Various aspects of the academic profession are addressed in 23 papers from a 1984 conference sponsored by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The focus is foundations studies in higher education, process studies, and policy studies. Titles and authors are as follows: "Leadership: Role Expectations of Faculty" (John S. Daniel); "The Academic Profession: An Historical Perspective--'Communities of Scholars in Ontario'" (Blair Neatby); "The Concept of University Autonomy: An Anchronism?" (Ian Winchester); "Some Current Issues of Accountability" (Edward J. Monahan); "The 'Stuck' Professor: Insights into an Aspect of the Faculty Vitality Issue" (Mary Corcoran, Shirley M. Clark); "Women in the Professoriate: The Case of Multiple Disadvantage" (Helen J. Breslauer); "Legal Challenges to Faculty Employment in the United States: If It Isn't One Thing It's Another" (Walter C. Hobbs); "Faculty Development in Canadian Colleges" (Abram G. Konrad); "Analytic Processes in University Teaching and Learning" (Janet Gail Donald); "Evaluating Teaching: The Potential Good" (Mei-fei Elrick, Terry Gillespie); "Indicators of Stress on the Professoriate: Evidence of Task Preference and Health Behaviour" (Elizabeth Thorsen); "Catching the Wave: Teachable Moments for Moral Development" (Richard G. Tiberius, Doreen Cleave-Hogg); "Instruction in the High Technology Academy: An Historical Context from a Faculty Perspective" (Rodney P. Riegle, Patricia E. Van West); "General Evidence of Academic Measurement Problems in Higher Education" (Noemi Selinger Stokes); "The Academic Profession--An Economic Perspective--'An Endangered Profession'" (Howard Bowen); "The Academic Work Process, the Professoriate, and Unionization" (Howard Buchbinder, Janice Newson); "Labour Relations in Canada's Colleges" (John Dennison); "Manpower Flexibility Policies and Practices as Reported by the Executives of Faculty Associations" (Cicely Watson); "Election of Early Retirement and Other Manpower Flexibility Options by Ontario University Faculty: Past, Present, and Future" (Bertrand Hansen); "Ontario Professors Salaries: A Comparative Analysis" (Trish McAdie); "Canadian and Looking for a Professorship in Business?" (Olga L. Crocker); "The Professoriate of Ontario: Professors Generally and Professors of Education as a Case in Point" (John Holland, Saeed Quazi, N. S. Stokes); and"Future Implications of the Age Structure of the Ontario Professoriate" (C. Watson, S. Quazi, N. S. Stokes). (SW)