The Renewable Contract Plan at Hampshire College makes certain assumptions: First, that traditional life tenure systems do not necessarily encourage continuing professional evaluation, nor do they necessarily encourage pedagogical experimentation, development, and renewal. The positive assumptions of the Renewable Contract Plan include: (1)…

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

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)

Discusses tenure legislation and the need to protect teachers from unconscionable treatment'', i.e., unfair dismissal. (SP)

This bibliography contains 286 reference works on tenure completed within the last 10 years. The bibliography contains books, articles and excerpts from books, and theses. The titles which have a single asterisk show availability through the Canadian Teacher's Federation Library. Titles with a double asterisk indicate availability in microform…

Article is a policy statement by the NJEA Delegate Assembly in response to the problem of teachers being let go in New Jersey. (GB)

Discusses 10 cases of nonreappointment of faculty at colleges and universities in the United States. (PG)

This survey of faculty tenure and contract systems was conducted during August 1974 as a followup to an earlier Higher Education Panel survey of institutional policies and practices affecting faculty employment. A survey questionnaire mailed to the entire membership of the Higher Education Panel (644 institutions) received a 91 percent response…

This second report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio is concerned with teacher tenure in the state of Ohio and need for changes in the tenure law. The basic positions of the commission are that teachers should be protected against arbitrary and unwarranted action by their employers but that professional incompetence…

Tenure laws should be repealed or modified to encourage contractual rather than legislative protection for teachers. (Author)

From a survey designed to determine the current practices involved in faculty tenure and contract systems at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., it is estimated that 94.7% of faculty members work in institutions that have tenure systems. It is further determined that personnel practices in most institutions with tenure systems are…

Concerns the nonrenewal of appointments for two nontenured assistant professors at the University of West Florida. (PG)

The concept of "tenure," with all its clumsy and confusing burden of historic and current misinterpretation, will probably soon disappear. However, what tenure laws intended, and have failed to do, will almost surely be preserved in other forms of administrative procedure. To be effective, administrative procedures must be (1) clear and detailed,…