Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of this, the report issued yesterday by the Cambridge Teachers' Union is a manifesto for educational democracy. In its very essence it is a plea for democratization of the procedures of appointment and tenure. This plea takes practical form in proposals that all members of each department, from instructors to full professors, form a voting body, that they elect their own chairman, that they select by vote a democratic committee on appointments which shall make all recommendations...
...Cambridge Union of University Teachers is committed to the principle that the highest degree of professional competence is the only safe guide in appointment and promotion at Harvard. It believes that this principle is best served by a fixed system of tenure, and by a Departmental procedure in which the ability of every candidate is carefully evaluated and his selection democratically passed upon by members of his Department...
Democratization of departmental procedure in the matter of appointments and promotions, and standardization of Harvard's tenure system were urged yesterday in the March Bulletin of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers. The four-year-old A. F. of L. affiliate includes about 150 Harvard men in a total membership...
...over a five month period prepared the report to which the current issue of the Bulletin is devoted, was Rupert Emerson '22, associate professor of Government. Other members of the group were Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, professor of Law; Ernest J. Simmons '25, assistant professor of English and Union president; Perry G. E. Miller, assistant professor of History and Literature; Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology; Harry T. Levin '33, junior fellow; Arnold Isenberg '32, assistant in Philosophy; Wendell H. Furry, assistant professor of Physics; Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government; and Paul M. Sweezy '31, instructor...
Thomas H. Eliot '32, Wages and Hours Administrator for New England, and Joseph Lash. National Executive Secretary of the American Student Union, spoke at the Second Annual Convention of the New England Student Union, held over the weekend...