The life cycle of a faculty member from pre-employment through retirement is examined in these proceedings. Paper titles and authors are as follows: "The Role of Faculty in Obtaining Quality in Higher Education: Facing the New Realities" (Frank Newman); "The American Professoriate: Rewards and Satisfactions" (Eugene Rice); "Institutional Renewal through Faculty Development: Syracuse University's Program" (John Centra); "Collective Bargaining by Professional Employees" (David Rabban); "Professionals in Work Organizations" (Donald Vredenburgh); "Institutional Employment Practices Pertaining to Sexual Harassment" (Caesar Naples); "Institutional Employment Practices Pertaining to Affirmative Action" (Ira Bloom); "Institutional Employment Practices Pertaining to Issues of Privacy" (Joan Van Tol); "Preferential Treatment in Faculty Career Opportunities: A Legal Analysis" (Marcia Cohen); "Affirmative Action in Faculty Recruiting and Hiring: The Temple University Experience" (Conrad Jones); "Merit, Market, and Comparable Worth at the University Level" (Gerie Bledsoe); "Discrimination in Compensation: Current Status of the Case Law" (John Donoghue); "Canadian Faculty Compensation Experience" (Robert Rodger); "A Legal Analysis of the Tenure Issue: An AAUP Perspective" (Ralph Brown); "A Legal Analysis of the Tenure Issue: A PSC Perspective" (Nicholas Russo); "Legal Issues in Tenure in the Massachusetts Community College System" (Carolyn Young); "Issues in Tenuring: A Faculty Union Leader" (Josephine Reiter); "Academics on Strike: The Chicago City Colleges Experience--A Faculty Perspective" (Norman Swenson); "Academics on Strike: The Fairleigh Dickinson Experience--A Faculty Perspective" (Thomas McDonald); "Academics on Strike: The Bellevue Community College Experience--A Faculty Perspective" (Carol Mandt); "TIAA/CREF's Faculty Pension Plans" (Larry Hershberger); "Alternatives to TIAA/CREF Retirement Plans" (Roy Schotland); and "The Commission on College Retirement's Approach on Pension Plans" (Thomas Woodruff). (SW)