This proceedings document discusses academic leadership in uncertain times, the need for a cooperative model of collective bargaining to provide administration and faculty the flexibility required to respond to changing times, who should bargain for whom and for what, readiness of the next generation to lead, and retirement issues for college faculty. Papers include: "Academic Leadership While the Sky Is Falling: A Union Perspective" (Ernst Benjamin); "The Sky Has Fallen, the Abyss Beckons: Academic Leaders Respond to Crisis in Massachusetts Public Higher Education" (Paul F. Weller); "Academic Polemics: A Leader's Response to the Critics of Academe" (Irwin H. Polishook); "Cooperative Models of Collective Bargaining and Collegial Governance: The Perspective of an Academic Senate" (Sandra Wilcox); "Mutual Gains Bargaining: Planned Institutional Change" (Maria Curro Kreppel); "The Impact of the California Community College Reform Act on Collective Bargaining" (Gwen Hill); "Faculty Empowerment in an Era of Change: The Union's Role in Implementing the California Community College Reform Act" (Diane Crow); "Relationships between Faculty and Non-Faculty Members of the Same Bargaining Units in the Illinois Public Higher Education System" (Mitchell Vogel); "Higher Education Leadership in the Year 2000" (Clark Kerr); "Developing Faculty Union Leaders" (Mark Blum); and "Retirement Issues for College and University Faculty" (Hans Jenny). (References accompany some papers.) (JDD)