Collective bargaining, a relatively recent development in higher education, has aroused considerable interest among the members of the academic community. Recent developments in higher education have encouraged their interest: a depressed job market; serious institutional financial difficulties; state centralization and loss of campus autonomy;…

Provides guidelines to college administrators for collective negotiation with faculty associations. (JF)

In general, NCA secondary principals perceive their fundamental role to be that of educational leadership, with management, crisis resolution, and even general administration being quite subordinate functions. (Author)

There has been a rapid increase of interest in recent years on the part of community college faculty in entering into collective negotiation agreements. Resulting benefits include the improved status of the teaching profession and the ability of the faculty to attract and retain qualified staff. (MN)

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

The problems of librarians in faculty unions in relation to status, salary, and salary calculation are covered in this case study brought before the American Library Association Staff Committee on Mediation, Arbitration, and Inquiry (SCMAI) in 1977. (Author/MBR)

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

This is one of a group of studies on faculty organization and faculty government. Fresno State College was studied for (1) the nature and effectiveness of the procedures that had been devised for faculty-administrative consultation, (2) the process of faculty and administrative participation in governance through the Academic Senate and selected…

In covering the campus unrest of the late 1960's the news media, absorbed in the drama of student demonstrations, largely ignored the quieter activities of radical faculties. These activities, however, have wrought some significant changes not only in the structures of power within the profession, but also in the directions of research and…

Pennsylvania's Act 195, the Public Employee Relations Act, went into effect in October 1970. The Act, a piece of model legislation in the area of collective negotiations, provides for the right of employees to organize and to be represented by an exclusive bargaining agent; provides for mediation, fact-finding, and arbitration services; and takes…

In this paper the authors survey the literature surrounding the changing role of faculty in governing academic institutions and controlling their own welfare. The review of materials goes back to 1920, documenting the concern of the professoriate for achieving some form of participative governance in higher education generally, but junior college…

The exploratory case study examined the qualifications of teachers serving on committees in a suburban school district, inferred which factors influenced the selection of these teachers, and determined if the teacher-committee members were representative of the teachers in the system. (NQ)

Examines the issues of whether unions and faculty senates, or other governing groups, can co-exist; who represents whom or what, and who should pay the costs of operating an advocate organization. (Author/RK)

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

Author believes that one of the most valuable by-products of the collective bargaining process seems to have been the demythologizing which the university has undergone. (Author/MB)