Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Due Process

Report assessing arguments made in support of recent legislative efforts to regulate classroom instruction.

Recommendations for improving the professional status of the growing number of non-tenure-track faculty; suggests minimum standards designed to protect the professional standing of all faculty.

Recommendations on stabilizing the faculty infrastructure by converting contingent faculty positions to the tenure track.

This book-length report offers general advice on basic faculty intellectual property rights; mechanisms to ensure academic freedom in publishing; handling faculty and administrator conflicts of interest; and grievance procedures for faculty members, academic professionals, and students. An appendix provides language appropriate for inclusion in faculty handbooks and collective bargaining agreements.