Discusses a "basic blueprint" for tenure, considering primary strategies that may be involved in enriching the traditional "educational relics" of teaching, research, scholarship, and service. Outlines the steps to tenure from interviews to supporting materials and professional productivity. (PA)

The American Association of University Professors believes its removal of six colleges from its censure list, the largest since 1975, illustrates the strength and power of its sanction. All of the institutions revised their policies to comply with association standards on dismissals, tenure, and other issues of academic freedom. (MSE)

Broad legal constraints upon legislative authority over faculty tenure rights and the particular application of those constraints to the State of Washington are discussed. After defining tenure and tracing the creation of tenure rights, legislative authority over statutorily created tenure is discussed. Methods of legislative modification of…

Potential threats to academic freedom from within the institution are increasing, including faculty lawsuits over tenure and appointment decisions, research-related conflicts of interest, collective bargaining processes, and the use of academic freedom as a catch-all protest. (MSE)

AAUP staff members, on behalf of the Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, communicate with administrations under censure. Reported is the Associate General Secretary's appraisal of developments at the 33 listed institutions for the year preceding March 31, 1979. (AF)

Different types of policies adopted by colleges and universities to deal with part-time faculty employment and kinds of issues that may arise are considered. Three types of part-time teaching appointments are distinguished, and the shared appointments or split contracts arrangement is described. The shared appointment is one full-time position…