Academic freedom, tenure, and student evaluation of faculty: Galloping polls in the 21st century

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volumn 5, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Haskell, Robert E ^a,b,c   Theall, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

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