Word: pifer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alan J. Pifer '44, chairman of the Visiting Committee, said the committee will mention the graduate students' proposal to establish voting committees of their fellows in each department in its report, but said he did not know whether the committee would suggest the implementation of the recommendation...
...Pifer added that the graduate students seemed "less unhappy than in previous years...
...welfare of graduate students is a much higher priority now than it was when the committee was established four years ago," Pifer said...
...gravest criticism of the commission is that it has focused upon the structure rather than the content of higher education. Kerr answers that the commission deliberately avoided such controversial areas as teaching and curriculum, and "tried to hold out for things that could be done." Even Alan Pifer, president of the Carnegie Corporation, which paid the commission's bills, has admitted to feeling "somewhat wistful" that the commission did not tackle the thorny problem of undergraduate liberal education. But he stresses that the commission's function was to provoke discussion and thought, not to provide a blueprint. Says...
...number of universities and foundations that voted in favor of management indicated that they may not be so accommodating next time. The Carnegie Corporation, with assets of $305 million, voted against the reformers' proposals at Eli Lilly, Merck, Ford and G.M. But Alan Pifer, the foundation's president, wrote to chairmen of the firms emphasizing the "substantial importance" of the issues. Trustees of the United Methodist Church's Glide Foundation ($6 million) wrote to each of the companies in the Glide portfolio that they would support management's slate of directors only if it included women...