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The ad hoc committee will study Jencks's qualifications and then submit a report to the President who will make the final decision.
Jencks said yesterday that he will decide whether to accept the tenured appointment when he sees the terms of the offer.
Jencks, who is also an associate professor of Education, has done most of his teaching and research at the School of Education, but said that recently his interests have shifted from education to sociology.
David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said yesterday that Jencks "has an extraordinary range of abilities and is a fully capable and thoughtful writer." Riesman said that Jencks's interest in education goes back to his undergraduate days when Jencks wrote a paper on education for Riesman's...
Jencks also states in Inequality that IQ scores, genes and the quality of school education have little effect on the future economic success of individuals.