Presents descriptions of the methods and findings of four surveys conducted recently in education on (1) stress among university faculty members, (2) special education in teacher education programs, (3) teachers' and students' views on discipline, and (4) budgetary cuts in teacher education. (JBM)

Among the findings of this survey of faculty members and administrators at a large eastern university are that tenure status is a key indicator of tenure attitude and that neither the tenured nor the nontenured group believed job security to be as crucial to tenure as opponents of tenure tend to assert. (IRT)

Teaching and instruction are the prime mission of schools of education, with research occupying a position of approximately equal stature only in the research center institutions. Other mission areas are perceived by faculty as not central to schools of education. (Author)

Reports on the key findings in the latest phase of a continuing study of academic governance and faculty collective bargaining in higher education. Topics discussed include the impact of faculty unions on personnel procedures, retrenchment, faculty senate activities, and the shift of power from university administrators to state agencies.…