Word: chairmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crooks himself, the summer and winter are inseparable experiences. While also serving as Master of Dudley House, the House for Harvard undergraduates who live off-campus, Crooks begins preparing for the next summer in September, "as soon as department chairmen return from their vacations in Europe." He must hire professors, both from Harvard and outside, after consultation with the department chairmen...
...Independent study. Sophomores and non-honors upperclassmen will be allowed to take independent studies--a freedom formerly restricted to honors juniors and seniors. Students will also no longer need the signatures of their own department chairmen or head tutors for independent studies, only those of the person sponsoring their work and, if it is a junior faculty member, that of his department's head tutor. Freshmen will still have to wait a year for this...
...situation was changed drastically by the research-oriented university, which developed in the late 19th century and has grown steadily in influence since. It solidified knowledge into disciplines in which "like-minded men established machinery for remaining like-minded." It also radically shifted power to faculty committees and department chairmen. These professional scholars now decide who should be admitted to graduate schools and what should be taught there, hold virtual veto power over the selection of their colleagues and often over the choice of the president. They turn out highly homogenized Ph.D.s who in turn staff countless colleges that, instead...
...Committee is impressed not only with the need for independent judgment in the recruitment of faculty but also with the need for increased vigor and expedition in the operation of recruitment procedures. In particular, greater enterprise and initiative are required from departments and their chairmen. The day is past, if it ever existed, in which an invitation to Harvard was all that was required to bring a faculty member from another leading university. The growing number of scholars, specialties, universities, and research centers creates the need for widespread and systematic search for candidates for appointment...
About 25 Harvard and Radcliffe students are expected to be involved in the program, teaching about 60 children. In addition, the project co-chairmen hope to hire six community teenagers this summer for 10 hours a week of work and eight teenagers during the winter for five hours a week of work...