Article considered the stages of actual negotiations in educational administration and the uses of collective bargaining. (Author/RK)

A grievance procedure is a systematic way in which complaints of contract violations may be reviewed. Article considers the specific steps followed in following a grievance procedure. (Author/RK)

In fall 1974, the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges and the Academic Collective Bargaining Information Service conducted a survey to collect data on collective bargaining in two-year colleges. Eighty percent of the nation's two-year colleges responded. This article presents the results of this survey. (DC)

The purpose of this article is to examine the emergence of faculty bargaining in New Jersey's 15 community colleges using data collected as part of a two-year study. (Author)

Article considered collective bargaining in practical terms. (RK)

Collective bargaining can be used to provide more relevant and effective professional development of staff by emphasizing faculty competencies over activities. (RN)

Author reflected upon the effect that collective bargaining has had upon the professional, personal, and home lives of individuals closely or directly involved in collective bargaining. (Author/RK)

Examines recent research evaluating collective bargaining in relation to the learning environment. Considers the impact of work stoppages on students; faculty attitudes toward institutions; differences between institutions with and without collective bargaining; governance issues; student influence; and educational quality. Concludes that…

A nationwide survey of community college legislation introduced and made operative between 1973 and 1975 indicates a trend toward greater state control of postsecondary education. Numerous specific cases are cited in affected areas ranging from regulations concerning facilities to laws dealing with governance. New collective bargaining legislation…

Community colleges are successful when instructional and management task assignments are made appropriate to training and responsibilities. Collective bargaining helps confirm this type of operation. If the community college is to continue to flourish we must not return to a losing model--participatory governance. (Author/NHM)

Reveals that management prerogatives of college administrators are being undermined for two reasons: common law rights to manage are no longer exempt from the list of issues subject to collective bargaining and administrators fail to realize that management rights clauses constitute their major protection in negotiated agreements. (TP)

Points to the difficulties that management in public education faces because of statutory protection for teachers, due process laws, judiciary rulings, collective bargaining, and the political power of faculty unions. Discusses the advantages of specific listings of management rights in negotiation agreements. Presents El Camino Community…

Examines elements of labor-management relationships in educational institutions, suggesting that communication on a noncrisis basis is crucial to healthy labor relations which are adversarial rather than confrontational. Describes a mature stage of labor-management relation and stresses the importance of sound grievance procedures. (LAL)

Future community college governance will involve significantly changed roles for faculty and administration. Whether an institution chooses to follow participative governance or to become involved in collective bargaining, the real issue will be the effectiveness of the enterprise, and the quality of services delivered. (Author/NHM)

Article examined the question of whether we as a society will be better off in the long run if our colleges are run by experts, by people who work full-time as toilers in the educational vineyard, or by laymen who devote part-time efforts to their trusteeship. (Author/RK)