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Peer reviewedSilber, Robert R.; And Others – Change, 1974
Descriptors: Debate, Higher Education, Status, Teacher Employment
Peer reviewedCox, Charles E. – Change, 1973
Discusses Virginia's decision to drop tenure for its community college system. (PG)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Contracts, Higher Education, Teacher Employment
Peer reviewedNisbet, Robert – Change, 1973
Descriptors: Contract Salaries, Contracts, Higher Education, Teacher Employment
Peer reviewedPark, Dabney, Jr. – Change, 1972
Four arguments against tenure: it works against the interests of nontenured faculty; it retards the academic quality of an institution; it inhibits rather than preserves academic freedom; it generates conflict by dividing the faculty. (HS)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Professors, Teacher Employment
Peer reviewedLowenfish, Lee – Change, 1971
Untenured college faculty may not have contracts renewed. (HS)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty, Teacher Employment
Peer reviewedO'Toole, James – Change, 1978
A faculty member at the University of Southern California explains why he has renounced tenure: it is inimical to academic freedom, discourages radical innovation and risk-taking, limits the mobility of professors, and may work to the ultimate advantage of administrators in bargaining with professors. (LBH)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Higher Education
