Word: instructorships
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...Faculty has decided to attack the problem in a better way. Instead of dressing up the post of instructor with a more prestigious title, the Faculty has changed the post itself. By a unanimous vote last week, the one-year limit on instructorship appointments was discarded; departments were given the power to recommend instructors to the Corporation for appointments of up to three years...
...everyone who turns down a Harvard instructorship simply wants a flashier title. A longer appointment obviously makes the job more attractive by offering greater security. Also, Dean Ford has promised periodic pay increases to instructors appointed for more than one year, and even the base pay of $7,000 per year may rise. Most important, instructors will be eligible for foundation and government grants spanning two or three years. (A University rule bars faculty members from accepting grants which extend beyond the end of their appointments...
...student body, innocently offered his assistance to Coffin in any matter concerning the students. Although Van Dusen had no thoughts of an academic career, Coffin with mistaken shrewdness concluded that the young cleric was fishing for a job. Later, Coffin wrote Van Dusen, urging him to take an instructorship at Union, and made the offer so warmly courteous that Van Dusen accepted, believing that his revered adviser really wanted him to do so. "And so," says Van Dusen, who years later unraveled the confusion, "I got on the faculty through a misunderstanding...
...first appointment was to an instructorship in physiology, but from the outset he refused to treat physiology, psychology, and phiosophy as distinct and separate disciplines. In his lectures, as in his writings, he sought a synthesis comprising insights and factual contributions from each of the fields...
...move slowly, and stipulated that his term as instructor not be renewable. But Senturia's work with the orchestra had raised its quality remarkably, and last spring the orchestra's officers and the faculty committee agreed that his successor, to be chosen very shortly, will hold a normal instructorship capable of promotion...