Presentations, responses, and discussions of the conference sessions are transcribed. The topics addressed relate to faculty recruitment, promotion, and tenure policy and practice in higher education. The sessions covered: (1) historical background (Charles V. Willie, Patricia Roberts Harris, Harold C. Fleming); (2) federal regulations and case…

The Progress Report series is intended to convey to the public a sense of the steps Hampshire College has taken since its opening in September 1970. The reports represent progress on programs planned in specific areas of concern, such as this first one on employment by faculty contract. The progression of the steps illustrates the ongoing creation…

According to a national survey of health education program administrators (N=280), projected retirements in the health education professoriate will be distributed fairly evenly over the next two decades. The number of new doctorates produced annually appears to be adequate to fill positions opened through retirements. (JD)

Interviews with over 50 faculty members at the University of Michigan identified changing attitudes about their professional lives and the institution. Attitudes of successful academics, promotion-delayed faculty, and administrators are summarized. Common themes included an increased emphasis on research productivity and a more competitive college…

The Stockton State College ten-year staffing plan is updated annually to provide flexibility and stability. Recommendations of the Task Force on the Ten-Year Staffing Plan are discussed in this report. The areas of recommendations include: institutional priorities, annual staffing plan, management information, limitation on tenure proportion,…

A human resources approach to academic staffing is proposed which is based on an organizational framework intended to be coherent, effective, and efficient. The approach requires that the institution build a broad recruitment reserve of young scientists, develop profiles of desired faculty characteristics, and use a staff allocation system as a…

Even if convergences are to be observed among the orientations adopted by higher education policies in European countries, they still are characterized by strong national features. One of the most striking national patterns of each system is its academic labor market, salaries, status, recruitment procedures, workloads, career patterns, promotion…

Argues that as the market has grown for the products and services of the professional intellectual class, this group has become committed not only to knowledge and skill but also to its elite privileges and that, as a result, the image of intellectuals as supporters of the less privileged lacks currency today. (CMG)

This book explores the medical professoriate, in particular medical faculty mobility in and out of academic positions as it relates to the organization of academic medicine in United States universities. The work is based on interviews conducted with 300 faculty members in six major medical schools over a period of 6 months in late 1988 and early…

Contents include: a brief biography of Mary Donlon Alger; highlights of affirmative action in Cornell University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Princeton University; a panel discussion of affirmative action today; the role and contributions of women trustees and administrators;…

Each institution of higher education determines its own conditions and responsibilities of professional employment based on principles of equity and due process. A faculty manual should present clearly and concisely an institution's policies and procedures related to professional employment, and all arrangements between individuals and…

This paper examines the past and current attitudes and practices toward hiring, retaining, and promoting African American faculty members, and explores suggestions and predictions pertaining to increased inclusion of African Americans on university and college faculties. It argues that the major problem resulting from the lack of African American…

A celebrated economist discusses the employment of college faculty in the modern university focusing on two primary issues: (1) tenure and promotion; and (2) recruitment, payment, and retention. Additional issues addressed include the role of faculty, academic authority, democracy in the classroom, and allocation of society's resources for higher…

This paper presents the findings of a committee at the University of Maryland (College Park) charged with studying the effectiveness of programs on campus aimed at achieving higher rates of participation and success for black faculty. Fourteen sections present results of the committee's survey and interviews, examination of specific issues, and…

Although more women than men participate in higher education in the United States, the same is not true when it comes to pursuing careers in science and engineering. To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering identifies and discusses better practices for recruitment, retention, and promotion for women scientists…