Proceedings of the 1980 conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education, which focused on campus bargaining the eighties, are presented. Contents are as follows: "The Economic Environment in the Eighties: the Necessity for Joint Action," by Gerie Bledsoe; "The Legal Environment: The…

A review of the state of collective bargaining in higher education in Arkansas discusses the causal elements of the movement, examines court cases and attorney generals' opinions, and suggests implications for its future in the state. It is noted that although Arkansas may seem far from the movement by comparison with other states, some of the…

The proceedings of the 1970 annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States covers a reassessment of the doctoral population with outlooks for the future by Michael J. Pelczar, Charles E. Falk, J. Wayne Reitz, T. L. Cairns, Robert Alberty, and Richard P. Adams; reassessment of the master's degree by Henry V. Bohm, Francis M.…

A survey of recent developments in faculty collective bargaining and its impact on American postsecondary education is presented. Faculty collective bargaining exists mainly in higher education institutions, with 85 percent of those participating coming from public sector campuses, in which 60 percent are community or junior colleges. The growth…

Part of a series of instructional packages for use in college level economics courses, the document contains nine microeconomics chapters. Chapter I, "Economic Concepts, Issues, and Tools," discusses scarcity and choice; preferences, resources, exchange, and economic efficiency; marginal analysis and opportunity cost; and different economic…

This report presents a proposed program plan for developing an integrated library network in the State of Washington. The need for such a plan arises from the requirements of Title III of the Library Services and Construction Act and from the increasing demands placed upon libraries and the resulting need to use available resources better. The…

Collective negotiation in education has lagged behind collective bargaining developments in private industry, which have resulted from the passage of a number of federal statutes, beginning with the NIRA Act of 1933. By contrast, state statutes for collective negotiation in education have been relatively few, recent, and inadequate. Topics…

Paper I: Using information from the national 1973 Quality of Employment Survey, the following assertions are examined relative to white employees: (1) Employees with more years of schooling and experience can obtain more agreeable and better-paying jobs and (2) among workers with equal schooling and experience, those with more agreeable jobs must…

Concerned with the standard-setting work of the International Labor Organization (ILO), this manual is chiefly intended to provide guidance for worker's education instructors and trade union officials. It contains nine chapters: (1) the ILO origins and history are traced and the structure is explained; (2 & 3) procedures for the origination…

An agreement between Bard College and Bard College Chapter of the AAUP is presented. The college recognized the Chapter as a collective bargaining agent for the faculty but also recognizes the right of individual faculty members or the college president to discuss and establish particular arrangements to cover individual faculty employment…

The University Student Senate of the City University of New York proposed in 1974 to examine student participation in collective bargaining and the impact of student participation on educational quality. This report indicates where students have participated in collective bargaining; in what capacity they have participated; what the results have…

Roosevelt University was founded in Chicago in 1945. Since 1947 the university has occupied the Auditorium Building, which was completed in 1889 and is included in the Historic American Buildings Survey and the National Register of Historic Places. The building has been extensively remodeled and restored and an adjacent dormitory and student union…

The Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) is a nonprofit computerized library processing center operating out of Columbus, Ohio. Six years after its incorporation, OCLC is now mainly in the business of operating a shared cataloging system and producing catalog cards designed to meet the needs of each of its member libraries. OCLC also maintains a…

The curriculum was designed to provide a systematic way of instructing apprentices preparing for various trades in the area of industrial and labor relations which would provide the apprentice with working knowledge of employee-employer interaction and the processes involved. The core curriculum is developed in 10 learning modules which are…

This study documents the legal, political, economic, and managerial constraints in the Philadelphia Public School System and traces their impact on the policies and practices of the system. Specifically, the study focuses on collective bargaining relationships and on their impact on the system. The first section outlines the basic constraints that…