This study examines systematically the development of faculty collective bargaining at four-year colleges and universities since 1969 and is a valuable addition to the limited and scattered information now available on the subject. The changes in federal and state laws that made this development possible and the application of the law to higher education by federal and state labor boards are carefully and critically analyzed through extensive accounts of the circumstances surrounding the turn to faculty bargaining at a number of institutions.

"Ellen Schrecker shows how universities shaped the 1960s, and how the 1960s shaped them. Teach-ins and walkouts-in institutions large and small, across both the country and the political spectrum-were only the first actions that came to redefine universities as hotbeds of unrest for some and handmaidens of oppression for others. The tensions among speech, education, and institutional funding came into focus as never before-and the reverberations remain palpable today"--

At a time when our colleges and universities face momentous questions of new growth and direction, the republication of Higher Education in Transition is more timely than ever. Beginning with colonial times, the authors trace the development of our college and university system chronologically, in terms of men and institutions. They bring into focus such major areas of concern as curriculum, administration, academic freedom, and student life. They tell their story with a sharp eye for the human values at stake and the issues that will be with us in the future.One gets a sense not only of temporal sequence by centuries and decades but also of unity and continuity by a review of major themes and topics. Rudy's new chapters update developments in higher education during the last twenty years. Higher Education in Transition continues to have significance not only for those who work in higher education, but for everyone interested in American ideas, traditions, and social and intellectual history.

Consists chiefly of materials presented at the ICLE conference held in Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 1975.