UNIONIZATION, DEMOCRACY, AND THE UNIVERSITY

Legal status collective bargaining between faculty associations and un iversity administrations has affected university governance and, on th e whole, has done so positively by democratizing most of the procedure s used to determine the terms and conditions of faculty employment. To the extent that matters hitherto within the mandates of academic sena tes have been removed to the collective bargaining regime, senates hav e been somewhat weakened. The greatest danger to democracy on the camp us probably lies in the bureaucratization of faculty associations, thu s leaving them open to the partial paralysis of creeping legalism.