Collective bargaining by faculty is a new and rapidly growing phenomenon in American higher education. Results of faculty collective bargaining in institutions of American higher education thus far have been mixed. A key contextual factor is the degree of adversary relationship that exists between the faculty and the administration. In studying…

The purpose of the study was to describe the female faculty in the 14 State-owned colleges and University of Pennsylvania. Information was collected via questionnaire concerning personal backgrounds, academic status, preparation, work experience, attitudes and satisfactions concerning careers, and professional responsibilities and involvement.…

Salary and compensation of faculty in Illinois public colleges and universities were studied using a cluster analytic approach. Twenty-seven institutional variables were factor analyzed to obtain a smaller set of closely related variables. Factor scores were obtained for each of the 1,126 institutions of higher education. A cluster analysis was…

The purposes of the study were to (1) identify formulas currently used for justifying budget requests or allocating funds for operating expenses of state-supported colleges and universities; (2) provide a comparative analysis of each formula with respect to the functional budget areas recognized, the base and formula factors used, methods of…