Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarks at the Faculty meeting of December third--given by me to a CRIMSON reporter by telephone--was accurate, but so cryptic that I should like to elaborate somewhat. I was quoted as saying that the main issue of the ROTC dispute is "non-University control of curriculum content and Faculty appointments." (CRIMSON, December 4, 1968, page...
...essential issue to me is the independence of the University, that is, it's academic freedom. The two glaring invasions of this independence in the present ROTC set-up are first, that the Congressional act establishing it says that the content of instruction shall be determined by the Secretary to the service in question. Beyond that, the officer in charge of a program shall, though appointed by the Pentagon, be given the rank of professor in the faculty...
...established Faculty patterns in these respects are clear. So far as instructional content is not left entirely to the discretion of the individual instructor, it is determined by Departments or even at some level by the Faculty as a whole, but never by an agency outside the University. For appointment to faculty status, there are regular procedures involving departments and elements of the Administration. Though suggestions from outside are generally welcome, no agency outside the University exercises a right to designate a Faculty appointment...
Generally speaking, determination of instructional content and of Faculty appointments are guided by academic standards. This is to say, value of the content as contribution to the cognitive understanding of the topical subject-matter, and of instructors as competent to convey or enhance such understanding...
...this whole context, the present ROTC arrangement is anomalous, with special reference to the University's freedom to determine its own curriculum content and to make its own Faculty appointments by its own standards. Since ROTC is mainly located in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, I think both that these two invasions of University independence (academic freedom) are out of place, and that such elements of "training" of officers in the armed services as there is, should be abandoned...