Word: perishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judged and found guilty by the hard law of "publish or perish" (TIME, April 24), Woodrow Wilson Sayre perished last week as assistant philosophy professor at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. He took his case, that eloquent classroom teaching is as worthy a trait in a professor as scholarship proved by publication, to a committee of his faculty peers - who concluded that "it is not at all evident" that Professor Sayre's teaching "outshines that of his colleagues." The school then dropped his contract. Sayre got several job offers almost at once - but thinks he will first settle down...
...time has come, I think, for a statement in support of research activities at our universities. Implied in your article about "publish or perish" is that teaching and research are basically incompatible. I believe that research is teaching. No subject or course content can be static today precisely because of the broad research under way in all fields. An educator can better carry out his obligations by challenging and rebutting concepts of dubious value in writing. The cloistered classroom offers no proper audience for professional discourse because the arguments...
Pusey joined Dean Ford's recent assumption that it is a "myth" that "publish or perish" has been the single rule government academic positions. Though Harvard has not over-emphasized scholarly publication, Pusey asserted last night, it in living a large number of teachers, who are available the undergraduate to candidate...
While Ford had dismissed as a "myth" the argument that "publish or perish" has been the single rule governing academic advancement, he had insisted that only by publishing the results of research can professors share their findings with students at other institutions...
Hope at Harvard. Perhaps the most promising experiment in trying to lower the pressure is currently under way at Harvard, where it is quite possible to both publish and perish. Of 180 assistant professors and instructors in the faculty of arts and sciences only about 20% will get tenure. Hoping to breed more of those uncommon Siamese twins who join eminent scholarship with inspiring teaching, Harvard's history, government and economic departments are offering fellowships that balance teaching duties with research opportunities...