TENURE STANDARDS WITHIN STATEWIDE SYSTEMS OF HIGHER-EDUCATION - THE COLLECTIVE-BARGAINING MILIEU

The focus of this article is to compare collective bargaining agreemen t tenure award requirements with the tenure award guidelines of the Am erican Association of University Professors (AAUP). Most criticism of tenure practices are based on the interpretations of the AAUP's 1940 S tatement of Academic : Freedom and Tenure. An examination of literatur e in the higher education tenure arena finds a divergence of standards regarding the award of tenure. This article compares eleven collectiv e bargaining agreements to ten guidelines proposed by the AAUP with an additional variable, reference to AAUP standards, being included beca use of allusion by AAUP that many institutions reference their policie s without actually adhering to them. Results of the survey show a plur ality of such agreements use four of die guidelines, with a simple maj ority of institutions utilizing at least six.