A report of Committee A of the American Association of University Professors is presented with four recommendations for imposition of censure. Three accounts to illustrate the mediative work of the AAUP are described. Recommendations deferred and removal of censure are reported. (MLW)

Accounts that illustrate the work of the American Association of University Professors in helping to bring cases to an appropriate resolution are presented. The volume of cases and complaints are published. Four statements of removal of censure are provided. (MLW)

Annual statistics reveal that calls upon the American Association of University Professors for mediative assistance increased sharply for the year ending May 1986. Judicial business, censure, and legislative business are discussed. (MLW)

The clause in the American Association of University Professors' 1940 statement on academic freedom and tenure requiring that limitations on faculty academic freedom for religious or other aims of the institution be specified in writing upon appointment is discussed in a Committee A subcommittee statement and in two other commentaries. (MSE)

Over the past decade, two developments have greatly affected the conduct of affairs in academic institutions in the United States: the increasing role of the courts and the growth of collective bargaining. Collective agreement, impasse and unilateral action, the strike, and the expiration of the collective agreement are discussed. (MLW)

Complaints and cases handled by the American Association of University Professors from June 1, 1986-May 31, 1987 are described. Judicial business including case held over from the previous year, imposition of censure, deferred recommendations, and removal of censure are discussed. Open-meeting laws are reviewed. (MLW)

The American Association of University Professors' Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure reports on AAUP's priorities, imposition of censure, removal of censure, reports and authorization of subcommittees, institutional mergers and acquisitions, and judicially compelled disclosure. (MLW)

Legal issues regarding faculty relationships with their employers are reviewed. Regulation by individual agreement and by collective agreement are discussed, and a national agreement that would rely on self-regulation is proposed. (Journal availibility: Univ. of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA 52242.) (MSE)

Three reports of the American Association of University Professors' Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure are presented. Actions taken against Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Alabama State University, and Concordia Theological Seminary are described. (MLW)

Viewed from the perspective of administrative law, labor law, or just higher education, the Yeshiva decision does not make sense. It would be appropriate in future litigation to compel the court to do what it refused to do here, that is to address the extent to which the industrial analogy applies to colleges and universities. (MSE)

Traces the debate over faculty tenure and academic freedom to a 1915 position statement, and examines six rhetorical techniques used consistently by tenure's critics. Concludes that the tenure debate is really about balance of power between administrators and faculty, and that the case for tenure rests on the belief that the permanent faculty is…

Suggests that although the assault on tenure championed by the American Association for Higher Education's New Pathways Project has failed, there are more serious threats to tenure in the development of systems of "post-tenure review," and in the increased the use of "contingent," or part-time and non-tenure-track full-time,…