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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the risks involved in hiring new faculty is becoming increasingly important. In Managing Risk in High-Stakes Faculty Employment Decisions Julee T. Flood and Terry Leap critically examine the landscape of US institutions of higher learning and the legal and human resource management practices pertinent to college and university faculty members. To help minimize the potential pitfalls in the hiring and promotion processes, Flood and Leap suggest ways that risk management principles can be applied within the unique culture of academia.
Claims of workplace harassment and discrimination, violation of free speech and other First Amendment rights, social movements decrying unequal hiring practices, and the growing number of non-tenure track and adjunct faculty, require those involved in hiring and promotion decisions to be more knowledgeable about contract law, best practices in hiring, and risk management, yet many newly appointed administrators are often not su
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"Managing Risk in High-Stakes Faculty Employment Decisions is a comprehensive work that surveys the pitfalls of employment decisions for faculty. How could it be otherwise? It is only when the system fails that employment ripens into court decisions, and by that time, relationships are irretrievably lost—if these cases are any measure. And they are. The authors have read all the leading cases, and they have useful and nuanced advice for anyone who wants to know about these sad sagas, sad both for the faculty and their colleges. It will be an important resource for a variety of higher education readers." -- Michael Olivas, author of The Law and Higher Education (4th Edition) and Suing Alma Mater
"Flood and Leap have identified an issue that is critically important to the success of institutions of higher education and that has not received the attention it deserves. Every academic administrator could learn a number of useful things from this book." -- Paul F. Clark, Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Penn State: College of the Liberal Arts, author of Building More Effective Unions
"Faculty Employment Decisions is a significant work in the field of higher education law. Julee Flood and Terry Leap accomplish both a synthesis and description of faculty life and discuss how the future of this topic may develop. The authors tackling employment issues is a courageous undertaking; one that is needed." -- Matthew Fuller, Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration, Sam Houston State University
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Establishing a Career in Academia: Faculty Hiring, Evaluation, and Pay
2. Risk, Biases, and Logical Fallacies
3. Faculty Contracts
4. From Contracts to Constitutions: Faculty Free Speech Issues
5. Collegiality: An Enigma
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
