Outlines measures that will preserve tenure yet change and improve it. (HS)

A sound faculty promotion and tenure system should consistently define, recognize, and impartially reward excellence for professional contributions. (Editor)

In order to achieve institutional goals for faculty growth without ruining budgets, the author defines several tenure ratios. By choosing the right ratio for a given concern, institutions can establish a system that reflectstheir philosophies. (Editor/PG)

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

It is argued that tenure and promotion decisions for college faculty tenure should be based solely on good teaching and citizenship, not research activity. Foundations and federal agencies would find that important research would continue to be pursued and that faculty who engage in research would be doing so for its own reward. (MSE)

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

As budgets and enrollments shrink in colleges and universities throughout the country, percentages of tenured faculty have been limited to stretch financial resources. An alternative approach for financial flexibility is presented. (Editor/PG)

Examines population data and their implications for higher education, such as steady-state staffing and a rise in continuing education. (Editor/PG)

Systematic post-tenure evaluation, uniformly and universally applied, preserves the strengths of tenure while allaying public suspicions about tenure and concerns about faculty vigor and accountability. Failure to address increasing public concerns will otherwise increase the likelihood of external regulation. (MSE)

A scenario based on actual events describes a situation in which money problems force a university to terminate three tenured professors who immediately file suit. Fiscal exigency is defined as a crisis that threatens the survival of the institution as a whole. (MLW)

Tenure, with its blanket protection, is the price paid for the benefits of encouraging faculty to stray from the comfortable path of orthodoxy and to challenge the rationalizations used to maintain it. The psychological trauma of abolishing tenure would be enormous and disruptive. (MSE)

The role and tasks of college committees charged with planning for the end of mandatory faculty retirement in 1994 are discussed, and a variety of faculty development, tenure, and salary policy options to consider are outlined. (MSE)

The faculty of Curry College in 1974 voted unanimously to replace tenure with a type of term contract. Faculty perceptions of the good and bad aspects of the term contract system are presented. Academic freedom, job security, motivation, promotion criteria, and financial benefits are discussed. (MLW)