Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of this, the report issued yesterday by the Cambridge Teachers' Union is a manifesto for educational democracy. In its very essence it is a plea for democratization of the procedures of appointment and tenure. This plea takes practical form in proposals that all members of each department, from instructors to full professors, form a voting body, that they elect their own chairman, that they select by vote a democratic committee on appointments which shall make all recommendations...
Heading the committee which over a five month period prepared the report to which the current issue of the Bulletin is devoted, was Rupert Emerson '22, associate professor of Government. Other members of the group were Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, professor of Law; Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and Union president; Perry G. E. Miller, assistant professor of History and Literature; Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology; Harry T. Levin '33, junior fellow; Arnold Isenberg '32, assistant in Philosophy; Wendell H. Furry, assistant professor of Physics; Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government; and Paul...
...Report in Two Sections...
...first section of the two-part report recommends specific measures to alleviate the inequalities and uncertainty of tenure prevailing among assistants and instructors, and urges the retention of valuable men by giving them permanent appointments even when promotion is impossible...
...dealing with the question of as- sistantships, the report makes four specific suggestions a uniform scale of payment for all departments; "uniform functions within departments and comparable services throughout all departments'; selection of assistants after a "democratic canvassing"; and the provision of more graduate scholarships to reduce part-time teaching by graduate students...