Word: silbering
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...choicest prize: "tenure" (from the Latin tenere, meaning to hold or keep). The system has lately been lambasted by three national commissions on education, is under study at the universities of Utah and Wisconsin, and faces attack in the legislatures of eleven states. Tenure, charges John R. Silber, president of Boston University, has become "a device used by the devil to encourage faculty slothfulness...
...propose a new code of faculty performance standards, periodic reviews by a faculty committee to check performance, and a top-level ombudsman to hear student complaints of bad teaching. Even if laggard professors could not be fired, they might be required to take refresher courses. Says B.U. President Silber: "One of the most severe penalties you can impose on a faculty member is the intellectual disapprobation of his colleagues...
...Silber went to the University of Texas from Yale in 1955 as a philosophy professor. In 1961 he became the chairman of the philosophy department...
...Silber was the final choice of a search committee which consisted of students, faculty. administration and alumni working with the BU trustees...
...Silber said yesterday that he "would include fund raising as a major responsibility" in his new position. "As president of Boston University, I want to help to produce finances for the educational programs I'm interested in," he said...