Evolution of the relationship between Australian government and universities is traced from 1957, particularly concerning employment practices, union formation, and workplace regulation. The state has taken an increasingly assertive role in shaping universities' internal staffing, within an environment of growing commonwealth budget difficulties…

Two surveys of Drexel University (Pennsylvania) students (n=204) investigated responses to a strike by campus janitorial and maintenance workers, with results analyzed in the context of media coverage. Evaluations of arguments made by the adversaries, impact of the strike on students, and perceptions of one side or the other as "winning"…

Discusses an initiative by the Brazilian Metalworkers Union that integrates vocational training with the construction of a new citizenship. Claims this initiative transcends traditional Latin American adult education models of human resource training and popular education. Stresses the program is an example of integrated education and training for…

The University of Maine's seven-campus system led a labor-management committee in redefining a job classification and evaluation system for all hourly positions to achieve internal pay equity. The comprehensive change in compensation polity in a unionized environment was possible only by obtaining wide-scale union involvement. (MSE)

Although the executive secretary of the Alabama Education Association is expected to announce his candidacy for governor, scant evidence exists that, in either state of federal government, teachers-turned-politicians act as a monolithic force on behalf of education issues. (MLF)

The history of the University of Vermont faculty's efforts to unionize since 1976 is chronicled, including faculty relations with the university administration, national and state labor relations boards, and the state legislature over union issues in general and a specific conflict over disclosure of faculty salaries. (MSE)

The University of Rhode Island established a merit pay system to reward exceptional teaching, research, and service and to retain valuable faculty. A survey investigated faculty attitudes about the new system's fairness, potential results on faculty productivity and morale, and effects on faculty allegiance. (MSE)

As the campus population changes, new student activities programs and redesigned existing programs need to be created. Colleges and universities must re-think the programs offered for minority students and non-traditional students, those 25 years of age and older. Some ways to meet their needs are presented. (MLW)

Presents issues from a debate about interlibrary loan (ILL) policies and the use of union lists on the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) ILL subsystem. Highlights include library funding, costs of maintaining serials holdings on a utility, borrowing procedures, quality service, workload leveling, staffing, and problems with OCLC system…

These statistics, primarily excerpts from reports on elementary and secondary schools, include information on teacher unions; teacher attitudes; teacher supply and demand by region and subject area; parent involvement; salaries of principals and other school and district-level personnel; student demographics and attitudes; and school district…

Teacher unions have pushed beyond bargaining over teacher welfare issues to include participation in education policy and decision making. Offers suggestions for school boards to deal with curriculum and instruction issues creeping into contract negotiations. (MLF)

Comparison of faculty workload at Christian College Coalition schools and public counterparts found unionized schools more likely to be public, but faculty hour assignments and number of faculty activities granted load status did not differ significantly. Hour assignments were similar across schools. On average, load credit is awarded for seven…

Discusses new teacher unionism, exploring the impact of significant forces of change on U.S. education in programs, structure, and functions of teacher unions; examines Kerchner and Mitchell's "The Changing Idea of a Teachers' Union" and notes the importance of political and historical context. (SM)

At the American Federation of Teachers' 1991 conference, members stated that private school choice threatened public education and claimed a need for national standards and national tests. Other demands included comprehensive programs for school dropouts and a labor market policy that emphasizes the link between school and work. (MLF)

Reports on the treatment of the Progressive Era of U.S. history in eight college-level introductory history textbooks. Finds that text authors are divided into two groups: the "unitarians," who portray the progressives as a homogeneous, purposeful phenomenon; and the "pluralists," who focus on Progressivism's varieties,…