Discusses an eight-year seminar series at Emory University, the Luce Seminars, that sparked insights about new approaches to supporting faculty. The seminars, which strengthened the university's cultural milieu for scholarship without increasing the formal expectations of faculty performance, offered lessons on guiding teacher excellence,…

Faculty morale doesn't coincide with actual or perceived status. Expected to teach well, publish often, and keep the institution running besides, conscientious faculty members in a competitive university may be low in energy, as well as morale. (MLW)

The "Yeshiva debate" over the nature of faculty governance will continue to rage within academe. Unions will argue that faculties must bargain collectively with or without the protection of NLRB legislation; small private colleges may submit that they cannot afford bargaining costs and refuse to bargain. (MSE)

A roundtable discussion of faculty commitment and revitalization was conducted by Russell Edgerton, president of the American Association for Higher Education, with Clara Lovett and R. Eugene Rice. (MLW)

The success of the entire academic enterprise depends directly on the contributions of the junior faculty members. The quality of the junior faculty, the diversity of talent, the promotion/appointment process, and the incentives to value teaching and university citizenship as well as scholarship are discussed. (MLW)

In this essay recounting a midcareer faculty review, Vilma Hernandez is the fictitious name of a faculty member originally hired for affirmative action reasons who fails because of her inability to solicit support and the university's failure to offer it. Concludes that the university allowed her to fail. (JMF)

An academic department meeting is described as having an unobtrusive metamorphosis as it was changed from the traditional collegial participatory style of the reluctant, temporary, quasi-administrator chair-scholar to the autocrat who uses merit pay to reward the loyal. (MLW)

A black professor's experiences in five white institutions, including a community college, an Ivy League university, a private liberal arts college, and a state university, are discussed. An occasional slight or even a veiled insult is part of the territory for black academicians. (MLW)

People on the tenure track complain that evaluation criteria are inexplicit. The second problem is the allocation of energies between teaching and publication. Administrators must be informed about anything that explains exactly what the faculty member's work means. (MLW)

Evangelical colleges have been unaffected by the academic revolution in which faculties, organized into departments, have increasingly obtained hegemony over a large and growing portion of the academic enterprise. These colleges are tuition-dependent, with relatively weak departments, allowing greater flexibility. Oral Roberts University, Berea…

Students have grown relatively docile, and faculty are less inclined to argue with the administration. The legacy of the 1960s that allows the university to respond to the mood of the 1980s is discussed, along with the desire of universities that conserve tradition to integrate change intelligently. (Author/MSE)

A college administrator and a college professor discuss their college backgrounds, how they met at a Black Student Association meeting at New York University, and their commitment to equality, justice, and pluralistic education. Higher education is urged to encourage both pluralism and egalitarianism. (MLW)

The Supreme Court ruling on the Yeshiva case, which ruled that Yeshiva faculty are managerial employees and therefore not protected in their organizing efforts by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), is discussed. Consequences of the ruling are to discourage faculty from establishing unions and to foster numerous court challenges. (MLW)

The quest for the powers and skills of informed judgment, for the dual capacities of appreciation and criticism should stand as the goal of every level of the college curriculum. The fundamentals of a college education are seen as decisions between interpretations and the skill of understanding interpretations. (MLW)

Faculty development represents one of several responses to changes in the academic environment. In an industry characterized by steady state and no growth, career mobility has declined dramatically. Faculty development is seen as a way to assist faculty to remain or once again become vibrant, vital, productive, and pertinent. (MLW)