Word: published
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scholarship has too often been taken to mean actual publication. This is the least significant of all the meanings of scholarship," Sayre said in his article. Some of the best college teachers, he maintained often do not publish their research until near the end of their careers...
Power revealed that he plans to live in a house he is building in Palm Springs, seek a job in business, and publish a book called Design for Survival, which he wrote in 1959. Its publication was banned by the Eisenhower Administration at that time on grounds that an officer should not benefit financially from a book related to his official duties. Except that it urged "complete unification" of the armed forces and raised questions about some aspects of U.S. defenses, little has been disclosed about the book. Rated most likely to succeed Power is General Walter Campbell Sweeney...
...Thicket. Sayre's case, at first glance, appears to be clear proof of the academic injunction: "Publish or perish." Actually, it sharpens a whole batch of thorny issues that are becoming increasingly worrisome to students, professors and administrators trying to pick their way through the thickets of academe. The problem is especially acute at Tufts and other schools trying hard to make the academic big time, such as Emory, Western Reserve, Rochester and Tulane. Says the ambitious, respected president of Tufts, Nils Y. Wessel, "We are a threshold university...
...topnotch professor whose reputation lured the student to the university campus in the first place is rarely there to teach him. Says a Stanford scholar in the sciences, who considers himself lucky to be teaching only three hours a week: "It's not only how many papers you publish, but how many dollars in contracts you can bring...
Hope at Harvard. Perhaps the most promising experiment in trying to lower the pressure is currently under way at Harvard, where it is quite possible to both publish and perish. Of 180 assistant professors and instructors in the faculty of arts and sciences only about 20% will get tenure. Hoping to breed more of those uncommon Siamese twins who join eminent scholarship with inspiring teaching, Harvard's history, government and economic departments are offering fellowships that balance teaching duties with research opportunities...