This paper discusses three major statements on shared authority and points out that there appear to be three types: joint participation in decisionmaking, separate jurisdictions, and collective bargaining. Academic senates and campus councils are the major manifestations of the first two types and a brief discussion of the state and their…

Two apparently widely held beliefs among college administrators may be harmful to higher education. The first is that faculty collective bargaining is somehow unprofessional and automatically harmful to educational purposes. The second is that bargaining erodes the authority of administrators and trustees, thereby preventing them from…

Presents an impasse resolution model for resolving teacher union negotiation impasses. It motivates citizens to participate in the bargaining process and provides an incentive to unions and administrators that makes the risks of failing to reach an agreement too substantial to disregard. (MD)

An inquiry into the roots of the scope of the negotiations problem among professionals in the public sector. Argues that there is embodied in the idea of professionalism a logic which imposes on those occupations which aspire to professional standards or are already characterized by them pressure for a broad and flexible approach to determination…

The need for a new professional role for teachers that requires the participation of teachers and their unions in the center of school governance is discussed. The concepts of "shared authority" and " collegiality" are measures of professionalism that teachers want to assimilate into their school operations. (MLW)

The impingement of the colliding trends toward accountability and collective bargaining on formal administrative authority and informal teacher control within schools will result in a dual authority structure Argues this proposition through an analysis of existing control patterns and speculates on ramifications of the emerging structure. (Related…

There are five phases in the development of accommodative behavior between teaching and administrative personnel, from the initial stage of teachers organizing into a bargaining unit through the final stage marked by high levels of both individual and organizational cooperation in administrative decision making. (Author/SJL)

The author develops the notion of the modern educational bureaucracy, suggesting that the decisionmaking process of the school is controlled by two authority structures -- the administrators and the subordinates. The intent of this paper is to explore the interaction of these two sources of authority and to analyze the implications for the process…

As financial austerity and enrollment problems compel greater accountability from colleges and universities, administrators, and trustees are reasserting their former authority, students are forming lobbies, government agencies are increasing their controls, courts are influencing campus procedures, and faculties are joining unions. In this…

This report describes the historical process through which a public employer and the public employees in a school system ultimately reached a satisfactory level of mutual accommodation. Over a 20-year period, the gradual shift in the relative power of the parties produced a relationship from which at least some elements of conflict had been…

Sheds light on a growing conflict that has surfaced between urban communities and teachers' unions: the conflict over the sharing of power in school decision making. Discusses the actions of the Philadelphia Parents Union. (Author/IRT)

The process of university leadership is examined in terms of (1) the development of more sophisticated models of the kind of organization a university is, and (2) the development of more precise delineations of the nature of the multiple leadership tasks that must be performed in a university setting. The university is viewed as an "organized…

An examination of the structure of academic governance at six unionized four-year institutions--two public universities, two state colleges, and two private liberal arts colleges--shows that faculty unionization is one contextual factor, of many such factors, that affects change in the formal and informal decision-making structure. (Author/JMD)

This paper explores the implications for democratic policy making and school governance of collective bargaining with teachers. Based on a case study of the 1992 Teachers Strike in Detroit, Michigan, the research examines the relationships among actors involved in the strike and in its settlement. Findings of this research suggest that the strike…