Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Teachers' Union Report cannot be regarded as a divinely inspired panacea, at least two of its suggestions--fixed security of tenure for younger instructors and increased competition in the upper ranks--will go far toward alleviating many problems that now face the profession. In addition to decreasing inter-faculty friction, these proposals will contribute to the improvement of the quality both of Harvard's teaching and of its research...
...place of the extant unstable system of appointment, the Report recommends the substitution of a three-years term for all full-time appointees. Such a measure would eliminate the threat of dismissal which instructors must now feat at the close of each semester; the resulting increase in stability of working conditions could not help but produce a higher standard of work. As a corollary to this three-year plan, the Union urges that the University decide the question of permanent appointment after an instructor's eighth year of service. A definite policy to the appointees and to the department...
...second proposal in the Report--that the spirit of competition in the lower ranks should extend to the higher departmental positions--is also likely to be beneficial to the entire college. Obviously automatic salary increases, or even the assurance of a steady wage, are not conducive to the same qualitative and quantitative accomplishment that competition tends to produce. The substitution of competitive for automatic standards among professors should therefore result in a higher general level of attainment...
...committee holds that after eight years of service a man should definitely be told whether or not he will receive a permanent appointment. Where promotion to the rank of associate professor or professor is impossible, but the man is considered valuable, the report urges his retention on a permanent basis as preceptor, lecturer, or assistant professor...
Among reforms in departmental procedure put forward is the establishment of committees, elected by the whole of each department, including instructors, and having a rotating membership. The purpose of such committees as defined by the Union report would be to investigate from all angles the qualifications of candidates for appointment or promotion in order to "make possible a better selection of personnel...