Proceedings of the 1981 conference on the legal and economic status of collective bargaining in higher education, sponsored by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, are presented. Papers and authors are as follows: "Yeshiva Shock Waves" (David Kuechle); "The Yeshiva Case: One Year Later" (Joel M. Douglas); "Impact of Retrenchment, I" (Irwin H. Polishook); "Impact of Retrenchment in Higher Education, II" (Caesar J. Naples); "Third Party Intervenors in Conflict Resolution" (Robert Coulson); "Judicial Protection of Academic Freedom in Higher Education: The Aftermath of Roth and Sinderman" (Dena Elliot Benson); "Living Under the Contract: The Techniques of Collective Bargaining Contract Administration in Higher Education" (Neil Betten and William O. Oldson); "Living Under the Contract: The University of Maine Experience" (Samuel D'Amico and Joseph A. Stupak, Jr.); "Contractually Protected Senates at Four-Year Colleges" (Barbara Lee); "Arbitration in Higher Education: Is Academic Arbitration Sui Generis?" (Maurice C. Benewitz); "Psychology of Negotiations, I" (John Dunlop); "Psychology of Negotiations, II" (Ronald Levesque); "Union Legislative and Political Cooperation in the 1980's: I, Towards a Collective Bargaining Alliance in Higher Education" (Ernst Benjamin); "Union Legislative and Political Cooperation in the 1980's: II, The Prospects for Faculty Unity" (Perry Robinson); "Union Legislative and Political Cooperation in the 1980's, III" (Charles E. Olson); "Confidentiality and Due Process; Professor's Acting as the University, I" (James Dinnan); and "Confidentiality and Due Process, II" (Aaron Levenstein). (SW)