Current building projects on college and university campuses tend to be planned and funded according to commercial needs and opportunities. Often planning is done without faculty knowledge or advice. The result can be a distraction of the institution's mission from its core values of service and community. Campus planners can avoid this…

State college librarians in Pennsylvania have had faculty status for the last 50 years, but collective bargaining has enlarged the meaning of the term. (Author)

Paper delivered at a meeting of professors of higher education held in conjunction with, but not as an official part of, the National Conference of the American Association for Higher Education (Chicago, March 1969).

The standing committee system of a college is important to both its organizational and its administrative structure. This brochure presents in detail the composition, organization, schedule of meetings, preparation of agenda, recording procedures, functions, and mission of the College of the Mainland's administrative council, its standing…

The document lists the 266 institutions of higher education, with 431 campuses, where faculty members have named agents to represent them. The list of agents includes: American Association of University Professors (AAUP), National Education Association (NEA), AAUP-NEA coalition, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) (AFL-CIO), NEA-AFT, and…

One of the most significant changes in patterns of authority and influence in higher education during the last quarter century is the great growth of faculty power, coupled with rapid faculty professionalization. Several studies have pointed out that under ordinary conditions, ruling "elites" take over faculty affairs, and participation…

The purpose of this article is to examine the emergence of faculty bargaining in New Jersey's 15 community colleges using data collected as part of a two-year study. (Author)

Committees are invaluable in higher education if they are used for appropriate purposes and administered properly. (Author)

Analyzes the responsibilities of the college examiner, whose role as evaluator of a college rather than of the collective bargaining process is considered. (RK)

Faculty participation in policy-making decisions at institutions of higher learning is examined in depth. (CK)

As the use of collective bargaining becomes more extensive, the most suitable role for the administrator in faculty negotiations may be to assure that it provides a positive influence. (Editor)

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)

The movement away from professionalization and toward unionization is examined. It is noted that the traditional stance taken by the leadership of the American Association of University Professors seems to ignore the obstacles (i.e., the distribution of power in organization) in the path of attaining full professional status. (Author/LBH)

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…

Discusses the need for an accreditation process of distance education programs in higher education. Topics include the increasing number of distance courses; Department of Education concerns regarding possible abuses; and concern by faculty groups over the control of course content and the commercialization of education by for-profit providers.…