Unionization of college and university faculty is one of the few areas of growth in higher education, say these dialogue participants. They discuss whether the institution can survive collective bargaining or whether it can survive without it. (Editor/LBH)

The Union Leadership Academy (ULA) combines Pennsylvania State, Rutgers, West Virginia, and Atlantic Community College, 3 departments of the ALL-CIO, and 12 unions into an innovative curriculum covering aspects of labor law, union administration, and labor history. (Author/PG)

The Teaching Assistants Association (TAA) is a labor union representing the graduate students who teach most of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan freshman and sophomore courses. (Author/PG)

A new source of students, workers eligible for tuition aid plans offered as incentives or negotiated by unions, is seen as a significant development for higher education. Some worker education programs are described. Low participation rates are seen as the result of lack of information. (MLW)

The evidence indicates that the more research-oriented and institution is, the less receptive it is to collective bargaining. (Editor)

Tells how Michigan State University's antiunion campaign deterred faculty from voting for unionism. (HS)

The trend of unionization and collective bargaining on college and university campuses is viewed. (HS)

Chronicles the present growth of unionization and its conflicts and conjectures on its future directions. (Editor)

The "Yeshiva debate" over the nature of faculty governance will continue to rage within academe. Unions will argue that faculties must bargain collectively with or without the protection of NLRB legislation; small private colleges may submit that they cannot afford bargaining costs and refuse to bargain. (MSE)

An assistant president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union discusses the "proper" relations between workers' education and higher education, between nontraditional and traditional learning, between the class struggle and the classroom. Mutual benefits between higher education and the unions are cited. (LBH)

Ten references are cited on the following aspects of collective bargaining: difference among unions; the role of the National Labor Relations Board; the need for faculty unionization; college presidents' attitudes; impact on governance conflict resolution; union-management contracts; and a bibliography with 1,100 citations. Abstracts are included.…

Recent and current developments in faculty unionization and campus governance are reviewed and the author predicts that unionization will continue to increase significantly with the probable emergence of state and national unions and profound effects on governance, the faculty being the gainers in the shift of power. (JT)

Summarizes a national study of the impact of faculty unionism on personnel practices, academic senates, and administrative and governance procedures. Concludes that faculties are better off because of unionization and that collective bargaining is a neutral decision-making process, its impact determined by the involvement of faculty and…

A history of Brookwood Labor College, an educational pioneer that engaged in practices and solved problems that have become widespread in higher education, is presented. It served adult and nontraditional students, and also proved that a liberal arts education provides vocational training, and that quality means more than survival. (MLW)

The role and legal responsibility of interns and residents has become a subject of controversy, and the National Labor Relations Board has declared that hospital housestaff are students and their unions are unprotected by national labor legislation. Related labor problems such as strikes, wages, training, and foreign students are discussed. (LBH)