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ERIC Number: ED259621
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1985-Mar
Pages: 38
Abstractor: N/A
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Managing Resource Uncertainty through Academic Staffing in Four-Year Colleges and Universities. ASHE 1985 Annual Meeting Paper.
Bagshaw, Marque
The use of college staffing strategies to reduce staffing expenditures, to reallocate staffing resources, or to limit the time commitment of resources to a position is discussed, based on the literature and data from the Project on Reallocation in Higher Education. Control of the decision to create a position or hire replacements for departing faculty is one of the most common ways to control or reduce the number of faculty. The use of part-time faculty is the most prevalent alternative to traditional tenure-track staffing. Findings of the Project on Reallocation survey include: about 57 percent of full-time faculty members are tenured at four-year institutions; almost 30 percent of full-timers are untenured but on tenure tracks; on the average, about 1 in 12 full-time faculty members at tenure-awarding schools are on a non-tenure-track appointment; almost 30 percent of the sample of four-year tenure-awarding schools have established tenure quotas; of 299 colleges awarding tenure, 30 have retrenched at least one tenured faculty member; about 51 percent of schools with tenure systems sytematically review all tenured faculty; and about 50 percent of the schools have either formal or informal early retirement provisions. Data are provided on the number of schools using each staffing practice and the number of faculty members affected. (SW)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Center for the Study of Higher Education.
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