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Leslie, David W. – Review of Higher Education, 1987
The academic common law may soon vanish, not as a result of court action but due to the American Association of University Professors's declining role in defending the common law of academic employment. The profession is challenged to maintain its independence from external control by reconsidering its own common law. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Court Litigation
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Leslie, David W. – Review of Higher Education, 1986
The emergence of a concept identified as "institutional academic freedom" is explained and how it confounds the distinct values and standards traditionally used in analysis of cases involving individual rights in higher education is shown. Problems of maintaining traditional concepts of academic freedom are identified. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Civil Liberties, Confidentiality, Court Litigation
Leslie, David W. – 2002
This paper considers how educators can best arrive at "big, good ideas" for the improvement of higher education and how they can best put them to use where they are needed. Getting big, good ideas probably comes from working on big, good questions. There is a substantial body of research literature about the big questions of education, and it is…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Leslie, David W. – NASPA Journal, 1973
This paper discusses two recent legal actions which begin to explore the limits of student power under the citizenship model. The author suggests that student government needs access to legal and advisory resources, that the university must create active review powers, and that the university should provide pluralization of decision-making…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Court Litigation, Decision Making, Dormitories
Leslie, David W. – AAUP Bulletin, 1973
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Administrators, Departments, Educational Administration
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Leslie, David W. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1973
The study reported on attempted to establish the strength of faculty agreement or disagreement with statements implying that they perceived decisionmaking for selected issues to be legitimate on their respective campuses, and compared these results from campus to campus. The survey uncovered complex patterns that varied with the issue involved,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Governance
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Leslie, David W. – Journal of Higher Education, 1972
Discusses useful methods of conflict management for higher education institutions. (PG)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Policy, Administrative Principles, Educational Administration
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Leslie, David W. – Educational Record, 1972
Analyzes five cases recently before the National Labor Relations Board. (Ed.)
Descriptors: Administrators, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Department Heads
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Leslie, David W. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1989
Employment of part-time, temporary, and non-tenure track faculty can be hazardous to programs, institutions, individuals, and even the character of the academic profession, but in some situations, when carefully applied, it may lead to substantial benefits. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Practices, Higher Education, Institutional Research
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Leslie, David W. – Review of Higher Education, 1994
The "folkehojskoler," innovative Scandinavian secondary schools based on radical humanistic ideas, are examined from both empirical and philosophical perspectives, focusing on three elements: ideology; the student experience; and the teaching culture. Implications for goals, objectives, assumptions, forms, and practices in American…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy
Leslie, David W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1998
Issues concerning the increasing use of part-time and adjunct faculty in higher education that must be addressed include the need for research on faculty work, jobs, and careers, and on the institutional setting for part-time employment; faculty career patterns, incentives and disincentives; role of this group in the academic community; and…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrative Policy, College Administration, College Environment
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Leslie, David W. – American Behavioral Scientist, 1998
Investigates the problems that confront academia and suggests that faculty work has changed so profoundly in recent years that tenure is no longer sufficient and/or necessary. Argues that intellectual freedom and accountability are competing demands that must be met simultaneously. Reviews how tenure exacerbates some current problems. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Employer Employee Relationship
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Leslie, David W. – Journal of Higher Education, 2002
Analysis of data from the 1993 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty showed that faculty value teaching over research. At the same time, the explicit reward structure of academe favors research and publication, rewarding "productivity" in these arenas with money and status. Implications of this disconnect between values and rewards…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Evaluation
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Leslie, David W.; Janson, Natasha – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the graying of America's college and university faculty coincided with new federal regulations that prohibited mandatory retirement. So in order to both encourage faculty retirements and assume better control of when positions would be vacated about half of all U.S. colleges and universities adopted various…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, College Faculty, Incentives
Leslie, David W.; Janson, Natasha; Conley, Valerie Martin – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Those who address questions about phased retirement policies should see them in a larger context of needs for flexibility in the terms of faculty employment. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Retirement, College Faculty, Gender Differences