Discusses Virginia's decision to drop tenure for its community college system. (PG)

Four arguments against tenure: it works against the interests of nontenured faculty; it retards the academic quality of an institution; it inhibits rather than preserves academic freedom; it generates conflict by dividing the faculty. (HS)

Explores the crucial role that tenure and post-tenure review may play in the future of American higher education, looking at recent debates about tenure and experiences of post-tenure review. Contends that tenure can be preserved, with post-tenure review the means of invigorating and renewing the profession. (EV)

RIF (reduction in force) refers to policies used when dismissals of tenured and probationary instructors are necessary because of a change in the size or nature of student population, inadequate finances, discontinuance of instruction areas, or district consolidation. (Author/PG)

A university needs to put to best use the experience, wisdom, and capacities for reflective and integrative thinking that can be found among those older faculty that have been previously forced to retire. Many older academics can do a lot to fill gaps in interdisciplinary and problem-oriented research. (MLW)

Untenured college faculty may not have contracts renewed. (HS)

Results of an American Council on Education survey on tenure practices are reported, including tables of tenure approval rates, tenure status (tenures, tenure track, and nontenure track) and tenure approval by type of institution. Data are divided by general academic field. (MSE)

Arizona State philosophy professor Morris Starsky continues court battles for reinstatement to his position lost in 1970 when the state board of regents terminated his teaching contract following his involvement in various campus political protests. The author traces events before and since the dismissal. (JT)

As enrollment management assumes added importance and admissions officers confront increased pressure from diverse constituencies, the challenge will be to strike a balance that safeguards the professional integrity and economic security of the admissions officer and that protects the institution from incompetence. Four suggestions are offered.…

Suggestions for the young professor are offered--from teaching to socializing to publishing, from classroom performance to locker-room politics, and from proper dress to how to get the most out of a conference. (Author/LBH)

The threat of right-wing repression is not so dangerous as the left-wing totalitarian attacks against freedom on the campus. (Editor/IR)

Women faculty will continue to lag behind males in achieving tenure as long as the ideal academic is defined as someone who takes no time off for childbearing. Suggests that the solution is to redefine the ideal worker in academia by offering proportional pay, benefits, and advancement for part-time work. Presents a model half-time tenure track…

Institutions should make decisions of academic merit on the basis of academic achievement and decisions of employment on the grounds of economic sensibility. A person could "get tenure," but be denied employment for economic reasons. The formalization of a status passage would permit a sensible treatment of talented academic aspirants. (MLW)