(1977). Wellesley College Case Study for the Sloan Commission on Government and Higher Education. The impact of government legislation and regulation on Wellesley College in Massachusetts is analyzed. The impact of federal aid on the economics of the college is considered in terms of capital resources and operating resources. The analysis also considers the effects of government legislation and regulation on capital costs, first-time implementation costs, and continuing operating expenses. The influence of government programs on the character and the philosophy of the college is also considered. Two highly visible areas of college/government relations are student financial aid and civil rights. Civil rights issues include: affirmative action and minority employment, sex discrimination, the Buckley Amendment (student records), age discrimination, and research on human subjects. Other legislation and regulations affecting higher education concern copyrights, the Higher Education General Information Survey, occupational safety and health, tax reform, gifts of stock to colleges, the…
(1981). The High School Student in the Working World–A Handbook for Counselors. This handbook is designed for use by counselors and teachers in working with students who plan to enter the working world during or following high school; however, the information contained in the book should be useful in working with all students whether they plan to go to work, to college, or both. Following an introduction, the handbook is organized in 12 chapters. Topics covered include the following: helping students explore interests, abilities, and limitations; standardized tests; career decision making, decision-making skills; involving the student's family in career decisions; how to get hired, including finding job openings, filling out applications, writing resumes, handling job interviews, and affirmative action; what to expect after initial employment; exploring self-employment; vocational education programs in secondary schools; postsecondary vocational-technical training programs; counseling the handicapped; sources of information for present and future career…
(1979). On Campus with Women, No. 24, Summer/Fall 1979. Addressed in this issue are: Title IX (right to sue, coverage of employment, a women's reentry program in violation of the law, law students filing a complaint, and disclosure of campus policies); sports (males on female teams, a statewide women's sports group, the average woman and sports, and a bibliography); employment (race preference in affirmative action, faculty salaries, tenure, career patterns of women in education, paternity leave, discrimination in fringe benefits, alternative schedules, career development); women's education (quotas in college admission, enrollment trends, graduate school programs especially for women, a study of sex roles, women's centers, data on women in academe, women's studies, off-campus work programs, sexism in counseling and therapy); sexual harassment and rape (within the faculty or between faculty member and student); women in science (graduate study, barriers, and discrimination); reentry women (career change, returning women); and general…
(1976). An Exploratory Study of Women in the Health Professions Schools. Volume I: Data Analysis, Findings, Conclusions, Recommendations. The study focused on women's education in eight health professions: medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, and public health. Its central tasks were to identify and explore the barriers to success that women face as school applicants and students. Almost 600 interviews were conducted with administrators, faculty members, and students in 27 schools, and were supplemented by over 60 student group interviews. In the final report are included: a detailed description of the study design; its findings and conclusions concerning the relationships of women with the professions and the schools, seven key resources for increased access to this education, and barriers faced by women in the professional training sequence; conceptual models for success in recruitment, admissions, and professional education, and strategies for testing the models; and recommendations for affirmative action enforcement, health manpower legislation, student financial…
(1980). 1980 Cumulative Supplement, "Higher Education and the Law". A 1980 cumulative supplement to the basic text, "Higher Education and the Law," is presented. Contents include: edited reports of five United States Supreme Court cases, important lower court cases, regulations and reports; and citations to numerous law review articles, additional cases, and other secondary sources. The following broad topics are covered: the college or university as a legal entity, faculty rights, student rights, and federal regulation of higher education. Specific issues include the following: legal attributes of private universities, the constitutionally autonomous university, academic freedom, faculty tenure, unionization and collective bargaining, substantive constitutional rights of students, procedural due process for students, equal educational opportunity and racial desegregation, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, constitutional and statutory protections against employment discrimination, affirmative action in employment, the Equal Pay…
