An objective record is presented of the processes that led to faculty collective bargaining at Chicago State University (CSU), based principally on the published proceedings of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities of the State of Illinois. The study presents chronologically the official record of the CSU faculty-governing…

Urban managers and legislators are faced with the task of ensuring that policy decisions really represent citizens' needs. One method of communicating with the public by government was the creation of the Community Representatives Office (CRO) by the city of Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1973. This position is similar to the office of the…

The suspension of Pennsylvania's educational employees due to declining enrollment is examined in this paper. The controversy over whether teacher suspension should be based on seniority or on evaluation criteria has resulted in intervention by the judicial system to establish legal precedents for reduction-in-force policy. Methodology is based on…

To rectify the inadequacies and inconsistencies in student disciplinary policy between the four campuses of the Miami-Dade Community College system, a comprehensive, current policy of students' rights and responsibilities as well as revised disciplinary procedures and a new Student Code of Conduct were devised in 1976. In developing the revisions,…