Experience with the frequent change in spaces used for design studios at the University of Pennsylvania's undergraduate Design of the Environment program illustrates how the need for efficient space utilization can lead to a creative process of uncovering unforeseen possibilities in teaching, learning, and living together. (MSE)

In trying to formulate rules governing financial exigency, professors and administrators alike should adhere to the basic ideas of the AAUP guidelines, thus affirming the values of the tenure system yet retaining the flexibility to respond intelligently to deteriorating financial circumstances. (MSE)

A discussion of the devastating decline of Southern Methodist University's athletics program looks at what has happened in the past year, constructive responses to it, the university's prospects for the immediate future, and what can be learned by faculty concerned for academic integrity in todays' society. (MSE)

Through aesthetics, styles, and organization of space, campus architecture has often been complicit in reproducing dominant ideologies and social relations of society, undermining diversity and its possibilities. Architectural scholars, as teachers of architecture, should move theory and practice into new, more critical social terrain. (MSE)

Last fall, the author addressed the AAUP's 2003 governance conference about a faculty-led initiative to reform college sports. The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) grew out of a meeting one afternoon in the student union at the University of Oregon among a few senior professors who had recently been appointed to the faculty senate.…

Recommendations are made for faculty participation in state-level governance decisions: formal faculty input into all state-level boards, a systemwide senate for each consolidated governing board, serious discussion of the relationships between state government and higher education in the state, and faculty specialized participation on ad hoc…

The revolution in higher education being produced by advances in information technology brings these challenges: understanding what new skills students must master; making the distributed-learning environment an asset for interpersonal interaction; creating physical and virtual campuses that complement one another; creating large-scale…

An essay encouraging and illustrating possibilities for faculty involvement in college planning and decision making is followed by commentaries by Harmon C. Dunathan and George Keller. Among the issues addressed are program review, personnel strategies, and situations of financial exigency. (MSE)

University libraries are realizing that in an age of increasing electronic access to information, providing electronic cataloging to complement other electronic services is essential. (MSE)

The American Association of University Professors' committee investigations of faculty personnel matters at four colleges and universities and developments relating to censure of other institutions by the association are presented. (MSE)

A college president illustrates with specific recent university situations seven broad precepts for making policy decisions concerning faculty and retrenchment strategies: administrators must remember principles and traditions, faculty governance, the governing board, the media, the state legislature, younger faculty, and long-term consequences.…