Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Peter Diamandopoulus, dean of the faculty at Brandies University, said yesterday that the university's faculty cutback next year may not be as serious as first believed.
"While it's certainly not a rosy picture full of great hopes," he said, "we anticipate that only ten to 15 full-time teaching positions will have to be eliminated."
But I have thought also that, knowing and loving that trio of Beethoven, and having composed perhaps as great music of his own, he too must know-and far better than you or I-that, although this world may be no great shakes, the future problematical, and no telling what...
Seventy-three expiring contracts are not being renewed in 1971. Fifty-one positions being vacated by retiring faculty are not being re-filled, but only seven full-time and 25 part-time teachers are actually being fired because of the school's shaky financial situation.
At least 41 of the 73 teachers leaving will be replaced by tenured professors returning from sabbatical or leaves of absence next fall. Also, Brandeis hopes to save money by having professors who apply for one-term sabbaticals in 1971 take the entire year off so that the university will...