READINGS ON ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
(Non-AAUP items are for interest reading only–readers should question the sources to determine efficacy)
Topics:
Academic Freedom
Administrative Searches
Administrative Evaluations
Censures and Conduct against Faculty
Evaluations of Faculty Performance
Faculty and the University Budget
Faculty Recruitment and Retention
Faculty Roles in Higher Education
Governance and Climate
Neoliberalism, Corporatization and Politics in Higher Education
Shared Governance
Students and Retention
Universities and Administration
Universities and State or Federal Governments
ACADEMIC FREEDOM:
1) “Faculty Rights and Responsibilities in Distance Learning,” By Donna R. Euben, AAUP Counsel, Issues, (2000)
https://www.aaup.org/faculty-rights-and-responsibilities-distance-learning-2000
2) Statements clarifying AAUP’s policy on Presidential Searches
https://www.aaup.org/article/statements-clarify-aaup-policies
3) Academic Freedom Provisions
https://www.aaup.org/academic-freedom-provisions
4) “Academic Freedom and Professional Speech,” By Donna R. Euben, AAUP Counsel
5) “Academic Freedom and Electronic Communications,” AAUP Report (2013)
https://www.aaup.org/report/academic-freedom-and-electronic-communications-2014
6) “Academic Freedom and the First Amendment,” Presentation to the AAUP Summer Institute
By Rachel Levinson, AAUP Senior Counsel (2007)
https://www.aaup.org/our-work/protecting-academic-freedom/academic-freedom-and-first-amendment-2007
7) “Academic Freedom in Cyberspace: One of the nation’s foremost experts on freedom of expression brings us up to date on the latest cyber-cases,” By Robert O’Neil
https://www.aaup.org/article/academic-freedom-cyberspace
8) “Academic Freedom of Professors and Institutions,” AAUP Report, By Donna R. Euben, AAUP Counsel (2002)
https://www.aaup.org/issues/academic-freedom/professors-and-institutions
ADMINISTRATIVE SEARCHES
*Note: Policies for Presidential searches most often also apply to any administrative search
1) AAUP Statement on Presidential Searches
AAUP_Statement_on_Presidential_Searches_0
2) Confidential Searches for Chief Academic Officers
https://www.aaup.org/article/confidential-searches-chief-academic-officers
3) Input not Wanted (from Inside Higher Ed)
4) Presidential Search Committee Checklist
https://www.aaup.org/issues/governance-colleges-universities/presidential-search
5) EMU Faculty unhappy with Presidential Search Process (Michigan Radio)
http://michiganradio.org/post/emu-faculty-unhappy-universitys-presidential-search-process#stream/0
6) EMU Faculty may abort advisory Roles if Presidential Search kept Secret (MLive)
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/10/emu_faculty_members_may_abort.html
7) Statements clarifying AAUP’s policy on Presidential Searches
https://www.aaup.org/article/statements-clarify-aaup-policies
ADMINISTRATIVE EVALUATIONS
1) Faculty Evaluation of Administrators
https://www.aaup.org/report/faculty-evaluation-administrators
CENSURES AND CONDUCT AGAINST FACULTY
1) Terminations of Tenured Faculty Appointments at SUBR
https://www.aaup.org/article/terminations-tenured-faculty-appointments-subr
2) Academic Freedom and Tenure: LSU Baton Rouge
https://www.aaup.org/report/academic-freedom-and-tenure-louisiana-state-university-baton-rouge
EVALUATION OF FACULTY PERFORMANCE:
1) J. Elizabeth Miller and Peter Seldin, “Changing Practices in Faculty Evaluation,” Academe (May-June 2014).
