N/ / Stmi;re,,D Faculty Receptivity to Organizational Chan,Le*

Responses of 160 faculty members to seven innovations involving such organizational areas as collective bargaining, Affirmative Action and school governance in higher education were examined using two prevailing models. One links resistance to personality and the other to organizational status. Seven semantic differentials, demographic questions, and three standard scales were used in measuring receptivity, Organizational characteristics, and personality factors. Multivariate statistical analyses revealed important faculty differences in receptivity to the innovations, and significantly more variance explained by status characteristics than by personality factors. (MJM