Word: tutorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allston Burr Senior Tutors' appointments begin to expire, the University must quickly solve a problem it temporarily shelved three years ago. Dean Bender's 1951 report, which started the decentralization of the dean's Office and creation of the Burr tutorship, recommended that the Senior Tutors be permanent members of the faculty, ranking, in other words, at least as associate professors. In hastening to implement the program in 1952, however, the administration filled the posts with non-tenure men. While these tutors have filled their posts excellently, their administrations have pointed out more problems in the proposed system than earlier...
...accept the posts at first, the University should solve its problem by retaining the original plan. Men on tenure-not under the pressures of theses and examinations-would find it considerably easier to handle the post and do academic work too. In time, with active University support, the senior Tutorship could become, as planned, a highly respected position which would appeal to faculty members of professorial rank who are interested in undergraduate education...
...judged for future permanent appointments largely on their academic accomplishments. Supporters of the Burr plan point out that departments will consider these twin duties when deciding permanent appointments. Although this may be true, academic competition extends, beyond the University. From a failure to understand the full meaning the Burr Tutorship, other institutions would be more likely to pass over these men in favor of others with academic records superficially more attractive...
Cheever's time for relaxation, however, seems to dwindle every year. The Fullbright program swallows many of his free hours, and the newly acquired senior tutorship takes much more time than the ideal "half of the professor's schedule." In addition, he heads the International Affairs program of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Different Garments. There could be no solution as in 1947, when the U.S. simply took over Britain's responsibilities in Greece and Turkey. In the Middle East, Britain's responsibility extends to oilfields and air bases in Iraq, guardianship of Suez and the Sudan, the tutorship of Jordan, to Aden and its naval base, troops in Eritrea, air bases at Derna and Tobruk in Libya, heavy naval responsibility in the eastern Mediterranean. Even if it were feasible (which it is not), the U.S. could not don the discredited garments of colonialism which Britain and France have worn...