Word: ecksteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, will become the first Faculty member to serve on the President's Council of Economic Advisors. The 36-year old expert on price-wage relationships was nominated by President Johnson Saturday...
...Eckstein will take a one-year leave of absence from the University and return to his teaching duties in September...
Before he can officially take his seat on the council, Eckstein must testify before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, and then win "consent" from the full Senate. These steps are considered mere formalities, however...
...growth of CLGS degrees, from 50 three years ago to 150 last year, makes it advisable for the Faculty to lok at the program in a new light, Eckstein asserted. "What was once a small program is now a wholly new program based purely on course grades, without the tutorial and independent study that are important in other honors programs," he said...
...only way changes might be made in the program this year is for one or more dissatisfied departments to make an independent motion of the Faculty. Eckstein said he had no plans at this time to introduce such a motion, and Brooks doubted that one would come before the Faculty this spring...