Word: morrissey
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...Kermit Morrissey, president of Boston State, is determined to oblige the state and the college's trustees by supplying the New England economy with a "highly skilled labor force," as defined by the state's newly-approved educational "master plan," entitled "Agenda for Renewal: A Forward Look for the Massachusetts State...
...Morrissey accepts the Agenda's position that education at state colleges should be geared to supplying labor for the region's technical industries (such as communications and electronics equipment, metal products, paper products, printing and publishing), in addition to its health, education and business needs. Accordingly, it makes perfectly good sense in Morrissey's view to reduce the size of the liberal arts faculty. And, as events suggest, it makes even better sense to begin by firing the younger, more troublesome members...
...received a one-year "terminal" contract in June 1973, and un September students and 'faculty members began his defense for the third time in five years. Half the student body signed a petition calling for renewal of his contract. The student government and campus newspaper supported Allen and censured Morrissey. Delegations from the teachers' union, the Committee Against Racism and Boston's black community have all petitioned Morrissey. There has been weekly picketing of his office, debates between Morrissey and Allen supporters, and building take-overs...
...journal of commentary rather than of breaking news. For nearly a century, the Globe offered no competition, but it unproved abruptly after Tom Winship, 53, became editor in 1965. The following year the Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its campaign to block a federal judgeship for Francis X. Morrissey, a crony of Joseph P. Kennedy's. Its four-man "Spotlight" investigative team picked up another Pulitzer for a 1971 expose of municipal scandals in neighboring Somerville. The Globe, which had not backed a presidential candidate since 1900, changed policy by declaring for Humphrey in '68 and McGovern...
President Kermit Morrissey refused to answer NOW's specific charges yesterday. Morrissey said Boston State is "very close" to its goal of salary equity, and promised future documentation "that will show that we are equal employers...