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BECAUSE TUITION charges and abatements were greater for first and second year students than for students past their second year, he program encouraged departments to appoint more of the new students as teachers; because students without outside support became eligible for support when appointed as teaching fellows, the program encouraged departments to divide up their teaching assignments among more and more of their students...
NAMED AFTER the Harvard mathematician who did the statistical work, the Graustein formula was given to Harvard by the influential Committee of Eight in 1938. Professor Graustein estimated that the average tenured Faculty member stays at Harvard for 34 years. He then computed the number of annual appointments each department must make to remain at its current size. That figure--"the Graustein number"--more or less determines the frequency of appointments in each department. For example, if a department had 17 tenured members in 1938, it would be entitled to appoint a new member every other year...
...Roman Catholic teaching, the bishops of the church are the successors of the Apostles. Only the Pope, in modern times, has had the authority to appoint new bishops, though usually he has chosen them from nominations made by local bishops, by his own representative to the country in question, or in a few exceptional cases by a cathedral chapter or a government. In the wake of Vatican Council II, liberals hoped that bishops might once more be elected, as they were in ancient Christianity, by the "people of God" they would be serving -lay as well as clerical. This week...
Before the vote on Owens's Johnson-Peterson compromise, Duehay called the motion illegal because he said the Council has no authority to urge the City Manager to appoint anyone. Duehay also said that the proposed compromise is impractical because the position of Deputy City Manager doesn't exist in Cambridge and Peterson wouldn't want the position...
Miller advocates that managers create a climate in which employees can feel free to criticize. One step might be to appoint a company ombudsman with power to act on employees' complaints and to start his own investigations. Another would be for a company's directors to extend protection against job loss or demotion to employees who come before the board with disclosures. Some consumer advocates have suggested that Congress legislate protection against reprisal for wage earners who report the unlawful acts of their company, or testify before a-court or Government agency...