Oakland University, Michigan, is perhaps the first 4-year institution at which professors went on strike for better salary and working conditions. (Author/HS)

The impact of the 8-day walkout of the New Jersey Teachers against the state college system remains obscure, however certain facts have emerged: (1) Traditional governance structures are rendered impotent by a major faculty strike. (2) Students can be expected to play an active if unpredictable role. (PG)

The eruption on college campuses last spring caused many members of the academyto re-examine themselves and the truths they had so long lived by. (Editor)