the union's power in public schools. (WFA)

Reprints of documents concerning the First Annual Meeting of the AAUP and the activities of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure are presented including the 1915 "Declaration of Principles." (MLW)

In celebration of The American College Personnel Association's seventy-fifth anniversary, Senior Scholars developed a project to: determine the trends that will affect high education in the next century; identify the impact these trends will have on student experience; identify research needed to respond to trends; and identify Emerging Scholars…