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Chronister, Jay L.; Kepple, Thomas R., Jr. – 1988
An incentive early retirement program is an arrangement between employer and employee that provides tangible inducement or reward for voluntary early retirement. It may be a formal program or an ad hoc agreement negotiated with the institution. The most common incentives include severance pay, liberalized actuarial reduction, annuity enhancements,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Early Retirement, Employment Practices, Higher Education
Shulman, Carol Herrnstadt – 1980
Methods for analyzing faculty workload, workload issues related to collective bargaining and new federal reporting requirements, and faculty and institutional perspectives about faculty workload are considered. Workload studies are valuable to state legislators concerned with budgets, enrollment trends, and efficient institutional operations.…
Descriptors: Accountability, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Contracts
Washington, Valora; Harvey, William – 1989
The digest is based on a full length report (with the same title) on African-American and Hispanic faculty at predominantly white, four-year institutions of higher education. The full report provides a definitive review of the literature and institutional practice on the topic. Three topics are discussed: (1) how necessary affirmative action…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Civil Rights, College Faculty
Kintzer, Frederick C. – 1983
Based upon a review of handbooks and manuals from 212 two-year colleges in 39 states, this paper examines directions currently evident in the purpose, content, style and format of these publications and offers recommendations for their improvement. After looking at the characteristics of junior/community college faculty handbooks in the 1960s, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Shulman, Carol Herrnstadt – 1980
Faculty ethics are considered in relation to conflict of interest between academic work and nonacademic consulting jobs, confidentiality of research, the employment of faculty by intelligence agencies, and the need for self-regulation by the academic community. For faculty members who serve as consultants, ethical issues arise concerning the use…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, College Faculty, Confidentiality, Consultants
Baldridge, J. Victor; And Others – 1981
The impact of the unionization of college and university faculty is examined, based on a 1979 survey of 240 nonunionized colleges and all other unionized institutions, and on a review of recent literature on collective bargaining. The survey is a followup of a 1974 survey pertaining to collective bargaining and a 1971 survey concerned with general…
Descriptors: Administrators, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Governing Councils