Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking before the College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Buck stressed his concern for future freedom "to experiment and to excel," while Harris dismembered the economics purportedly supporting Commission assurances that private schools will successfully withstand vast Federal financing of public institutions.
Harris also warned of a "B.A. and Ph. D. proletariat' if the Commission's proposed 1960 enrollment of 4,600,000 materializes. The evidence shows that "a college graduate is not generally content with employment in any but the favored occupations, which could not absorb even one-quarter of the...
Buck called 'the coming of age of research" a fundamental quality factor of modern education which the Commission typically underemphasized in its enthusiasm for quantity. The Report in many places, he added, "is inconsistent and inaccurate." It nevertheless serves as a "signpost," In minimizing the dangers of "control" from the...
The decision of the Administration, announced Monday, to inaugurate term leaves for assistant professors is entirely in keeping with the report of President Truman's Commission on Higher Education. That report complained that "leaves for study, travel, or research are entirely too rare in American higher education."
Truman's Commission goes on to say, "It is through research that a faculty member becomes an authority, adds uniqueness to his teaching contribution, feeds his own intellectual curiosity." The Administration has put this opportunity into the hands of its younger men, and, with an additional gesture of magnaminity, it...