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...teaching at Bennington and three years on research fellowships (including the past year at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford), he has been there ever since. In one relevant respect Ford is different from Bundy and two or three dozen other former Harvard facultymen: he seems to have no interest in going to Washington...
More often, the job seeks the man. Says U.C.L.A.'s Vice Chancellor Foster Sherwood: "The man you want is never in the market." Sherwood, whose burgeoning campus needs 100 new facultymen next fall, is spending thousands building the labs and libraries that scholars find irresistible...
...Excellence. The bill failed, but it echoed the inglorious 1940s, when the university regents fired able President Homer Rainey, who had accused them of imperiously firing facultymen with a total disregard for academic freedom. The regents replaced Rebel Rainey with a tamer president, Zoologist Theophilus S. Painter, who devoted himself to fruit-fly research. They also dumped famed Author J. Frank Dobie, Texas' top folklorist, who refused to stop protesting the Rainey firing. By the time Texas-born Logan Wilson became president in 1953, the eyes of U.S. scholars were on Texas as a good place to avoid...
...Dancing on Dreams." Ransom pumps hard for travel grants and time off for research. One of his first presidential acts was getting raises for about half the faculty; full professors now earn as much as $20,000 a year. And in marked contrast to the Wilson regime, facultymen now feel free to speak out on such Texas-ticklish subjects as integration. When students recently began stand-ins at Austin's segregated movie houses, 192 faculty members openly endorsed the movement with signed statements in the student newspaper...
Harvard's famed facultymen make as much as $1,000 a lecture, and some chemistry professors earn the same fee per day advising drug companies. At the Harvard Business School, two-thirds of the 108-man faculty do sideline consulting, and 28 are officers and directors of corporations. Professor Paul W. Cherington is chairman of his own science-management firm, United Research Inc. Professor Malcolm McNair reportedly earns more than $40,000 a year advising retailers. Just for advising Incorporated Investors Inc. one day a week, the late economist Sumner H. Slichter used to get $10,000 a year...