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ERIC Number: EJ271872
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982
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Academic Tenure and Retrenchment: The U.S. Experience.
Caston, Geoffrey
Oxford Review of Education, v8 n3 p299-307 1982
Traces the history of tenure plans in U.S. universities since the late 1800s and the response of university faculties to retrenchment efforts. Legal decisions concerning the university's rights to dismiss tenured professors because of funding cutbacks are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational History, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education, Job Layoff, Retrenchment, Tenure
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United States