be terminated at the end of the 1973-74 academic year, but it provides a base from which each faculty member can negotiate a learning contract which meets both personal professional interests and College needs.
During the period between June 21, 1973 and the commencement of the school year in September 1973 the College engaged the services of 12 new and untenured teachers to serve on its faculty. Defendants assert that these were hired to replace others who were lost to the school over a *255 period of time as the result of "normal attrition," not those who were terminated under Resolution R-58.
Among the roster of plaintiffs are included (1) those faculty members who received termination notices and seek reinstatement to their former positions, and (2) those whose employment wasorigins to an academy founded in 1807 by the Presbyterian Church. It was established as the German Theological School in 1868 and is affiliated with the New Jersey Synod of the United Presbyterian Church. It serves a student body which has been described as ethnically mixed, presenting a low academic profile and embracing a large minority group representation. Students are drawn mainly from the lower middle and upper lower economic strata and for the most part are enrolled in the school's business and nursing departments.
Present annual tuition is $2,000, up from $1,330 in 1969. Enrollment for the present year, 1973-74, is 867, down from 1,069 in 1972. The portent of these figures lies in the fact that three-fourths of the school's financial support is derived from enrollment income.
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