Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight years as president and six as Berkeley chancellor, well-meaning Clark Kerr had unquestionably done much for the university. He shaped California's master plan for higher education. During his tenure, student population nearly doubled (to 87,000), and Cal rose in quality to the very top rank of American institutes of higher learning. Yet when the acid test of his executive talent came, during the student revolt, Kerr-as the students might put it -lost his cool. Thereafter, his indecisiveness managed to alienate, at one time or another, the regents, the faculty, the administration and the students...
...more than ten years, most U.S. jazz polls have named Frank Sinatra the top male vocalist. Now, for the first time, a rank outsider suddenly shows every sign of deposing the "Chairman of the Board." Lou Rawls is his name, and "soulin' " is his game...
...oppose ranking, and we also oppose draft tests both of which cause competition among students in a race to see who dies first. We should demand that universities withdraw from fighting the "cold" war by refusing to rank anyone (as some schools have done) or better yet by ranking all male students in the upper 25 per cent (as some others have). Universities should also not be involved in administering draft tests on university grounds, or providing university facilities for military activities. It is by raising these demands, demands cutting into the military-industrial complex, by supporting student...
...established a full faculty for the College alone. Undergraduates benefited from men of full professorial rank, who were able to devote their time completely to College affairs. The faculty of the graduate divisions was staffed with men concerned with advanced specialization and research. Both systems of instruction were re-organized into four subject Divisions--Biological, Physical and Social Sciences, and the Humanities...
...graduate programs seem easiest to sell. Chicago clearly ranked in the top ten in last summer's infamous survey of Graduate School education. But it never placed number one. Chicago newspapers played up the university's high standing, while simultaneously undercutting the survey's pretensions and criteria for judgement. The U of C's seven professional schools (Business, Divinity, Education, Law, Library, Medicine and Social Service Administration) likewise rank high, but none have an assured position in first place. Chicago can proudly claim 27 Nobel Prize winners in some form of affiliation, including its current President, George W. Beadle...