Hot Issues

Often highly contested and heated debates arise about applying new technology in the classroom, organizing faculty, academic freedom, tenure, protecting intellectual property rights, distance education, and funding for higher education. Here are several articles and resources on the issues affecting higher education faculty and staff.

• Research Center Update on Tenure, June 2001
• Public Higher Ed: Battleground in the Tenure Wars
• Tenure: Why Faculty, and the Nation, Need It
• The Corrosion of Tenure: A Bibliography
• The Truth About Tenure in Higher Education
• Research Center Update on Tenure, September 1995
• Faculty Tenure: Myth and Reality
• Faculty Perspectives on Peer Review
• Perceptions of Life on the Tenure Track
• Critics of College Teaching
• NEA's Tenure Policy
• Percent of Faculty Tenured Table

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• NEA's Future of Higher Education CD-ROM
• Course Web site templates
• Higher Education on the Web
• Technology and the Changing Campus Workforce
• Center for Advancement of Learning - Learning Strategies Database
• The Technology Source
• Richard Sclove: The Democratic Uses of Technology
• How To Tell If You Really Need The Latest Technology
• Selling Academe to the Technology Industry
• The Paradox of Technology: What's Gained and Lost?
• Technology: Higher Education's Magic Bullet
• Technology: Will it Replace Us?
• Higher Education Act Reauthorization Recommendations
• Online Teaching and Learning Resources
• Information Technology: A Road to the Future
• Going the Distance: State Legislative Leaders Talk About Higher Education and Technology
• The Politics of Remedy: State Legislative Views on Higher Education
• Technology and Higher Education
• Intellectual Property Resources
• Fair Use, Liabilities and Electronic Toll Booths

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