Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ISSUE of economic restraints was saved for the last few pages of the Dunlop Committee report, and one sensed that they were saving the big punch for the finale. One senses too that members of the Committee are anxious to get through recommendations on benefits, recruitment techniques, research fellows, housing and schooling, and start the Faculty talking about how to determine priorities for growth. Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History and one of the seven on the Committee, suggested at the meeting Tuesday that the Faculty is no longer able to make abstract decisions on academic policy...
...Faculty vote approving the final section of Dunlop's report would be a mandate increasing the already enormous power of the Dean of the Faculty. It would encourage him to set up new administrative apparatus that would accumulate data on departmental costs, to take a bigger role in allocating new professorships, and to call on the carpet those departments that make economically unsound policy decisions...
...CHANGE in titles has already turned up one very specific issue--peripheral to the Committee's report but by no means trivial. By making instructors assistant professors, the Faculty has increased its voting membership for next year by about 70 to 100 members, and not everyone is sure that's a good idea. The Dunlop report in fact recommended that the status quo be frozen--by passing a rule requiring an assistant professor to serve three years before being allowed to vote...
...very unusual for legislative bodies." Dunlop adds that a new flock of inexperienced members might force the Faculty to be less informal in introducing and debating resolutions and that he would prefer to see young Faculty members brought into the decision-making process at the departmental level (as the report suggests...
...this is "a rather emotional side issue" to the report, Dunlop says, and he would not try to fight the CEP on the Faculty floor. It is an issue, nonetheless, and once having adopted the first recommendation of the Dunlop report, it is an issue that the Faculty cannot avoid...