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Download full textMortimer, Kenneth; And Others – 1986
Faced with scarce resources and environmental uncertainty in the past decade, colleges and universities have experimented with different modes of academic staffing, most of which are attempts to preserve or create more flexible policies and practices. In spite of tenure systems in operation at 94% of all four year colleges, institutions have at…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty Evaluation
Heaman, Robert J. – 1985
Difficulties experienced by Wilkes College (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) as a result of declining enrollments and shifts in student majors, and the resolution of differences between the administration and the faculty, are described in an essay. Related revision of institutional mission and peer-evaluation procedures are also discussed in an article…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, Departments
