Word: deane
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...eight concentrators. Since 1971, the number of concentrators has dropped 76 per cent and course enrollment 58 per cent. Its junior faculty is discontented and its students are furious. Last spring, while Eileen Southern, the chairman of the department, was away on a semester sabbatical, junior faculty met with Dean Rosovsky and the Faculty Council to voice their dissatisfaction with her. At the same time, a series of demonstrations charged the administration--and Rosovsky in particular--with a systematic campaign to destroy the department...
...personnel problems still beleaguer the department--and the creation of the executive committee seems to have compounded some existing intradepartmental tensions. Southern resigned abruptly from her position has chairman last June, citing the creation of the executive committee as one of the reasons for her committee. "I told the dean that I did not understand how it could work having both a committee and a chairman. I didn't see how I could work under those conditions," Southern said this summer...
...laboratories and libraries, Robert H. Scott, director of financial systems, reports. At the Medical Schol, officials say, 70 per cent of all research funds come from various federal agencies. "The National Institute of Health (NIH) is the lifeblood of the Medical School research effort," Elizabeth A. Picard, associate dean of the Medical faculty for financial affairs, says flatly. Federal funding has become the linchpin of academic research...
University officials are even angrier about the audit's armchair attitude towards the school's salary certification system. "Our partnership with the federal government has evolved to the point where it has become very difficult for universities to keep accurate track of funds," says Howard J. Levy, assistant dean for financial affairs at the SPH. "It's hard to put a time clock in the head of a professor and see when he was thinking about which federally-funded project he may be working on," he adds. Scott says the HEW assessment of the University's record-keeping for wages...
...Core Curriculum, the brainchild of Dean Rosovsky's 1974 review of undergraduate education and five years of professorial debate and intensive faculty committee work, will be phased in over the next three years to replace the ailing 34-year-old General Education (Gen Ed) program. Under the Core, the three-part Gen Ed requirement--Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities--will become five sections--Literature and the Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Foreign Cultures, and Science...