Word: budgeteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of solving the tenure problem. This move is unfortunate not only in itself but because it furthers a policy made fashionable by Harvard. Strict adherence to actuarial tables as a criterion for appointments is scarcely in line with giving the best possible education available. No extensions of the budget are necessary to raise the level of instruction. The difficulty can be circumvented by a change in the inflexible promotion policy...
...N.I.A.'s promotion budget was $400,000 in 1935, $600,000 in 1936, this year...
...financially hard-pressed undergraduates the Student Council will next week award several hundred dollars to be applied against the November term bill. The Council's budget provides for a total of $2300 in such grants during the year...
They go on to attack the validity of the "fixed budget" concept, and state that "Financial management must be guided by an intelligent, elastic policy, not by an illusory rigidity...
They propose as remedies that the Faculty be given control over educational policy; that undergraduate opinions should be consulted; that "a dean with close Faculty connections" should take over the duties of Financial Vice President; and that a standing Faculty Committee on the Budget should be appointed...