(1979). Agenda. Recommendations for National Action in Higher Education. The 96th Congress. A Joint Statement. Recommendations for national action in higher education are offered by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. The joint policy statement focuses on issues that the federal government needs to consider including: how to broaden educational opportunity for all Americans; how to increase knowledge and make it more useful through research; how to extend higher education resources beyond the campuses to more people; how to improve cooperative links between the federal government and institutions of higher education; and how to strengthen the capacity of American higher education to help solve such problems as hunger and poverty in the developing nations. The historically black public colleges and affirmative action and equal opportunity, the urban university and a national program for urban action, the arts and humanities, energy and natural resources, federal health programs and policy, and…
(1989). Who's Out There…And Why Not?. This study investigated the inclusion of minorities in Basic Course Programs, undergraduate degree programs, and graduate degree programs in the field of Communication. A survey was completed by representatives from 27 institutions in 16 states, including private and public institutions, rural and urban, commuter and residential. Specifically, the survey addressed the issues of minority enrollments, the distribution of minorities among the faculty, the efforts of each program to recruit and retain minority undergraduate and graduate students, and hiring, recruitment, and mentoring practices for minority faculty. Results revealed that minority students are not in the "pipeline" in sufficient numbers to have any noteworthy impact on the availability of minority faculty in the coming years. Data also indicated that there has been a decline in the proportion of minority students in Communication since 1978-80, making the potential supply appear even more meager in the face of… [PDF]
(1977). The Changing Profile of Black Administrators in Predominantly White Colleges and Universities. In predominantly white, four-year, residential institutions where black populations are less than 10 percent, black professional staff tend to be in entry-level positions. They have often been found in special programs for minority and low-income students. A survey of black administrators in midwestern institutions showed that by the early 1970s: (1) the majority were associated with equal opportunity programs (EOPS); (2) 90 percent were being paid with institutional funds; (3) they were in their mid-thirties to early forties and were primarily male and married; (4) although most had their undergraduate training in the social sciences, they usually held master's degrees in education with emphasis on administration; and (5) there was a tendency among EOP directors toward earning doctorates. Barriers to black participation in administration include: (1) their positions in the administration; (2) for many the fact that they are not faculty members; (3) systematic racism. Affirmative… [PDF]
(1978). Tottering on the Brink. The Future of Women Art Faculty in Higher Education. Current trends and forces that may deter the future of women art faculty in higher education were examined. Women have been acquiring the necessary credentials for employment and promotion in art departments, but they are balanced between a future of full participation in academe and a decline to tokenism. Women constitute over 50 percent of the undergraduate art majors, but the percentage of women in art faculties has been declining to a low of 19.5 percent in 1974, and the status of women in art administration is even lower. Hiring, promotion, tenure, and salary differentials have been discriminatory against women. Women are not fairly represented on art studies, art education, or art history faculties. Lack of visibility in exhibitions, publications, and on college faculties has made it difficult for women to present themselves as serious artists and teachers. The influence of the women's movement on attitudes and social change, laws which prohibit discrimination in education and… [PDF]
(1986). Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Bibliography No. 14. A bibliography of 1,187 publications and court cases concerning employment of college faculty, as well as health professionals, is presented. Most of the publications cover the years 1982-1985. The faculty section covers the following topics: academic freedom, accountability, administration, affirmative action, arbitration and mediation, collective bargaining, community colleges, contracts, department heads, discipline and dismissal, discrimination, due process, elections, evaluation, excellence, faculty attitudes, faculty organizations, fiscal issues, fringe benefits, governance, grievance procedures, legal issues, legislation, academic librarians, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), part-time faculty, personnel administration, quality of worklife, retirement, retrenchment, students, strikes, salaries, tenure, women faculty, workload, and the Yeshiva University case. The bibliography for related professions covers the health care institution and administration, dental/medical…
