Flexibility in Academic Staffing [microform] / Kenneth Mortimer and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5481951
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Mortimer, Kenneth
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED284523
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- Washington, DC : ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, 1986
- 3 p.
- Series:
- ERIC Digest.
- Summary:
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Faced with scarce resources and environmental uncertainty in the past decade, colleges and universities have experimented with different modes of academic staffing, most of which are attempts to preserve or create more flexible policies and practices. In spite of tenure systems in operation at 94% of all four year colleges, institutions have at least four major opportunities to reduce expenditures or to reallocate personnel: (1) position control (the decision to create a position or hire replacements); (2) the decision about the type of appointment to be made; (3) the decision to reduce the rate at which tenure-track faculty receive tenure; and (4) the decision to increase the number of tenured faculty leaving the institution (including post-tenure review). The effectiveness of these four reallocation strategies must be evaluated in terms of the content and impact of budget cuts, the strengths and weaknesses of various devices for reduction and reallocation, and consultation processes. Institutions can become more flexible by adopting in the aggregate of all these practices and policies and matching them with a 3- to 5-year perspective. (LB)
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- Availability: ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, George Washington University, One Dupont Circle, Suite 630, Washington, DC 20036 (free with stamped, self-addressed envelope).
- Sponsoring Agency: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Contract Number: 400-86-0017.
- ERIC Note: This digest is a summary of "Flexibility in Academic Staffing: Effective Policies and Practices" (ED 260 675).
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