Characteristics of and concerns about employment of part-time college faculty are outlined, including increasing use of part-time teachers, tenure, employment security, part-time faculty role in governance, and compensation and fringe benefits. AAUP policy proposals are made reflecting concern about exploitation of part-time faculty and…

The judicial interpretations of age as a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ) under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 are examined. The applications, extension, and results of these interpretations, and alternate approaches to BFOQ analysis in age discrimination cases are discussed. (BH)

Increases in the past 20 years in federal financing and federal controls are reviewed. It is suggested that the present troubles in higher education are traceable to the fact that other goals have slipped ahead of educational goals in the priorities of management. Social justice and equal opportunity have replaced learning as goals. (LBH)

Examines a range of support strategies, chosen according to affordability, that community colleges can use to integrate and retain adjunct faculty, including (1) teaching and administrative services; (2) fair hiring and employment policies; and (3) improved communication, participation, and morale. (18 citations) (YKH)

Content analysis of the collective bargaining agreements of 183 higher education institutions/systems found extensive managerial discretion and limited professional constraints regarding the use of part-time faculty, in appointment/release workforce actions such as retrenchment, and the ratio of part-time to full-time faculty. (Author/MSE)

Discusses the growing sense of grievance among younger working-class and middle-class White males most affected by affirmative action preferences. Suggests that measures intended to ensure equal opportunity and proportional representation for minority groups may be contributing to racial polarization on college campuses, in workplaces, and in…

Examines the legitimacy of concern with the disproportionate distribution of false negatives and positives in job screening through imperfectly predictive tests. Argues that false negatives should pose problems for meritocrats concerned with individual over group rights, and that result-oriented quotas must be differentiated from screening with…

Examines wage-setting policies as different conceptualizations of fairness. Focuses on comparable worth as an alternative to existing wage-setting policies. Analyzes the contributions of social psychology research on distributive justice and procedural justice to understanding the determination of job worth and the dynamics of implementing…

Integrates the major conclusions of the papers on comparable worth in this special issue, and identifies additional relevant issues. Covers the following major topics: (1) history and conceptual issues; (2) social psychological aspects to pay equity; (3) job evaluation issues and applications; and (4) policy implementation and implications. (JS)

Looks at the function and status of women faculty at colleges and universities in the United States. Focuses on how the adjunct faculty position when used as an economizing strategy by administrators places women in permanent disadvantaged and dead-end positions. Reviews adjunct faculty organizational efforts to make demands for pay equity and…

Discusses the information on academic library practices provided in student employment manuals. Highlights include the mission statement, expectations of employment, enrollment and eligibility requirements, employment eligibility verification, application form, the hiring process, program policies, release of employment verification information;…

This article argues that female African American faculty members need to develop alliances with white administrators to transform policies and practices to assist them in becoming successful and productive professors at predominantly white research universities. Strategies for white administrators and powerful white faculty and African American…

Maintains that affirmative action hiring policies play a key and unstudied role in adult lives. Reports on a study of 115 full-time faculty at a state university and a community college. Finds that faculty members' moral reasoning complexity played a significant role in solving an affirmative action issue. (CFR)

States and individual school districts are taking action to avoid hiring people with criminal records by requiring background checks for school employees. Advocates of more stringent measures propose more consistency and cooperation among states and a database of any indictments and convictions for child-abuse crimes. (MLF)

Introduces controversial issue of subgroup norming, in which normative reference data are based on subgroups of population rather than on total group, in employment testing and briefly highlights two articles that address this issue. Controversy over subgroup norming has increased with passage of Civil Rights Act of 1991, which bans any form of…