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Collective Bargaining and QualityNEA President Bob Chase calls collective bargaining the main tool in promoting professionalism in higher education. NEA President Bob Chase, speaking before this year's Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions conference at Baruch College in New York City, told higher education union leaders and their management counterparts from around the nation that education unions need to be guardians of quality and professionalism in the academy. "Collective bargaining," Chase noted, "is the ideal framework for advancing a reform agenda-and the ideal way to secure professional freedom, standards, job security, and intellectual property rights for faculty." For the full text of Chase's speech www.nea.org/he. Distance Education at Postsecondary Institutions 1997-98, the latest NEA Higher Education Update, reports that 1,661,100 students enrolled in distance education courses during 1997-98. Distance ed was offered during this period by 78 percent of public four-year and 62 percent of public two-year institutions, but only 19 percent of private four-year and 5 percent of private two-year institutions. Students were able to choose from more than 47,000 credit-bearing course offerings, while 8 percent of all two-year and four-year institutions offered college-level degree or certificate programs that could be completed entirely through distance education. The report is available on the NEA higher education Web site www.nea.org/he.
The report identifies 24 benchmarks that distill the best strategies used by colleges and universities actively engaged in online learning, ensuring quality for the students and faculty who use it. Highly motivated women and ethnic minority NEA member activists may be eligible for the Affirmative Action UniServ Intern Program. This program provides local Association leaders with skill training and work experiences that can help them qualify for NEA UniServ staff positions. Send requests for more information to Brenda Vincent bvincent@nea.org. |
Quality On the Line—an Institute for Higher
Education Policy study commissioned by NEA and Blackboard Inc., an online
education company—is now available on the NEA Higher Education Web site at
