Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Committee on Compensation, however, has come to the conclusion that high-ranking members of the faculty ought to receive a bigger share of salary increases than their younger brethren. It points to the fact that since 1930 the full professor's salary has only gone up 30 percent (in...
This need to recognize "excellence," however, though quite true, has limitations not apparent at first glance. The hitch is that full professors, the "top men," make up some 45 per cent of the professional group. This leaves only a little more than half of the men in the categories of "average" and "beginners," an inversion of the rations in other professions. Thus, the top man argument, which refers to professions in which at most 25 per cent are "top men," is used to justify a salary increase for at least half of the teaching profession. This somewhat invalidates the committee...
The value of this plan in attracting the best men to the profession is also partially offset by the fact highly qualified young men are most concerned over how much they can make immediately after entering the profession. Because they often have heavy debts upon completion of setting up a...
Jim Eastland was born on the Doddsville plantation, and throughout his youth his father, Woods Eastland, steadily increased its size. "Judge" Woods Eastland was a lawyer by profession, and his practice was in Forest (pop. 1,500), in the hill coufitry about 100 miles from Doddsville. It was there that...
Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and one of the committee members, expressed his disappointment with education's greatest paradox. He stated that "although the teaching profession is of indispensible importance, its reward is slight in proportion to its value." White hoped for an increase in the profession's average...