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Chuku-Ashiegbu, Princess Adaeze – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2023
This study investigated Nigeria's private university lecturers' welfare and their legal rights. The study adopted a doctrinal approach which enabled a proper examination of the extant laws applicable to a lecturer as an employee and the reviewed laws included: the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as Amended), Labour Act Cap…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, College Faculty, Civil Rights
Mercer, Mark – Academic Questions, 2021
What should university discipline be used to do and what should it not be used to do? In this article, the author argues that the only proper goal a university could have in seeking to discipline a professor is to put an end to that professor's bad behavior--and only after informal means have failed. He also argues that penalties should be applied…
Descriptors: Universities, College Faculty, Teacher Discipline, Teacher Behavior
Johnson, Louise – Australian Universities' Review, 2022
After 40 years as a hardworking and productive academic, here I was on a Zoom call fronting two senior colleagues telling me I no longer appeared on the new 'organisational chart'. In short, I was being made redundant. It was no surprise really, as another 40,000 professional and academic staff were to suffer the same fate. And really by then I…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Educational Practices
Ranschaert, Rachel – Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
Recently, numerous news stories have detailed the ways teachers across the country have been disciplined for addressing issues of oppression and justice in their schools. This paper engages poststructural discourse analysis to consider data from a year-long study of recent graduates of a justice-oriented teacher education program during their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Orientation
American Association of University Professors, 2019
This report concerns actions taken in spring 2018 by the administration of Nunez Community College to terminate the services of Professor Richard Schmitt following his twenty-second year on the faculty. These actions were taken in apparent violation of his academic freedom and without affordance of the protections of academic due process to which…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, Community Colleges, College Faculty
Eaton, Sarah Elaine – Online Submission, 2020
Purpose: The goal of this report is to provide substance for an evidence-informed discussion about the intersection of precarious academic employment and the contract cheating industry. Methods: This is a qualitative report informed by the extant literature. It synthesizes available source material relating to academic staff who also supply…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Cheating
Andrason, Alexander – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
The present article is dedicated to the hyper-hierarchization of small-scale organizational spaces (and the most immediate ones for most academics)--university departments. By using the anarchist critique of hierarchies to deconstruct the architecture of an undisclosed department located at one of the South African universities, the author…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Universities, Power Structure, Institutional Characteristics
Tutkal, Serhat – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
In January 2016, 2212 academics have signed a petition to criticise human rights violations in Kurdish cities, and faced grave consequences as a result. By presenting the experiences of six dismissed signatory academics, this article aims to show the effects of authoritarian neoliberal policies on higher education institutions. After demonstrating…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights
Tiede, Hans-Joerg – American Association of University Professors, 2020
A central goal of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to protect academic freedom, tenure, and due process by assisting faculty governance bodies and AAUP chapters in their efforts to incorporate AAUP-recommended policies in faculty handbooks and collective bargaining agreements. This report provides a statistical analysis…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Compliance (Legal)
American Association of University Professors, 2023
This report concerns the action taken on September 15, 2022, by the administration of Emporia State University to terminate the appointments of thirty tenured and tenure-track faculty members under a temporary "COVID-related workforce management policy" adopted by the Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) in January 2021. The investigating…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, State Universities, College Faculty
American Association of University Professors, 2023
This report addresses the actions taken in September 2021 by the administration of Indiana University Northwest that led to the dismissal and revocation of tenure of Dr. Mark McPhail. The investigating committee found that IUN violated several AAUP-recommended standards of academic due process and the protection of intramural speech in the…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, College Faculty, Teacher Dismissal
American Association of University Professors, 2023
This report concerns the nonrenewal of the part-time appointment of Professor Erika López Prater at Hamline University after a student complained of having been offended by Professor López Prater's presentation of two images of the Prophet Muhammad during an online session of her art history class. The report also examines related matters…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty
Aydin, Hasan; Avincan, Köksal – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2023
Democratisation in Turkey collapsed in the wake of the 2016 failed military coup and the crackdown that followed, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launching a widespread rollback of academic and other liberties, systematically purging civic institutions of political opponents and critics that significantly harmed intellectuals, students, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Access to Education, Conflict
Paape, Johnathon E.; Miller, Michael T.; Grover, Kenda S.; Morris, Adam A. – Community College Enterprise, 2021
Community colleges have a history of being capable of adapting to change, and the current world of competing budget priorities, fast-changing technology, and postsecondary competition challenges these colleges as never before. The result is a need for strong leadership across all levels of administration, especially at the department chair level…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Department Heads, Training, College Faculty
Aktas, Vezir; Nilsson, Marco; Borell, Klas; Persson, Roland S. – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
In wide-ranging attacks on academic freedom in Turkey in recent years, thousands of academics have lost their university positions. At the end of 2016 oppositional academics, many of whom were dismissed from their positions for having signed a peace petition, established a Street Academy as an alternative way to reach out to both students and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Freedom, Nontraditional Education, Higher Education