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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 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, and author of <I>Building More Effective Unions</I> 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 <I>The Law and Higher Education</I> (4th Edition) and<I> Suing Alma Mater</I>

""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 <I>The Law and Higher Education</I> (4th Edition) and<I> Suing Alma Mater</I> ""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 <I>Building More Effective Unions</I> ""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

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Julee T. Flood is an attorney, business owner, and consultant with experience in the private, nonprofit, and public sectors. While teaching at Elon University School of Law, she also served as Director of the Leadership Program. Terry Leap is the Lawson Professor of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Tenure Discrimination and the Courts as well as Dishonest Dollars and Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions and the High Cost of Medicine.

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