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Vozzola, Elizabeth C.; Higgins, Ann – Moral Education Forum, 1994
Maintains that affirmative action hiring policies play a key and unstudied role in adult lives. Reports on a study of 115 full-time faculty at a state university and a community college. Finds that faculty members' moral reasoning complexity played a significant role in solving an affirmative action issue. (CFR)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Hendrickson, Robert M. – 1983
This chapter reports 1982 cases involving aspects of higher education. Interesting cases noted dealt with the federal government's authority to regulate state employees' retirement and raised the questions of whether Title IX covers employment, whether financial aid makes a college a program under Title IX, and whether sex segregated mortality…
Descriptors: Athletics, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Students
Gappa, Judith M.; Leslie, David W. – 1993
This book examines the practices that support and enhance the value of part-time faculty both in and outside the college classroom, offering 43 specific recommendations to help institutions plan and manage their use of part-timers, develop fair employment policies, and invest in part-timers as valued human resources contributing to the quality of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Employment Patterns
Beckham, Joseph C. – 1983
This chapter analyzes 1982 decisions involving legal issues in public school employment. Cases in areas of federal law are discussed first, including: discrimination in employment (race, sex, religion, age, and handicap); substantive constitutional rights (speech, association, and religion); and procedural due process (property interest, liberty…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Contracts, Court Litigation, Discipline
Marsh, Ranaye J.; Hall, Bradley H. – 2002
This document is intended to provide career and technical education faculty and administrators with information on institutional liability relating to workplace violence as documented in court cases. The major legislation regarding violence in schools is summarized. Seventeen warning signs of violence are presented along with simple steps…
Descriptors: Aggression, Court Litigation, Crime Prevention, Definitions
Piele, Philip K., Ed. – 1983
This comprehensive reference reviews court decisions affecting the operation, management, and governance of public schools. This edition analyzes all public school cases decided during the 1982 calendar years and reported in West's Regional, Federal, and Supreme Court Resports, through the December 1982 advance sheets. Included as well are 1981…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Constitutional Law, Desegregation Litigation