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...graduate student who had discussed the proposal with Galbraith said he thought the proposal was "Galbraith's way of saying to the department 'I will solve the political problems of the department if you give me a blank check...
...Galbraith's memorandum suggests the establishment of an experimental program and committee which would have the power to recommend a number of faculty appointments--both tenured and nontenured--to the department...
Appointments and resources would be allocated to the program in proportion to its teaching load within the department. Galbraith foresees about a quarter of each entering class of graduate students electing to work toward their degrees under the experimental rubric...
...Galbraith describes the purpose of the program as "To deliberately develop alternatives to the present pattern of instruction, appointments and associated research," while retaining within the department final responsibility for "maintaining faculty standards...
Both the retirement of an older generation of economic individualists and the failure to promote younger dissenters raise the prospect of orthodoxy, Galbraith writes...