This volume contains 32 articles and sample documents treating legal issues in higher education employment focusing on major issues arising in a non-unionized setting. The first of six sections contains seven articles on the employment relationship in general that touch on current legal trends in employee selection procedures, employment contracts, personnel policies, immigration law, the Family Medical Leave Act, health coverage for domestic partners, and overtime compensation liability. The next section, on accommodation issues arising from the Americans with Disabilities Act includes five papers that cover: (1) university counsel perspectives; (2) enforcement; (3) reasonable accommodation; (4) disabled students, staff, and faculty; and (5) employees with infectious diseases. Section 3 looks at issues of concern to faculty including academic freedom, performance evaluation issues, post-tenure faculty evaluation, and judicial review of tenure decisions. Section 4 presents six papers on managing employee conduct including such aspects as sexual harassment (liabilities and penalties, internal complaints and investigations, and performance), employee misconduct, and violence in the workplace. Section 5 addresses dispute resolution in four papers, one of which is a collection of five sample institutional grievance procedures. Section 6 contains six papers on concluding the employment relationship and covers wrongful termination, early retirement incentive plans, downsizing, and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. (Contains 37 references.) (JB)