"Retirement does not change a person, it only makes a person more of what he or she has been," says the author. A book editor who has worked with the elderly and taught preretirement courses, she provides sound advice for the teacher about to retire. (Editor/RK)

A teacher describes the four-year bureaucratic maze she went through to rectify a problem with the lack of proper toilet paper dispensers in the women teachers' bathroom of a brand new school. (MD)

This article describes the educational situation in Belfast--the divided sympathies on the part of the students, the segregation, the possible hardening of the students. Also considered are the difficulties of teachers in this war situation. (JA)

Committee N on representation of economic and professional interests reports at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors. (PG)

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

On the theory that teachers, too, have their hangups, a Maryland clinic provides free psychiatric counseling to those who need it.'' (Editor)

Outlines measures that will preserve tenure yet change and improve it. (HS)

Offers practical advice concerning collective bargaining on college campuses. (HS)

Discusses the controversy surrounding the removal of Edward W. Bemis from the University of Chicago faculty in 1895. (Author)

Report of the committee in charge of faculty collective bargaining. (HS)

Argues that negotiated contracts provide sufficient protection to teachers against caprice and political whimsy. (JF)

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)