Report on Some Problems of Personnel in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by a Special Committee
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Page : 165 pages
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Release : 1957
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Author : Harvard University. Special Committee Appointed by the President of
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Page : 165 pages
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Release : 1957
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Author : Harvard University. Corporation. Committee of Eight
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Release : 1939
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Consists of printed report by the Special Committee Appointed by the President, concerns the Walsh-Sweezy case.
Author : Harvard University. Committee to Investigate the Cases of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 1939
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Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351490990
Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees. This volume focuses on key developments in the long process by which the American professoriate achieved tenure, academic freedom, and a voice in university governance.Christian K. Anderson describes the formation of the original faculty senates. Zachary Haberler depicts the context of the founding and early activities of the American Association of University Professors. Richard F. Teichgraeber focuses on the ambiguity over promotion and tenure when James Conant became president of Harvard in 1933. In "Firing Larry Gara," Steve Taaffe relates how the chairman of the department of history and political science was abruptly fired at the behest of a powerful trustee. In the final chapter, Tom McCarthy provides an overview of the evolution of student affairs on campuses and indirectly illuminates an important negative feature of that evolution the withdrawal of faculty from students' social and moral development.This volume examines twentieth-century efforts by American academics to establish themselves as an independent constituency in America's colleges and universities.
Author : Cornell University
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Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Harvard University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Release : 1939
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Author : Morton Keller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0190286881
Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's, leading institution of higher education. With verve, humor, and insight, Morton and Phyllis Keller tell the story of that rise: a tale of compelling personalities, notable achievement and no less notable academic pratfalls. Their book is based on rich and revealing archival materials, interviews, and personal experience. Young, humbly born James Bryant Conant succeeded Boston Brahmin A. Lawrence Lowell as Harvard's president in 1933, and set out to change a Brahmin-dominated university into a meritocratic one. He hoped to recruit the nation's finest scholars and an outstanding national student body. But the lack of new money during the Depression and the distractions of World War Two kept Conant, and Harvard, from achieving this goal. In the 1950s and 1960s, during the presidency of Conant's successor Nathan Marsh Pusey, Harvard raised the money, recruited the faculty, and attracted the students that made it a great meritocratic institution: America's university. The authors provide the fullest account yet of this transformation, and of the wrenching campus crisis of the late 'sixties. During the last thirty years of the twentieth century, a new academic culture arose: meritocratic Harvard morphed into worldly Harvard. During the presidencies of Derek Bok and Neil Rudenstine the university opened its doors to growing numbers of foreign students, women, African- and Asian-Americans, and Hispanics. Its administration, faculty, and students became more deeply engaged in social issues; its scientists and professional schools were more ready to enter into shared commercial ventures. But worldliness brought its own conflicts: over affirmative action and political correctness, over commercialization, over the ever higher costs of higher education. This fascinating account, the first comprehensive history of a modern American university, is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the present state and future course of higher education.
Author : Harvard University
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 1938
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