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Motivating the Law School Faculty in the Twenty-First Century: Is There Life in Tenure?
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Scoles, Eugene F. – Journal of Legal Education, 1979
With a focus on law schools and their faculties, this panel discussion addresses the following question: Is tenure a progressive device, preserving academic freedom and encouraging scholarly initiative, or is it a harmful, anachronistic force, protecting entrenched ideas and fostering incompetency? (Author/JMD)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education
Managing Resource Uncertainty through Academic Staffing in Four-Year Colleges and Universities. ASHE 1985 Annual Meeting Paper.
Bagshaw, Marque – 1985
The use of college staffing strategies to reduce staffing expenditures, to reallocate staffing resources, or to limit the time commitment of resources to a position is discussed, based on the literature and data from the Project on Reallocation in Higher Education. Control of the decision to create a position or hire replacements for departing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Early Retirement, Employment Practices, Expenditures
Age, Sex and Ethnic Trade-Offs in Faculty Employment: You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too.
Linnell, Robert H. – 1979
Age, sex, and ethnic trade-offs in faculty employment in higher education give rise to dilemmas--situations requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives. When an over-age-65 faculty member retains a full time position, someone else--probably a woman, ethnic minority, and/or young person--is deprived of a position. The problem of age…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Age Discrimination, College Faculty, Competence