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...committee also recommended abolishing the title of Instructor, now the first position ordinarily held at Harvard by a Ph.D. The order of succession here is three years as Instructor, then five years as assistant professor, then either up to tenure as an associate professor or out. The report recommends instead a three-to-five year term as assistant professor followed by a three-year term as associate professor without tenure, followed by a tenure decision. Thus, all tenured men would have the title of professor...
...suggests that Faculty members--whether or not they live in Cambridge--be allowed to borrow money from the University to pay for their children's private high school education, as they now may do only for college. This amounts, in effect, to University subsidization of private schooling. The report does not rule out University help to improve Cambridge's schools--but it implies that Cambridge hasn't shown much interest in getting such...
Perhaps the mood of the report is more important than its recommendations: "For a half century," one chapter begins, "Harvard was believed by many to occupy a unique position in the American system of higher education; and that position no longer seems as secure as it once...
Harvard does publish an annual financial report, specifying where its investments are. Although community influence does not directly participate in determining investment questions, there are indications that Harvard may currently switch its low-return Federal bonds to roughly comparable investments in Roxbury. The treasurer's job is made difficult by Harvard's system of financial solvency for each school: his decision to switch specific endowment investments from an unpopular company to a popular one might lower the revenue of the unlucky faculty that had originally received the endowment...
...field of concentration in Afro-American studies; the Harvard Policy Committee has successfully promoted a fourth-course pass-fail plan, an extension of the independent study program, a reduction in the language department, and an elimination of the junior general examinations in History; an ad hoc committee issued a report recommending weekday parietal extensions from 2 p.m. to midnight and had the plan approved...