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...cause of the growing shortage of college teachers is a "crisis in values" that has infected a generation of young scholars with "the crassest opportunism in grantsmanship, job hopping and wheeling-dealing." So writes John W. Gardner, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in his annual report...
Many professors, says Gardner, think that "students are just impediments in the headlong search for more and better grants, fatter fees, higher salaries, higher rank." Catering to these professors, universities often relieve them of almost all teaching. "Needless to say, such faculty members do not provide the healthiest models for graduates thinking of teaching as a career." Gardner insists that professors and college officials must "behave as though undergraduate teaching is important." Typically, they might emulate the salary incentives and status benefits that a few worried universities, such as U.C.L.A., are offering to faculty members who are notably engrossed with...
...Though all of these measures may be helpful," Gardner continued, "the college teacher shortage will never be solved without a thoroughgoing effort to reestablish the status of teaching...
Furthermore, Gardner said, there is a "crisis in values" in the universities...
...Gardner commended Harvard's five-year Ph.D. program in history, which includes two years of teaching, and UCLA's plan of awarding reserve funds "to those departments that demonstrate that some importance has been given to undergraduate teaching." He advised universities to "exercise restraint in offering reduced teaching loads as an inducement to move...