https://www.aaup.org/article/changing-practices-faculty-evaluation
2) “The Academy as a Public Works Project,” by Thomas Miller, Academe (Nov-Dec 2012)
https://www.aaup.org/article/academy-public-works-project
3) “Managing Faculty Productivity after Tenure,” by Donna R. Euben, AAUP Counsel, & Barbara A. Lee, Legal Issues in Higher Education
https://www.aaup.org/issues/tenure/managing-faculty-productivity-after-tenure-2005
4) “Tenure: Perspectives and Challenges,” By Donna R. Euben, AAUP Counsel, Issues (2002)
https://www.aaup.org/issues/tenure/tenure-perspectives-and-challenges-2002
5) “Numbers Are Not Everything: Stop making so many personnel decisions based on quantitative, rather than qualitative, data,” By Milton W. Cole, Academe (Sept-Oct 2009)
https://www.aaup.org/article/numbers-are-not-everything
FACULTY AND THE UNIVERSITY BUDGET:
1) The Role of the Faculty in Financial Exigency
https://www.aaup.org/file/FinancialExigencyES.pdf
2) “Governance in a Time of Financial Crisis,” By Larry G. Gerber, Academe (Nov-Dec 2009)
https://www.aaup.org/article/editor-governance-time-financial-crisis
FACULTY RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION:
1) Policies, Procedures, and Best Practices for Faculty Recruitment (sample from Indiana State):
Policies, Procedures, and Best Practices for Faculty Recruitment
2) New study on misogyny and gender bias in student evaluations of women faculty:
3) Gardner, Susan K. “Coming out of the Sexual Harassment Closet: One Woman’s Story of Politics and Change in Higher Education.” NWSA Journal 21, no. 2 (2009): 171-95.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20628179
4) Sexism in Academia:
5) Balancing Family and Academic Work, AAUP Issues
https://www.aaup.org/issues/balancing-family-academic-work
6) Civility and Academic Freedom after Salaita, by Moshman and Edler, AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/MoshmanEdler.pdf
7) “How to Diversify the Faculty,” Issues (2006)
https://www.aaup.org/issues/diversity-affirmative-action/diversify-faculty
8) Prevention of Bullying on Campus: Neither collegiality nor congeniality are always present in faculty relations,” By Clara Wajngurt, Academe (May-Jun 2014)
https://www.aaup.org/article/prevention-bullying-campus
9)Prevention of Bullying on Campus: Neither collegiality nor congeniality are always present in faculty relations,” By Clara Wajngurt, Academe (May-Jun 2014)
https://www.aaup.org/article/prevention-bullying-campus
10) Untold Stories and Difficult Truths about Bias in Academia
https://www.aaup.org/article/untold-stories-and-difficult-truths-about-bias-academia
FACULTY ROLES IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
1) Claire Potter, “Why Faculty Advising Matters,” published by Inside Higher Ed
2) Michelle White and Ralph Anttonen, “Reinvigorating Faculty Advising on Your Campus,” The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal
https://dus.psu.edu/mentor/2012/03/reinvigorating-faculty-advising/
3) Kelly Pargett, “The Effects of Academic Advising on College Student Development in Higher Education,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2011)
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1083&context=cehsedaddiss
4) “Crisis in Public Higher Education: Budget Cuts,” by Gwendolyn Bradley, Gregory S. Brown, and Nsé Ufot, Academe (May-Jun 2011)
https://www.aaup.org/article/crisis-public-higher-education
5) “Governance and Faculty Satisfaction: Shared governance may be more important than money in determining faculty satisfaction,” by Joan E. Test and Jef Cornelius-White, Academe (Nov-Dec 2009)
https://www.aaup.org/article/governance-and-faculty-satisfaction
6) “Defending the Freedom to Innovate,” AAUP Report (2013)
7) “Making Faculty Count in Higher Education Assessment: Making accreditation and assessment meaningful while fighting a growing marketplace ideology and increasing federal mandates isn’t easy. But it’s possible,” by Greg Gilbert, Academe (Sep-Oct, 2010)
https://www.aaup.org/article/making-faculty-count-higher-education-assessment
8) “Academic Librarians in the Breach,” Academe (July-Aug 2011)
https://www.aaup.org/article/academic-librarians-breach
9)The Merits of Emeriti: Providing campus community to retired faculty,” By Seth Matthew Fishman, Academe (May-Jun 2010)
https://www.aaup.org/article/accreditation-and-federal-future-higher-education
10) “Communicating through the Press: Writing Press Releases,” AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/communicating-through-media
GOVERNANCE and CLIMATE:
1) Edwards, Richard. “The Academic Department: How Does It Fit into the University Reform Agenda?” Change 31, no. 5 (1999): 16-27.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40165543
