Public universities in the United States confront drastic changes as labour relations continue to evolve towards neoliberal managerial practices. Increasingly, faculty feel excluded from decision-making processes influencing their lives. This article provides a case study of Public Midwestern University (PMU, a pseudonym), where a faculty union…

For the last half century, faculty in higher education has embraced unionization in its profession in a significant way. Both administrators and faculty in unionized college environments have a stake in the interactions between the two entities and a vested interest in understanding the factors that can influence working relationships. Despite…

On February 6, 2009, the president of Clark Atlanta University, an historically black institution in Atlanta, Georgia, terminated 55 full-time faculty members without notice. Many of these faculty members had tenure. These individuals, some of whom had worked at the university for over 15 years while making $45,000 a year as associate professors…

This document reports the proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Institute of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University concerning collective bargaining and some of the implications of formal bargaining relations in higher education. Presentations include emerging patterns of faculty bargaining; collective bargaining in higher…

The legality of employment involvement programs--participation of workers in workplace decision making--has not been established. Three National Labor Relations Board decisions illustrate the complex legal, policy, and economic issues relayed to faculty unions. (SK)

The impact of public universities of the Supreme Court's Yeshiva decision regarding faculty collective bargaining is clarified through analysis of the case's meaning for the University of California, Berkeley. A review of the literature on the relationship between collective bargaining and academic governance is provided. (Author/MLW)

Explores the unique nature of the academic senate, its management and employee representation roles, the National Labor Relations Act requirement of exclusive representation, and the nature of mandatory bargaining subjects. (Author)

Even if the court's sweeping conclusion that all Yeshiva University faculty members are managers is not entirely justified, it is possible that that position has essential validity. (Author/IRT)

Argues that the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges' statement on governance calls for more centralized authority, rejecting both the principles and the practice of shared governance and diminishing the role of faculty. Suggests that the association revise its statement to include a better understanding of how academe…

This, the third annual yearbook on higher education law, provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of all state and federal court cases involving higher education reported during 1978. The chapters have been authored by individuals who are experts in higher education law and specialists in the particular topics of their chapter. The chapters…

The early impact and subsequent expansion of the National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University decision by the Supreme Court is reviewed. (MLW)

This bibliography, part of an annual accounting of the state-of-the-art in collective bargaining in higher education and the professions, lists research and writings published in 1990. The bibliography is divided into five parts. Part I is devoted to those publications concerned with college and university faculty; subjects include (among others)…

Judicial decisions affecting educational policy and management that were handed down in 1985 by state appellate courts and federal courts are summarized and analyzed in this volume. The book is divided into eight topical chapters, each written by one or more experts in education law. The chapters are "Employees" (Gail Paulus Sorenson);…