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Benjamin Elliott Novak – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the root cause of the increased rate of employee turnover at a higher educational institution and how to retain their current employees. The importance of this study was to help the educational institution reduce their employee turnover so they do not continue to struggle to find new talent to replace…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Higher Education, Labor Market, Employees
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Arnold, Lisa; Brady, Laura; Christensen, Maggie; Giordano, Joanne Baird; Hassel, Holly; Nagelhout, Ed; Singh-Corcoran, Nathalie; Staggers, Julie – College English, 2011
The forum contributors draw on their personal experiences and insights to put forth ideas about contingent faculty's relations with the profession of English studies in general. (Contains 3 notes.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, English Instruction, Writing Instruction, Teaching Conditions
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Trower, Cathy A. – Academe, 2008
Beginning in 1934, representatives of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Association of American Colleges (AAC) met and drafted the definitive statement on academic freedom and tenure. Like the U.S. Constitution, the 1940 "Statement on Principles of Academic Freedom and Tenure" was a commendable, if deficient, product…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, Higher Education, Policy Formation
Estes, Howell M., III – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2007
In recent years, tenure has increasingly come under fire as an anachronism, not only for appearing to be out of touch with modern society but also as protection for the allegedly incompetent. Administrators and governing boards find themselves spending inordinate time defending it. So, in March 2005, the University of Colorado took the…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Tenure, College Faculty, Credibility