This paper deals with tenure and promotion in Canadian colleges and universities focusing on the history of judicial/arbitral review of college decision-making, confidentiality versus fairness, and the function of tenure and promotion in postsecondary institutions. (MT)

A survey of continuing education administrators addressed the question of the interpretation of the public service component of faculty evaluation. A majority of responses revealed that teaching credit or noncredit continuing education courses as a community service was not widely recognized in tenure and evaluation processes. (SK)

Discusses the need for faculty involvement and motivation to successfully implement instructional computing in higher education, and identifies ways in which universities could encourage faculty development of instructional software. The topics covered include funding, and setting guidelines that equate software development with traditional…

Discusses various aspects of the role of external examiner as advanced by the parliament of the United Kingdom through the authority of the Academic Audit Unit. Addresses the examination of postgraduate research student, the examination of undergraduates within classroom situations, the qualifications needed by external examiners, and…

In the January 1988 issue of "Library Administration & Management," an article titled "The Dilemma of Library Faculty Workload: One Solution" described the efforts of the library faculty at Western Illinois University to achieve a more equitable situation compared to other faculty on the campus. A totally new approach to…

This article examines evidence that shows that the quality of education in many fields of engineering, including chemical engineering, is being endangered by severe and growing shortages of competent faculty. Shrinking graduate enrollment, budget cuts, and high industrial salaries are discussed as main causes. (ECO)

Miami-Dade Community College, which wants to reward faculty members who devote themselves to teaching, intends to hire professors who want to teach and advise large minority populations and remedial classes. Characteristics of an excellent professor are identified. (MLW)

Students should have input about the teaching that affects them, but, as faculty often assert, students are not competent judges of a professor's expertise. However, an instrument which elicited students' nonjudgmental descriptions of their teacher's behavior could add valuable information to an evaluation dialogue with the professor concerned.…

An analysis of higher education collective bargaining agreements reveals that the question of faculty productivity is addressed almost exclusively in terms of workload, with the emphasis on efforts that are quantifiable. These workloads are defined in terms of minimums and maximums. Typically each agreement defines in specific terms what the…

This paper explores issues related to the degree to which weight and emphasis are given in higher education hiring and promotion practices to research versus teaching and service. In particular it examines the special problems posed by research demands in traditionally non-research universities. Noting that one of the most significant…