Issues concerning excellence in education and the 1985 strike at Yale University are considered in 27 conference papers. Topics include: a faculty and chancellor's perspectives on achieving excellence, employment discrimination, collective bargaining in community colleges, retirement issues, and campus bargaining and the law. Titles and authors are as follows: "Excellence in a Time of Paradox" (E. K. Fretwell, Jr.); "Unionization and Academic Excellence" (Ernst Benjamin); "Academic Reform and the Decade Past" (Irwin Polishook); "A Chancellor's Perspective" (William Monat); "Excellence: The Leadership Factor" (E. Gordon Gee); "The Cornell Experience" (Joan Roos Egner); "The CUNY Experience" (George Maginley); "Mutually Beneficial Collective Bargaining in a Community College" (Stuart Steiner); "The Massachusetts Community College System" (James F. Rice); "The Philadelphia Community College System" (Karen R. Schermerhorn); "By Whose Right? Management Rights and Governance in the Unionized Institution" (Margaret K. Chandler, Daniel J. Julius); "Retirement Planning Climate in the 1980s" (David W. Carter); "Legal Issues Affecting Retirement" (Ann H. Franke); "Early Retirement: The 1983-1984 Experiences of the State University of New York" (Thomas M. Mannix, Nick J. Paradiso, Jr.); "Labor Relations Issues and Their Effect on Collective Bargaining" (Nicholas DiGiovanni); "Discrimination Issues and Their Effect on Collective Bargaining" (Stuart H. Bompey); "Labor Law and the Question of Traditional Government Functions" (David E. Poisson); "The Union Perspective [on the strike at Yale]" (John Wilhelm); "Administration Perspective [on the Yale strike]" (Linda Lorimer); "A Faculty Perspective in Support of Local 34 [at Yale]" (Jack McKivigan); and "A Faculty Perspective in Support of the [Yale] University Administration" (Donald Kagan). (SW)