Word: brandeises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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An article in the Brandeis student newspaper, The Justice, said last week that 73 terminating faculty contracts will not be renewed in 1971. However, at least 41 faculty members are returning from sabbatical or leaves of absence to create a net cutback of about 30 faculty members.
The net cutback of 30 faculty members represents just under ten per cent of Brandeis' faculty of 392. One professor yesterday called the number "unusually high."
Both the faculty senate and the Brandeis chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) are presently investigating a possible hiring freeze.
The executive committee of the Brandeis AAUP met with university president Charles Shotland last Thursday, and one professor on the committee said yesterday that the university may not be able to increase present faculty salaries to meet rises in the cost of living.
Normally, non-tenured faculty who are not going to be rehired are told so by December 1 in accordance with a reappointment stipulation in the Brandeis faculty by-laws. The financial crunch has temporarily delayed those decisions.