THURSDAY. JANUARY
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demic, Profession" at
nual meeting of the A
American Colleges in
Mo.
Academic compel
faculty responsibili:
curriculum, calendai
effective programs
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designing of truly
service and general
courses. Walker said!
“If the academic i|
to protect the acader
so necessary for disc
responsibility to seal
teach truth, it must i
from academic licen
said. I
He said that the continued frag
mentation of the curriculums in
our colleges and universities is
only one indication of faculty
failure in accepting its responsi
bilities. He cited the need to teach
teachers how to teach.
A faculty member's compe
tence lies in one particular area
and in other areas he is no more
qualified than any informed
layman. Walker said, and when
he speaks on'any subject it is
generally assumed that he
speaks as an expert of the insti
tution.
“Because of this, the individual
professor must accept as a per
sonal responsibility the obliga
tions to make it abundantly
clear when he is speaking for the
institution and when he is speak
ing as an individual. He must also
make it equally clear when he is
expressing opinions in his par
ticular field of competence and
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when he is taking advantage of
his privilege a 3 a citizen to ex
press an opinion on any topic.
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sssional re-
In short, Walker said, he should
recognize the limitations of his
knowledge in order to avoid abus
ing his privileged position. The
profession at large should assume
the responsibility of protecting
itself from abuses of academic
freedom,, he said.
"The faculty is obligated by
the freedom it claims,". Walker
said.
Walker then turned to the ten
ure policies of the profession and
suggested that we take a new
look at the tenure regulations, If
faculties are to assume the re
sponsibility for professional com
petence, they must also assume re
sponsibility for establishing stan
dards by which competence can
be measured, he said.
“We must recognize that some
sort of evaluation will have to be
made of the teacher's work. Somej
teachers will be hired, others will
not; some will have to decide on
some sort of basis who will and I
who will not be granted tenure,”]
Walker said.
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The question of salaries for I
teachers will also have to be
decided. Walker said, unless the
raises and promotions are to be
based solely on seniority.
Most basic of all, without some
sort of mechanism for evaluating
faculty competence, the respon-j
sibility for protecting the quality!
of the faculty cannot possibly be
discharged, he said.
“The responsibility for estab
lishing the criteria by which their
work is measured rests clearly
with the faculty,” Walker said.
The evaluations should also be
used to reward merit and excel
lence, he said. ,
Veon to Speak at NYU
Dr. Dorothy H. Veon, professor
of education, will speak on Satur
day at the New York University
Faculty Club.
She will complete a series of
nine talks which have centered
around the theme, “New Patterns
for Business Education.”
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Greatness of a University
Hinges on Intellectual Courage
By J. MITCHELL MORSE
Assistant Professor of English
j The subversive notion that
[excellence is undemocratic
dies hard. It is subversive
because it implies that a
democratic society must be a
mediocre society—this is m fact
the view of such outspoken ene
mies of democracy as T. S. Eliot.
Ezra Pound, Evelyn Waugh, Al
dous Huxley, George Santayana
and Jose Ortega y Gasset—and
it dies hard because it flatters
our natural laziness. But it was
not the view of Thomas Jefferson
or the other founding fathers
(with the exception of Hamilton);
it is rather a degenerate concep
tion of democracy that seems to
have grown out of populism. |
The populist movement, a late
19th-century upsurge of fanners,
labor and small businessmen
aaginst the economic policies of
the trusts, the monopolies and the
big city banks, promoted many
neded reforms but also encour
aged the growth of an’ inverted
snobbery: the snobbery of the
Door toward the rich, of the un
kempt toward the well-groomed,
of the uncouth toward the well
' mannered, of the uneducated
toward the educated. J. Gordon
Coogler, perhaps the greatest un
consciously humorous poet who
ever lived, seriously addressed his
sweetheart thus;
You’ll never see this form clad
in gaudy apparel.
Nor these feet playing the dude
in patent leather shoes. That was
an example of the horny-handed
pose; any clothes but overalls
were “gaudy,” and correct speech
was an affectation. Cultural back
wardness came to be considered
an indication of moral rectitude;
in the popular apprehension, in
tellectual interests were unwor
thy of honest, hard-working, up
right men and women. What is
subversive here is the notion that
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or standards or quaint notions of
American workingmen are, must the uninformed. It is known for
be and should be stupid. the intellectual boldness of its
This is a very dangerous notion * acu lty and students: it is more
. . , .. . . .. Jeoncerned with investigating real
for us to cling to in the present t| ian with following popular
state of the world. It was notjopimon
nose-picking intellectual vacancy That is as it - should be. The
that made this country great; it highest .end of man is to split
was not mere earnest uninspired hails with elegance and precision;
routine drudgery either; th is to be aware of subtle differences,
country was founded by a room- to record nuances, to capture and
ful of intellectual giants—such a! master realities that are not ap
concentration of brilliance as the parent to the untrained eye, the
world has rarely had the good untrained ear or the untrained
jfortune to see; it succeeded be- mind. America is now suffering
I cause the people were proud, not from a lack of men willing to
ashamed, to be led by men with devote their lives to hair-splitting,
ideas, well-read men who were The whole world is suffering for
intellectuallv adventurous; and it lack of them. That is what Julien
rose to world leadership because Benda calls “the treason of the
at every crisis its people produced intellectuals - ’ —our new tendency
a leader who had brains. We did to come out of our studies and
inot slouch our way to greatness; laboratories, our ivory towers if
!if we are now in danger-of be- you prefer, to seek more obvious
coming a second-class power, it is rewards and more popular prizes
not from any lack of wealth or We are ludricrouslv eager to be
resources but from our defensive honored for things that are not
scorn of uncommon men, our pie- worthy of~ honor, by those who
beian suspicion of new ideas, our'are not qualified to judge,
lazy and cynical preference for The results of our servile ac
the second-rate with its easier de- C eptance of popular standards are
mands. plain to see. Our newsstands are
We even take a perverse pridel (Continued on page eleven)
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in our shortcomings At some col
leges and universities, every new
idea that would require some in
tellectual effort by students or
teachers is met with the stale,
smug statement, “This is not Har
vard”—as if that were something
to be proud of. or even to be
complacent about. Harvard owes
its eminence to the .fact that it
wants to be Harvaich Every uni
versity of any size could be Har
vard if it dared to want to. But
to be first-rate takes a certain
self-confidence, a refusal to sub
mit to popular judgement. Li'l Ab
ner went through Hell for sev
eral weeks because, as he said,
“Ah cain’t face th’ laughter o’
th’ boys at lh”"stable.” But Har
vard is not so easily intimidated.
It values intellectual excellence,
and it docs not defer to the tastes
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