Focuses on the responsibilities graduate speech communication programs have to their students. (PD)

Discusses the lack of security in the English teaching profession and encourages college English departments to be humane in their hiring practices. (DD)

Presents a model for allocating tenure positions in a time of steady-state enrollments. (Editor)

This paper presents an indepth analysis of Craig v. Alabama State University (ASU), a lawsuit involving charges of reverse discrimination in employment against a historical black college. The plaintiff, who felt that the nonrenewal of his contract was due to his race, won his suit against ASU for himself and all other whites similarly situated.…

Feeling the effects of its deliberate decision to limit the growth of its student body, Colgate University began to face the problem of a steady state in 1971 that many institutions are now having thrust on them for other reasons. This problem was brought to a head at Colgate in 1972, four years after the Board of Trustees adopted a "general…

Probability-based targets, instead of tenure quotas, work with a longer view of the future and permit flexibility in decisionmaking by asserting that performance standards remain the key criterion for promotion. (Author/PG)

Describes a tax-sheltered annuity plan to help attract and keep qualified faculty. (Editor/PG)

Report of the investigatory committee of the American Association of University Professors on the dismissal of sixteen faculty members from the Indiana Institute of Technology in March 1969. (PD)

Reviews positive signs of growth for the academic job market in speech communication. (PD)

Presents an introduction to three articles that follow in this issue asking academics to explain how they got jobs. Notes that the articles were written one year after their authors had got tenure-track jobs. Describes the strategies and tactics that made these searches a success. (SG)