Word: provost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Associate provost Jon Westling claims that his office sent 50 to 60 termination letters to junior professors, all legal under the contract and not an especially large number of terminations...
...grievances filed with the university deans the union said the terminations violated contracts because the university provost's office did not give faculty one year's notice or consult the departments before sending the pink slips...
Associate provost Jon Westling said his office sent 50 to 60 termination letters to junior professors in all of B.U.'s schools and colleges. But this is only about one-fourth of B.U.'s junior faculty, he said...
...idealism that could be interpreted as being "soft on communism." The University had to defend its essential function of free inquiry, exploration of truth against those who brandished bureaucratic axes under the banner of patriotism. The University bent, but did not break, thanks to leadership from Paul Buck, the Provost, and Nathan M. Pusey '28, who became president. Buck called me into his office in 1953 when the issue was firing a tenured professor for his communist affiliation. "Stay here until I come back," he said, "I am going to see the Corporation. I don't know...
...statement announcing Goldstein's resignation, Giamatti said, "differences of opinion, in my opinion, have been growing for a period of months," Goldstein became provost in March...