Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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An excellent example of this policy in action is the social relations field. The Social Relations Department was established after the war to include the now extinct Sociology Department and portions of the Anthropology and Psychology Departments. Before the war, these three departments together averaged 237 concentrators, or 6.6 percent...
The appointment system is very simple. In 1939 the Faculty determined the "historical" size of each department. The exact details of the process are shrouded in mystery. "Historical" size depended to a certain degree upon size at the time, and to a small degree upon number of students and concentrators...
In assigning definite figures of "historical" size, the Faculty did not cut any department. Where there were inconsistencies, it added.
It was also determined that the average length of a permanent appointment is 34 years: that the average age of appointment to an associate professorship is 34 and the average retirement age 68. The figure 34 was then divided by the number of permanent positions for each department. The result...
By this method a department whose "historical" size is 34 permanent members appoints a new one every year, regardless of whether none, one, or ten members, has retired during the year. A department of 17 permanent members appoints a new one every two years; a department of two every 17...