Discusses Recommendation No. 20 of the report of the Commission on Academic Tenure headed by W. Rea Keast and John Macy. It recommends establishing ratios for tenured and nontenured faculty. (TO)

This is a folow-up report on developments in long-range faculty personnel planning since the publication of "Steady-State Staffing in Tenure-Granting Institutions and Related Papers," covering the period from March through December 1973. Following references to newly available data, the paper deals first with work done at SUNY-Buffalo, Stanford,…

Influences that current events in higher education may have on faculty ranks. (Editor)

The theme of these papers is the development of a college or university personnel policy suitable for a time of little or no expansion in student or faculty number and also a time when stability follows a period of rapid growth coupled with considerable change in faculty expectations and governance patterns. The papers deal almost exclusively with…

Probes tenure, tenure guarantees, union protests, affirmative action, early retirement, ideal steady-state faculty mix, and their implications for higher education. (PG)

This survey of faculty tenure and contract systems was conducted during August 1974 as a followup to an earlier Higher Education Panel survey of institutional policies and practices affecting faculty employment. A survey questionnaire mailed to the entire membership of the Higher Education Panel (644 institutions) received a 91 percent response…

From a survey designed to determine the current practices involved in faculty tenure and contract systems at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., it is estimated that 94.7% of faculty members work in institutions that have tenure systems. It is further determined that personnel practices in most institutions with tenure systems are…

Emphasizing the necessity of developing a job security system acceptable to employees, the institution, unions, government agencies, and the courts, the author suggests that the place to start is with a review of grievance procedures and of provisions for layoffs of tenured and mid-contract faculty. (JT)

Faculty members of America's universities and colleges, it is suggested, are finding the real world of academic life increasingly out of tune with the careers they prepared for. Seven faculty members are profiled whose careers illustrate difficulties academics may face at several stages of their lives. (MLW)

In the view of the ACE Commission on Academic Affairs, the recently adopted revision of Regulation 4 ("Termination of Appointments") of the AAUP do not provide reliable guidance regarding (1) the definition of financial exigency, (2) rule-setting for institutional behavior, and (3) other provisions included in the regulation that could…