Oakland University, Michigan, is perhaps the first 4-year institution at which professors went on strike for better salary and working conditions. (Author/HS)

The purpose of this research is to set out a conceptual framework for explaining variations in the impact of faculty bargaining on institutions of higher education. The conceptual framework is presented in 3 parts. First, a model of the bargaining exchange process is sketched out. Second, an input model describing the structures, processes and…

Discusses facts concerning the M.L. Michael Kay case, a professor released from duty because of his political beliefs and actions. (HS)

This report contains tentative procedural recommendations for the discipline of officers of instruction and certain other holders of faculty appointments at Harvard University. These procedures will apply under the following conditions: (1) interference with freedom of speech, academic freedom, freedom from personal force and violence, and freedom…

This document presents the results of a survey of full-time faculty members at 4 California State Colleges. The survey was designed to discover the level of militancy within the faculty and to single out some other characteristics common to more militant professors. Highlights of the findings include: (1) Militant faculty are more likely to be in…

Review of the events and summary of the findings in the case of Dr. William Wickersham, in which the Columbia College Board of Trustees disapproved Professor Wickersham's appointment. (HS)

During a 1990 Temple University faculty strike, three types of militancy (voting to strike, voting to defy injunction, picketing) had different determinants; for example, social support and union commitment related to riskier types. Other variables related to militancy included attitudes toward job, union, and militancy. (SK)

The field of labor relations in colleges and universities is developing quite rapidly in the U.S. In the public sector, a variety of new labor relations laws are being adopted at the state level. Pending the possible adoption of federal legislation governing labor relations in public institutions, personnel officers who are without a state law…

Describes a movement to organize campus collectives pledged to help North Vietnam solve problems created by the military and to make scientific amends for U.S. foreign policy. (HS)

The collective bargaining process is now reaching out to embrace virtually all of higher education. (HS)

Reply to the article by R. Selden concerning far-reaching changes in the Polytechnic. (PG)

Comparison of the cases of H. Bruce Franklin, a professor relieved of his duties at Stanford University because of his political actions, and Ernest Mandell, a professor at the Free University of Berlin who was denied appointment on the grounds of his political activities. (HS)

Until society can find its direction and unity, the university will continue to live with conflict and will find its future obscure. (HS)

Untenured college faculty may not have contracts renewed. (HS)