A recent Supreme Court ruling in a lawsuit concerning sex discrimination in corporate promotion decisions had circumstances similar to those in academic discrimination litigation, and may make it easier for college faculty to bring discrimination cases against colleges and universities. (MSE)

Considers the difficulties women face in realizing sex equality in teaching and administrative positions. (RK)

The typical affirmative-action-mandated procedure for filling new tenure-track openings in humanities departments, together with the typical organization of service-course programs, puts women faculty members at a disadvantage. It often draws new faculty from outside the institution, generally passing over women already within the institution.…

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is criticized by some members for delaying publication of a report of its investigation of St. Bonaventure University (New York) for firing 22 male professors in 1994. Delay of the report blocked a national conference vote on institutional censure in the case. (MSE)

A woman associate professor denied tenure by male colleagues sued and won in federal court, claiming sex discrimination in assessment of her scholarship. She is being reimbursed by the university for costs of her extensive publicity campaign. University failure to file a required affirmative-action plan was also found. (MSE)

In "University of Pennsylvania," the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a privilege protecting the confidentiality of material assembled for tenure decisions. Focused on sex discrimination complaints, this article addresses how tenure committees can prevent "smoking guns" from getting in tenure review files and who can look in…

Over the past two decades, women have entered academe in unprecedented numbers. Even so, women remain disproportionately underrepresented in the ranks of tenured faculty members. What are viewed as the major causes of this inequity--the tenure system's inadequacies, the tenure crunch of recent decades along with the related increase in hiring of…

Australian universities are surveyed to determine the proportion of female appointments and the appointments of candidates with non-Australian degrees. Evidence is presented that shows both groups are underrepresented, and partial explanations are offered. (JSR)

This review focuses on women in educational administration as compared with men in the same field. The author recognizes sex discrimination as a historical fact and begins by discussing some of the current psychological effects of cultural conditioning. She then examines the role of the counselor dealing with high school seniors who express an…

The psychosocial dimensions of filing grievances in academia were studied, along with faculty members' views of the experience, factors contributing to success or failure, the effect of age and sex, and effectiveness in achieving sex equity. Questionnaire responses were obtained from 41 grievants at a major eastern university. Fifty-four percent…

The author notes in his introduction to this chapter that judicial review of institutional decisions remains at an all-time high. He urges administrators to be aware of the developments in law pertaining to higher education but cautions them not to apply general concepts to specific questions. He notes that the weight of litigation in 1978 serves…

The bulk of this chapter is devoted to three areas of contention: discrimination in employment (including discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, age, and handicapping condition), the discipline and dismissal of employees (including separate discussions of such causes as insubordination, neglect of duty, unprofessional conduct, incompetence,…

Recruitment and reward patterns of college faculty in 1969 were analyzed, and implications of the findings for segmented labor market research and for the analysis of stratification systems in science are discussed. Data from a 1969 Faculty Survey of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education provided a sample of 77 universities for the…

Different types of policies adopted by colleges and universities to deal with part-time faculty employment and kinds of issues that may arise are considered. Three types of part-time teaching appointments are distinguished, and the shared appointments or split contracts arrangement is described. The shared appointment is one full-time position…

Articles on discrimination against women scholars and information on change strategies and resource groups are presented. The status and self-expressed needs of women scholars, as revealed in a recent survey of over 1,000 San Francisco Bay respondents, are considered in an article entitled "Status and Needs of Women Scholars" (Mary L. Spencer and…