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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED122674 AUTHOR: Furniss, W. Todd
TITLE: Time for the Houyhnhnms: Personnel Policies and
Government Controls.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 23 p.; Prepared for a Conference on Academic Planning
for the Eighties and Nineties (los Angeles, California
January 23, 1976)
ABSTRACT: As part of a discussion of academic planning for
the future decades, a proposition is offered that there is
little likelihood that any good ideas advanced at the
conference can be adopted, and bad changes will be made,
unless ways are developed for higher education
professionals
to approach each other more effectively. An example is
cited
from personal experience with writing guidelines for
nondiscriminatory testing procedures for employment,
promotion, and other personnel decisions. Difficulties
arising from cooperative efforts among government agencies
and universities are described. The guidelines themselves,
testing procedures, jargon, and backgrounds of individuals
involved are all problem areas. A major problem is each
side
understanding the other's position. Consideration is given
to civil and human rights, contract negotiations, faculty
promotions, reporting requirements, equal pay for equal
work, rigid regulations, grievances, and arbitration. It is
concluded that the proper conduct of colleges and
universities must rest in the hands of those trained and
experienced in the work, not by the untrained in federal
agencies nor by those in colleges whose training and
apprenticeship are not educational. (LBH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Conference-Reports; Educational
Administration; Educational-Planning; Employment
Opportunities; Faculty-Promotion; Federal-Government;
Grievance-Procedures; Personnel-Management;
Personnel-Needs;
Salaries-; Testing-Programs
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action;
*Cooperative-Planning;
*Government-Role; *Higher-Education; *Personnel-Policy
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