Word: appointment
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...must also be tenured in another field of concentration. Finding an expert in two fields, one of them Afro-American Studies, is no easy business. President Bok said two weeks ago that he had "traveled all the way to England and back" to try to find a professor to appoint to the department--apparently to no avail. Yet when the Afro-American Studies Department nominated Ephraim Isaacs, then assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, for tenure in 1971, the ad hoc committee reviewing his nomination would not appoint him. The official reason for the decision was that Isaacs' specialty...
Although Pusey had been forced to appoint the committee for the purpose of proposing changes in the administration, he carefully hedged his bets; he selected a committee "heavily weighted to be supportive of the establishment," James C. Thomson Jr., then a junior faculty member who served on the committee, says. "They didn't know initially that Thomson would turn out to be the Bolshevik member of the committee or that Harry Levin would be my closest ally," Thomson adds. Levin seconds Thomson's evaluation of the predominantly middle-of-the-road sentiments of the committee members, but adds that events...
...investigations to find out what went so terribly wrong at the Metropolitan Edison Co. plant. In his major energy address Thursday night, Jimmy Carter preceded his call for phased decontrol of oil prices and a windfall tax on petroleum companies (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) with the announcement that he would appoint an independent commission to look into the accident and make recommendations for improving the safety of all nuclear plants. Said the President: "You deserve a full accounting, and you will...
Thursday, CSAAS initiated a petition drive demanding that the University appoint four additional tenured faculty to the Afro-American Studies Department and make the department a priority of its capital fund drive...
However, the departments possess one last line of resistance--the matter of finances. If tutorials are to be staffed completely by professors, Walls points out, departments will simply need to appoint more professors. As Henry Adams remarked, "The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money...