Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford does concede that some special committees he has created through the Faculty do serve to make the "community aware of things that stay cooped up in the Dean's office." Special committees and their reports legitimize, publicize, and hopefully popularize proposals that the dean might have been able to propose without them...
...Ford has been aware of prevalent cynicism toward committees in general, and says it has often proven a problem for him to convince persons that he was not setting up a committee so as not to do something. He says he heard this when he decided upon the committee on the uses of computers in instruction. That committee's report this year will have an initial pay-off next Fall when four computer consoles are installed in the Houses and Harvard Yard for undergraduate...
Once a special committee is decided upon, the problem becomes staffing it. For Ford, the first question is a chairman. He says John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, was an "ideal choice" to chair this year's Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty. Dunlop had just finished a term as chairman of the Economics Department, his field--economics--was a large, central one in the University, and his specialty within the field--manpower and labor relations--was relevant to the committee's topic...
...most cases, Ford draws up his own list of possible members for the special committee, shows them to the selected chairman for concurrence, and then asks them to join. This is what happened with Dunlop's committee, for example...
...tends to suspect that," Ford says of such reported behavior, although he adds he himself knows of no professor who is guilty...