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...place of the extant unstable system of appointment, the Report recommends the substitution of a three-years term for all full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department...
...proposal was submitted as peace emissaries of the two factions met at the White House with President Roosevelt to explore formulae for ending their three-year struggle for supremacy...
...Committee on Appointments should be elected in each Department, consisting of five men on a rotating system of three-year tenure. Its function would be to investigate and recommend men for appointment and promotion, and it should be composed of all ranks...
...standard three-year term for full-time instructors, many of whom now hold annual appointments, is urged, although one-year appointments are not precluded in "exceptional cases." In addition the committee sees a need for giving instructors an opportunity to branch out of tutorial work into lecturing and leading class discussions, with the end in view of aiding such men as cannot be "absorbed, into the University by promotion" to find positions elsewhere...
Instructors should be given a standard three-year term with a chance to get experience by doing more lecturing and seminar work. A central placement bureau should be formed to find positions for men who are not retained here...