Agrees that Martin Michaelson's proposal in "Should Untenured as Well as Tenured Faculty Be Guaranteed Academic Freedom? A Few Observations" deserves study as an alternative to the current system of tenure and might be useful because it affords more scrupulous procedures for personnel judgments about new faculty. Asserts that anything short of…

Focuses on the link between electronic databases and institutes of higher education, particularly the rapid increase of commercial databases. Discusses the issues that digital and electronic resources present to colleges and universities, including the implications of recent Congressional legislation and the Feist case. (EV)

There has been a great increase in cases related to the legality of mandatory fees for student activities in higher education. In general, the validity of such mandatory fees depends on the fees being pooled for allocation to eligible organizations. What remains legally vulnerable is any special activity fee earmarked for a specific organization.…

A chief administrative officer in a public system of higher education offers perspectives on what can be done to support and enhance elementary and secondary instruction. A collaborative model of school-university partnerships was developed by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Public Schools. (MLW)

In response to the question of what role the courts will play in higher education in the next decade, three broad areas of litigation are discussed: allocation of resources, access to the benefits of higher education, and participation in the making of academic decisions. (JT)

A university president urges development of a doctrine of "academic deference" to protect academic freedom and discourages overuse of constitutional litigation in higher education-related disputes. Academic deference is encouraged in censorship of former government employees returning to academe, restrictions on international scholarly…

The Bakke case concerning preferential college admissions and the DeFunis case testing the constitutionality of a minority admissions program are reexamined and contrasted for insights into minority-preference and race-conscious remedy issues. (MSE)

The court decision in Bishop vs. Aronov, that public universities may suppress a professor's classroom comments on his personal religious beliefs, is discussed, focusing on the conflict between a professor's right to express personal religious beliefs and a university's right to take action to limit that expression. (Author/MSE)

A discussion of the relationship between the university attorney and a client identifies a range of persons and offices as potential clients, looks at the attorney's responsibility to fellow university attorneys, the complex and sometimes conflicting expectations of the client, and ethical dilemmas in the attorney's possible responses to the…