A case study detailing efforts by University of Southern California administrators to cut the salaries of medical school faculty by 25 percent reports on the faculty's resulting court litigation and an eventual settlement out of court. Notes that the final outcome was a school with a strengthened and democratized shared governance system. (DB)

A summary of the 1982 Sonoma State University case of dismissal of 24 tenured faculty members for financial reasons provides background regarding financial exigency, faculty participation in decisions leading to the layoff, provision for individual hearings, notice, efforts to reinstate and relocate, and teaching service areas. (MSE)

The 1979 dismissals of three art department members, one tenured, are chronicled and examined. At issue were procedures for providing reasons upon request and opportunity for appropriate review, and breech of academic freedom in a professional dispute. Lack of a meaningful role for faculty in academic government is also discussed. (MSE)