(1984). Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Bibliography No. 12. A bibliography of more than 800 writings affecting labor relations and college faculty, as well as several other professions, is presented. The point of reference was the calendar year 1983. The faculty section covers the following topics: academic freedom, accountability, administration, affirmative action, arbitration and mediation, collective bargaining, community colleges, contracts and contract issues, department chairpersons, discipline and dismissal, discrimination, due process, elections, faculty attitudes, faculty organizations, financial exigency, fiscal issues, fringe benefits, governance, grievance procedures, legal issues, legislation, academic librarians, National Labor Relations Board, part-time faculty, personnel administration, public sector labor relations, quality of worklife, retirement, retrenchment, students, strikes, scope of bargaining, salaries, tenure, women faculty, workload, and the Yeshiva University case. The bibliography for related professions…
(1974). National Apprenticeship Standards for Plumbing and Steamfitting–Pipefitting. The booklet presents national apprenticeship standards for plumbing and steamfitting–pipefitting developed by the National Joint Plumbing Apprenticeship and Journeyman Training Committee and the National Joint Steamfitter-Pipefitter Apprenticeship Committee, together with the Department of Labor. The standards cover: a definition of a local joint apprenticeship and training committee, registration of local apprentice standards, definitions of apprentice and senior apprentice, qualifications of applicants for apprenticeship, affirmative action and equal opportunity, general apprentice application procedures, apprenticeship agreement, term of apprenticeship, probationary period, credit for previous experience, related instruction for apprentices and senior apprentices, work experience, hours of work for apprentices and senior apprentices, apprentice and senior apprentice wages and advancement, supervision of apprentices, responsibilities of apprentices and senior apprentices,… [PDF]
(1977). National Apprenticeship and Training Standards for Bricklaying. Revised. Developed as a guide for local joint apprenticeship and training committees in establishing local bricklaying apprenticeship programs, this booklet represents the sixth revision of the national apprenticeship and training standards for bricklaying apprenticeship. (The standards were prepared and approved by the National Joint Bricklaying Apprenticeship and Training Committee representing the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen, the Mason Contractors Association of America, and the Associated General Contractors of America, in cooperation with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, U.S. Department of Labor.) Examples of the thirty-one provisions of standards included are the following: Duties of the National Joint Committee, Composition of the Local Joint Committee, Qualifications of Apprenticeship Applicants, Federal Laws and Regulations Affecting the Employment of Apprentices, Selection of Apprentices, Credit for Previous Experience, Training Program for… [PDF]
(1983). Annotated Bibliography: Black Student Retention in Higher Education Institutions. An annotated bibliography of 105 publications (1961-1982) on the retention of black college students is presented. Topics include: retention programs for low income and minority undergraduates; the interrelatedness of curriculum and cultural/economic reproduction; predicting academic performance in college; dropout prevention and reasons precipitating withdrawal; student attitudes toward services and instruction; attracting and retaining blacks in the field of engineering; desegregating America's colleges; black students attending white colleges; legislative remedies for increasing the educational access and retention of minorities; action plans for recruiting and retaining minority students; affirmative action projects for California community colleges and state universities; a summer enrichment program for minority/disadvantaged undergraduates; black student alienation; causes and consequences of dropping out, stopping out, and transferring; minority admissions after the Bakke… [PDF]
(1983). Agreement between the Board of Trustees of the California State Universtiy and the California Faculty Association. Unit 3–Faculty. August 16, 1983-June 30, 1986. The collective bargaining agreement between the Board of Trustees of the California State University and the California Faculty Association chapter (18,000 members) of the National Education Association (NEA) covering the period August 16, 1983-June 30, 1986 is presented. Items covered in the agreement include: unit recognition; definitions; academic freedom; governance; nondiscrimination; affirmative action; management rights; meet and discuss procedure; grievance and arbitration procedure; personnel files; temporary and probationary appointments; tenure amd promotion; periodic evaluations and performance review; staff reduction for program discontinuance and financial exigency; temporary suspension; reprimands and disciplinary procedure; nontenure track members; department head selection and review; assignment of responsibility for faculty, librarians, and coaching faculty; workload; leaves of absence with and without pay; sick leave; professional development; faculty early… [PDF]