Jessica Mitford, was Distinguished Professor of Sociology at San Jose State University until she refused to be fingerprinted and was fired. (PG)

Discusses Virginia's decision to drop tenure for its community college system. (PG)

Four arguments against tenure: it works against the interests of nontenured faculty; it retards the academic quality of an institution; it inhibits rather than preserves academic freedom; it generates conflict by dividing the faculty. (HS)

Tells how Michigan State University's antiunion campaign deterred faculty from voting for unionism. (HS)

Purposes that each higher education institution appoint an Academic Review Committee to protect faculty rights in antidiscrimination issues. This committee could also be a resource of expertise in academic issues for the government. (Author/PG)

Chronicles the present growth of unionization and its conflicts and conjectures on its future directions. (Editor)

Untenured college faculty may not have contracts renewed. (HS)

The National Education Association (NEA) provides traditional education services to its members but also emphasizes political action and secures employment rights for teachers. (Author/PG)

A teacher argues that academic freedom is meaningless so long as teachers feel confined by personal and professional restraints that categorize, objectify, isolate, and depress them. (Editor)

Discusses the academic freedom case of history professor Grant Cooper at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. (PG)

At Stanford University, The early retirement plan is an option for older faculty who, while continuing for the most part to serve their institutions well, nonetheless recognize a difficulty in competing with younger faculty who are attuned to today's approaches. (Author/PG)

Arbitrary decisionmaking by governing boards effects teacher militancy. (Author/PB)