Governance at Unionized Four-Year Colleges

Union Professors: Framing Processes, Mobilizing Structures, and Participation in Faculty Unions*

“…While universal impressions of administrative legitimacy seem tied to union attitudes, issues of shared governance seem to hold even more weight (Kater and Levin 2004). Some studies suggest that professors who thought university supervisors were autocratic or capricious were decidedly more pro‐union (Elmuti and Kathawala 1991; Karim and Rassuli 1996; Lipset and Ladd 1973) as were professors who see stunted or feeble faculty senates (Allen and Keavney 1981; Bornheimer 1985; Gress 1976; Lee 1979; Zalesny 1985). Likewise, some studies suggest that the desire for increased participation in governance was the primary motivation for unionization (Finley 1991; Gress 1976; Hepburn and Barling 2001; Karim and Rassuli 1996; Lee 1979; Magney 1999).…”

Governance Structures and Decision Making in Russian Higher Education Institutions

“…Among studies concerning stakeholder participation in academic governance institutions, we can single out the above mentioned articles by Williams and by Goedegebuure and de Boer, as well as another by B. Lee. 20 Lee studied various stakeholders' participation in the governance of six higher education institutions in the United States. Goedegebuure and de Boer compared stakeholders such as professors, institutional administration, departmental administrations, institutional academic councils, departmental academic councils, and additional administrative personnel.…”

A Comparison of Funding Priorities in Two Year Institutions with and without Faculty Collective Bargaining

“…In oontrast, groups low in the organizational hierarchy resort to coalition building frequently in order to play sorre part in the decision making process. In a study of governance at four-year institutions, Lee (1979) found support for the claim that unions, a fonn of coalition, gave faculty greater power in institutional affairs, especially in fiscal matters relating to salary and benefits.…”