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...faculty members expect a review of their salaries every year," complains Harvard's Arts and Sciences Dean Franklin Ford. "No one seems to remember back in the '30s, when it was every four or five years." Also on the rise are college payrolls for nonteaching services. At Kalamazoo College, for example, janitorial salaries have climbed 40% in the past five years-and no one, ruefully notes Columbia's Kirk, "ever wants to endow janitorial services...
LAURIE WECHTER, AGE 10 Kalamazoo, Mich...
...Manhattan Beach, Zack's in Falmouth, Mass., Big Al's Gas House in Santa Cruz, Calif. When the bars close, it's really time to swing, with all-night parties in motels and rooming houses or, in Saugatuck, Mich., on boats moored in the Kalamazoo River. One Pittsburgh coed, summer-schooling at U.C.L.A. and summering in and around the Oar House at Santa Monica, describes her routine as "swimming, horseback riding, necking-the usual things...
Some students also work alone for up to a year at Kalamazoo and Pomona and, beginning next fall, Amherst. Goddard's longstanding program of independent study for seniors has spread to 89% of the juniors, half of the sophomores. Extensive off-campus work and study have long made such schools as Antioch, Bard, Bennington and Beloit distinctive...
...overseas branch is a refinement of the fast-multiplying programs (70 to date) in which U.S. schools annually send some 10,000 students abroad. Even a small school like Michigan's Kalamazoo College (enrollment: 1,100), for example, sends 90% of its students overseas. Stanford officials, however, prefer the branch concept, arguing that it permits them to shape their own curriculum abroad, eliminates any problems in meshing programs and credits, eases the need for extensive foreign-language instruction. It also permits the U.S. school to pick its own site instead of sending its students to crowded university towns where...