In light of predicted labor shortages, proactive businesses should focus on legislative reform regarding immigrant labor. Although immigrants can be high quality employees, current immigration policies and practices tend to impede the attraction and retention of such workers. (Author/SK)

Argues that, to increase minority participation in student affairs, the profession must attend to the crucial roles of key administrators, the breadth and diversity of administrative and staff roles, and the informal processes by which persons are matched to administrative jobs. (Author)

"The Educational Morass" is about the ineffectiveness of public education in the United States today and why it is unlikely to achieve significant improvement in the absence of heavy external pressure. The reason for these conclusions and what can be done about it are the core of this book. It is an explanation of why the most popular…

This document contains testimony from a congressional hearing to explore the latest developments in corporate policies affecting older workers. Testimony includes statements and prepared statements from individuals representing United States corporations, such as Mutual of Omaha Companies; The Aerospace Corporation; ACS America, Inc.; Grumman…

Discusses the potential effects of a stable or declining academe and a more competitive educational market on tenure and faculty quality. Concludes that universities will pursue a flexibility-enhancing strategy which will include the use of junior and senior educators in nontenured but prestigious and highly paid positions. (GEA)

The author argues that the nation cannot afford its habit of promoting early retirement. He calls for public policy and employer incentives to encourage longer work lives. (CH)

The most common grounds for dismissing tenured faculty have been incompetence, immorality, neglect of duty, and insubordination. Judicial evaluations of substantive grounds for dismissing tenured postsecondary faculty for cause are discussed. (MLW)

This position paper from the Conference on College Composition and Communication offers guidelines for faculty embarking on careers in the field of composition and rhetoric. The paper addresses the following: terms of employment; conditions of employment; issues of reappointment, promotion, and permanent status; and issues of professionalism and…

This report presents the position of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) on academic and professional appointments at colleges and universities and the protection of professional appointees who are not faculty members. Faculty members and other professional appointees share similar and overlapping commitments and thus…

Issues discussed include origins, trends, and long-term effects of faculty aging. Measures of new faculty are discussed, as are policy constraints. Institutional policies with inherently self-regulating incentives are recommended as a partial solution. (MSE)

The personnel profession is in a state of change in higher education. Personnel directors must be ready to assume the contemporary role of human resource manager and question separate academic and staff personnel offices and functions. (MLW)

Two discussions explore the issue of part-time and temporary teaching appointments in colleges. The first discusses the negative impact these assignments have on the discipline of English. The second recognizes that these appointments are here to stay and offers suggestions for making a bad situation productive. (HTH)

Great Britain's teachers with disabilities face discrimination in obtaining and retaining employment. To achieve disability equality and integration, a campaign is needed to change regulations for medical fitness to teach, develop an equality perspective across the whole curriculum, and force the government to allocate money to include disabled…

Argues that occupational tests can exclude racial minorities and that many industrial psychologists have overlooked evidence that many tests are biased and that some claims for validity generalization are based on faulty science. Outlines what plaintiff's counsel looks for in deciding to try a testing case, and provides primer on how to challenge…

This is a detailed guide to developing an acquired deficiency syndrome (AIDS) policy. It contains seven essential elements of the nation's most successful AIDS policy. (Author)