Like thousands of other people from around the country and around the world, this author was heartened and inspired by the tenacity, immediacy, and creativity of the pushback by Wisconsin's public-sector unions against Governor Scott Walker's efforts to limit their collective bargaining rights. And like many others who made the trek to Madison to…

Data from the National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF), a nationally representative survey of college faculty members conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, were used to analyze faculty satisfaction. Findings show that the vast majority of faculty members are satisfied with their jobs. Eighty-five percent of all full-time and…

The impact of the unionization of college and university faculty is examined, based on a 1979 survey of 240 nonunionized colleges and all other unionized institutions, and on a review of recent literature on collective bargaining. The survey is a followup of a 1974 survey pertaining to collective bargaining and a 1971 survey concerned with general…