With reference to personal experience, labor board decisions, and faculty collective bargaining agreements, the author discusses the causes of faculty unionism, what constitutes a tenure system and what problems it creates, what is involved in the bargaining process, and the implications involved in negotiating tenure. (JT)

With emphasis on the need for careful preparation for collective bargaining, guidelines are given for trustees: the demand for union recognition, the adversary process, choosing the negotiation team, preparing for negotiations, contract provisions (language items), dealing with impasse, and public relations. (JT)

This report on the second annual conference sponsored by the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) for public library trustees is an extension of the state's revitalized continuing education for this group, intended to better prepare them to meet their obligations and responsibilities to the libraries and communities they serve. Highlights of this…

The availability of general liability insurance policies is addressed to help trustees assess the adequacy of protection provided by state or institutional indemnification provisions, or through one of the insurance policies currently available. The board of trustees' responsibility to monitor regularly the policy it may have in force or that it…

The new board member will always have concerns about his/her forthcoming trusteeship, such as determining how much time he/she is willing to devote to the job; how he/she should obtain orientation for the job; and what he/she should know about the controversial issues in which the board has previously been involved. In addressing the first of…

In order to investigate the extent to which rural residents are represented among consumer Health Systems Agencies (HSA) governing board members, alternative indices of rurality were examined. Data were used from eight HSA's in Pennsylvania and one bi-state HSA (Pennsylvania and New York); 241 consumer addresses were analyzed. Two discrete, single…

Municipal universities may be defined as baccalaureate degree-granting institutions controlled by a board on which the public is heavily represented, and supported in whole or in part by local tax resources. The 14 schools that once fit this description did not appear in any single chronological period or geographic region, but each shared the…

The Ohio Board of Regents was established as a mechanism to coordinate the growth of higher education institutions in Ohio during the period when enrollments in K-12 school systems suggested large increases in college attendance. During the 1960s 23 states took similar actions to centralize state authority to coordinate or govern higher education.…

Intended as both a resource tool for assisting Florida public library boards in their functions and a training tool for new and inexperienced board members, this manual provides a means for compiling all information pertinent to board operations into one sourcebook and for keeping this material up-to-date. It is organized into eight chapters: (1)…

This report contains three papers that examine the Teacher Corps policy board from an operational standpoint. The first provides a conceptual and organizational framework for the policy board and describes a theory for policy board development and operation. In the second a reality-based view based upon personal experience on a policy board is…

A study was made in England to determine whether practices in industry were (or were likely to be) consistent with the objectives of the Industrial Training Act of 1964. A case study of a medium-sized engineering firm near Manchester showed that the firm was concerned with avoiding potential training expenses but not with improving the efficiency…

A sample contract for college trustees is presented that provides a way to rate individual trustee performance against certain norms that should characterize an effective trustee relationship with the college or university he serves. The contract is written as an agreement between a college board of trustees and a prospective trustee invited into…

This report of the Special Committee on the Structure of the University proposes extensive modifications in the governing of Princeton University. Part I discusses the University's procedures for making decisions on important policy issues, including undergraduate and graduate courses of study, the appointment and advancement of members of the…

It is the author's contention that student government revitalization will come only when student government begins to play a substantive role in policy making and implementation. The purpose of this paper is to consider, criticize, and propose a number of models for student participation in junior college governance. The first, a traditional…

The New York State Board of Regents statewide plan for the development of postsecondary education covers three major areas: the academic plan for postsecondary education, the review and analysis of sector master plans, and the role and functioning of the regents in postsecondary educational planning. The first section encompasses the mission of…