Probes tenure, tenure guarantees, union protests, affirmative action, early retirement, ideal steady-state faculty mix, and their implications for higher education. (PG)

This document presents the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems' (NCHEMS) faculty activity survey instrument and discusses the procedural questions involved in conducting an activity survey. Recommended procedures are given where appropriate. Some of the concerns confronting an institution that is initiating an activity survey…

This review examines recent economic, political, and legal developments that have created pressure for reform of the academic tenure system, codified in 1940 by the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges. At issue are problems of academic freedom, "deadwood" faculty, institutional finances, and the…

The Equal Pay Act is applicable to university and college faculty. There should be a legally acceptable faculty compensation plan in existence to handle some of the implications of the law. (Editor)

The investigating report of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors on the Seek Center of the City University of New York, including an interpretative summary of events and the committee's conclusions. SEEK is a prebaccalaureate educational program (Search for Education, Elevation, and…

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)

The action by the administration of Elmira College to remove Dr. Jerald Neilsen from his teaching and other faculty responsibilities for the duration of his appointment constituted a summary dismissal, in disregard of the provisions for academic due process. (Author/PG)

Some tenure problems could be alleviated by creating clear standards and practices for hiring, promotion, and dismissal; others could be lessened through more attention to definitions and procedures. (Author/PG)

The court decision of the Bloomfield College case concerning dismissals and abolition of tenure is presented with an explanatory introduction. (PG)

Student concern regarding faculty unionism does not stem from a belief that public employee collective bargaining is bad public policy. To the contrary, most students recognize the civil right of employees to organize and bargain collectively. Their concern stems from the impact that collective bargaining has had, and will have, on the quality of…

Few, if any, categories of postsecondary educational institutions have escaped the impact of collective bargaining. On the one hand, bargained agreements may tend to set the pace in areas of salary and working conditions that must be met by any nonbargaining institution if they desire to be comparable or competitive. On the other hand,…

More than a third of the nation's college professors were found to believe that collective bargaining is the most effective way for faculty members to influence decisions on their campuses. (Editor)

Discusses the 1972 policy of the Virginia Community College System that removed faculty tenure except for those who already possessed tenure or had been recommended for tenure. (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)