2) “Faculty Governance in the New University,” by Leslie Bary, Academe (Sept-Oct 2013)
https://www.aaup.org/article/faculty-governance-new-university
3) “Some Legal Aspects of Collegial Governance,” by Donna R. Euben, AAUP Counsel (2003)
https://www.aaup.org/issues/governance-colleges-universities/legal-aspects
4) “The Last Colony of Shared Governance,” Academe (May-Jun 2016)
https://www.aaup.org/article/last-colony-shared-governance
5) “Governance Beyond the Campus” By James T. Richardson, Academe (Nov-Dec 2009)
https://www.aaup.org/article/governance-beyond-campus
6) “Making a Tangible Difference in Campus Culture in One Year,” By Simeon Dreyfuss, Academe (Sept-Oct 2014)
https://www.aaup.org/article/making-tangible-difference-campus-culture-one-year
7) “Reaffirming the Principles of Academic Government: The core principles of governance set forth by the AAUP fifty years ago will likely be more important than ever in the decades to come,” by Michael DeCesare, Academe (Jan-Feb 2017)
https://www.aaup.org/article/reaffirming-principles-academic-government
8) How to Diversity the Faculty
https://www.aaup.org/issues/diversity-affirmative-action/diversify-faculty
NEOLIBERALISM, CORPORATIZATION AND POLITICS IN EDUCATION:
1) University, Inc.: 10 Things You Should Know About Corporate Corruption on Campus
2) Corruption of Ethics in Higher Education:
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20110204221811660
3) “Academic Freedom and the Corporate University,” Academe (Jan.-Feb. 2011)
https://www.aaup.org/article/academic-freedom-and-corporate-university
4) “Shaping the Humanities through Sustainable Service” by Kirsten Christensen, Academe (Nov-Dec 2012)
https://www.aaup.org/article/shaping-humanities-through-sustainable-service
5) “Why STEM Students need Gender Studies,” by Carol Colatrella, Academe (May-Jun 2014)
https://www.aaup.org/article/why-stem-students-need-gender-studies
6) “Academia under Siege,” As published in the Independent Online, March 31, 2004
7) “The Resurgent Interest in Performance-Based Funding for Higher Education,” by By Michael K. McLendon and James C. Hearn, Academe (Nov-Dec 2013)
https://www.aaup.org/article/resurgent-interest-performance-based-funding-higher-education
8) “Civility, Academic Freedom, and the Neoliberal University,” by Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Academe (May-Jun 2016)
https://www.aaup.org/article/civility-academic-freedom-and-neoliberal-university
9) “The High Price of For Profit Colleges,” by Barry Yeoman, Academe (May-Jun, 2011)
https://www.aaup.org/article/high-price-profit-colleges
10) “Universities: The Major Battleground in the Fight for Reason and and Capitalism,” by Gary Jones, Academe (Jul-Aug 2010)
https://www.aaup.org/article/universities-major-battleground-fight-reason-and-capitalism
SHARED GOVERNANCE:
1) Reaffirming the Principles of Academic Freedom
https://www.aaup.org/article/reaffirming-principles-academic-government
STUDENTS AND RETENTION:
1) Laura Perna, “Understanding the Working College Student,” Academe (Jul-Aug 2010)
https://www.aaup.org/article/understanding-working-college-student
2) “Keep Proffessors’ Freedoms Intact,” as published in the Buchtelite Reporter
https://www.aaup.org/keep-professors-freedoms-intact
UNIVERSITIES AND ADMINISTRATION:
1) Bedeian, Arthur G. “The Dean’s Disease: How the Darker Side of Power Manifests Itself in the Office of Dean.” Academy of Management Learning & Education 1, no. 2 (2002): 164-73.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40214149
2) Administrators Ate my Tuition:
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septoct-2011/administrators-ate-my-tuition/
3) Profiles in Corruption: Farshad Fotouhi, Wayne State University’s Worst Dean Ever
4) Where Corruption among University Leaders is Rife
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20160906185222581
5) “The Faculty and the Fourth Estate: If faculty want to be heard on the major issues facing higher education, they might start by improving their relationship with the press,” By Scott Jaschik, Academe (Sept-Oct 2010)
https://www.aaup.org/article/faculty-and-fourth-estate
6) “Confidential Searches for Chief Academic Officers,” By Michael Theune and Hans-Joerg Tiede, Academe (Nov-Dec 2014)
https://www.aaup.org/article/confidential-searches-chief-academic-officers
UNIVERSITIES AND STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS:
1) Responding to Legislative Interference in University Governance
https://www.aaup.org/article/responding-legislative-interference-university-governance
2) The Academic Bill of Rights coming to your Campus, AAUP Report
3) Accreditation and the Federal Future of Higher Education, by Judith S. Eaton, Academe (Sept-Oct 2010)
https://www.aaup.org/article/accreditation-and-federal-future-higher-education