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Research Products and Publications
"Your Faculty, Reluctantly." Trower, C.
(2000, July/August). Trusteeship, 8 (4).
"Build It and
Who Will Come?" by Chait and Trower, Change, September/October
1998, Volume 30, Number 5.
Reprinted with permission from the publisher.
"Alleviating the Torture of the Tenure Track."
Trower, C. (1999, Spring). The Department Chair: A Newsletter for Academic
Administrators, 9 (4).
Reprinted with permission from the publisher.
"The Trouble with
Tenure." Trower, C. (1999, Winter). National Forum: The Phi Kappa
Phi Journal, 79 (1).
Reprinted with permission from the publisher.
Teaching Case Studies
Faculty
Appointment Policy Archive CD-ROM
Working Paper Series
As part of our first research project sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts called New
Pathways: Faculty Careers and Employment for the 21st Century, we worked with
the American Association for Higher Education to produce a series of papers on various
aspects of faculty employment. Those papers are described below.
New Pathways Series Package
The complete set of 14 Working Papers detailed below. Order the package and save more than
$50 over the price of purchasing each paper individually. (#FR00WP)
Making a Place for the New American Scholar
By R. Eugene Rice, scholar-in-residence and director, Forum on Faculty Roles
& Rewards, AAHE
Presents a richly textured vision of the role of the scholar in a rapidly changing,
democratic America. Frames key questions to be addressed in rethinking and restructuring
faculty careers. (#FR01WP, 48 pp., March 1996)
Tenure Snapshot
By Cathy A. Trower, senior researcher, Harvard University, Graduate School of
Education
Outlines current areas of concern, ongoing initiatives, and national trends related to
academic tenure. Based on a November 1995 AAHE survey distributed to 1,200 four-year
colleges and university provosts, with the intention of building an archive of information
on current tenure policies, practices, and trends. (#FR02WP, 32 pp., March 1996)
Where Tenure Does Not Reign: Colleges With Contract Systems
By Richard Chait, professor, and Cathy A. Trower, senior researcher,
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Presents the experiences of campuses without tenure and campuses where faculty may choose
tenure or contracts. Issues covered include academic freedom, faculty recruitment,
selectivity, turnover, and reward structures. Answers the question, "What lessons can
be learned from campuses with contract systems?" (#FR03WP, 34 pp., March 1997)
New Yardsticks to Measure Financial Distress
By Kent John Chabotar, vice president, business and finance, Bowdoin College;
and James P. Honan, lecturer, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Offers suggestions for new criteria and yardsticks to gauge a college’s financial
condition, and identifies means to equitably balance employment security for faculty with
programmatic flexibility for institutions. (#FR04WP, 38 pp., August 1996)
Academic Freedom Without Tenure?
By J. Peter Byrne, professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Conceptualizes one or more procedures where academic freedom could be uncoupled from
academic tenure—where some other means are offered to ensure the professoriate the
unfettered opportunity to teach and conduct research—and explores the tradeoffs
involved in doing so. (#FR05WP, 25 pp., January 1997)
Two Faculties or One? The Conundrum of Part-Timers in a Bifurcated Workforce
By Judith M. Gappa, vice president for human relations, Purdue University; and David
W. Leslie, professor of education, College of William and Mary
Describes the dual labor market in academe, based on the author’s book The
Invisible Faculty, data from the 1993 NCES Survey, and other sources. Focuses on the
effect of the dual labor market on tenured and tenure-track faculty, part-time and
temporary faculty, and institutions. Explores possible changes that would transform the
dual labor market into a more flexible and integrated employment system. (#FR06WP, 36 pp.,
May 1997)
Heeding New Voices
By R. Eugene Rice, scholar-in-residence and director, Forum on Faculty Roles
& Rewards, AAHE; and Ann Austin, associate professor of educational
administration, Michigan State University
Reports on structured interviews conducted with new faculty and graduate students who will
be the professoriate of the future. Considers what changes need to be made in the faculty
career to make it more enticing, self-renewing, and resilient for the individual and to
provide greater flexibility for institutions. (FR07WP, approximately 48 pp., Coming in
1999)
Work, Family, and the Faculty Career
By Judith M. Gappa, vice president for human relations, Purdue University; and Shelley
M. MacDermid, associate professor and director, Center for Families, Purdue University
Examines the conflicts faculty face as they try to balance personal and professional lives
throughout their careers; considers actions universities can take to help. Includes an
overview of institutional leadership initiatives, policies, strategies, programs, and
practices aimed at reducing the stress these conflicts cause and enhancing the performance
and satisfaction of faculty. (#FR08WP, 40 pp., August 1997)
Ideas in Incubation: Three Possible Modifications to Traditional Tenure Policies
By Richard Chait, professor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Examines tenure by objectives (a reconfiguration of the probationary period), post-tenure
reviews that focus more on departments than on individual faculty performance, and
codification of academic freedom without tenure (including a draft policy by Martin
Michaelson for discussion). (#FR09WP, 44 pp., August 1998)
Off the Tenure Track: Six Models for Full-Time, Nontenurable Appointments
By Judith M. Gappa, vice president for human relations
Explores nontraditional, full-time faculty appointments that are being used as
alternatives to traditional tenure-track faculty careers, and the academic and other
reasons underlying their increasing use. (#FR10WP, 44 pp., December 1996)
Senior Faculty Considering Retirement: A Developmental & Policy Issue
By Ann Ferran, vice president for academic affairs and professor of education,
Radford University
Examines what influences senior faculty in making decisions about the timing or
retirement. Focuses on the interaction between individual development and planning and
institutional policies and planning. (#FR11WP, 38 pp., March 1998)
Post-Tenure Review: Policies, Practices, and Precautions
By Christine M. Licata, associate dean for academic affairs, Rochester
Institute of Technology; and Joseph C. Morreale, vice provost for planning,
assessment, and research and professor of public administration, Pace University
Reviews current institutional policies and practices aimed at periodically evaluating
tenured faculty. Topics examined include campus goals for post-tenure review; specific
evaluation criteria/procedures; implementation considerations and resource implications.
Discusses the opportunities and difficulties associated with the initiation of such
reviews, and how institutions handle measurement of outcomes and effectiveness. (#FR12WP,
90 pp., March 1997)
Employment Practices in the Professions: Fresh Ideas From Inside and Outside the
Academy
By Cathy A. Trower, senior researcher, Harvard University, Graduate School of
Education
Explores employment arrangements in other professions such as law, medicine, and
management and in think-tanks, to ascertain whether policies and practices in these
settings have applicability and hold promise for higher education. (#FR13WP, 72 pp.,
September 1998)
Alternatives to Tenure for the Next Generation of Academics
By David W. Breneman, professor and dean of education, University of Virginia
Helps answer the question, "What, if anything, would induce individual faculty to
renounce tenure?" Develops approaches that could be used to understand the financial
value that faculty assign to tenure and the relative appeal of various inducements to
forego tenure. (#FR14WP, 24 pp., April 1997)
Papers cost $8.50 each for members or $120.00 for the complete package. For
non-members, papers cost $10.00 each or $140.00 for the package.
To order the series or any paper(s), contact:
AAHE Publication Orders, Box WP13, One Dupont Circle, Suite 360, Washington, DC
20036-1110, fax 202/293-0073, or call 202/293-6440 x11.
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