A Symposium: Knowledge Workers and Unions in the 21st Century

Author: Lehane, Con, ed.
Publisher: Thought and Action XV, no. 2 (National Education Association, Washington, DC 1999)
Table of Contents: ch. 1 Knowledge workers - trade unionism's new frontier (Charles Kerchner)
ch. 2 History, women's work, and the new unionism (Dorothy Sue Cobble)
ch. 3 Entertainment unions and higher education (Lois Gray)

Quality in instruction
ch. 4 Adapting to a new generation of college students (Richard C. Turner)
ch. 5 Learning to read and write : still a miracle (Norma Tilden)
ch. 6 Keeping wonder alive in today's college classroom (Elizabeth Ann Bartlett)
ch. 7 Trust, but verify - toward fairer student evaluations (John Daley)

Issues in the profession
ch. 8 Fear of the self in American academic life (Enid Bloch)
ch. 9 Fighting the culture wars in academia (James Fisher)
ch. 10 Bargaining for the future at Cal State (Terry Jones)
ch. 11 Tenure at Minnesota : a postmortem (Bud McClure)
ch. 12 Distance education : assessing costs and benefits (David Garson)
ch. 13 University senates and the law : a case study (Alan W. Clarke and Laurie Anne Whitt)
ch. 14 Faculty of color and traditional notions of service (Benjamin Baez)