List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Review of Resources; Brief History of the Rise of Tenure in Higher Education; Examples of Tenure-Related Cases in Higher Education; Summary; References; Chapter 2 History of Tenure and Academic Freedom in the USA; Development of the European Higher Education System and Its Influence on American Higher Education; The Rise of Higher Education in the USA; Higher Education in the Colonial Period; Terms of Faculty Employment; The Rise of the Concept of Tenure in American Universities; The German Influence

The Involvement of the Federal Government and the Rise of TenureBackground of the Morrill Act of 1862 and Federal Involvement in Education; The Rise of the Concept of Tenure in American Universities; The Formation of the American Association of University Professors and a Definition of Tenure; The Growth of Tenure as a Faculty Incentive Amid First Amendment Pressures; Summary; References; Chapter 3 Tenure-Related Issues in the Lower Courts: Decisions and Ramifications; Criticisms of Tenure; Tenure and the First Amendment; First Amendment and Faculty Rights; Tenure and the Fourteenth Amendment