This chapter describes the growth of contingent research faculty and postdoctoral appointments at research universities and research-intensive institutions. Literature that addresses the employment and professional environment of these workers is critically explored and a discussion of the implications for academic leaders and institutional…

Organizational pressures influence the restructuring of the academic workforce. This chapter describes the key factors associated with increased hiring of contingent faculty.

This article familiarizes readers with how to analyze personnel selection decisions in employment discrimination litigation. First, the authors outline some of the basic legal principles that serve as the basis for analyses related to claims of discriminatory employment practices. Second, they describe how to conduct a scientific investigation of…

Colleges and universities will be reshaped somewhat as they change their approach to the increasingly complex and critical issue of faculty resource management in the next 10-15 years. The challenge for institutional researchers in this context is less to predict the future than to help shape it. (Author/MSE)

A variety of measurement, modeling, and forecasting methodologies can be adapted to academic staffing based on the unique role and function of faculty as human resources and the distinctive organizational characteristics of colleges and universities. (Author/MSE)

Describes models programed for computer calculation for predicting number of new positions, age distribution, tenure ratio, etc., based on assumptions concerning appointment and promotion practices. Illustrates application of the models to specific cases at Stanford University. (JT)

Sound management of human resources requires policies and procedures that are developed carefully and applied consistently. Monitoring personnel decisions and developing databases that document their outcomes will help ensure that such decisions are not only made fairly but are perceived so by faculty. (Author/MSE)

Employment of part-time, temporary, and non-tenure track faculty can be hazardous to programs, institutions, individuals, and even the character of the academic profession, but in some situations, when carefully applied, it may lead to substantial benefits. (Author/MSE)

The agenda for a vital professoriate in an era of great changes in higher education requires of administrators a long-term perspective on faculty careers, from graduate school through retirement. Faculty renewal can be positively affected by the actions and decisions of individuals and institutional officers. (Author/MSE)

The task of building the future professoriate can be facilitated by giving attention to important dimensions of affirmative action developed since 1972. Institutional researchers can help satisfy legal mandates on affirmative action and fulfill ethical and moral commitments to equity while meeting the unique needs of their institutions.…

A variety of incentives offered to faculty to leave an institution in difficult financial circumstances are outlined. They include: liberalizing the actuarial pension reduction, lump-sum severance payments, annuity enhancements, phased retirement, retirement perquisites, retraining for outplacement, paid retraining, and earnings supplements during…

Demographics and trends most relevant to further analysis of the faculty marketplace are highlighted in an annotated bibliography of books, articles, periodic reports, research projects, and databases. (Author/MSE)

The issue of maintaining institutional vitality through the development of faculty confronts higher education with a new set of problems. Higher education should reexamine its basic premises on employee expectations and look at career paths of other professionals in other kinds of organizations. What is needed is a healthy flow of people through…

A 1991 survey of 125 public universities, private research and doctoral universities, private comprehensive, and private liberal arts/other colleges investigated the type of institutional cost containment measures taken in fiscal 1992 and nonfaculty and faculty personnel and salary actions during that period. Results illustrate the effects of…

Examines court cases involving financial exigency as a cause for terminating college faculty appointments, confirming the role of institutional data on judges' and juries' decisions. Institutions are encouraged to have some type of retrenchment policy in place, be prepared to supply analysis relevant to the specifics of the policy, and to provide…