Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If the social relations field maintains its high number of concentrators, it can do so only at the expense of other departments, since the enrollment of the College has been fixed by administrative decree. But it will not increase its allotment of permanent appointments at the expense of other departments...
In 1939-40 the University adopted a new system of appointments to full and associate professorships--the two ranks with permanent tenure. Its conception and its mechanics were largely the work of William C. Graustein '11, professor of Mathematics, an outstanding geometrician. Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to...
The appointment system is very simple. In 1939 the Faculty determined the "historical" size of each department. The exact details of the process are shrouded in mystery. "Historical" size depended to a certain degree upon size at the time, and to a small degree upon number of students and concentrators...
It was also determined that the average length of a permanent appointment is 34 years: that the average age of appointment to an associate professorship is 34 and the average retirement age 68. The figure 34 was then divided by the number of permanent positions for each department. The result...
The new system won favor with the administration of the University and with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for three reasons. First, it makes possible long-range budgeting by the departments and the Faculty. Second, after it has had time to take effect, it protects a department from having...