In this paper, the authors call for an approach that, in recognizing the economic realities facing most institutions, attempts to put aside objections that funding is simply not available to support an expansion of the current tenure system. In calling for the changes in faculty working conditions, the authors recognize that change will…

At the time of their independence, the structure of higher education, curriculum content, governance, and admissions procedures were more or less identical across the fifteen republics of the former Soviet Union. Since independence there have been multiple changes, but often these have been quite similar in nature. There has been a move toward…

A combination of destructive trends in higher education--shrinking state budgets, stagnant student aid, the growth of corporate-style management, the overuse and exploitation of contingent faculty, increasing workloads and attacks on academic freedom--is weakening the educational integrity and professionalism of American colleges and universities.…

The 2005-6 executive compensation controversy at the University of California has been explained as the result of a massive breach of compliance with the University's compensation policies by the Office of the President (UCOP). For more than a decade, the explanation goes, UCOP failed to comply with its own compensation policies, embodied in the…

In this paper, the author describes what might happen if a college got rid of its board of trustees and the faculty became voting partners in running the "corporation." What if there was no board of trustees composed mainly of outsiders? What if the president was chosen by and responsible to the faculty? What, in short, if the faculty owned the…

Priority internal administrative issues include tuition policy and financing, capital renewal and replacement, faculty and staff salaries and benefits, minority hiring and enrollment, and costs and productivity. Although costs and minority issues are more prominent than in recent past, endowment management, debt financing, and charitable…

Issues arising from the increasing use of part-time college faculty as an institutional cost-management strategy are discussed, including implications for faculty joining unions, tenure, governance and administrative hierarchy, faculty workload, quality of education, and public confidence in higher education. The trend is seen as ultimately…

The report and proposed policy statement of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) concerning tenure among medical school faculty describes some changes occurring in academic medical centers and their implications for faculty status and academic freedom. It then details AAUP policy principles, focusing on academic appointments,…

Notes that increasing numbers of medical schools no longer guarantee the full salary of tenured professors and suggests faculty members must rely on traditional structures of shared governance to ensure that the decoupling of tenure from salary does not destroy academic freedom within the university. Evaluates five models proposed to deal with the…

This article argues that there are global pressures for modernization of the education workforce that produce broadly similar policy responses and pressures on the teaching profession. It suggests, however that these "travelling" policies are mediated by the "embedded" practices and cultures of different systems to produce…

This article argues that, rather than raising the salaries of college presidents, thus widening the salary gap with faculty and possibly creating ill will, governing boards can provide better, long-term supplemental retirement programs that offer maximum reward, security, and control. This strategy can assist in recruitment and retention of…

The current trend toward academic gamesmanship, characterized by interinstitutional competition for faculty, gives the general public a superficial notion of academic excellence, deceives higher education supporters, deprives undergraduates of teaching that they are paying higher prices to receive, and gauges success by ephemeral standards.…

Discusses three related issues of democratic governance of the National and Affiliate Group Board members of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. These issues include the principle of choice of error, the fundamental attribution error, and inequities in compensation among workers in different fields. (BB)

To help Texas college administrators prepare for the possibility of collective bargaining, the authors cite evidence of conditions in Texas that have led to faculty unionization elsewhere; review literature on the probable impact; and identify resources on ways to meet the challenge. (PP)

Since 1946, four major efforts to improve educational outcomes through shifts in governance have occurred in North Carolina. The 1989 reforms were characterized by an increase in rhetoric about local control and initiatives, teacher involvement, and school-based management. This paper surveys the last 50 years of educational reform policy in North…