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Wilkinson has a simple answer: Abolish thefour-year limit on teachers' jobs at Expos...
Kreisberg and Finder would leave within six months, but getting rid of the current troblemakers was only a temporary solution. Something more permanent was needed. In a telephone conversation one night that March, Marius and Sommers decided on a method: They would reduce the eight-year limit on teachers' jobs in Expos to four. And there would be no grandfathering for teachers already hired under the eight-year rule...
...addition, the imposition of the four-yearlimit has had a human cost. Many teachers gave upsecure jobs elsewhere to come to Expos, and somesay they would not have taken jobs at the programwithout the possibility of staying eightyears--the previous limit for Expos teaching jobs.Others complain of not being informed of thechange until near the end of their tenure there...
Asked if he could name one way students wereserved by the four-year limit, Robinson Professorof Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K.Ford '66, a member of the standing facultycommittee on Expos, thought for a moment...
Ultimately, flattening out Expos' hierarchy mayrequire more than just a few changes inadministrative policy. If the program is to bestserve students, Expos needs sensitive leadershipwhich will encourage initiative, eliminate thefour-year limit and permit more open debate,teachers...