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Personality As A Criterion For Faculty Tenure: The Enemy It Is Us, Perry A. Zirkel
Personality As A Criterion For Faculty Tenure: The Enemy It Is Us, Perry A. Zirkel
Cleveland State Law Review
Faculty tenure has been the subject of continuing concern and controversy in American higher education. Problems in this area, including the lack of definitive standards for evaluating tenure candidates, have been highlighted by the recent downturn in the economy and the resultant decline in both enrollment and employment in colleges and universities. This trend is actively demonstrated by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Mayberry v. Dees. This Article advocates and proposes a more exacting judicial review of faculty tenure cases that are based on collegiality or other such personality criteria. Initially, the operational context of faculty tenure …
Discrimination Against Women In Employment In Higher Education, Alan Miles Ruben, Betty J. Willis
Discrimination Against Women In Employment In Higher Education, Alan Miles Ruben, Betty J. Willis
Cleveland State Law Review
Having been forced to adjust the structure of academic governance and the design of the curriculum responsively to large-scale student protest, it now appears that universities will have to rework their traditional patterns for the appointment, compensation and promotion of faculty and administrative staff to satisfy the demands being made by the women's liberation movement for an end to sexist employment practices.
Probationary Teachers And The Expectancy Of Continued Employment, James T. Flaherty
Probationary Teachers And The Expectancy Of Continued Employment, James T. Flaherty
Cleveland State Law Review
This article will investigate the extent to which the tenure benefits of due process are available to petitioners who can establish an "expectancy of employment." This due process, as to dismissal, includes notice, opportunity for a hearing and reasonable cause.