Managing Risk in High-Stakes Faculty Employment Decisions
Julee T. Flood and Terry L. Leap
Abstract
Using a risk management framework, the book discusses the landscape of U.S. higher education and faculty employment decisions. Topics include institutional differences, challenges facing colleges and universities, the erosion of academic standards, administrative bloat, changing promotion and tenure standards, sexual harassment, and Title IX concerns about campus safety. Attention is also given to the manner in which faculty members are hired and mentored and the decision-making biases that affect the way in which faculty members are granted promotion and tenure. The social psychological aspec ... More
Using a risk management framework, the book discusses the landscape of U.S. higher education and faculty employment decisions. Topics include institutional differences, challenges facing colleges and universities, the erosion of academic standards, administrative bloat, changing promotion and tenure standards, sexual harassment, and Title IX concerns about campus safety. Attention is also given to the manner in which faculty members are hired and mentored and the decision-making biases that affect the way in which faculty members are granted promotion and tenure. The social psychological aspects of faculty employment decisions have been largely ignored in the literature, and we attempt to shed some light on these issues as we deconstruct promotion and tenure decisions. Traditional legal concepts of contract and employment law are examined as they pertain to hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions along with the cherished, but changing, ideals of free speech, academic freedom, and collegiality that have altered how faculty must deal with the rising tensions of political correctness on campus.
Keywords:
Risk management,
Faculty hiring,
Tenure,
Faculty governance,
Decision biases,
Academic freedom,
Free speech,
Collegiality,
Faculty contracts,
Non-tenure track faculty
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781501728952 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: May 2019 |
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501728952.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Julee T. Flood, author
University of Tennessee
Terry L. Leap, author
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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