Three areas of court litigation pose challenges to the administration of higher education. First, developments in equal protection and related areas promise reassessment of the distribution of educational finances. Both federal and state court cases suggest a shift from a requirement of equal educational opportunity to equal educational effects.…

This document summarizes some of the major findings and basic conclusions of a study conducted during the 1973-75 period, the goal of which was to assess the impact of collective bargaining on conflict resolution practices in higher education. The population of institutions operating under collectively negotiated contracts with faculty in…

This monograph was a preliminary investigation of the parameters of faculty perceptions of the legitimacy of governance. It was in part a test of an untried method for measuring those perceptions. The results suggest several conclusions: (1) In assessing dynamics of collegiate governance, it is necessary to take type of institution and issue…

This paper discusses two recent legal actions which begin to explore the limits of student power under the citizenship model. The author suggests that student government needs access to legal and advisory resources, that the university must create active review powers, and that the university should provide pluralization of decision-making…

The study reported on attempted to establish the strength of faculty agreement or disagreement with statements implying that they perceived decisionmaking for selected issues to be legitimate on their respective campuses, and compared these results from campus to campus. The survey uncovered complex patterns that varied with the issue involved,…