Collective bargaining in higher education and a few other fields is examined in 21 papers from a 1986 conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. After an introduction by Joel M. Douglas, the academic collective bargaining system is reexamined in four papers. Additional papers consider: bargaining in selected other fields, bargaining in private colleges after the "Yeshiva" decision, compensation issues, bargaining with nontenure track faculty, legal issues, and faculty discipline. Paper titles and authors are as follows: "The Evolving Faculty Condition: What Is the Relevance to the Collective Bargaining Community?" (Jack H. Schuster); "Peer Review and Faculty Self Government: A Dissenting View" (Myron Lieberman); "Campus Realities: Is Collective Bargaining Equipped to Deal with Them?" (Barbara Lee); "The Faculty Opportunities Audit" (Clara M. Lovett); "Labor Relations in Baseball" (Donald M. Fehr); "The Physicians" (Barry Liebowitz); "Actors' Unions" (Dick Moore); "Professional Employees" (Jack Golodner); "Bargaining in Private Colleges in the Aftermath of 'Yeshiva': (1) Yeshiva University (Ralph E. Behrends), (2) Boston University (Michael Rosen), (3) Polytechnic Institute of New York (Marvin Gettleman), (4) Cooper Union" (Eugene Tulchin); "Merit Pay and Market Adjustments" (Linda Tom); "Salary Incentive Systems" (William S. Brown); "Bargaining with 'Nontenture Track' Faculty" includes: "The Massachusetts Experience" (Arlyn Diamond); The California Experience (David Averbuck); The Canadian Experience" (Ron Levesque); "A Legal Analysis of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education" (Woodley B. Osborne); "The Melani Sex Discrimination Class Action Suit" (Joan Rome); and "The Discipline of Faculty: The Administrative Perspective (Joan Getter), The Union Perspective" (Nuala M. Drescher). (SW)