Word: professoriat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less, or know less, than did their predecessors in, say, 1956. If grades are on the whole higher today, it would seem reasonable to attribute the improvement to the better quality of the undergraduates or, less probably, to more effective teaching on the part of their professors. Instead, the professoriat is in the peculiar position of lamenting the fact that so many of our students are doing so well...
...more troubling cause for the present concern over "grade inflation" lies in the psychological insecurity of many professors. A surprising number of teachers, at Harvard and elsewhere, feel obscurely threatened by students. It is bad enough that undergraduates are healthier, more active, and better-looking than a middle-aged professoriat. But our uneasiness grows when we discover that, by and large, our students are more intelligent than we are. To be sure, they do not yet know as much as we do--but they show a dangerous facility for mastering disciplines and tools that required from most of us long...