Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Myths to Existentialism. The report faces up to student complaints that higher education has drifted into irrelevancy. One key recommendation is that the university be organized so flexibly that it can quickly create new colleges addressed to contemporary problems, then dissolve them when need or interest wanes. The study recommends the creation of five such colleges as soon as possible. One might be devoted to action on urban problems, another to social philosophy, with related courses ranging from the study of ancient myths to existentialism...
...report also urges the university to organize temporary ad hoc courses on such questions as Viet Nam or Black Power, now found mainly in student-run "free colleges." Without spelling out how to arrive at the answers, it also suggests that the university should frankly tackle major student concerns: "the problems of sex, the nature of love and the applications of ethics, morality, politics and law to life." This might tax a professor's teaching ability, but it should also prove rewarding. The study recommends that professors' promotions be based on an evaluation of their teaching skill...
Instead of chasing every available federal research dollar, the report suggests, the university should look inward and accept only those projects that will directly relate to its own goals. As part of an involvement in pragmatic off-campus problems, the report proposes that the university enter into contracts with private industry in order to introduce new ideas and inventions, such as new ways to dispose of industrial wastes. The university would supply the expertise, while the company would offer its management savvy and resources. Once an innovation was shown to be feasible, the university could move on to another company...
...producer, regardless of size, has been able to control the market," said the report. "Automobiles are bought and sold on the basis of customer choice in a setting of intense rivalry. This rivalry has produced a steady improvement in quality, safety and value and a greater variety of choices for the auto buyer than at any time in history." To support its case, the company pointed to the historic fluctuations in its share of the U.S. auto market: under 14% in 1921, 38% in 1946, a high of 52% in 1962, and 48% for the first eight months...
...year salary? One occasion might be when he has to 1) face a meeting of shareholders whose onetime glamour stock has skipped six dividends in a row, 2) announce that sales have fallen from $81 million in the previous year to $33 million, and 3) report a $5,400,000 loss...