Word: deanship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over a successor to Edward Barrett, the former dean. Barrett resigned after the turbulent student disorders of 1968, protesting "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers" at the university. He left behind a faculty factioned between traditional and innovative journalism. When a largely conservative search committee proposed Abel for the deanship last June, rebellious professors overwhelmingly voted it down, citing "lack of consultation" and "undue haste in appointing a man we know little about." But Columbia President Andrew Cordier, prodded by the traditionalists, overrode the faculty and went ahead with the appointment...
...meeting on December 2, acting on my request, the President and Fellows voted to honor my resignation as Dean, effective June 30, 1970. The terms of my leave of absence, and of Professor Dunlop's acting deanship, have not been altered; but my decision to resume full-time teaching next fall has now been given official effect...
...Needless to say, even a personal move may have institutional overtones. It is my own belief that the Deanship of this Faculty can and should rotate on a cycle somewhat shorter than that which makes sense for the deanships of either the professional schools of Harvard or, indeed, the major subdivisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences itself. However. I do not, at this point, wish to appear to be imposing, or hiding behind, any general theory of deanships or of their varying demands. Sufficient unto the case are the specifics thereof...
...disingenuous as to suggest that the deanship has become any more attractive in the past year, which is to say, since the Faculty meeting we did not hold in Paine Hall in December...
...matters of curricular reform and the role of the Houses. "One has to do what one can. This place is in some danger. It is the greatest university in the world, but there is danger of its not remaining so," he said, explaining his reasons for assuming the deanship...