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Conference paper. ?Our study examines the strategies & practices that assist junior faculty in the promotion & tenure process. Specifically, we address faculty members' views regarding what it takes to succeed in academia, & whether these views vary by rank, gender, & race. Our data come from 40 in-depth interviews with assistant, associate, & full professors all of whom work in universities in the Southeast. Our findings address the dilemmas of mentoring, how race & gender affect relations between junior & senior faculty, particularly effective strategies &/or policies for helping junior faculty succeed, & the meaning of being a faculty member to junior & senior faculty. Our conclusions point to actions a university/college can take to help junior faculty 'succeed' at achieving tenure & promotion at their institutions.?--Sociological Abstracts abstract

A series of reports assess the current and potential legal issues surrounding college athletics, affirmative action, student affairs, tenure, freedom and regulation of speech, disabilities, academic research, and trustees.--ERIC abstract

Describing economic and professional marginalization of adjunct faculty and reluctance of tenured colleagues and administrators to work for change, calls for institutional caps on percentage of courses taught by adjuncts, a pay rate closer to 75 percent of tenured salary rather than the current 25 percent, and time limits on adjuncts teaching full loads.--ERIC abstract

What do academic novels tell us about academic freedom and tenure? What messages do these novels convey to the broad public? This article attempts to answer these questions by analyzing academic novels that have been written over the last century, paying particular attention to novels written in the last twenty-five years in order to assess current portrayals of academic life. It begins with a brief discussion about how the author defines and studies the academic novel and then analyzes how academic freedom and tenure have been portrayed.--from ERIC abstract

Discusses issues including qualifications, academic freedom, professional rank, research roles, duration of non-tenure appointments, and general promotion at the University of Washington.

Provides a summary of family-friendly policies at the University of Wisconsin, In addition to FMLA and state policy, related to family care.

This study investigated beliefs held by faculty and administrators that influenced the first-year implementation of post-tenure review and the factors that influenced those beliefs. The goal of this study was to identify patterns of beliefs and their influences across four campuses within one state system.--ERIC abstract

...Succeed with caution: rethinking academic culture at RPI, PSU, and CSU / Donald W. Bray and Marjorie Woodford Bray -- Resisting corporatization of the university / Richard Daniels, with Lisa Blasch and Peter Caster -- The myth of the liberal campus / Michael Parenti -- ... -- Faculty workers: tenure on the corporate assembly line / Sonya Huber -- Professors going pro: the commercialization of teaching, research, and service / Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie -- Give me an $: moonlighting in the company boardroom / Kevin Kniffin -- ... -- Penn and Inc.: incorporating the University of Pennsylvania / Matthew Ruben -- Wiring the world: Ameritech's monopoly on the virtual classroom / Todd A. Price -- ... -- Take back the university: only unions can save academic life / Henry Steck and Michael Zweig -- Perils of the knowledge industry: how a faculty union blocked an unfriendly takeover / Jeff Lustig -- ... -- Keep your room clean: how to uncover corporate and military influence on your campus / John Peck -- Pocket change or social change? University investment responsibility and activism / Seth Newton -- Take the pledge: a promise of social and environmental responsibility / Neil J. Wollman -- Afterword. Business school: an interview with Noam Chomsky / Geoffry D. White.-- from WorldCat description

Two graduate teaching assistants, veterans of the Yale (Connecticut) "grade strike," discuss the importance of graduate students to the academic enterprise and how "the casualization of academic labor" impacts on higher learning in general and faculty in particular. They urge faculty to join with graduate assistants to check this trend and support unionization in the interest of the profession.--ERIC abstract