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...membership of two new committees, one on distribution and the other on the relation between the administration and the Faculty, was announced yesterday by William S. Ferguson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...first annual report Dean Ferguson has erected an impressive monument to the late tenure controversy, and inscribed thereon a sad and gentlemanly epitaph to the ten assistant professors. With a wealth of facts and figures the Dean has traced the origins of the tenure crisis which broke last year--the over-expansion of the optimistic twenties, and the retrenchment necessitated by a stationary budget and the Committee of Eight's new rank system. He describe the care with which the Administration regretfully lopped off the now-famous ten, and points out that while ten men were fired, about twenty-three...
...this is all there is to the tenure fight, then what was the shooting about? Was all the criticism levelled at the Administration "premature, as Dean Ferguson maintains? Was the violent opposition to Administration policy registered by Phi Beta Kappa, the Teachers Union, the Student Council, a powerful insurgent Faculty bloc, a half dozen student organization, and hundreds of undergraduate petitioners all cockeyed...
...criticism was not all negative, despairing, and unconstructive. Surely the Faculty opposition was not uninformed. By November the crisis focused on the problem of "frozen associate professors"--of which there is no mention in Dean Ferguson's report. Briefly, the opposition denied that the case of the ten assistant professors was a budgetary question. They pointed out the incontrovertible fact that the burden of dismissals had fallen so unequally as to cripple three departments. And the opposition's solution, the frozen associate professorship scheme, was adopted by the Faculty, and presumably approved by the Administration. These "frozen associate professors were...
...traditional standards are to be preserved, the hard-hit Departments must make full use of their hard-won privilege. The Faculty Dean's report may have sounded the final gong on the tenure fight, but there still has been no pay-off. To use a phrase of Dean Ferguson's the matter of the frozen associate professorships is still "unfinished business...