Factors contributing to the ineffectiveness of faculty senates include paternalism on the part of a chief administrator who may also reject the senate's advice, recommendations or decisions; differing points of view regarding its authority; the relationships between its members; time required for meetings; student alienation, and other problems…

Explores whether commerce and academic collaboration can coexist as Universitas 21, a group of 17 universities on several continents, puts years of planning to the test in an online education venture. Faculty unions fear a lack of quality in the venture. (EV)

The movement toward collective bargaining stalled for half a century, until a changing climate in higher education required the AAUP to make a decision. Quotes concerning collective bargaining are presented. (Author/MLW)

Describes the experiences of a group of temporary faculty members at Northern Illinois University who worked to create a union, highlighting their issues related to pay and equity and looking at the response of university administrators to temporary faculty demands. (SM)

The first article in this three-part series (Christian Higher Education 5(3) 2006: 279-293) introduced the topic of tenure in American evangelical Christian colleges and universities. This article presents the findings from a study designed to ascertain the tenure policies and practices of member institutions in the Council for Christian Colleges…

The aim of this article has been to highlight some of the difficulties which must be faced if interdisciplinary studies are to be introduced into the secondary school. (Author/RK)

The program and abstracts of the presentations of the 1985 meeting of the Society for College Science Teachers of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) are the topics of this report. Society officers are listed, a history of the society is provided, and membership information is given. Committees are listed, with members and chairs. The…

The kind of life led by retired faculty and the benefits of belonging to an Emeritus College are discussed. It is suggested that most retired faculty continue to reside in the communities where they spent many years working. They may use the college library and attend functions at the college. They are candidates for the unique organization that…

BY VIRTUE OF THEIR COMPETENCE IN SPECIFIC DISCIPLINES AND IN EDUCATION, JUNIOR COLLEGE FACULTIES ARE QUALIFIED TO MAKE RESPONSIBLE DECISIONS IN EDUCATIONAL POLICY MATTERS AND SHOULD HAVE AN ACTIVE, MEANINGFUL ROLE IN COLLEGE GOVERNANCE. THE EXTENT OF SUCH PARTICIPATION SHOULD BE THE SAME AS IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. FACULTIES…

The National Education Association (NEA) has assembled data about its rival organization, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). For each state, the total state membership is shown together with each local's identifying number, name, and total members for 1979 and 1980. Overseas membership is listed, as are comparative data for the years 1974…

Campus grievance procedures, now mandated for most institutions by the Title IX regulations, ordinarily include informal measures to resolve a grievance, provision for a formal written complaint for the grievant, a grievance committee with a number of roles, a hearing committee for cases involving major policy issues and major sanctions, and a set…

This paper is an exercise in the study of David Easton's "dynamic response model of a political system," as found in "A Systems Analysis of Political Life." After a brief review of the theory, the development of a local "Reduction in Force" policy is described as an example of faculty organization policy influence on…

This report, a description and analysis of the early formation period of the academic senate movement in California community colleges, is a portion of a larger study conducted in 1967. Responses from senate presidents provided a large measure of the data on problems and issues of forming a senate. Legal enactments from Sacramento in 1963, 1964,…

This study discusses faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining, including collective negotiations, sanctions, and withholding of faculty services. The purpose was to determine whether faculty members' perceptions of their capacities for power and mobility were related to their expression of relatively favorable or unfavorable attitudes toward…

Faculty unions have become a reality on many college campuses. This paper examines some of the objections of the public and college administrators toward faculty unions. Public criticism usually centers on the possible increased costs of education generated by union demands, while the college management complains that union grievance and other…