Word: professors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale teachers can now spend a maximum of nine years on non-permanent tenure: four years as an instructor, and five years as an assistant professor...
...their terms as assistant professors, only these men will be promoted to associate professorships for whom a vacancy at the full professor level is certain to appear; the others will be given their walking papers...
...hiring and firing rules, designed in part to ease the budgetary strain by eliminating deadwood at the assistant professor level, correspond almost exactly to Harvard's recently adopted system...
Moreover, a Yale teacher spends four years as an instructor, and five as an assistant professor; Harvard has eliminated the latter post and substituted a five-year position of Faculty instructor...
...principal speaker, Professor Elliott, spoke as an "educational layman". He had two basic assumptions--American teachers are seekers after objective truth, and the function of American education is to perpetuate our democratic ideals. Both these assumptions can be readily granted. But from there on this theory treads on dangerous ground. According to it, since objective truth lies clearly on the Allied side, no teacher can be intellectually neutral. The best course for American education, then, is to preach the Allied cause...