Campus grievance procedures, now mandated for most institutions by the Title IX regulations, ordinarily include informal measures to resolve a grievance, provision for a formal written complaint for the grievant, a grievance committee with a number of roles, a hearing committee for cases involving major policy issues and major sanctions, and a set…

Litigants in actions involving faculty members in higher education often cite AAUP policies to support their cases. Institutions are urged to examine and, where necessary, to clarify relationships between AAUP policy documents and the institutions' own policies. (Author/LBH)

As part of a discussion of academic planning for the future decades, a proposition is offered that there is little likelihood that any good ideas advanced at the conference can be adopted, and bad changes will be made, unless ways are developed for higher education professionals to approach each other more effectively. An example is cited from…