Data on current retrenchment policies and practices of doctorate-granting institutions are reported and analyzed, including information on the existence of a retrenchment policy, retrenchment between 1974-75 and 1977-78, the retrenchment process, and the impact of retrenchment on affirmative action and employment rights and benefits. (MLW)

Data on current retrenchment policies and practices of two-year colleges and institutes are reported and analyzed, including information on the existence of a retrenchment policy, retrenchment between 1974-75 and 1977-78, the retrenchment process, and the impact of retrenchment on affirmative action and employment rights and benefits. (MLW)

This article enumerates the implications of the Bakke case for the American educational system and presents alternatives that include the development of an educational system beginning in kindergarten that prepares minority students for professional schools. (JMF)

The Bakke case is viewed as simply another reflection of elitist criteria which limit the success of minority groups in our society. The arguments brought forth by Bakke's lawyers are shown to support this position. (GC)

Analyzes the way the Supreme Court decision in the Bakke case dealt delicately with the meanings of a number of key words, including "quota,""stigma,""equality," and "discrimination." (GT)

The regulatory programs of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs have been improved by close cooperation with other federal organizations and private groups or agencies interested in training, employment, and equal opportunity. (RLV)

Suggests that organizations, instead of forcing women into the common mold, ought to institute policies recognizing that each person contributes uniqueness that can enhance the corporation. (Author/JM)

Major labor cases decided during 1976 did not project a clear or simple path for further Constitutional and statutory interpretation, but the year's labor decisions did reveal a new willingness on the part of the U.S. Supreme Court to depart from earlier views of Constitutional law. (JT)

Analysis of data for 1969 and 1973 show that employment patterns of black college faculty members have been significantly changed, mostly through affirmative action programs, and that black male faculty, for the periods analyzed, received more job offers and higher salaries than comparable white faculty. (MF)

The right to know is considered as an integral part of the system of freedom of expression, embodied in the first amendment and entitled to support by legislation or other affirmative government action. It is examined here in terms of direct government interference, regulation by affirmative action, and making information available from government…

Reviews actions by government agencies, courts and private agencies, having to do with racial and sexual discrimination in education, school integration, discrimination in teacher salaries, affirmative action to increase the number of professional women in environmental health, engineering and science. Also reviews publications in these areas. (JM)

The community college and the business and industrial community should be aware of the counter forces in society which limit women, and should assist and support women as they develop their potential, if for no other reason than because it is good management practice. (TA)

Two kinds of affirmative action in the recruitment and selection of college faculty are distinguished and discussed: procedural (ensuring judgment of applicants without consideration of race, religion, or national origin) and preferential (characterized by attention to the same criteria that procedural affirmative action eschews). Argues that…

Affirmative action in college faculty recruitment and selection is discussed, distinguishing between procedural and preferential affirmative action. Negative effects of preferential affirmative action on students, faculty, and the institution are examined. Other issues explored include democratic values, bias in the search process, and the…

Argues that if higher education is to get rid of affirmative action, it should first discontinue special admission of less qualified candidates who are admitted because they are athletes, alumni children, or the children of friends of administrators. Reports on a survey of 52 black college students concerning effects of affirmative action. (MSE)