Academic freedom, promotion, reappointment, tenure and the administrative use of student evaluation of faculty (SEF): (Part IV) - Analysis and implications of views from the court in relation to academic freedom, standards, and quality instruction

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 5, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Haskell, Robert E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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