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Life on the "Effectively Terminal" Tenure Track.
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Finkelstein, Martin – Academe, 1986
The implications for the careers of junior faculty members of the trend toward creating tenure-track appointments that are tenure-track in name only, without any real security, are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Ladders, College Faculty, Educational Change, Employment Practices
Data File: Tenure-Track Appointments as a Percentage of Total Full-Time Faculty, by Category of Institution, Type of Affiliation, and Academic Ranks.
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Academe, 1986
The proportions of tenure-track faculty appointments in doctoral-level, comprehensive, general baccalaureate, specialized, and two-year public, private, and church-related colleges are tabulated for each academic rank. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Church Related Colleges, College Faculty, Full Time Faculty
The English Lectures at Austin: Our New M.I.A.'s.
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Heinzelman, Kurt – Academe, 1986
When a large group of nontenured part-time English department faculty were summarily dismissed, a significant segment of the English curriculum was left largely unattended, and other problems arose throughout the institution. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Administrative Problems, Case Studies, College Faculty
Off the Track, but in the Fold.
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Berver, Kitty; And Others – Academe, 1992
New Mexico State University addressed the trend toward employing non-tenure-track faculty (NTTs) by capping the proportion of NTTs; acceptance of a two-tiered faculty with differentiated responsibilities; extension of professional rights to NTTs; full and regular NTT evaluation, participation in merit pay, and promotion opportunities; and…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty Evaluation