Members of the AAUP's staff, acting on behalf of Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, communicate during the course of each year with administrations under censure. A summary of developments at institutions on the list of Censured Administrations is presented. (Author/MLW)

When institutional mergers or absorptions occur, the American Association of University Professors is concerned that: (1) the faculty participate in decisions affecting academic programs and faculty status, and (2) the principles of academic freedom and tenure be safeguarded and the terms of faculty appointment be honored as fully as possible.…

An AAUP investigating committee report is presented concerning the dismissal of Professor Erwin D. Harris from his position as a tenured member of the faculty at Bridgewater State College. (MLW)

The members of an ad hoc investigating committee visited Yeshiva University to interview three faculty members whose appointments were terminated, two former deans, the faculty members' departmental chairmen, and other faculty colleagues. The issues involved in the termination of the three appointments are discussed. (MLW)

The American Association of University Professors has since its inception assumed responsibility not only for promulgating principles and standards in academic relationships but also for implementing them in specific situations. The organization deals with over 2,000 inquiries a year, some leading to processing of formal complaints. (Author/MSE)

On June 2, 1978, four faculty members at Florida Memorial College were informed that their appointments were not renewed. The standards for notice of nonreappointment at the college were changed but the action was not reported to the faculty. An investigation by the American Association of University Professors is reported. (MLW)

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)

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)

On July 1, 1979, Harris-Stowe College in St. Louis, was transferred from city to state control, becoming Harris-Stowe State College. Resulting issues are discussed, including the lack of retention of two faculty members, Bob Harold Leftwich and Jo Beth Creighton, who requested assistance from the American Association of University Professors.…

The AAUP suggests that inflation, threats of retrenchment, and the prospect of collective bargaining legislation in several states have stimulated a new surge of interest in collective bargaining by college and university faculties. Over the next two years the number of faculty members covered by collective bargaining will increase steadily. (MLW)

AAUP's position is that the purpose of an institution's retirement plan for faculty members and administrators and its plan for their insurance benefits should be to help educators and their families withstand the financial effects of illness, old age, and death and to increase the educational effectiveness of the college and university. (MLW)

Cases considered for imposition of censure and cases considered for removal of censure by the American Association of University Professors are outlined. Revisions of Association policy involving discrimination against faculty members and graduate assistants are printed. (MLW)

An ad hoc investigating committee of the American Association of University Professors visited Olivet College. Both the dismissal of Professor J. Philip Holden and the termination of the services of Professor William C. Buchanan were seen to disregard the principles of academic tenure and the provisions for academic due process. (MLW)

Tenure appointments, it is suggested, are more difficult to achieve in the 1970s than in the 1960s, and performance expectations for the 1970s are more stringent than in the previous decade. The two populations examined were reviewed and received a tenure appointment during 1967-68 and 1977-78. (MLW)

On April 12, 1978 the president of Lynchburg College informed Professor Landphair that her domestic situation made it impossible for the college administration to renew her appointment. A report from the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure is provided including procedural and substantive issues, and conclusions. (MLW)