ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the practices used in recruiting and hiring faculty and administrators, an area especially affected by new legal requirements. Differences between employment conditions for administrators and faculty have taken on new significance. A desire for administrative professional standards regarding the rights and responsibilities of university administrators led to the founding of the American Association of University Administrators in 1970. Administrators at elementary and secondary schools often have resorted to collective bargaining as one means of establishing their rights and responsibilities. Any contract of employment between the institution and its faculty, administrators, or other staff should be reduced to writing and appropriately executed by the parties. Traditionally, administrators at educational institutions have served “at the pleasure of” the employing body. The administrator’s employment relationship with the institution/employer is changing. Resort to collective negotiations by administrators of elementary and secondary schools has provided solutions to many of the employment problems of administrators.
