Word: reports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further evidence of President Conant's willingness to comply with the suggestions in the "Committee of Eight" Report, the University announced yesterday the appointments of Professor Graustein and Associate Professor Buck as Assistant Deans of Faculty. Enlargement of the function and personnel of this office has long been urged as a step toward alleviating problems of tenure and promotion among the faculty. Instead of being a mere channel through which the departmental recommendations were submitted to the President, the Office should now become a positive force in the system of appointment...
...should be recognized that this action is but a partial cure for the evils now prevalent in the method of faculty promotion. The reorganization of this office is, in fact, but one of the many suggestions the Report made in an effort to remove the feeling among younger instructors that their positions are insecure and that the promotional system is unfair. But such a move as this which helps coordinate department heads and the Administration is nonetheless an important step in this direction...
Much criticism has been leveled, heretofore, at President Conant for the methods he has employed to gain the ends outlined in other parts of the Committee's Report. His firing of ten Assistant Professors last spring because the Committee recommended the abolition of the position is a case in point. But here at least, both ends and means must be above all reproach...
Franklin Roosevelt received last week a report from his National Resources Committee* which made two striking calculations: 1) if the U.S. had given full employment to all its workers (except 2,000,000 considered normally unemployed) the nation would have had $200,000,000,000 more income between 1930 and 1937; 2) this $200,000,000,000 of wasted labor could have supplied a new $6,000 house for every family...
...committee used these ugly facts to pose a problem: How can democracy prevent such tragic waste? That fundamental problem is certain to be posed again & again until it is permanently solved. But the report of the committee was badly timed for getting Americans to face their problem now. It came at the very moment when a war boom threatened to abolish unemployment until peace brings the next depression...