This collection of 25 papers addresses current issues related to collective bargaining in higher education. The papers include: (1) "Higher Education Today" (Keith Geiger); (2) "Political Correctness, Academic Freedom, and Academic Unionism: Introductory Comments" (Matthew Goldstein); (3) "Academic Freedom and Campus Controversies: Separating Repressive Strategies from Unpopular Ideas" (Linda Ray Pratt); (4) "The Impact of Clinton's Health Care Proposal on Higher Education" (VirginiaAnn Shadwick); (5) "Health Care Workers and Health Care Reform" (Dennis Rivera); (6) "The Fiscal and Political Stresses Plaguing Higher Education Today" (Sean Fanelli); (7) "Partnerships in Uncertain Times: The California State University and the California Faculty Association" (VirginiaAnne Shadwick); (8) "The Situation of Higher Education in Quebec: Some Thoughts on the Challenges Facing the Academic Union Movement" (Roch Denis); (9) "Recent Trends in Collective Bargaining in Canada" (Donald Savage); (10) "Patterns of Professional Evaluation and Assigned Duties in Faculty Collective Bargaining Agreements" (Ernst Benjamin); (11) "Faculty Roles and Rewards in the Context of Accountability" (Lawrence Gold); (12) "Collective Bargaining and Technology" (Christine Maitland); (13) "Lesbian and Gay Campus Organizing for Domestic Partner Benefits" (Lee Badgett); (14) "Making It Work: Scholarship, Employment, and Power in the Academy" (Michele Janette and Tamara Joseph); (15) "Workers/Teachers/Students: Graduate Student Employee Collective Bargaining at the University of Michigan" (Jon Curtiss); (16) "The Need for Law Reform" (Julius Getman); (17) "Some Key Differences Between U.S. and Canada Labor Law" (Kevin Banks); (18) "The Best We Can Be" (Daniel Seymour); (19) "Implementing Total Quality Management at a Community College: The Adventure and the Lessons Learned" (Susanna B. Staas); (20) "Public Relations and University Budgets: A Union Perspective" (Arnold Cantor); (21) "Public Relations and University Budgets: A CUNY Case Study" (Jay Hershenshon); (22) "Public Relations and University Budgets: The University of Connecticut Experience" (Edward Marth); (23) "Discussion of Supreme Court Decision in 'Harris v. Forklift Systems'" (Gwendolyn Young Reams); (24) "Campus Bargaining and the Law: The Management Perspective" (Nicholas DiGiovannia, Jr. and Susan Lipsitz); and (25) "Campus Bargaining and the Law: The AAUP's Perspective" (Ann H. Franke). (MDM)

This report of proceedings provides transcripts of 14 speeches concerning collective bargaining in higher education. Conference themes were: unionized employment relations; and the economic, political, and legal issues of the 1990s that are viewed as being influential in the collective bargaining process. The speeches are as follows: "Union Employment Relationships in the 1990's," (John R. Stepp); "Mutual Gains Bargaining for Higher Education," (Raymond A. Friedman); "Negotiation Models for the 1990's," (Louis Stollar); "Retirement Options of the Future," (Clifton Wharton); "Faculty Compensation in the 1990's," (Arnold Cantor); "Salary Equity Four Cell," (Lois Haignere); "Health Care Cost Containment in the 1990's," (William Hembree); "Life in the Academy after University of Pennsylvania v. EEOC," (Ann H. Franke); "Confidentiality and the Tenure Review Process after University of Pennsylvania v. EEOC," (Mark D. Hopson); "Anti-Discrimination Law and Academic Freedom after University of Pennsylvania v. EEOC," (Charles Shanor); "Keeping Academics Out of Court: Judicial Responses to Faculty Litigation and How To Avoid It," (Barbara A. Lee); "Campus Bargaining and the Law: The Annual Update," (Nicholas DiGiovanni, Jr.); "Union's Role in Politics in the 1990's: Lobbying and Coalition Building," (G. Terry Madonna); and "Political Action and Public Sector Higher Education Unions: California and Hawaii--Two Success Stories," (VirginiaAnn G. Shadwick). References follow papers. (GLR)