Word: processing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond criticism of the structure of the tenure process, some junior and senior faculty question the criteria for granting tenure. These faculty believe the "publish or perish" syndrome erodes the morale of assistant professors and may affect the quality of the research itself. Even if a junior faculty member has a shelf full of his own books, reputation may not follow immediately. "In recent years, it has become apparent to all junior faculty that it doesn't matter how much they publish, the choice lies outside of department hands--it's simply impossible to publish enough...
Mitten suggests the possibility of setting up different tenure tracks, one for teaching and one for research. Perkins also favors altering the tenure process slightly to allow department chairmen to vote on the ad hoc committee instead of furnishing the committee with a written position paper and appearing for testimony. In this way, the chairmen would be able to prompt consideration of some of the younger talent...
...integration proposal did not go far enough, but adds that Congress nixed integration reform from the package anyway due to pressure from employer organizations. The AFL-CIO has consistently opposed integration. AFL unions around the country will not permit it even to be considered during the collective bargaining process. As Lawrence Smedley of the AFL claims, only the small unions and non-union employees allow integration into their pension plans...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art, as one of his advisers. Rockefeller personally supervised the recasting of the bronze objects and the hand painting of the copies of his rare Meissen china. For the reproduction of paintings, he decided against the often used lithographic method in favor of the Cibachrome photographic process, which closely captures the color of the originals...
...Cleaning services display a sense of professionalization that tends to upgrade the occupation of the domestic," says Katzman. "Traditionally the worker was hired to satisfy the employer's personal status needs; today that process is being depersonalized. The new services decide how they'll clean the house. As professionals, they don't have to listen to the housewife's way of doing things. It's more businesslike-they simply make a contract for a certain job to be done...